Bending Over Backwards is part of a series of performance art videos whereby the artist submits herself to several physical endurance challenges. These challenges are reminiscent of child play and competition, and yet are more torturous than playful. Despite her will to maintain acts of balance, grace and strength, she inevitably succumbs to the body's physical weakness.
Inspired by repetitive daily actions and physical labour, Keung uses media - video, installation and performance art, to discuss the social training of the mind & body. Bending Over Backwards is a new addition to the endurance series that began in 2006, and was made at the Artist Cultural Outreach Residency in Hong Kong 2008.
This film screens as part of this screening:
This screening is part of the larger thematic series:
- STEM Cell 2010 / Reeling Dance On Screen
- STEM Cell: Experimental Docs 1: Variations on the Home Movie
- Reeling: MZD's Bad Lands (Good Luck) (2010)
- Reeling: Sex, Death & Arabesque
- Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry (2008)
- Artist's Talk with Daniel Barrow @ The ARTery
- STEM Cell: Experimental Docs 2: Landscapes
- STEM Cell: Experimental Docs 3: The Medium of Media
- Reeling: Blush - A film by Ultima Vez (2004)
- STEM Cell: Experimental Docs 4: Memory
- Reeling: Gravity of Desire
- STEM Cell: Experimental Docs 5: Phenomenology & Perception
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