How to stop time

JJ Chan

How to stop time

JJ Chan (Artist)

Research output: Practice-based/Artistic research › Moving image/Video art

Abstract

This short video of 2 minutes and 55 seconds was created by digitally altering a flight safety video from the Hong Kong based Cathay Pacific Airlines. The video is overlaid by a poetic monologue, performed by a feminine voice which narrates in Cantonese, the artists first language. It retells a short memory from childhood about an attempt to stop the world from moving too quickly. The video is a critical provocation, poking at imaginations of time in a system of capitalist neoliberalism. In light of emerging political tensions in Hong Kong since the Umbrella Revolution (2014), and rapidly changing social and political conditions in the territory, it calls on agencies to ask "how did we get here, and where are we going?" A question that we can all ask of the social, political, and economic circumstances which shape and are shaped by our everyday movements.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 2019

Bibliographical note

Duration: 02:55 min.

Image/sound Type: Moving Image

Impact: An earlier version of the script was previously part of an installation at Portland Works in Sheffield (UK) as part of an exhibition titled 'Let's go through this again', curated by Bindi Vora. Staged in the buffing room of the 'home of stainless steel cutlery', now repurposed as a creative project space, the exhibition surveyed artworks that address notions of 'home'; collectively exploring familial relationships, remote interactions and the feeling of otherness through lens-based media, language and installation at a time when the city is rapidly shifting from a major industrial centre to a regional creative hub.

The video was first screened at an academic conference, the Urgency of Arts, hosted by the Royal College of Art (UK) and NAFAE in response to the title of the event. Later the same month it was screened during an event called Flat Time House TV at Flat Time House in South East London (UK) which was part of a one day programme of events that asked amongst other questions; "what happens on the threshold where the home and the public meet?"

It has since been screened at multiple venues and online as part of curated screenings, exhibitions, and presentations including as part of Unknown Depictions II: Future Bodies, curated by A---Z at PAF Olomouc, the Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art in 2019, hosted by Palack├¢ University Olomouc (CZ).

An adapted transcript of the subtitles was published in the form of a dual-language poem in PROVA Vol.5, listed separately in the repository.

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Art and design

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https://www.jjchan.co.uk/howtostoptime

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In such a chase...
Chan, J., 2020, In: PROVA. 5, p. 16-17
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