Reverberations is a collaborative curatorial project that was staged with Random Headache (Short Film Distribution) in the venue All is Joy, on Soho Art Night, London, during Frieze week 9-13 October, 2024.
All is Joy is housed in the renown Warner House De Lane Lea, London film and sound studio and projection theatres, harkening to London’s film history. Art curators presented transnational artists, intermingling cultures, to re-present those underrepresented by Warner in the past. Artworks were curated to flow between two film screening theatres on different floors. The artworks echoed, yet cast a different perspective on, Random Headache’s chosen films’ thematic facets. Moreover, the exhibition explores intermedia digital art’s relationship, to past and present thematic and technical film trends, reverberating the building’s film origins in Soho.
Random Headache curated a selection of award-winning short films by contemporary Chinese filmmakers, spotlighting Chinese Directors and showcasing ‘artistic vision and cultural diversity’. Common themes between artworks and films included contemporary human, nonhuman and digital relationships, human interconnectedness and disconnectedness, in an information world that eschews authentic interpersonal communication and contact. Alongside, many filmmakers and artists discourse contemporary life’s driven pace, concepts of time and duration in a mechanized information-generated world, and inherent contemporary power dynamics. As a corollary, some filmmakers and artists also explore spiritual beliefs and life’s limits, avenues for humanness.
— Art Curators: Pon Charat, Yuying Chan, Ismini Chimona, Beverley Harrison, Soyeon Jung