Sunday, October 04 03 pm to 05pm
The Queens Museum
New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, NY 11368

The title of this programme is taken from the title of a short-lived journal, Cause Commune, (1972 to 1974), which was published by French cultural theorist and urbanist Paul Virilio, socialist and humanist Jean Duvignaud, and French writer George Perec. The mission of the publication was described as seeking to search for the thoughts and beliefs that were the foundation of our civilization and cultural operation and to raise questions about them. The editors call for a desire to carry out investigation into everyday life on every level, especially by looking into those layers of folds, caves and undercurrents that were neglected or repressed by existing social orders, appearances and organization of life.

This screening programme invites artists and present works that embody a dissatisfaction with and an incessant curiosity and urge to inquire into given orders of life, phenomenon, common experience, assumptions and established historic accounts and power structure. They advocate, manifest, and act on an unstoppable thirst for hidden truths and unseen realities, and their investigative gaze towards objects, cultural practices, consumer products, shared understanding and cultural characteristics, events, historic constructs, surroundings, awareness, means of social organization, and ideologies that fulfill our immediate desires and expectations.

The artists that are invited to present works in this programme come from extremely mixed national, social and cultural contexts, that of the Philippines, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China respectively. The perspectives and entry points of their artistic investigations into the order of the daily structure are drastically diverse, some personal, some political, some historical, some playful, and some seemingly accidental even. Yet all the works are still speaking about the persisting sense of urgency and necessity, which we should maintain at all times in our engagement with, and the process of learning and understanding both our immediate surroundings and our historic realities, as was articulated in the founding and operation of the journal Cause Commune some four decades ago.

For more details on the featured film makers and tickets visit: http://www.queensmuseum.org/