# Ellen Pau
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{{Short description|Chinese artist, curator, and researcher}}
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'''Ellen Pau''' is an artist, curator and researcher based in [Hong Kong](/source/Hong_Kong). She is also co-founder of [http://videotage.org.hk/ Videotage] and founding artistic director of the [Microwave International New Media Arts Festival](/source/Microwave_International_New_Media_Arts_Festival).[{{Cite encyclopedia|title=Ellen Pau|last=Kong|first=Travis|encyclopedia=Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture.|publisher=Routledge|year=2012|isbn=978-1136761812|editor-last=Gerstner|editor-first=David|page=451}}] The artist's first [retrospective exhibition](/source/retrospective_exhibition) in Hong Kong was organized by [Para Site](/source/Para_Site) in 2018.[{{Cite web|url=https://www.para-site.art/exhibitions/ellen-pau-what-about-home-affairs-a-retrospective/|title=Ellen Pau: What about Home Affairs? — A Retrospective|website=Para Site|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-07}}] The exhibition included major video installations ranging from the 1980s to the present.[{{Cite web|url=https://zolimacitymag.com/hong-kong-home-ellen-pau-tackles-the-question-in-her-30-year-retrospective/|title=In Hong Kong, What is Home? Ellen Pau Tackles the Question In Her 30-Year Retrospective|last=Lee|first=Christie|date=2019-01-01|website=Zolima City Magazine|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-03-07}}]
==Early life==
Pau graduated from [Diagnostic Radiography](/source/Diagnostic_radiographer) in 1985 at [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](/source/Hong_Kong_Polytechnic_University) and has worked as a professional radiographer and mammographer in [Queen Mary Hospital](/source/Queen_Mary_Hospital_(Hong_Kong)).[Sullivan, Michael. Modern Chinese artists: a biographical dictionary. Univ of California Press, 2006.][{{cite web|url=http://videotage.org.hk/people/pau-ellen/|title=Ellen Pau's Profile at Videotage|publisher=Videotage|access-date=2014-10-20|archive-date=2015-09-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150903215309/http://videotage.org.hk/people/pau-ellen/|url-status=dead}}]
Ellen Pau was born to a family of medical doctors. Growing up, she was immersed in an intellectual environment enriched by her father's intensive scientific knowledge. When she was nine-years old, Pau received a Kodak 135 film camera from her father and became interested in photographic techniques and the world of imagery.[{{Cite web |title=Ellen Pau: What about Home Affairs? — A Retrospective |url=https://www.para-site.art/exhibitions/ellen-pau-what-about-home-affairs-a-retrospective/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=Para Site |language=en-US}}][{{Cite journal |date=2018 |title=TICA Symposium Booklet, IAPT Symposium Booklet and Compositae Symposium Booklet |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.12705/676.43.s |journal=Taxon |doi=10.12705/676.43.s |issn=0040-0262|url-access=subscription }}]
During her undergraduate study, she worked as a stage actor, music editor, and concert organizer while at Polytechnic.[{{cite news|last1=Chow|first1=Vivienne|title='We can't afford another generation too lazy to think', says arts adviser|url=https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1409172/we-cant-afford-another-generation-too-lazy-think-says-arts-adviser|publisher=South China Morning Post}}][{{cite web|url=http://www.crumbweb.org/getInterviewDetail.php?id=25|title=CRUMB Interviews: Videotage Hong Kong: An interview with Ellen Pau|last1=Whittle|first1=Keith|publisher=CRUMB - Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140111195506/http://www.crumbweb.org/getInterviewDetail.php?id=25|archive-date=2014-01-11|url-status=live|access-date=2014-10-19}}] She also joined [experimental theatre](/source/experimental_theatre) company [Zuni Icosahedron](/source/Zuni_Icosahedron) where she became more familiar with contemporary art.[{{cite book|title=dye-a-di-a-logue with Ellen Pau|last1=NG|first1=Elaine W.|publisher=Monographs in Contemporary Art Books|isbn=0975335405|editor1-last=NG|editor1-first=Elaine W.|pages=6–8}}] Pau created her first [super-8](/source/Super_8_film) film ''Glove'' in 1984.[{{cite web|url=http://www.zuni.org.hk/new/zuni/web/default.php?cmd=performance_detail&id=233&locale=en_US|title=Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1990)|publisher=Zuni Icosahedron|access-date=2014-10-20}}] and ''Recycling Cinema'' (''1998), a video that captures blurred images of moving vehicles on a Hong Kong highway,'' was exhibited at the Hong Kong Pavilion in the [49th Venice Biennale](/source/49th_Venice_Biennale) in 2001,[{{cite book|title=Magic at Street Level: China-Hong Kong Exhibition at The Venice Biennial.|date=2001|publisher=Hong Kong Museum of Art|location=Hong Kong|pages=42–43}}] and in ''Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World'' at the [Guggenheim Museum](/source/Solomon_R._Guggenheim_Museum) (2017).[{{Cite news|url=https://ocula.com/magazine/reports/art-and-china-after-1989-theater-of-the-world/|title=Theater of the World: Art and China after 1989 {{!}} Ocula|last=Borgonjon|first=David|date=2017-12-17|work=Ocula|access-date=2018-03-07|language=en}}]
Pau is active as a curator and organizer in the art world. A vocal supporter of the independent arts scene, she has advocated for increasing funding and exhibition opportunities for artists in non-traditional.[{{Cite book|title=Conditional spaces : Hong Kong lesbian desires and everyday life|last=Tse-Shang|first=Tang, Denise|date=2011|publisher=Hong Kong University Press|isbn=978-9888083015|location=Hong Kong|page=[https://archive.org/details/conditionalspace0000tang/page/125 125]|oclc=770316327|url=https://archive.org/details/conditionalspace0000tang/page/125}}] In 1986, together with Wong Chi-fai, May Fung, and Comyn Mo, she founded [http://videotage.org.hk/ Videotage], Hong Kong's oldest video and [media art](/source/New_media_art) space.[{{Cite news|url=https://www.scmp.com/article/639221/digitlogue|title=Digit@logue|date=2008-05-27|work=South China Morning Post|access-date=2018-03-07|language=en}}][{{cite web|url=http://www.aaa.org.hk/WorldEvents/Details/10316|title=Hong Kong Art: Open Dialogue: Exhibition Series I - Digit@logue|website=Asia Art Archive|access-date=2014-10-19}}] From 2013 to 2019, Pau was appointed by the [Hong Kong Arts Development Council](/source/Hong_Kong_Arts_Development_Council) (HKADC) as a representative of the arts sector in Film Arts.[{{cite web|url=http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201312/27/P201312270274.htm|title=Appointments to Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Hong Kong Government Press Release|date=2013-12-27|website=GovHK|access-date=2014-10-20}}] Later in 2014, she was further appointed to the interim acquisition committee of [M+](/source/M%2B)[{{cite web |title=Appointment of Committee and Subcommittee Members under The Board of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, Press Release of West Kowloon Cultural District Authority |url=https://www.westkowloon.hk/en/newsroom/news/appointment-of-committee-and-subcommittee-members-under-the-board-of-the-west-kowloon-cultural-district-authority-495 |access-date=2014-10-20 |website=West Kowloon Cultural District |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180331040353/https://www.westkowloon.hk/en/newsroom/news/appointment-of-committee-and-subcommittee-members-under-the-board-of-the-west-kowloon-cultural-district-authority-495 |archive-date=31 March 2018 |url-status=dead}}] in [West Kowloon Cultural District](/source/West_Kowloon_Cultural_District) to advise on collection development.