Samantha Cheng

Ambient Television 2
Audio Foundation, 20 July 2022

Happy Ever After (March 2021) documents the artist’s efforts to run into the sunset one evening. Usually signalling a true and triumphant end to a storyline for a protagonist, creating this finale for oneself reveals the absurdity and futility of the act. With each awkward and clumsy attempt, we return to the question of what is really futile in the video: the act or trying?

Ambient Television is a series of artist video screenings organised by Theo Macdonald with Audio Foundation. The project stems from a desire to see broader opportunities for video artists to exhibit and an awareness that not all video practices are suited to the (currently) dominant looping installation model.

*Images by the artist