VIDA (2020)

Video Art
Duration: 5’03”
Image: Laura Fong Prosper
Sound: Ela Spalding

Two friends who share time between Panama and Berlin found themselves on opposite sides of the world during the covid-19 pandemic. Based on their voice notes to each other, they created this first collaboration reflecting on the effects of the crisis on family life as well as society as a whole. Vida is a personal response to how to approach life today as mothers and humans.

My collaborator is Ela Spalding (https://www.artconnect.com/profile/ela-spalding)





VIDA (2020)

Ongoing artistic research.

As an immigrant mother and artist, most of the times I have to leave my artistic job aside because domestic work prevails over everything. 

How much time do I spend at home vs. how much time do I spend at work? Does a mother's domestic work have any economic value?

With MATER (Mother in Latin) I want to make clear that  within the "home economy",  domestic work is equally important as a full-time job.  By belonging to a capitalist and patriarchal society this role has always been relegated to the background by thousands of generations. I would like to make this situation visible.

Exhibited in the virtual show "Rituales Diarios" of Arte Nomada, Panama in May 2020.

MATER (2020)

Videobits montage in collage form with images shot in China that did not make the final cut of my documentary "Where he was born" and were later processed with old analog synthesizers. The soundtrack is a Tibetan mantra recorded in situ in the Shangri-la region.       

Exhibited in the virtual show "Altares" by Arte Nomada, Panama in April 2020.

MANTRA (2020)

Animal Print is a video installation in four channels with mono-channel sound where different animals in danger of extinction are being reproduced along with a heartbeat sound.

Playing with analog video synthesizers and reproduced in old TV sets, this piece is intended to be an ode to the National Geographic documentaries I grew up with and it’s a document of the current reality of our ecosystems for the generations to come.   

It was exhibited in March 2020 in the Projektraum Mein Blau in Berlin during the Exhibition “Herzschwingen” curated by Maria Hinze.

ANIMAL PRINT (2020)

Documentary that follows the search of my roots and the finding of lost relatives in the house where my grandfather was born near Zhongshan, China.

Funded by the Berlin Senate Chancellery for Cultural Affairs 2018.

WHERE HE WAS BORN (2020)

Video Mapping Performance to Niko de Paula Lefort’s “Aurality” Concert premiered in ACUD MACHT NEU in Berlin, November 2019. 

The content of the video bits are taken entirely from the elements of nature: rocks, water, wood, earth, air and are processed through analogue video synthesizers in a fortuitous way to add texture, movement and color. 

PLANETARY LANDSCAPES (2019)

For the piece Inverted Memories (2017), Laura Fong Prosper invited Berlin filmmaker and media artist Christin Wilke to collaborate on a series of video letters. By using personal archival miniDV footage, the artists discuss concepts of home, free choice, and memory.
Each received letter is read in a voice-over and is accompanied by images of daily life moments, landscapes, and random footage collected in the last 10 years. The intimate exchange raises questions about leaving, staying, and going back. Could the exile at the end be- come a home or are we stuck in between?


INVERTED MEMORIES (2017)

It is a collection of .gif files in 'loop' of black and white photos of my family re-placed on different backgrounds in color with textures that remind me of home, sometimes Panama, sometimes Panachina.

Antique Glitch. Old meets new.

FAMILY PORTRAITS (2016)

Video mapping installation of 22 different videos into 22 photo frames of different sizes.

Images are composed by colours and feelings, shapes and consciousness. Through a crisp selection of videos, I tell a fragmented story; a testimony of my inner search and the tale of two countries.

Video, Video Projection, Video Installation, Mixed Media Video Installation, Projection Mapping, Video Mapping, VJ Performance, Loop.

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