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fuse :: Residency Program

The Solitude of Jing Hua菁華的空虛Artist: Julia Burns and Enrica Ho
Date: 28 July 2011 (Thursday) 7-9 pm
Venue: Osage Gallery
Address: 5/F, Kian Dai Industrial Building, 73-75 Hung To Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Julia Burns, an Australian artist, together with Enrica Ho, her collaborator, created The Solitude of Jing
Hua for Videotage's fuse:: residency program this summer. This artwork considers women's insecurities as
they grow older and the advertising industry's exploitation of this private fear.
Presented in a factory context, the performance presents the ‘standardization’ of youth and beauty. Usingtime as a metaphor, twelve performers move around the central character, Jing Hua, in a clocklike fashion.
The central character embodies the insecurities and fears of a forty year-old woman searching for youth andbeauty. Her search is deeper than vanity; it instead stems from the fear of solitude in old age. The artists, Julia
Burns and Enrica Ho, feel that this fear of loneliness is especially strong in Asia, where family and peerpressure, along with the advertising industry, exacerbate the situation.

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Unit 13, Cattle Depot Artist Village
63 Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Tel: (852) 2573 1869
Fax: (852) 2503 5978
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The epidemic of ‘never feeling good enough’ or of ‘being told that they are not good enough’ weakens
women’s confidence and makes them vulnerable. The Solitude of Jing Hua attempts to draw attention to thisphenomenon and to unravel the seed of the cause behind women’s insecurities.

Julia Burns(b. 1982 in Sydney, Australia. Lives and works in Sydney and Hong Kong.) Raised as an expatriate in South
East Asia and the United States, Julia is especially interested in the demographic and sociologicalunderpinnings of the cities in which she resides. In the past, Julia has made works about issues related toStatus Anxiety, Loss of Privacy, and Self-doubt. These themes are unspoken feelings that she thinks allpeople, across all countries, battle with. Inspired by her own concerns, she looks at how they apply within asociological context.
She won the Marrickville Culture and Arts Grant in 2009. In the following year, she received the Freeman
Foundation Traveling Scholarship and the fuse:: Videotage Residency Grant. Her works have been shown at
the Australia Council of the Arts and she has installations touring with d/Lux/Media/Arts. From 2011 to 2013,
her artwork will tour throughout the Asia-Pacific region with Experimenta and AsiaLink New Media
Biennale – Selectively Revealed.
Enrica Ho
Post-80s generation, born in Hong Kong, Enrica Ho graduated from the Hong Kong Polytechnic Universityin 2004 with BSc (Hons) Construction Economics and Management, after which she started participating inart and design activities. In 2008, she was invited by The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups to design
products for “You Are What You Wear” youth design project, which were sold in Hong Kong Book Fair
2008. Enrica will soon graduate from BA (Hons) in Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong. InSpring 2010, an overseas exchange program enabled her to study photography, video, new media and soundart at the University of Illinois in Chicago. She is ecstatic over the state of transformation and fusion, andhopes to combine sciences and the arts; sense and sensibility; analog and digital forms in her artworks. She
believes that art at the first level is for self-expression, second level for connecting with the viewers, and thirdlevel with society.

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Unit 13, Cattle Depot Artist Village
63 Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Tel: (852) 2573 1869
Fax: (852) 2503 5978
videotage.org.hk
Videotage // Asia’s New Media Art Collective Since 1986

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