Still from Chen Yin-Ju, Somewhere Beyond Right and Wrong, There Is a Garden. I Will Meet you There (2023), courtesy of the artist 4 Dec 2025
15:00 - 19:00
Screening: Stories from Tomorrow – Sinophone Imaginations of Resilient Futures
Join for a screening of Sinophone video artworks by Li Yi-Fan, aaajiao, Fei Yining, He Zike and Yin-Ju Chen – each envisioning the future in a different way. Alongside the screenings, there are Q&As with artists aaajiao and Li Yi-Fan, as well as introductions by Dr. Evelyn Wan and Dr. Jori Snels.
What futures are left in times of multiple crises? In a time when the future is slowly being cancelled, as Mark Fisher said, is there any hope beyond capitalist realism? What futures can be imagined while looking beyond the European perspective?
Aside from official imaginations of the so-called China Dream, art and culture prove an important terrain to imagine different futures. The increased popularity of science fiction, such as The Three-Body Problem, as well as the proliferation of digital art in which alternative futures are imagined, attest to this. But beyond China, Sinophone works of video art emerging from different places also imagine different futures and probe their intersections with pasts and presents. What can be learned from the futures they produce? Do they point to a more resilient, sustainable and inclusive future?
Programme
15:00 – 15:15 Opening by Jori Snels
15:15 – 16:15 Introduction by dr. Evelyn Wan and screening of The Moonshore II (13 min.) by Fei Yining, Random Access (15 min.) by He Zike, and Somewhere Beyond Right and Wrong, There Is a Garden. I Will Meet you There (16 min.) by Chen Yin-Ju
16:45 – 17:45 Screening of howdoyouturnthison (18 min.) by Li Yi-Fan, followed by a Q&A with the artist.
18:00 – 19:00 Screening of Minority Algorithm (18 min.), followed by a Q&A with the artist.
This event is organised in collaboration with the ERC project Resilient Cultures – Music, Art, and Cinema in Mainland China and Hong Kong (RESCUE, ERC grant agreement n° 101097553.), Framer Framed, the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis (NICA) and the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA).
This event is in English. Admission is free, pay what you can.
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This event may be photographed and filmed. Kindly let us know in advance if you prefer not to have your picture taken. For seated programmes, places are always made available for wheelchair users. Please speak to the host before the programme begins.
Framer Framed is supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science; Amsterdam Fund for the Arts; Municipality of Amsterdam; and VriendenLoterij Fonds.
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Fei Yining
Artist
Yin-Ju Chen
Artist
aaajiao
Media artist and cultural producer
Li Yi-Fan
He Zike
Artist
Evelyn Wan
Academicus, schrijver Academic, Writer
