Video art from Taiwan and Indonesia, at Fundació Miró
The centre is dedicating a temporary exhibition to the works of Musquiqui Chihying and Timoteus Anggawan Kusno.
In this global world, is the art produced in Europe very different from what is being done in continents such as Asia? If you have ever wondered, now is your chance to compare. Fundació Joan Miró is dedicating a temporary exhibition to two video artists from different countries, but who show us the poles of audiovisual creation on the continent.
The exhibition is entitled ‘New talents in Asian video art: Musquiqui Chihying and Timoteus Anggawan Kusno’. Both artists have one thing in common: they won the Han Nefkens Foundation videoart production grant (created in Barcelona in 2009 by the German writer Han Nefkens) and the videoart festival Loop Barcelona, in collaboration with Fundació Joan Miró. The grant offers the artists who receive it the opportunity to dialogue with art professionals from each institution associated with the grant and to show the new work they have produced to an international audience.
Taiwanese artist Musquiqui Chihying received the grant in 2019 and was used to produce The Lighting, a work finished in 2021. The theme is the growth between visual culture and the development of specific techniques for photographing black people. As a result, a filmic combination (shot, like many B-series films of the seventies with Ektachrome film) of the world of technology with the cinematographic genre of martial arts.
The same exhibition includes the films Reversal and Terra Incognita (pictured), the first two instalments of the Phantoms trilogy by Indonesian video artist Timoteus Anggawan Kusno. The artist won the Han Nefkens Foundation - Loop Barcelona grant in 2021 and created films with jathilan, a traditional Javanese ball, as a guiding thread. A spiritual guide uses the power of music and dance to invoke supernatural forces. These forces will eventually take possession of the dancers' bodies.
If you want to immerse yourself in the most current Asian video art, come and see the exhibition ‘New talents in Asian video art: Musquiqui Chihying and Timoteus Anggawan Kusno’, but first check the information on the website of Fundació Joan Miró.