The 5th VH AWARD: Subash Thebe Limbu “Ladhamba Tayem; Future Continuous”
The 5th VH AWARD: Subash Thebe Limbu “Ladhamba Tayem; Future Continuous”
The 5th VH AWARD: Subash Thebe Limbu “Ladhamba Tayem; Future Continuous”
The 5th VH AWARD: Subash Thebe Limbu “Ladhamba Tayem; Future Continuous”
About the Video
Subash Thebe Limbu is a Yakthung (Limbu) artist from Eastern Nepal. He works with sound, film, music, performance, painting and podcasts. 'Ladhamba Tayem; Future Continuous' imagines futures where Indigenous people’s actions and existence is in the space-time continuum. Through the conversation between two indigenous people from very different timelines - a Yakthung warrior from the 18th century and an indigenous time traveler from the distant future - the film asks the viewer to investigate their own potential role in the space-time continuum in searching for the possible futures to strive for, while reminding of the fight against colonialism and struggles to overcome. The work plays with the idea of time as not something rigid but ductile or weavable, which in turn paves the way for questions like how we might want to weave the future.
Subash Thebe Limbu, Ladhamba Tayem; Future Continuous, Film Still, 2023. Provided by HYUNDAI MOTOR GROUP VH AWARD
About the Program
The VH AWARD supports emerging media artists who engage with the context of Asia through an online residency program and exhibitions of commissioned artworks across various global platforms. Initiated in 2016, the VH AWARD has been discovering and cultivating promising artists to share their artistic experiments and amplify their voices on diverse issues. The award encourages artists who push the boundaries of audiovisual artworks to reflect on how we understand ourselves and one another in relation to the past, present and future. To amplify and share their voices with broader communities, the artworks commissioned by the VH AWARD have been exhibited in partnership with various art institutions and platforms, including the Vision Hall of Hyundai Motor Group in Yongin, South Korea; the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria; the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara in Jakarta, Indonesia; the National Arts Council in Singapore; the House of Electronic Arts in Basel, Switzerland; and the Elektra Virtual Museum.