(11/9 – 11/17/2013) Microwave Festival website A small exhibition, containing 5 artworks in total. In accordance with the overall space & moon theme of the festival, the artworks on display all related to the topic, and I felt the relation was a bit too predictable: A withered rose that has supposedly been exposed to Mars-like…
Category: Hong Kong
_Writing about, Asia, Hong Kong, Lecture/Performance/Event
Microwave Festival: Keynote Conference
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(11/2/2013) Microwave Festival website The yearly Microwave Int’l New Media Arts Festival kicked off with a keynote conference that took place at the Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre of CityU. The overall theme of the festival was related to space travel and that was also the central theme of the presentations.
_Writing about, Asia, Exhibitions, Hong Kong
Spring Workshop: A Constructed World “The Social Contract”
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(11/2 – 12/5/2013) Spring Workshop website Spring Workshop is an art space located on the South side of Hong Kong Island (Aberdeen). Located in an old warehouse building, it was minutely clean and precisely designed inside. The exhibition by an the artist group called A Constructed World was of a special kind: Prior to entering…
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Platform China (HK): Lyota Yagi + Takehiro Iitawa “Once was Now, Now is Over, Yet will come”
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(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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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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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…