{"id":9116,"date":"2022-12-07T00:31:52","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T00:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=9116"},"modified":"2025-01-08T16:17:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:17:38","slug":"dec-1-tiffany-sia-do-not-circulate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2022\/12\/07\/dec-1-tiffany-sia-do-not-circulate\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiffany Sia: Do Not Circulate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday, December 01, 6:00 p.m.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Tiffany Sia, Do Not Circulate, 2021. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Over the last five years, Hong Kong-born, New York-based artist and writer Tiffany Sia has produced a series of urgent works that examine the making, circulation, and collection of images in times of upheaval and crisis. Centered on her place of birth, its ongoing political movement, and the ever-present residue of its colonial history, the implications of Sia\u2019s projects reverberate globally. In collage-like essays culled from online videos, news media, state archives, and material shot with her own mobile device, Sia highlights connections between state power, big tech, and corporate media while offering a radical and emancipatory vision for a media built on lived experience, shared memory, and the subversion of official channels of information. Sia will present three film\/videos, NEVER REST\/UNREST (2020), DO NOT CIRCULATE (2021), and WHAT RULES THE INVISIBLE (2022), and discuss them in relation to her recent writings and connected artworks.<\/p>\n

Tiffany Sia, 2020-2022, Hong Kong\/ USA, ca 60 minutes plus audience discussion
\nDigital video
\nIn Cantonese, Mandarin, and English<\/p>\n

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PROGRAM<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

NEVER REST\/UNREST, 2020, Hong Kong, 28 minutes
\nGrowing out of a series of the artist\u2019s Instagram stories tracking the relentless political turmoil in Hong Kong throughout 2019, NEVER REST\/UNREST provides a vertically oriented, hand-held counter narrative to sensationalist international reportage. In doing so, Sia takes up Cuban revolutionary filmmaker Julio Garc\u00eda Espinosa’s call for an anti-colonial “Imperfect Cinema” that resists convention, fabrication, and authority.<\/p>\n

DO NOT CIRCULATE, 2021, Hong Kong, 17 minutes
\nIn DO NOT CIRCULATE, Sia follows the image trail of the Prince Edward Station Attack, an event during Hong Kong\u2019s 2019 demonstrations in which police indiscriminately attacked protestors at a subway station, juxtaposing imagery uploaded by witnesses during the event with official accounts. A relentless voiceover weaves through disinformation, rumors, and superstition.<\/p>\n

WHAT RULES THE INVISIBLE, 2022, USA, 10 minutes
\nWHAT RULES THE INVISIBLE juxtaposes amateur travelogue footage shot throughout 20th century Hong Kong with Sia\u2019s mother\u2019s accounts of colonial police raids, sewage, and ghosts in postwar Kowloon.<\/p>\n

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ABOUT<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Tiffany Sia<\/strong> is an artist, filmmaker, and writer born in Hong Kong. Sia\u2019s films have been screened at the New York City International Film Festival, Museum of Modern Art Doc Fortnight, The Flaherty Film Seminar, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, and Prismatic Ground, among others. She is the author of \u54b8\u6fd5 Salty Wet, a chapbook published by Inpatient Press in 2019, and the artist book sequel, Too Salty Too Wet \u66f4\u54b8\u66f4\u6fd5, published through Speculative Place Press in 2020. Her writing has been published in Film Quarterly, October, and elsewhere. Sia\u2019s artworks have been exhibited at Artists Space (New York), Kunstverein f\u00fcr die Rheinlande und Westfalen (D\u00fcsseldorf), and elsewhere. She received the George C. Lin Emerging Filmmaker Award in 2021. In addition to her artistic practice, Sia is the founder of the experimental project space Speculative Place and a film producer, serving as the executive producer for Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer\u2019s EMPTY METAL (2018), and executive producer of Adam Khalil and Zack Khalil\u2019s forthcoming documentary AANIKOOBIJIGAN [ANCESTOR \/ GREAT-GRANDPARENT \/ GREAT-GRANDCHILD].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday, December 01, 6:00 p.m. Over the last five years, Hong Kong-born, New York-based artist and writer Tiffany Sia has produced a series of urgent works that examine the making, circulation, and collection of images in times of upheaval and crisis. Centered on her place of birth, its ongoing political movement, and the ever-present residue […]<\/p>\n

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