Do you still remember what it feels like to receive a handwritten letter?
Based on Dory Cheng’s zine Developing Film in Your Mind, this workshop invites participants to gather and collage their own fragmented thoughts and fleeting memories, “developing” the faded filmstrips of their mind into vivid imagery through textual annotation. Developing Film in Your Mind condenses stories and scenes from Cheng’s month-and-a-half-long solo travels in Europe. Ten letters containing ten stories document her experiences in the cities where she wandered and resided. Taking the most memorable images, scenes, feelings, and thoughts, the zine allows readers to recreate these faded images in their own minds. Co-organised with Cheng, this workshop explores how zines can transform everyday recollections into creative materials.
This workshop is part of the exhibition Countering Time, which explores whether historical events and art history have definitive beginnings and endings, as well as how artists can counter strict chronologies.
Free and open to the public with registration.
This workshop is limited to ten participants on a first-come, first-served basis.
The workshop will be conducted in Cantonese. All required materials will be provided. Participants are encouraged to prepare interesting anecdotes from their lives as creative inspiration.
Dory Cheng’s practice spans photography, installation, and zine-making, characterised by abstract aesthetics and whimsical imagery. Driven by the belief that “art is a series of aesthetic experiments,” Cheng explores the cycle of life and death and the emotional connection between spaces, objects, and human beings. She examines how the stasis of time in word and image can weave the fabric of an imagined realm. With a passion for exploring the world and connecting with diverse communities, Cheng participated in artist residencies at documenta fifteen’s Gudskul Collective Study #5; the Biennale of Site-Specific Art at Semarang Penta K Labs IV, Indonesia; and in Vietnam and Australia. In 2021, she was awarded the Julian Lee Asia One Photographic Award. Cheng is a member of Floating Projects.
Countering Time is generously supported by Mimi Brown & Alp Erçil, Eunei & Ron Lee, Tracy Li, and Virginia & Wellington Yee.
