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: Lecture/Performance/Event
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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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…
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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…
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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…
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…
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,…