East Contemporary

Category: Hong Kong

CityU Guest Talk: Prof. John Levack Drever “Sound Art – Whose Hearing?”

Hong Kong, 5pm September 29, 2016, Creative Media Colloquium Drever is a sound artist and professor at Goldsmiths, University of London. The major part of the lecture took place at a rapid speed with references raining in the intervals of seconds. At moments it seemed – in the words taken from one of Alan Kwan’s…

Floating Projects: Jess Lau & Kinchoi Lam “Recurrence”

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…

Edouard Malingue: João Vasco Paiva “Green Island”

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…

Pearl Lam HK Soho: Alan Kwan and Kenny Wong “Interstitial”

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…

Spring Workshop: Tyler Coburn “Postscript on I’m that angel” talk

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…