André Willimann Hong Kong: The Blue Lotus 2014 / 15 photographs and collages (title unknown) A mix of vacation photographs and historical documents builds a small, atmospheric narrative. It also visualizes my impressions of the city in an easily digestible format.
Alfred Vorster Documentations, Movements and Time Trio for prepared piano, violin and violoncello / 2014 / score (12 sheets on music stands) “Documentation, Movements and Time” is a graphic representation of movement patters in Hong Kong, which has been documented at various times and locations within the city. The fundamental aim is not to reproduce…
Katherine Patio Miranda
To push or not to push? Combat Lesson
2014 / installation
Life seems as an effort to get somewhere, to attain something or to simply get things done. Our natural instinct is to apply an effort to deal with things. As long as there are two forces in opposition, there will be conflict. When the two forces are brought into one, the conflict is resolved.
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Ami Tsang Tsz Hei & Magnhild Fossum McStudios – The ideology of the role of studio 2014 / concept by Ami Tsang, performance by Magnhild Fossum / 1-channel video / colour / no sound McDonald‘s is famous in its native North America for its cheap fast food, as well as for its drive-through service. This…
Magnhild Fossum Wild is the wind 2014 / mixed media Wind is movement. Wind carries. Wind has a powerful influence on our existence. With population growth, technological development, and globalization we see the development of new “world cities” where the buildings are taller than tall, and the climate is next to tropical. As in Hong…
Vera Buck Sei Shi‘s Chopsticks or: How to Eat a Lion 2014 / wooden chopsticks / ink on paper The project Shi Shi‘s Chopsticks or: How to Eat a Lion is a parodistic quote on Kafka‘s Gabel (Kafka‘s fork) as exposed in the Deutsche Literaturarchiv in Marbach. It bears reference to Yuen Ren Chao‘s poem The…
Xavier Le Roy Product of circumstances http://www.xavierleroy.com/page.php?sp=b484c7a5657f9135a4743af6cf4b70a038ffd7f1&lg=en PRODUCT OF OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES (2009) From and by: Xavier Le Roy Production: Le Kwatt Coproduction: Le muse de la danse – Rennes Thanks to: Boris Charmatz, PAF (performing arts forum) In October 2009, after an email exchange (read here after), Xavier Le Roy created a performance titled Xavier makes someRebutoh.…
Tschopp Navid Third Space, 2011 Skype-conference on a persian carpet. Half of the carpet is in Switzerland, the other half in Iran. www.navid.ch Third Space (2012) is an illusionary projection of a skype-video-conversation to Iran (or anywhere else). The central motiv of the installation is a persian carpet wich symbolizes the garden where people come…
Denis Handschin Traces of my research about doing nothing My project involves investigating and developing a more complex understanding of what doing nothing can mean. Related to this is a larger questioning of the value of passivity compared with activity. Passivity is often regarded as subordinate to activity in the West; I suspect that…
Simon Grab What you hear is [not] [t]here. Audio Fieldrecordings from Hong Kong, 2014 In his composition made out of Fieldrecordings from Hong Kong, Simon Grab suggests / pretends to hear ‘locality’ by focusing on functional sounds from the city. As evoked in its title his work has an open access to interpretation rather asking…
Harry Leung & Gabriel Flückiger Street posts / booklet 2014 / stickers and booklet edition of 10, 2 AP In Hong Kong it is common for services, products and shops to advertise on the streets with flyers, stickers, banners or salesmen. Sometimes these ads can be very informal and obscure, only with a phone number…
Hong Kong Strollology: from day to dusk trough dawn; or: to walk in cities A 43 km walk on 1st and 2nd of April 2014 / HD-Video 7:04min I like to walk in cities. Citywalker, flaneur, stroller, observer, designer, planner, geographer, sociologue, researcher; dedicated urbanists everywhere. A variety of interesting things to see where I…
Jyoti Kapur Inside / Outside 2014 / 1-channel-video, sound The inside is outside or the outside is inside this idea could change immediately when we think in context of living environments in different cities of the world. «Space» in its sense of physical area or a perception of a surrounding, is of interest to me.…
Patricia Nocon Do what you see – Fake the city 2014 / video installation Patricia Nocon: Gesture HK 1 from Connecting Spaces Hong Kong on Vimeo. Patricia Nocon: Gesture HK 2 from Connecting Spaces Hong Kong on Vimeo. My work revolves around the study of urban life through bodily experience. For this project, I have therefore adopteda research method where I attempt to…
Cherry Cheng Mei Lun Impressions 2014 / 8 phtographes / inkjet prints 18 x 20 cm My project consists of several trips within Hong Kong that are meant to train my sensitivity of everyday life, as well as enable me to explore the city in which I live. Through photographs and artworks at the end…
Mahroo Movahedi Being without Attendance 2014 / photographs Photographs in collaboration with fellow students from Masters in Transdisciplinary Studies, by: Brandon Farnsworth, Denis Handschin, Marc Latzel My goal is to create new sorts of presence. Due to the difficulties in obtaining a visa, I could not join the rest of the group in Hong Kong. I…
Anna Rubi The past we didn‘t know we had 2014/ HDV/ color/ sound/ variable loop Sound: Simon Grab – excerpt from performance at Connecting Spaces in Hong Kong (2014) Performance: Magnhild Fossum, Patricia Nocon «What he sought was always something lying ahead, and even if it was a matter of the past it was a past that…
Frank Tang Kai Yiu X:Y 2014 / 5-channel HDV / colour / no sound / variable loop Due to its unique geographical context, every country and city possesses its own distinct cultural features. These features are easy to find in such visual elements as architecture styles, arts, and physical human activities on the ground. As…
Shiyu Gao Market Place Electro 2014 / 1-channel video, sound In transforming daily images of a meat market into some hyper-techno digitized visual stimulus, the video explores the possibilities of image, and puts the discourse of daily life into the contemporary context. The violence of a meat market somehow matches the ear-punching electronic music, which…
History is not only the understanding of an event that took place at a certain time, but also the subject connected to a certain space. It is this question that forms the corner stone of Karl Schlegel’s book Im Raume lesen wir die Zeit. We refer to certain spaces as crime scenes, historical battlefields, highlands…
“Die Strassen dieser Stadt haben keine Namen. Wohl gibt es eine geschriebene Adresse, aber die hat ausschliesslich postalische Bedeutung; sie bezieht sich auf ein Kataster (nach Vierteln und Blocks ohne jede Geometrie), das der Postbote kennt, nicht aber der Besucher: Die groesste Stadt der Welt besitzt praktisch keine Klassifizierung; die Raeume aus denen sie besteht,…
There is books about the Hong Kong Accent, which also integrates Cantonese words in the English vocabulary (such as ‘chop’, shroff’, ‘nullah’…). Pronounciation and Grammar are different from the British and American accent. In China, call this ‘fusion-language’ ‘chinglish’ or ‘Cantonese English’. (Hong Kong English seems to be slightly different from this, though.) http://www.waseda.jp/ocw/AsianStudies/9A77WorldEnglishSpring2005/LectureNotes/03_HKE_TonyH/HKE_unit2.pdf
Dear all I have organized the DVD of Luc Schaedler’s documentary «Made in Hong Kong»: HK 1997 just before and after the passover from the Brits to China. Interesting interviews and pictures from HK changing so rapidly. Who wants to watch this movie? We can organize a viewing one of these evenings @ ZHdK. It…
Link to the Governmental Record Service
Hong Kong Record Series
A records series is a group of documents or volumes that has been brought together for a specific function or activity. These records are usually created by the same organization or individuals, arranged according to the same classification system or in the same physical form.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guqin A renowned, Hong Kong-based Guqin player plays one of his compositions:
L’Abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze is a French television program produced by Pierre-André Boutang in 1988-1989, consisting of an eight-hour series of interviews between Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet (Wikipedia).
The imaged society or the role of image and image production in a postmodern, global society/community About In the essay “Globalisierung als visuelles Phänomen” Patrizial Faccioli questions the role of images in the production of individual and common identity in postmodern, global societies. Patrizia Faccioli is associate professor of sociology at the University of…
Dr. Bertha Du-Babcock is Associate Professor and Director of CHASS International Exchange Program. She received the Kitty O Locker Outstanding Researcher Award (2008), the Meada Gibbs Outstanding Teaching Award (2004), the Outstanding Article Award in the Journal of Business Communication (2007), and the Outstanding Article Award in the Business Communication Quarterly (2001). Dr Du-Babcock will…
The Architecture of Transgression AD Rachel Sara, Jonathan Mosley ISBN: 978-1-118-36179-5 136 pages November 2013 Transgression suggests operating beyond accepted norms and radically reinterpreting practice by pushing at the boundaries of both what architecture is, and what it could or even should be. The current economic crisis and accompanying political/social unrest has exacerbated the difficulty into…
Alexandra Pirici and Manuel Pelmus, An Immaterial Retrospective of The Venice Biennale, 2013. Enactment of drawing depicting two tigers exhibited in the Japanese room at the 14th International Art Exhibition of the City of Venice, 1924. Performance view, 2013. Photo: Italo Rondinella. Courtesy la Biennale di Venezia. Is the Living Body the Last Thing Left…
Interview with C-Drik Fermont, curator and producer of the Syrphe African & Asian Database. The aim of the database, run by the label called Syrphe, is to let people know that alternative electronic, experimental and noise music also exist in underrated continents. By Julian Bonequi, published @ norient.com Check Syrphe.com for latest listings, buy their…
Fashion line “Sweater Study of the Impossible” makes its own terms of employment visible. The picture shows the collapse of the textile fabric in Bangladesh, the sweater memorizes and spreads the awareness. http://www.kalinkakalinka.de/2013/11/04/study-of-the-impossible-bobby-kolade-und-manu-washaus-verbinden-mode-und-ethik/
Urban Intervention: A Reclaimed Parking Spot
Green Corner, a collaboration between Helsinki-based artists Otto Karvonen and Jon Irigoyen are installing a grass turf lawn in a parking space creating a temporary park, the are calling it “urban intervention†that brings up questions of ownership and use in public spaces.
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2011/05/urban-intervention-a-reclaimed-parking-spot/
Adam Magyar photographer has been experimenting with slit-scan photography, basically he is scanning metro cars and crowded places in big cities all around the world. In his latest work he is using a special slow motion camera with alterations from a moving metro to capture the life of the subway. The video is explaining the…
Kacey Wong‘s experimental art project investigates the space between men and their living environment with a social intention. He think being an artist is similar to being a detective, the case on hand is to investigate the self. Kacey was born in Hong Kong in 1970. He was the winner of 2012 HK Contemporary Arts…
Apple iOS Maps app is no good for practical reasons but making random artistic glitches. What is creating the futuristic effect is pictures mapped onto a 3D topography, some structures are too complex for the app‘s algorithms to handle. Peder Norrby (graphics company Trapcode) has collected the many failures on the Apple’s Maps app into…
G.U.L.F. (Global Ultra Luxury Faction) is a coalition of international artists working to ensure that migrant worker rights are protected during the construction and maintenance of museums on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi. Each time the Guggenheim speaks, its approach to migrant labour issues on Saadiyat Island sounds more like that of a global corporation than…
Christine Loh spent spent 14 years in the commercial world before becoming a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council. She chose to retire from front-line politics in 2000 to set up a non-profit public policy think tank, Civic Exchange. She has written and edited books on Hong Kong politics, democratic practices, and SARS. She…
Review on Habibul Haque Khondker’s article Glocalization as Globalization: Evolution of a Sociological Concept (Bangladesh e-Journal of Sociology, Vol. 1. No.2. July, 2004 ) Some see globalisation as a devestating notion, other see it as economical accretion and modernization. In social sience globalisation as a notion has a short history. Globalisation as a term came…
I would like to add this as a comment to the Post by Patrick “We must construct as well as destroy” FREE REPAIR Roland Roos repairs broken, displaced or damaged things in public space. Each repair is intended to restore a particular detail to its pre-damaged state. Before and after the repair a photograph is…
C&G (Clara & Gum) are two Hong Kong artists who have founded the art space: C&G Artpartment in Hong Kong, China, in 2007. With a strong concern over the local art ecology, C&G use their art to respond to social and cultural issues. Also, they help develop new flavors in the local art scene, and…
“During the 90s, there was a popular answer to the question of why Hong Kong artists liked to do installations. It was that we didn’t have any space, and if we did painting, we’d need a space to store the painting after the exhibition. So the easy way out was to do installations – you…
“Radical performance art, warehouse music gigs and artists squatting in derelict buildings aren’t the first things that spring to mind when you think of Hong Kong. Yet not long ago, these underground activities were flourishing in an abandoned government-supplies depot in the city’s North Point district. Lured by low rents, a colony of artists, designers,…
Globalization is one of the most controversial issues to be debated in the humanities and social sciences today. Whether seen as a set of cultural processes or economic complexes, this phenomenon is considered by many theorists to be characterized chiefly by sustained and regular exchanges that forge interdependencies and a sense of interconnectivity on a…
In his text Transculturality – the Puzzling Form of Cultures Today Wolfgang Welsch explains in a few words Wittgensteins concept of culture: “Philosophically, the one person who provides the greatest help for a transcultural concept of culture, however, is Wittgenstein. He outlined an on-principle pragmatically-based concept of culture, which is free of ethnic consolidation and…
30″ kurzfilm von agent provocateur
http://www.srf.ch/player/radio/kontext/audio/passivitaet-–-mehr-als-nichtstun?id=460c47b3-6cd6-46f2-ba9d-5446d9a3cc69 Jahrhundertelang bevorzugte die Philosophie das «mächtige Subjekt», den handelnden Menschen. In jüngerer Zeit lässt sich ein Umschwung feststellen: Die Passivität erfährt mehr Wertschätzung. Alles galt als machbar, der handelnde Mensch als seines Glückes Schmied. Doch nicht nur die Titelfigur in Herman Melvilles «Bartleby der Schreiber» hat den modernen Zwang zur Aktivität unterlaufen, auch in…
some gardening work I took part in a conference in Basel last weekend. It was called “the good and the public” and was organised by raumlaborberlin. http://raumlabor.info/das-gute-und-das-oeffentliche/ One of the little interventions in between was to cut the fence between France and Switzerland at the Novartis Camus down. I’m sorry that the language is German,…
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Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC) The HKADC is the main Hong Kong Government agency responsible for the arts and arts grants in Hong Kong. For anyone looking to get a better picture of the Hong Kong arts scene, the Resources page is very useful: http://www.hkadc.org.hk/en/content/web.do?page=resources01 Note though that because the HKADC is a government…
