Queer east X If splash as your whistle (2024)
Poster artist:Nguyen Hai Yen
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Curated by Yuqing Lin and Xinyu xuxx
Image Under the Ground is a programme showcasing a series of artists’ short films and a live performance to create a “cave space”, a transitional space that refracts unspeakable diaspora queer experiences. These images capture vulnerability, intimacy, and illusionary multi-sensory experience. In these works by Southeast and East Asian filmmakers and artists, “underground images” can refer to mediation outside of traditional industry filmmaking. Sometimes, it can be associated with the representation of violence or power distribution of the camera, poor image aesthetics, hidden identity, or images as an underground manifesto and action.