MAY 35 (trailer)
MAY 35 (2019, 10 mins.)
MAY 35 is a two-channel video installation that examines Tiananmen Square as a historical, touristic, regulated, and imaginary site. Tiananmen Square does not generate the usual image-production of touristic sites; May 35 is an oblique landscape, an imagined geography, a forgetting.
The title refers to the 4th of June, the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, known in China as the June Fourth Incident. The piece is part of the larger exploration around Tiananmen Square as a place of historical memory and imagination in relation to image-production, tourism and its intersections with surveillance.
Original score and text by Roland Dahwen
Cantonese translation and voiceover by Shao Way Wu
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Selected screenings:
Experiments in Cinema - Albuquerque, New Mexico - April, 2023
Microscope Gallery - New York, New York - September, 2023
Good Symptom - Seattle, Washington - September, 2023
Cortona on the Move International Photography Festival - Cortona, Italy - July, 2019