(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…
Category: Asia
Asia, Hong Kong, Lecture/Performance/Event
Hong Kong Int’l Literary Festival: Hong Kong: An Island of Creativity? – BBC “The Forum” Talk
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(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,…
_Writing about, Asia, Exhibitions, Hong Kong
Microwave Festival: Main Exhibition
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(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…
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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…
_Writing about, Asia, Exhibitions, Seoul, South Korea
Asia Code _ ZERO_ 空 + Changhoon Lee “Either Very Short of Very Long”
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Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, 10/11 – 12/22 (Asia Code), 10/11 – 10/27/13 (Changhoon Lee) www.somamuseum.org www.somadrawing.org The handout of the show announced the theme of “Zero” (空 – Chinese character for emptiness) identified as the specific feature of ‘Asian’ art. Works in the show were related to this concept, taking up the theme from different…
_Writing about, Asia, Exhibitions, Seoul, South Korea
Takashi Murakami “Takashi in Superflat Wonderland”
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Plateau, Seoul, 7/4 – 12/8/2013 The Murakami show at Plateau Seoul has been on since the summer, however it was just in the autumn that I managed to stop by. Murakami’s work is so iconic that I did not consider it necessary to see, but after the visit I still found it worthy to see. The…
_Writing about, Asia, Exhibitions, Hong Kong
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…
_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 –…
_Writing about, Asia, Exhibitions, Hong Kong
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…