Hangfeng Chen - Collaging time: Intertwined Connection between Personal and Collective Memory

The presentation offers insights into the unique embodied experiences and observations Chen encountered during the pandemic. By intertwining personal narratives and found materials with audiovisual documentation, he provides a multi-dimensional perspective that shed light on the complexities and implications of navigating life and research across international borders during this turbulent period.

Through the juxtaposition of personal memory images, the reappropriation of found images on social media, and the integration of propaganda images sourced from historical archives, the individual encounters an experience of absurdity that instils doubt regarding the veracity of the depicted events. This experience prompts the individual to contemplate an introspective query: can one truly derive meaningful lessons from history while concurrently existing in the present?

Part of the Artistic Research Week: researchers of the Master of Film at the Nederlandse Filmacademie present their final exam work.