Rati

"Rati (version 3.2)" "慧慧"
8mins
Mini DV PAL
2000 -2001

作品的靈感來自於人們的網上形象。2000年左右開始流行網上聊天室(可與朋友或陌生人視像對話的多點網上會議電腦程式)。在那裡許多人都只展現部分身體，他們最想看的就是性器官，甚至只是陽具，那時覺得很奇怪，用一個性器官去代表一個人？他們最想看的就是對方的性器官，於是文晶瑩就製作了一個陰道人，去問女人是否只是一堆肉？在錄像裡面，慧慧就像一般女人生活著。配合她的外型，就算做平常的事，都有很荒誕的效果。作品嘗試挑戰性別定型，用解構的方法去看女性在文化社會方面的形象，並開展一個富想像的空間。

This work is inspired by the body presentation of people on online chatrooms. Around 2000, online chat rooms netmeeting (a computer program for multi-point videoconferencing) became popular. Many people showed only part of their bodies there (e.g. penis). It looks strange to use a sex organ to represent a person. What they want to see most is the sex organs. Therefore, Phoebe Man made a walking vagina and asked if women are just a bunch of meat? In the video, Rati lives like a normal woman. In line with her appearance, even if she does ordinary things, it has a very absurd effect. The work tries to challenge gender stereotypes, uses deconstructive methods to see the image of women in cultural and social aspects, and develops an imaginative space.

Excerpt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dbOdcvQxvQ

Screening History

2023/5/30 2019/11/30-2021/3/28	HTS XIII: Hong Kong – Video Gaze, Videoex Festival, Switzerland. Hong Kong Experience ‧ Hong Kong Experiment, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong.
2019/11/16	RECONSTRUCTING THE SELF - PERFORMATIVITY IN HONG KONG'S MOVING IMAGE @LOOP Barcelona 2019, Cinema Girona, Barcelona, Spain.
2019/5/12	NOT SORRY: FEMINIST EXPERIMENTAL FILM FROM THE 1970S TO TODAY, Anthology Film Archives, New York, United States.
2018/12/1-	The D-Tale, Video Art from the Pearl River Delta,, Times Art Center Berlin.
2019/4/12	Berlin 10785, Germany
2017/6/20	GREATER China — Here, There and Everywhere, CASA ASIA, SOHO HOUSE and Videotage, Barcelona, Spain.
2017/5/27	LOOP Barcelona 2017: GREATER China — Here, There and Everywhere, LOOP Barcelona, Spain.
2016/7/2-2016/8/28	“Simultaneity - Reframing Hong Kong I” Time Test: International Video Art Research Exhibition, CAFA Art Museum and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Videotage. Hong Kong.
2016/3/3- 2016/4/23	35 Live: CoCA Members' Show 2016, CoCA (Center on Contemporary Art), Seattle, United States.

2015/9/11,19 & 25	Asian Film and Video Art Forum, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea.
2015/8/29 - 9/20	Gender, Genitor, Genitalia, Woofer Ten
2014/10/31 - 2015/8/2	"Random Moments", Hong Kong Museum of Art
2009/9/14	“Asia Forum” Experimental Film and Video in Seoul, Smillo Changgo Theatre, Seoul, South Korea.
2009/8/1-9	Global Focus Exhibition, The 9th Seoul International MediaArt Festival, Media theatre IGONG/Cinema SangSangMadang, Seoul, South Korea.
2008/4/24 – 5/23	Subjected Culture - Interruptions and Resistances on Femaleness, Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2008/3/8 -4/8	Subjected Culture - Interruptions and Resistances on Femaleness, MACRO Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Rosario, Santa Fe., Argentina
2007/3/9 -3/29	Subjected Culture - Interruptions and Resistances on Femaleness, MAC Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Salta, Argentina
2006/11/21 – 12/16	Subjected Culture - Interruptions and Resistances on Femaleness, Museo de Bellas ArteTimoteo Navarro, Tucuman, Argentina
2006/10/14	Women Make Waves Film Festival, Taiwan Women Film/Video Association, Shin Kong Cineplex, Taipei
2006/3/10-13	Sex Cultural Festival 2006, Videotage @ Sheung Wan Civic Centre, Hong Kong
2005/6/19-24	Feminism Video Activist, IGONG @ Sogang University Mary Hall, Korea
2002/2/2	“Ter Plekke”, Hedah Video Festival, Maastricht, Netherlands
2001/12/14-2002/2/24	Hong Kong Art Biennial 2001, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
2001/11/14	The 18th Dokumentarfilm & Videofest, (program: Kurz + Knapp), Kassel, Germany
2001/10/3,6	Impakt Festival, (Panorama Programme), Central Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
2001/9/19-23	13th Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival, SESC Pompeia, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2001/4/28 -8/26	Intermedial Room Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
2001/4/25-29	European Media Art Festival, Lagerhalle, Osnabruck, Germany
2001/3/21, 31	The 6th Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards Showcase, Organiser: Leisure and Cultural Services Department, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2001/3/14,18	International Video & Mulitmedia Art Festival: Videoformes, Clermont, France
2001/3/2-16, 6/7-17	Paris/ Berlin International Meetings roARaTorio, Paris and Berlin
2001/1/18	The Big Screen, Fringe Club, Hong Kong
2000/12/20-2001/1/12	Rest Nest: recent work of women artists based in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mainland China, Zhu Shi Art Space, Taiwan
2000/10/28 – 12/8	Rest Nest: recent work of women artists based in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mainland China, Leisure Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

引述

由香港藝術館編製的書《香港經驗香港實驗-香港藝術研究》頁180?載這件作品，文中提到《慧慧》源於2000年創作的《網上聊天室》作品。這件作品不是源於另一件作品，文晶瑩沒有作品叫《網上聊天室》。文章引述的一件網頁作品是本作品之後創作的,不是之前或源起。作品靈感來自新科技，不是作者的作品。書中講述「文晶瑩裝扮成一個陰道外型的布偶」，其實大部分時間都是藝術家的朋友裝扮的，文晶瑩負責導演和拍攝。

Citation

Edited by Hong Kong Museum of Art, the book 'Hong Kong Experience . Hong Kong Experiment ' (2020) includes the work "Rati" in page 180. It says, "The concept of Rati was developed from her another work Online Chatroom in which Phoebe dresses as a walking vulva, Rati. " Phoebe does not have another art work called "Online Chatroom". The work cited in this book is a work created after this video work. This work is inspired by new technology, not inspired by another work. This book also says the artist dresses up as a walking vulva. In fact, most of the time it was dressed up by a friend of the artist. Phoebe was in charge of the directing and shooting.

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