Nicola Dale & Florence Lam
I Become A Question For You (2022)
HD Video
Duration: 38 minutes
Accessibility:
Visuals: Warning, this film includes some flashing and flickering images which may trigger
photosensitive viewers.
Audio: The film has spoken dialogue.
There is delayed-feedback present within the film, which may cause discomfort to those sensitive to sound.
Viewing:
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About the work:
I Become A Question For You is a 2-channel video work commissioned by University of Salford Art Collection and Per.Platform for Peer to Peer UK/HK 2022. The two artists, Nicola Dale and Florence Lam, are based in the UK and Hong Kong respectively. Working together, in different time zones, they improvised a performance through which they questioned the qualities of online connection. Using words, sounds and movement, they oscillate between communication, incomprehension, unity and isolation, striving to collaborate despite the immense physical distance between them.
About the artists:
Nicola Dale approaches art as a question of performativity – how objects, actions and people come together. She frequently creates sculptures, performances and installations that consider the notion of ‘objecthood’ – what it is to be, or be treated as, an object. She has worked extensively with galleries, libraries, museums and archives in the UK and internationally. As well as working in a solo capacity, the inter-disciplinary nature of her work leads to a variety of collaborations with practitioners from within the arts and beyond them.
Florence Lam (b.1992 Vancouver, Canada) is currently based in Hong Kong. Lam works with wonder and magical thinking to fuse together current moral issues with child-like world views through performance art, poetry, video and sound. The aim is to explore the fertility and sterility of the mind manifested through the properties of the biological body and language as a hint to the evolution of human values and spiritual understanding. She obtained her MA Fine Art from Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2017 and her BA Fine Art from Central Saint Martins in 2014.
Presented as part of the University of Salford Art Collection’s Art Film Season 2024, March – June 2024.