DIORAMA PROJECTIONS - BRUCE AND NORMAN YONEMOTO BY STEVEN LAM 27 NOVEMBER 2010.

A rare chance to see some of the video works of Bruce and Norman Yonemoto in Hong Kong.  Many thanks to the artists and in particular to Steven Lam for introducing and leading the open discussion on the works.  Short, complex video works offering vivid and abrupt flashbacks to the 1980s in Kappa, sex and predacity and ostentation and Vault, love and desire, Dallas-style.  Sounds Like the Sound of Music presented a delightful rendition in Quechua of Julie Andrew’s signature song sung by a young Andean boy, appropriating the camera angles and scenes from the original and transposing them to the hills of Peru.  A seemingly straightforward work that conceals a multiplicity of cross references from Star Wars, The Sound of Music to the perpetuation of Orientalism in mass entertainment.