Hong Kong, 24 March – 19 April 2018, http://www.cityu.edu.hk/ontheroad/ The ambitions of this exhibitions were set very high, documenting a selection of “Young Media Artists in China”. The title reminded me of the difficulty of the “contemporary art” vs. “media art” separation. I wished we could get over this dichotomy in the 21st century, but…
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…
Hong Kong, May 8 – ?, 2016, https://streetartreloading.wordpress.com/ A mini-festival bringing graffiti into different location in Hong Kong. I somehow missed most of it, but the large graffiti wall inside of Creative Media Centre’s 3F Gallery could not be missed: Smash137 aka Adrian Falkner (Basel) on one side vs. Parents Parents (Hong Kong) on the…
Hong Kong, September 11 – October 4, 2015, http://www.scm.cityu.edu.hk/ Max Chan Wang, Garret Lai Ho Feng, Leung Wing Yee A photographic exhibition focusing on themes like the passing of time and memory.
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…
Leung Chi Wo “So I don’t really know sometimes if it’s because of culture”, 25.4.-17.5.2014 CMC Gallery, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, City University of Hong Kong Leung Chi Wo’s solo show contained 4 works, all video-based, some combined with photography. The first work to catch a visitor’s attention was “Sign” (2008) a single…
– 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…
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…
City University of Hong Kong, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, 1/11 – 2/23/2014, http://hknent.com/ I was quite excited when I heard about this exhibition as it seemed to be the first larger exhibition at RRS CMC since my arrival in September. In addition to that I myself live in the Northeastern New Territories (NENT) which…
(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:…