{"id":9503,"date":"2024-04-11T19:51:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T19:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=9503"},"modified":"2025-01-08T16:06:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:06:41","slug":"shu-lea-cheangs-fresh-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2024\/04\/11\/shu-lea-cheangs-fresh-kill\/","title":{"rendered":"Shu Lea Cheang: Fresh Kill"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday, April 11, 6:00 p.m<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Shu Lea Cheang, Fresh Kill, 1994. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cShu Lea Cheang\u2019s audacious directorial debut is a lethal comedy swimming through a torrent of toxic multinational treachery.\u201d \u2014Lawrence Chua, <\/span>BOMB Magazine<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Renowned media artist Shu Lea Cheang presents her groundbreaking debut feature, a cyberfeminist eco-thriller, newly restored for its 30th anniversary. Partners Shareen (Sarita Choudhury) and Claire (Erin McMurtry) find themselves in the crosshairs of a nefarious multinational corporation after they discover it is poisoning citizens through toxic cat food, contaminated sushi, and nuclear waste. When their daughter disappears, they turn to a global band of hackers and activists. Cheang shifts between horror, camp, and agit-prop, structuring the film around an electric sense of destabilization and disruption. Characteristic of the activist impulse that runs through all her work, <\/span>Fresh Kill<\/span><\/i>\u2019s themes of predatory capitalism and environmental catastrophe remain just as pressing today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

1994, Shu Lea Cheang, USA, 80 min.
\nIn English \/ Format: 35mm<\/p>\n

Presented in partnership with Video Data Bank.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

About the artist<\/strong><\/p>\n

Born in Taiwan and now based in Paris, Shu Lea Cheang is an artist and filmmaker whose work aims to re-envision genders, genres, and operating structures. She began her career as a member of activist media collectives Paper Tiger TV and Deep Dish TV. Later, as a celebrated pioneer of Net Art, her work <\/span>Brandon<\/span><\/i> (1998\u201399) became the first-ever web-based artwork commissioned and collected by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Since 1994, she has produced four feature films, <\/span>Fresh Kill<\/span><\/i> (1994), <\/span>I.K.U<\/span><\/i>. (2000), <\/span>Fluid\u00f8<\/span><\/i> (2017), and <\/span>UKI <\/span><\/i>(2023), which encompass a new genre she calls \u201cScifi New Queer Cinema.\u201d In 2019, she represented Taiwan at the Venice Biennale with the mixed media installation, <\/span>3x3x6<\/span><\/i>. Over the years, Cheang has participated in many renowned international biennials, including Performa 19, New York; the 11th Taipei Biennial; the 50th and 58th Venice Biennale; and the 1992 and 1994 Whitney Biennials among others. Her works are included in the world\u2019s key permanent collections for contemporary art, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and DSL collection, Paris.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Accessibility<\/strong><\/p>\n

CATE events are presented with real-time captions (CART). Hearing loops, wheelchair accessibility, and companion seating are also available at the Gene Siskel Film Center. For other accessibility requests, please visit saic.edu\/access or write cate@saic.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday, April 11, 6:00 p.m \u201cShu Lea Cheang\u2019s audacious directorial debut is a lethal comedy swimming through a torrent of toxic multinational treachery.\u201d \u2014Lawrence Chua, BOMB Magazine Renowned media artist Shu Lea Cheang presents her groundbreaking debut feature, a cyberfeminist eco-thriller, newly restored for its 30th anniversary. Partners Shareen (Sarita Choudhury) and Claire (Erin McMurtry) […]<\/p>\n

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