Hong Kong, September 29 – October 9, 2016, http://www.100ftpark.hk/ 100ft. Park is a miniature art space located on the second floor of an old 6 floor walk-up building, right above the extreme noise and light assault of the electric appliance and lighting market in Sham Shui Po’s Ap Liu Street.
Author: EC
_Writing about, Asia, China, Hong Kong, Lecture/Performance/Event
CityU Guest Talk: Prof. John Levack Drever “Sound Art – Whose Hearing?”
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Hong Kong, 5pm September 29, 2016, Creative Media Colloquium Drever is a sound artist and professor at Goldsmiths, University of London. The major part of the lecture took place at a rapid speed with references raining in the intervals of seconds. At moments it seemed – in the words taken from one of Alan Kwan’s…
_Writing about, Asia, China, Exhibitions, Hong Kong
Floating Projects: Jess Lau & Kinchoi Lam “Recurrence”
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Hong Kong, September 10 – September 25, 2016, http://floatingprojectscollective.net The exhibition consisted of two different bodies of work. Kinchoi Lam presented a series of three video installations, all of different configurations of fixed camera videos of and from within telephone booths located in very calm and remote places of Hong Kong. Jess Lau’s work was…
_Writing about, Asia, China, Exhibitions, Hong Kong
Edouard Malingue: João Vasco Paiva “Green Island”
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Hong Kong, September 23 – October 22, 2016, http://edouardmalingue.com/ At first sight, the exhibition consisted of a couple of cubic meters of beach sand dumped into the gallery and decorated with concrete casts of concrete sacks and water dispenser water bottles. A stereotypical relaxed sliding guitar “beach” music further supported the feel of an abandoned…
_Writing about, Asia, China, Exhibitions, Hong Kong
Holy Motors: Zheng Mahler “#5”
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Hong Kong, September 14 – October 19, 2016, http://holymotorsproject.com/ The corner window display was emptied of all contents for this exhibition and a large flat screen TV on a movable stand was placed inside. The monitor was flickering and some kind of violet-red-blue image was being played back. I imagined I saw some machinima movie…
_Writing about, Asia, China, Exhibitions, Hong Kong
Pearl Lam HK Soho: Alan Kwan and Kenny Wong “Interstitial”
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Hong Kong, July 22 – September 15, 2016, http://www.pearllam.com/ If the exhibitions at Karin Weber and K11 Chi Art Space represented the joyful side of Hong Kong’s young artists, then “Interstitial” represented the existential angst-laden side. Instead of everyday leisure and fun, existential questions and personal fears came to the fore. The use of technology…
_Writing about, Asia, China, Exhibitions, Hong Kong
K11 Chi Art Space: Dirty Paper “Everything’s Alright”
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Hong Kong, August 12 – September 8, 2016, 8F New World Tower II, Central (Curator: Vivian Poon) Dirty Paper is a Hong Kong art collective consisting of Chan Wai Lap and Yau Kwok Keung. The artworks has a youthful and relaxed feel: A human anatomy class drawings reminding of the biology class where the teacher…
_Writing about, Asia, China, Hong Kong, Lecture/Performance/Event
Noise to Signal 0.37: Linkage (Sin:Ned, Five Zero Four, Szkieve, Ring Chan)
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Hong Kong, SAAL, Unit D 3/F King Wan Industrial Building, 21:00 August 19, 2016, FB Noise to Signal is an irregular noise and improvised music event. This time it took place in what appeared to be a recording studio and record shop in an old industrial building in Kwun Tong. Walking there on a rainy…
_Writing about, Asia, Exhibitions, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Suwon iPark Museum of Art: “Donated Works – Rha Hye Sok” + “PLAYART_Art via Games” + “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Virtual Reality”
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Suwon, April 28 – August 21, 2016 (Rha + PLAYART), July 14 – October 16, 2016 (Alice), http://sima.suwon.go.kr SIMA is a new museum in Suwon that opened in October 2015. “iPark” is the is an apartment brand launched by Hyundai Development Company in 2001. Prominently featured in the entrance hall of the museum is the…