WHEN : 12th Oct, 5:00 – 7:00pm
WHERE : MAAP SPACE, 111 Constance St, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
Set in Northwest Laos, the meeting point of the Mekong river, China and Burma, Route 3 (2011) sees celebrated U.S. artists Patty Chang & David Kelley sharpen their idiosyncratic collaborative project: the geo-political Asian road film. The 3-channel video installation is the fourth in the pair’s series of Asian ‘travelogues’, and like other works in the series, it plays somewhere between documentary, drama and dreamscape. Chang and Kelley deftly and fluidly mix explicit political sentiment with moments of psychedelic absurdity and humanist poetics. David Kelley (b. 1972, Portand, USA) is an artist working interchangeably between photography, video sculpture and installation. Patty Chang (b. 1972. San Leandro, CA, USA) is well-known for her performative works which deal with themes of gender, sexuality, language and empathy.
In gallery 2, MAAP presents a selection of highlights from the 6th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival (BEFF6). Titled Raiding the Archives, the program meditates on memory and nostalgia, lining up contemporary Thai and international experimental cinema against a number of works from the impressive Thai Film Archive.
