Hong Kong, September 10 – September 25, 2016, http://floatingprojectscollective.net The exhibition consisted of two different bodies of work. Kinchoi Lam presented a series of three video installations, all of different configurations of fixed camera videos of and from within telephone booths located in very calm and remote places of Hong Kong. Jess Lau’s work was…
Hong Kong, September 23 – October 22, 2016, http://edouardmalingue.com/ At first sight, the exhibition consisted of a couple of cubic meters of beach sand dumped into the gallery and decorated with concrete casts of concrete sacks and water dispenser water bottles. A stereotypical relaxed sliding guitar “beach” music further supported the feel of an abandoned…
Hong Kong, September 14 – October 19, 2016, http://holymotorsproject.com/ The corner window display was emptied of all contents for this exhibition and a large flat screen TV on a movable stand was placed inside. The monitor was flickering and some kind of violet-red-blue image was being played back. I imagined I saw some machinima movie…
Hong Kong, July 22 – September 15, 2016, http://www.pearllam.com/ If the exhibitions at Karin Weber and K11 Chi Art Space represented the joyful side of Hong Kong’s young artists, then “Interstitial” represented the existential angst-laden side. Instead of everyday leisure and fun, existential questions and personal fears came to the fore. The use of technology…
Hong Kong, August 12 – September 8, 2016, 8F New World Tower II, Central (Curator: Vivian Poon) Dirty Paper is a Hong Kong art collective consisting of Chan Wai Lap and Yau Kwok Keung. The artworks has a youthful and relaxed feel: A human anatomy class drawings reminding of the biology class where the teacher…
Suwon, April 28 – August 21, 2016 (Rha + PLAYART), July 14 – October 16, 2016 (Alice), http://sima.suwon.go.kr SIMA is a new museum in Suwon that opened in October 2015. “iPark” is the is an apartment brand launched by Hyundai Development Company in 2001. Prominently featured in the entrance hall of the museum is the…
Seoul, August 8 – 30, 2016, https://www.facebook.com/space.ba421 Ba421, a little space in between the electronic shops and warehouses of Sewoon Sangga Market, had an exhibition of photographs by Reu Ji Young류지영. All were photos of domestic appliance’s charger cables or power chords.
Seoul (세운상가 가열327호 개방회로), August 5 – August 19, 2016, www.3hragency.com, opencircuit.co.kr Sewoon Sangga, a large market complex near Jogno 3-ga in the center of Seoul, was quiet and half deserted on the Saturday afternoon when I was finding my way through the maze of little shops and warehouses selling mostly electronic goods. It was…
Seoul, June 23 – August 14, 2016, http://www.altpool.org/ Artists: Yongju Kwon권용주, Woohyun Kim 김웅현, An Gyungsu안경수, Yongseok Oh오용석, Okin Collective옥인 콜렉티브, Yuri Kim임유리, Jang Pa장파, Sojung Jun전소정, Jeong Deokhyeon 정덕현, Curator: Sohyun Ahn 안소현
Seoul, August 12, 2016, http://www.mmca.go.kr, FB event A one night open studio and opening party for a small exhibition on the ground floor of the Changdong Residency of MMCA. Artworks by Tim Breukers (large Styrofoam mashup sculpture), Tyler Joseph Stefanich (generative video and graphite sound drawing), and Enrique Ramirez (videos of sea and a sport…