Jester Film: Shu Lea Cheang Scifi New Queer Cinema

Jester Film is a recurring, shapeshifting program devoted to film and moving image. Each episode is dedicated to a specific filmmaker or theme, and can take a form of a film screening, video installation, table-read, marathon, or any other form of this multifaceted medium.

The second edition of Jester Film is dedicated to gender and genre-bending work of Shu Lea Cheang.  During an artist talk, she will speak about her crafting of the 'Scifi New Queer Cinema' genre and the production of her feature films, from Fresh Kill (1994) to her current release, UKI, a 'Scifi Viral Alt-Reality cinema'.

Shu Lea Cheang is an artist and filmmaker whose work aims to re-envision genders, genres, and operating structures. Her genre-bending gender hacking practices challenge the existing operating mechanisms and the society’s structural boundaries. As a net art pioneer, her work Brandon (1998 - 99) was the first web art commissioned and collected by New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Her feature length films, Fresh Kill (1994), I.K.U. (2000) and Fluidø (2017), respectively coined as 'ecocybernoia', 'sci-fi cyberpunk', and 'sci-fi cypherpunk', seek to define a genre of new queer sci-fi cinema. Cheang represented Taiwan with 3x3x6, a mixed media installation at Venice Biennale 2019.

This event will be held in English.