Prior to Ellen Fullman’s concert in Hong Kong I downloaded some of her music. I enjoyed listening to the done-like tones of her long string instrument, and it made me look forward to her live performance. I wondered how the long string instrument will sound like live, and also how Ellen Fullman will perform on…
Category: Asia
_Writing about, Asia, Exhibitions, Hong Kong
Leung Chi Wo: So I don’t really know sometimes if it’s because of the long title…
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Leung Chi Wo “So I don’t really know sometimes if it’s because of culture”, 25.4.-17.5.2014 CMC Gallery, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, City University of Hong Kong Leung Chi Wo’s solo show contained 4 works, all video-based, some combined with photography. The first work to catch a visitor’s attention was “Sign” (2008) a single…
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Lee Kit’s “You”: Angry Sausage, Anyone?
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Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong, 6 March – 13 April 2014 I already did not intent to write about this exhibition, but given the amount of publicity and importance attributed to this show, I want to record my impressions and add to the pile of…
Asia, Hong Kong, Lecture/Performance/Event
Kill the Silence Music Festival
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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…
Asia, Hong Kong, Lecture/Performance/Event
Otomo Yoshihide, Sin:Ned, Chin King, Fiona Lee, DJ Sniff
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– 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…
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Asian Experimental Video Festival in Hong Kong: The Social Turn
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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…
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Para Site: “Golden Heights Estate”
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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…
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Marysia Lewandowska “Making Publics For Art”
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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…
_Writing about, Asia, Exhibitions, Hong Kong
Dances with the Green- An Art Exhibition on the Northeastern New Territories
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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…
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Mobile M+: Building M+: the Museum and Architecture Collection
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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…