Hong Kong Open: Tiffany Sia in conversation with Simon Leung

In a special program for UC Irvine, artist and filmmaker Tiffany Sia will present a work-in-progress essay on how we vivify the past through film, from the ossification of the Golden Age of Hong Kong cinema to radical uses of historical reenactment in new Hong Kong cinema through the work of Chan Tze-woon's Blue Island (2022). Following this, artist Simon Leung will respond through a performance and lecture. This event concludes with a screening of Sia's film What Rules the Invisible (2022).

Tiffany Sia is an artist, filmmaker, and writer who was born in Hong Kong. Grounded in a writing and research practice, Sia is interested in bringing tensions through multidisciplinary forms to unsettle stubborn notions of geography, genre and time. Materializing across film/video and printed matter, her recent work explores the politics and relations of media circulation and the discrete histories of port cities. Sia has directed several experimental short films, including Never Rest/Unrest (2020), Do Not Circulate (2021), and What Rules the Invisible (2022). Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at Artists Space, New York, and FELIX GAUDLITZ, Vienna. Her work has also been presented in international group exhibitions at venues including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Seoul Museum of Art; and Kunstverein Düsseldorf. Sia is the author of the chapbook Salty Wet (2019) and the artist book Too Salty Too Wet (2021), and her essays have appeared in the journals Film Quarterly and October. She lives in New York.

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