Tiffany Sia’s Speculative Place is a living-dead space. Originally founded in Hong Kong, now re-emerged as an artist-run project, Speculative Place endures in printed form, on the web, and in occasional performances, workshops and talks. For the festival, Speculative Place reanimates itself as an undead residency, bringing together thinkers and artists around San Francisco Chinatown’s psychogeographies of media and memory.

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About Tiffany Sia

Tiffany Sia is an artist, filmmaker, and writer. Tiffany’s multidisciplinary practice materializes across films, video sculptures, artist books, scholarly essays - confronting questions about the representation of place, memory and the imaginaries of exceptional and irregular polities beyond the national. Her films screened at TIFF Toronto International Film Festival, NY Film Festival, MoMA Doc Fortnight, and elsewhere. She has had solo exhibitions at Artists Space, NY; Maxwell Graham Gallery, New York; and Felix Gaudlitz, Vienna. Tiffany is author of On and Off-Screen Imaginaries (Primary Information, 2024), essays that make a case for fugitive, exilic cinema. She has exhibited at MoMA, NY; Fondazione Prada, Milan; Seoul Museum of Art, and elsewhere. Her essays are in Film Quarterly, October, and more. The recipient of the Baloise Art Prize in 2024, Tiffany has given talks at Dia Art Foundation, Stanford University, Yale University, and has taught at Cooper Union. 

 

Alex Nguyen-Vo works in painting, sculpture, and video. He received his MFA from University of Pennsylvania and BFA from University of Houston. Alex has had solo exhibitions at Deli Gallery, New York; Fjord Space, Philadelphia; Hidrante, San Juan; and group exhibitions at Team Titanic, Berlin; Torrance Art Museum; Julius Caesar, Chicago; Beverly’s, New York; Vox Populi, Philadelphia.

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Alex approaches painting as a space of visual and historical entanglement. Drawing from French Impressionism, anime stills, riot footage, import car magazines, and vacation snapshots, he montages digital fragments into textured, painterly compositions. His practice probes the authority of painting by amplifying its pleasures, such as gesture, color, and texture, while satirizing the cultural legacies embedded in its forms. Humor, exaggeration, and artifice function in his work as tools of critique, rendering familiar images strange and seductive surfaces suspect. 

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Tiffany Sia，猜想之地

Tiffany Sia 的《猜想之地》是個活死人空間。本項目最初發源自香港，現在以藝術家主導的方式重新出發，曾以印刷物和網上出版之姿出現，間或化身為現場表演、工作坊和講座。是次藝術節當中，《猜想之地》會重生成不死駐留計劃，集結思想者和藝術家，探究三藩市華埠的媒體和記憶之環境心理學。

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Tiffany Sia 謝天穎 集藝術家、電影製作人和作家於一身。Tiffany 的跨學科創作，橫跨電影、錄像雕塑、藝術圖書和學術論文──直面國家以外的政治特例，有關地方、記憶和想像的呈現。她的電影作品曾於多倫多國際電影節、紐約電影節及 MoMA紀錄片雙週影展等播映。她亦曾於紐約 Artists Space、紐約 Maxwell Graham Gallery 和維也納 Felix Gaudlitz 舉行個展。Tiffany 是《On and Off-Screen Imaginaries》（Primary Information 出版，2024）一書的作者，該書是為逃亡與放逐電影立論的論文結集。作品曾於下列機構展出，包括：紐約現代藝術博物館、米蘭 Fondazione Prada、首爾市立美術館等。論文散見《電影季刊》、《十月期刊》等。Tiffany 榮獲 2024 巴塞爾藝術獎，曾於 Dia Art 基金會、史丹福大學及耶魯大學演講，並曾於柯柏聯盟學院任教。

 

Alex Nguyen-Vo從事繪畫、雕塑和錄影工作。他在賓夕法尼亞州大學獲得創意與表演藝術的碩士學位，以及在休斯頓大學獲得創意與表演藝術學士學位。Alex曾在紐約Deli Gallery、費城Fjord Space和San Juan的Hidrante舉辦個人展覽; 在柏林Team Titanic、Torrance藝術博物館、芝加哥Julius Caesar、紐約Beverly’s和費城Vox Populi舉辦集體展覽。

Alex將繪畫視為一個視覺與歷史糾結交織的空間。他從法國印象派、動畫靜幀、暴動影像、進口汽車雜誌與度假照片中汲取靈感，將這些數位片段拼貼成具有質感的繪畫式構圖。他的創作實踐透過放大繪畫的快感——如筆觸、色彩與肌理——來質疑繪畫本身的權威，同時嘲諷其形式中所承載的文化遺緒。幽默、誇張與虛構在他的作品中成為批判的工具，使熟悉的影像變得陌生，令人著迷的表面也變得可疑。