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Still of video titled ‘Remote’. At the back is a big screen framed with red stage curtains, playing a close-up shot of an Asia woman wearing dramatic outfit. At the front sit five women on cinema seats facing away from the screen. One of them is laughing while the others appear bored or impatient.

REMOTE

Details
Artist: Mika Rottenberg, Mahyad Tousi
Programme: Techno Sapiens
Year: 2022
Format: Digital / 89 min.
Language: Multiple (with English subtitles)
Audience: Everyone
Location: House 2
Accessibility: Wheelchair
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Ticket Information

Standard: HKD 85

Concession: HKD 68

Still of video titled ‘Remote’. At the back is a big screen framed with red stage curtains, playing a close-up shot of an Asia woman wearing dramatic outfit. At the front sit five women on cinema seats facing away from the screen. One of them is laughing while the others appear bored or impatient.

REMOTE

Artists Mika Rottenberg and Mahyad Tousi imagine a surreal world in which quarantine life becomes the norm. Set in the year 2039, REMOTE follows the daily routine of Unoaku (Okwui Okpokwasili) in her sealed-off, retro-futuristic apartment—a paradise of vibrant colours, thriving plant life, and high-tech equipment. As delivery drones buzz continuously outside her apartment, she joins a watch party with four other women from around the world, all infatuated with the same South Korean dog-grooming live streamer. Interest quickly spirals into obsession as the five women search for answers to an inexplicable phenomenon, spending more and more time online. Filmed in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic, REMOTE explores a hyperconnected future populated by isolated individuals who find new ways to maintain human connection.

Still of video titled ‘Remote’. A view from inside a refrigerator with a few green peppers and glass jars of coriander and pickled vegetables. A woman wearing an electronic device on the forehead is looking into the refrigerator.

Mika Rottenberg, Mahyad Tousi. Remote, 2022. Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth

Still of video titled ‘Remote’. In a room, a woman is slouching in bed, wearing hair rollers and an electronic device with a piece of orange glass covering the eyes. On the bed desk are toys, a magnifier, and tools such as a plier and a screw driver. On the bedside table are different old toys.

Mika Rottenberg, Mahyad Tousi. Remote, 2022. Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth

Still of video titled ‘Remote’. A woman sits cross-legged on a sofa, wearing an electronic device with a piece of blue glass covering the eyes. On the coffee table next to the sofa are a vintage desk lamp and a glass of champagne. Behind them is a yellow wall paper with a big crimson-red floral pattern.

Mika Rottenberg, Mahyad Tousi. Remote, 2022. Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth

Still of video titled ‘Traveling to Utopia: With a Brief History of Technology’. On a white background is a phrase in black aligned in three rows, that reads, ‘where the atmosphere is exotic but reassuring’. Above and beneath it is a line of green texts on black background that appears like news ticker, one in Korean and one in English, which reads, ‘Your assurance a sham—‘.

YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES. 'TRAVELING TO UTOPIA: WITH A BRIEF HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY', 2005. single-channel digital video (colour, black and white, sound), duration: 3 min. 50 sec.. M+, Hong Kong. © YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES.

Still of video titled ‘Remote’. A view from inside a refrigerator with a few green peppers and glass jars of coriander and pickled vegetables. A woman wearing an electronic device on the forehead is looking into the refrigerator.

Mika Rottenberg, Mahyad Tousi. Remote, 2022. Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth

Still of video titled ‘Remote’. In a room, a woman is slouching in bed, wearing hair rollers and an electronic device with a piece of orange glass covering the eyes. On the bed desk are toys, a magnifier, and tools such as a plier and a screw driver. On the bedside table are different old toys.

Mika Rottenberg, Mahyad Tousi. Remote, 2022. Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth

Still of video titled ‘Remote’. A woman sits cross-legged on a sofa, wearing an electronic device with a piece of blue glass covering the eyes. On the coffee table next to the sofa are a vintage desk lamp and a glass of champagne. Behind them is a yellow wall paper with a big crimson-red floral pattern.

Mika Rottenberg, Mahyad Tousi. Remote, 2022. Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth

Still of video titled ‘Traveling to Utopia: With a Brief History of Technology’. On a white background is a phrase in black aligned in three rows, that reads, ‘where the atmosphere is exotic but reassuring’. Above and beneath it is a line of green texts on black background that appears like news ticker, one in Korean and one in English, which reads, ‘Your assurance a sham—‘.

YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES. 'TRAVELING TO UTOPIA: WITH A BRIEF HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY', 2005. single-channel digital video (colour, black and white, sound), duration: 3 min. 50 sec.. M+, Hong Kong. © YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES.

Accompanying Short

TRAVELING TO UTOPIA: WITH A BRIEF HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY

YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES | 2006 | Digital | English & Korean | 3 min. 50 sec.

An anonymous, faceless protagonist takes audiences on a short ride through the development of modern communications technologies from her first-hand, transnational perspective. The woman’s story uses deadpan humour to describe the gradual invasion of technology into her home, community, and being.

Image at top: Mika Rottenberg, Mahyad Tousi. Remote, 2022. Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth

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