(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,…
Category: Asia
_Writing about, Asia, Hong Kong, Lecture/Performance/Event
Clare Butcher “Trade Routes was a Beginning” talk at Para Site / Asia Art Archive
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(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…
_Writing about, Asia, Exhibitions, Hong Kong
Para Site Art Space: “Great Crescent: Art and Agitation in the 1960s – Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan”
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(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…
_Writing about, Asia, Exhibitions, Hong Kong
Fotanian – Fotan Open Studios
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(1/11+12+18+19/2014) http://www.fotanian.org/ Fotan is an industrial warehouse area in the New Territories where many Hong Kong artists (notably those who used to study at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, which is nearby) have their studios. Once a year, Fotanian is a joint event when all artists open their doors to the public. The studios…
_Writing about, Asia, Exhibitions, Hong Kong
Osage Gallery: Ringo Bunoan + Ng Joon Kiat + Yong Rim Lee + Yu Ji “Poetics of Materiality”
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(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…
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City U Creative Colloquium: Hangjun Lee + Yoo Un-seoung + Hankil Ryu concert
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(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:…
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CityU Research Seminar: Olaf Hochherz “Associative Fields”
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(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…
_Writing about, Asia, Exhibitions, Hong Kong
IOW Media Art Showcase
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(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…
Asia, Hong Kong, Lecture/Performance/Event, Theory and Non-Art
CityU Distinguished Lecture: Prof. Myron S. Scholes “Global Economy: Post the Global Financial Crisis”
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(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…
_Writing about, Asia, Exhibitions, Hong Kong
CityU Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre: “Bad Sculpture” exhibition
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(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,…