East Contemporary

Category: Hong Kong

Para Site Art Space: “Great Crescent: Art and Agitation in the 1960s – Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan”

(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…

Osage Gallery: Ringo Bunoan + Ng Joon Kiat + Yong Rim Lee + Yu Ji “Poetics of Materiality”

(1/4 – 2/4/2014) 4/F Union Hing Yip Factory Bldg, 20 Hing Yip St, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong, http://www.osagegallery.com Four artists in whose work – according to the curator (Charles Merewether) – materiality (the quality of the material) plays an important role. All of the artists (or at least those I knew) seem to have been…

City U Creative Colloquium: Hangjun Lee + Yoo Un-seoung + Hankil Ryu concert

(11/29/2013) Creative Colloquium Blog An evening featuring a three-part performance of three Korean artists. Based on the announcement, the overall program of the evening was directed by Hangjun Lee, an experimental film maker. In the first part, a performance piece for an actor and a projector was shown. The actor was film critic Yoo Un-seoung:…

CityU Research Seminar: Olaf Hochherz “Associative Fields”

(11/26/2013) Olaf Hochcherz – watching Olaf Hochherz, a fellow PhD Felow at The School of Creative Media at CityU gave a talk on his sound art research of associative fields. To put it simply, Hochherz work starts with an array of synthesizer parameters. He then ‘walks’ around this multidimensional array, trying to define sub-arrays of…

IOW Media Art Showcase

(11/13/2013 – ?) I/O Warehouse, Kwun Tong, 62 Hung To Road In a semi-commercial space, a combination of a light design company, a mapping projection production studio showroom, an artist’s workshop and a media art showroom, IOW (which I believe stands for Input/Output Warehouse) held an event, with product demonstrations, a band performance and some…

CityU Distinguished Lecture: Prof. Myron S. Scholes “Global Economy: Post the Global Financial Crisis”

(11/13/2013) An event of a different kind, beyond art and minimal art more so, but still of interest, at least for me. Prof. Scholes was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for the Black-Scholes option pricing model (a mathematical model of the financial market containing derivative instruments). The lecture at CityU was directed towards a…

CityU Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre: “Bad Sculpture” exhibition

(11/12/2013 – ?) An exhibition of student’s work at City University of Hong Kong created under the guidance of Adrian Wong. A mixture of really bad sculpture, boring sculpture and some pretty good pieces too. The biggest ‘fails’ for me were those sculptures utilizing toilet paper – probably the author’s thought of it as shocking,…

CityU Architectural Studies Seminar: Dr. Jonathan A. Hale: Body-Building-World

(11/12/2013) Prof. Hale’s (The University of Nottingham) guest lecture started off with a clearly dualist view of ‘transparent’ vs. ‘opaque’ technology, pitting against each other the ‘good old world’ and the ‘brave new world’: Handheld mechanical tools that provide ‘direct feedback’ vs. electric tools that provide an ‘experience of the machine’ instead of an experience…

Hong Kong Int’l Literary Festival: Hong Kong: An Island of Creativity? – BBC “The Forum” Talk

(11/10/2013) Hong Kong Literary Festival – Asia in Focus A discussion concluding the Hong Kong International Literary Festival, this talk was recorded by the BBC for the “The Forum” program. The topic sounded interesting, but once in the discussion started, the ‘dumbed down’ BBC World Service style quickly became apparent. Bridget Kendall, the BBC reporter,…