Hong Kong, March 22, 2016, Open Platform 2016 Booth, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, http://www.aaa.org.hk/OpenPlatform2016 I just had a faint memory of Paul Chan from seeing his work at documenta 13 in Kassel: A room full of book covers that have been ripped apart from the content and painted over in monochome grey. The…
Hong Kong, January 27, 2016 (Bloomberg Auditorium, Cheung Kong Center 25F), http://www.aaa.org.hk/Bloomberg_Collective During the last few years, Asia Art Archive (AAA) commissioned a new booth for their presence in the Art Basel Hong Kong art fair every year. The booth has been used to create a space for encounter and idea exchange, most prominently a…
Hong Kong, December 14, 2015 – January 23, 2016, http://www.aaa.org.hk A chamber exhibition within the AAA library space, looking at Filipino musician and composer Jose Maceda as an associative starting point for collecting a range of artworks and materials. It was good to see it together with the curator’s (Inti Guerero) guidance. Listening to his…
(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…
As last year during Art Hong Kong, Asia Art Archive organized a series panel talks adding to the fair’s program. Compared to last year, the number of lectures has been reduced I guess this is given the fact that Art ‘Basel’ Hong Kong now introduced their ‘own’ series of talks. I did not have time…
Okwui Enwezor, June Yap, Gayatri Sindha, Hans-Ulrich Olbrist, Tam Wai Ping 譚偉平, Cao Fei 曹斐, Chen Chie-jen 陳界仁 Backroom conversations are a series of lectures organized by the Asia Art Archive on the occasion of the ART HK art fair. Same as the art fair, they took place at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition…