No One Pulse (HK) + Olaf Hochherz (Germany), Circuitrip (Singapore), Naturalismo (Italy) + Sherman (HK), C-drík (Belgium), dj sniff (Japan) + Otomo Yoshihide (Japan), SETE STAR SEPT (Japan), Mikko Savela (Sweden), adeō (HK) Hong Kong, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School Of Creativity, April 27 The last weekend was rich in music. After the Friday concert…
– April 25, 2014, concert at Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, City University, Hong Kong The performance venue was set up in a circular form, with small separate stages for each performer located along the perimeter. The center of the circle, an empty space, was left for the audience. Each performer had his own…
April 1 – 4, 2014, Future Cinema Studio, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre The festival was divided into country blocks: South Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Macau and Mainland China. Each section was curated by an invited curator, who got a free hand how to interpret the festival’s subtitle. I attended three of the…
1 March – 20 April 2014, Para Site, 4 Po Yan Street, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong Para Site is one of the longest-standing art spaces in Hong Kong and as such it does not need much introduction. I have written about Para Site previously and most recently I was slightly complaining about the well made…
Friday, 21 February 2014, Cheng Yu Tung Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Marysia Lewandowska (ML), an artists and currently visiting professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong gave an introductory artists talk explaining her practice. My previous knowledge about ML was limited to the work she did with Neil Cummings which caught…
City University of Hong Kong, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, 1/11 – 2/23/2014, http://hknent.com/ I was quite excited when I heard about this exhibition as it seemed to be the first larger exhibition at RRS CMC since my arrival in September. In addition to that I myself live in the Northeastern New Territories (NENT) which…
ArtisTree, 2014/01/10-02/09, www.westkowloon.hk An exhibition that was part of the image-building activities of the West Kowloon Culture District’s (WKCD) future Museum. This time, the main aim was to present the outcomes of the architectural competition for the M+ building, and a selection of the future museum’s collection of architecture-related artefacts. The exhibition took place at…
(11/12/2013-1/12/2014) 2 Harbour Rd, Wanchai, Hong Kong A group exhibition with a grand yet little saying title. In terms of content, it was quite well done – a selection of 9 artists, spanning styles and generations – Wang Ningde, teamLab, Shilpa Gupta, Lee Yongbaek, Cang Yung Ta, Takashi Ishida, Wong Chung Yu, Nam June Paik,…
(1/8/2014) G/F, 4 Po Yan Street, Sheung Wan, http://www.para-site.org.hk Clare Butcher was a curator-in-residence at Para Site Art Space. Her project: Researching on the 1997 2nd – and last – Johannesburg Biennale of Contemporary Art. One section of the Biennale titled “Hong Kong etc…” curated by Hou Hanru brought her to Hong Kong. Clare Butcher…
(11/22/2013-9/2/2014) G/F, 4 Po Yan Street, Sheung Wan, http://www.para-site.org.hk A research-based exhibition looking at the origins of ‘performative’ anti-art in the three countries mentioned in the title of the show. As a concept, this is definitely a worthy endeavor to undertake. And I definitely got some new information from what was on display. But I…