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…
Category: China
_Writing about, Asia, China, Exhibitions, Hong Kong
Holy Motors: Zheng Mahler “#5”
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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…
_Writing about, Asia, China, Exhibitions, Hong Kong
Pearl Lam HK Soho: Alan Kwan and Kenny Wong “Interstitial”
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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…
_Writing about, Asia, China, Exhibitions, Hong Kong
K11 Chi Art Space: Dirty Paper “Everything’s Alright”
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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…
_Writing about, Asia, China, Hong Kong, Lecture/Performance/Event
Noise to Signal 0.37: Linkage (Sin:Ned, Five Zero Four, Szkieve, Ring Chan)
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Hong Kong, SAAL, Unit D 3/F King Wan Industrial Building, 21:00 August 19, 2016, FB Noise to Signal is an irregular noise and improvised music event. This time it took place in what appeared to be a recording studio and record shop in an old industrial building in Kwun Tong. Walking there on a rainy…
_Writing about, Asia, China, Exhibitions, Hong Kong
Holy Motors: Nadim Abbas “#4”
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Hong Kong, July 30 – September 2, 2016, http://holymotorsproject.com/ It was thanks to a set of coincidences that I passed by this exhibition. It showed up on my facebook thanks to a few of my friends “going”, it happened to be along my planned route, and there was a short rain in the afternoon which…
_Writing about, Asia, China, Hong Kong, Lecture/Performance/Event
Spring Workshop: Tyler Coburn “Postscript on I’m that angel” talk
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Hong Kong, August 4, 2016 18:30 – 20:00, http://www.springworkshop.org An artist talk by Tyler Coburn. Coburn wrote a book in which a schizophrenic writer-for-hire is fantasizing about the internet cloud, what it is, where it is and what it means (based on Coburns personal experience as a writer-for-hire). Coburn then organized readings from his book…
_Writing about, Asia, China, Exhibitions, Hong Kong
CUHK: Sarah Lai Cheuk Wah “Unsettled heart”
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Hong Kong, July 10 – August 5, 2016, 3/F Gallery, Cheng Ming Building, New Asia College, CUHK, http://www.artofcuhk.hk/ Sara Lai Cheuk Wah’s ( 黎卓華 ) installation stood out from the other exhibits at the CUHK MFA Graduation Show. At first it just impressed through its ability to express and transmit a certain feeling to the…
_Writing about, Asia, China, Exhibitions, Hong Kong
The Art of CUHK 2016 “MFA Graduate Exhibition”
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Hong Kong, July 10 – August 5, 2016, http://www.artofcuhk.hk/ Yet another hike up into the mountains of CUHK, this time for the MFA exhibition. Same as the prior BA exhibition, also this show spanned two locations – the CUHK Museum and the studio spaces on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors of the Cheng Ming…
_Writing about, Asia, China, Exhibitions, Hong Kong
1a Art Space “Pseudo Collection: What Do Artist Collect”
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Hong Kong, May 28 – July 22, 2016, http://www.oneaspace.org.hk/ The definition of collecting has been left very open by the curators (Enoch Cheung 長康生 / Jeff Leung 梁展峰) of this exhibition. It could be anything from a “real” collection of artworks to a random grouping of material leftovers, implying the meaning as it is used…