New Video curated by Jun-Ah Kim

  Safe-T-Gallery is pleased to announce the third "Dumbo Transitions," video screening featuring work by some of the finest young video artists from around the world, curated by Jun-Ah Kim.

  In this program we will introduce 5 international artists Soyoun Jeong , Eunsu Kang ( both from Korea ) , Vivian Lee ( Korean American) , Pierre St. Jaques (Canadian ) , and Yin-Ju Chen (Taiwanese.) The five video pieces show five situational stories representing their condensed sensibility in the different spaces. There are two big themes involving sensuous descriptions about space. One is ‘moments in space’ through Eunsu’s ‘Tock’, Yin-Ju’s ‘Bored of Boredom’ , and Pierre’s ‘Grey Dress’, and the other is ‘questioning about their identities within the space’ through Vivian’s Lee's ‘To Tell a Story’ and Soyoun’s ‘Mobius Strip’. Those characterized spaces by their sensibilities are functioned in the works as one of the important objects to support the each theme. The spaces melt into their ordinary landscapes, so they are imported by diverse camera angles and shown with highly refined images.

Vivian Lee

Ah Ri Rang,
4min , 2005

The choice to migrate and immigrate for a better life was necessary. but the loss of old culture is greatly missed. There is a permanent dislocation of the heart for many Koreans who were displaced by the war and immigration.

Yin-Ju Chen

Bored of Boredom
2 min, 2005

Yin-Jun Chen uses a collage technique with two different situated images, her space showing her everyday life and differentiated her self in black and white color.

Pierre St. Jacques

Project for a Grey Day
12Min 20 sec, 2005

The piece is very loosely based on Alain Robbe-Grillet’s novel “
Project for a Revolution in New York”. In French, Grey Dress is Robe Grise, Quit close to the authors name, so a bit of a play on words. The film ultimately is a bit of a test of desire for the viewer, they will see the story evolve and they will build certain expectations that are as much part of the story as the main narrative thread.

Eun-Su Kang

Tok

1Min 05Sec, 1999

Abstract image and sound create psychological atmosphere in a short but a long moment