(10/30/2013 – ?) Platform China FB Following the talk earlier in the week, Lyota’s and Takehiro’s opening took place on Thursday. Overall, the artist presentations prepared me well for the show. Without attending the talk, the works would probably mean less to me… or more. For Lyota’s work, seeing the car racing track made of…
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_Writing about, Asia, Hong Kong, Lecture/Performance/Event
CityU Creative Media Colloquium: Lyota Yagi + Takehiro Iikawa performance & Artist Talk
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(10/29/2013) Creative Media Colloquium website Two Japanese artists came to CityU for an artist talk and performance in relation to their exhibition opening the same week. The theme of the exhibition, as well as of the talk was ‘Time’. Lyota approaches the topic mainly from the angle of physical media used to store music –…
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HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity Gallery: Painting On and On 5: Taciturn
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(10/25 – 11/23/2013) HKICC website A group exhibition of Au Hoi Lam, Gaylord Chan, Ko Sin Tung, Kong Chun Hei, Lee Kit, Liu Chun Kwong, Frank Vigneron and Wai Pong Yu. This show collected the best of a certain art scene in Hong Kong. The common denominator of the painting on show has been a…
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Seoul.Art.Summer.2013
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This post provides a flashback of this year’s summer time in Seoul. I spent most of July and August in Seoul. It has been more than a month since my departure, but memories still linger in my head. On the contrary to my experience in Europe where summer is the holiday season or Shanghai where…
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CityU Creative Media Colloquium: Satoru Higa + Suzueri concert
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(10/11/2013) Creative Media Colloquium website In a concert at the CityU SCM, Suzueri played piano and some sound effects while Satoru Higa took care of the visual part (projection). The patches on the projection were doubling as musical instruments as well as visuals – that was the most interesting feature. In the first track, this…
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CityU Creative Media Colloquium: Tak Cheong Lane artist talk
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(10/8/2013) Tak Cheong Lane FB An event of a different kind, this was an artist talk in a series of events organized at the Run Run Shaw Creative Media Center (CMC) of City University of Hong Kong (CityU). Tak Cheong Lane is a group of artists/activists, more activists than artists. They were at the core…
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Blindspot Gallery: Jiang Pengyi “Everything Illuminates”
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(10/5 – 11/2/2013) Blindspot Gallery website When I received the invitation I first wondered whether this is an installation or photo exhibition. The images showed objects, like a crystal chandelier, a paper sheet or a mysterious liquid which were emanating light – the light was coming straight out of them from another light source illuminating…
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Para Site: “The Floating Eternity Project”
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(9/15 – 11/10/2013) http://www.para-site.org.hk/ After a plague-themed exhibition in the summer, Para/site is showing a death-themed exhibition in the autumn – that was my first thought when finding out about this show. I was surprised that the exhibition architecture of the space stayed the same as last time. I thought it would be temporary. Given…
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NeC nilsson et chiglien hong kong: Marie Torbensdatter Hermann “A Gentle Blow to the Rock”
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(8/30-9/28/2013) http://www.galerienec.com I arrived at this gallery by chance while on my way to some other place. I have passed by previously, but the usual display of ceramic vases and sculptures rarely got my attention. This time my sight was drawn in by the empty space that was lined by one long double-shelf along the…
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Pearl Lam Hong Kong: Jenny Holzer “Light Stream”
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(9/19 – 11/2/2013) http://www.pearllam.com/city/hong-kong/ This show has a bit of a ‘showroom feel’ at first. The polished LED displays in the white space looked similar to the iPhones in an Apple Store. I also instantly recognized the arch-shaped displays that have been on show at Rockbund Museum in Shanghai earlier this year. The work was…