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…
Month: February 2014
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Limited Space
by Simon Grab •
“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…
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Oil Street artist village
by Simon Grab •
“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,…
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Pierre Huyghe 'Colony Collapse' – To the Moon via the Beach
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Tan Dun’s Water Passion after St. Matthew
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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…
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Wolfgang Welsch – Transculturality
by Simon Grab •
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…
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30 Sekunden Schweiz…
by Marc Latzel •
30″ kurzfilm von agent provocateur
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Audio – Zusammenfassung zum Sammelband “Theorien der Passivität”
by katjaglaess •
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…
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artists doing gardening
by Patricia Nocon •
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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HK history and colonial past – good to know!
by Marc Latzel •
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Robert Barry
by Denis Handschin •
bas jan ader, performance, Pool, sailing
a very long sailing trip
by Denis Handschin •
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Hong Kong Arts Development Council
by katjaglaess •
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…
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Asia Art Archive
by katjaglaess •
Asia Art Archive (AAA) The Blurb: Through collecting and making information on the recent history of contemporary art in Asia easily accessible, Asia Art Archive aims to facilitate understanding, research, and writing in the field, enrich existing global narratives, and re-imagine the role of the archive. AAA is a point of convergence for critical thinking…
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Cities of Desire
by katjaglaess •
This catalogue is produced together with ‘Cities of Desire: Vienna – Hong Kong’, an interdisciplinary arts exchange project between practitioners and theorists from the visual arts, urban studies and cultural policy between Vienna and Hong Kong. The project took place in Vienna from Sep-Oct 2008 and in Hong Kong from Sep-Oct 2009. It moves to…
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Harmony Happiness
by katjaglaess •
Frog King (Harmony Happiness) from Zheng Zhong Company on Vimeo. Homepage Frog King Hong Kong
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Hong Kong Intervention
by katjaglaess •
The space of appearance: how can contemporary art represent the politicization of space by domestic workers in Hong Kong, and what political relevance do such art practices have? In 2009 artists Sun Yuan and Peng Yu exhibited the artwork Hong Kong Intervention at the Osage Gallery in Hong Kong. The artists had given each of…
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Hands-on Urbanism
by katjaglaess •
The spring show at the Architekturzentrum Wien (15 March – 25 June 2012) was dedicated to the history of the idea of appropriating land in urban space. Since the shockwave of modernisation that accompanied industrialisation towns and cities worldwide have had to face some very significant challenges, city-dwellers have always found a number of solutions in crisis…
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LE VOYAGE EN ORIENT
by katjaglaess •
Two travellers touring the Middle East are going to create 99 video postcards. They visit Egypt, Jordan and Israel via Cairo, Alexandria, Sinai, Agaba, Petra, Amman, Jerash, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. The travellers are Stephane OLRY (author, director, actor) and Corine MIRET (actor, dancer).
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Photographing Disappearance
by katjaglaess •
Hong Kong is one of the word’s most photographed cities. It is not a matter of producing more or better photographs of Hong Kong, but of using the photograph as a means of seeing what is involved in looking at and thinking about the city. Text by Ackbar Abbas, photography by Jamila Ismail See: Projekt_Abbas_Hong…
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1 km Zürich Hardbrücke
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The doors
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We must construct as well as destroy
by katjaglaess •
Consisting of photographic installations, lightboxes, print and sculpture the new body of work by Leung Chi Wo takes as its starting point, repaired bullet holes found in the Legislative Council Building. Built by English architect Aston Webb, the building is Neoclassical in style and one of the few remaining colonial structures in Hong Kong; the…
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Stag. Carry – sit – interact
by katjaglaess •
“STAG IT!”, trailer of Stag in Hong Kong, a documentary written and directed by Isabelle Mayor from Isabelle Mayor on Vimeo. In the narrow streets of Hong Kong, Geraldine and Caroline are producing the « stag», a street mobile piece of furniture that merges a stool and a bag with Mr Tang and the couple Chan, old local…
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Liquid Borders
by katjaglaess •
Hong Kong and Mainland China are physically separated by the Shenzhen River and a great wall of wired fencing. South to the border are restricted zones known as the Frontier Closed Area. Entry into the Frontier Closed Area without an official permit is strictly forbidden. In October 2005, the then chief executive Donald Tsang announced…
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Dancing people are never wrong
by katjaglaess •
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The conductor’s fear of the violinist
by katjaglaess •
Die Videoinstallation basiert auf der filmischen Dokumentation einer Performance. Mario Marchisella spielt, gekleidet im klassischen Anzug eines Orchestermusikers, mitten auf einer Strassenkreuzung in Johannesburg ein Geigenkonzert. Die Kreuzung ist Knotenpunkt eines lebhaften Taxihafens, in dem einzelne Taxichauffeure die anderen Fahrer in einer individuellen Zeichensprache durch den chaotischen Verkehr lotsen. Durch die Gegenüberstellung der Aufnahmen der…
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Violin Cityscape
by katjaglaess •
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Upon the escalator
by katjaglaess •
In the space with high pedestrian flow in the city, there is full of delicate communication between people. Artist reconstructs the relationship upon the escalators and the story of people by 3 video channels abreast. Different numbers of people, movements, and ups and downs are strewn at random through time and space. Strangers that…
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To leave 2cm3 for myself
by katjaglaess •
To leave 2cm3 for myself from Tang Kwok-hin on Vimeo. Walking on Canton*, along the road leading to the promenade, turning left until the end, an aimless run is around Tsim Sha Tsui East. Slightly wiping sweat with a handkerchief, squeezing it to drop the sweat into a glass bottle, the sweat is condensed and formed a 2cm3…
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Whose Utopia
by katjaglaess •
Filmed over the course of six months, Cao Fei’s Whose Utopia? is a twenty minute video made at the OSRAM China Lighting Ltd. in China’s Pearl River Delta. The film is intended to be viewed as part of a larger installation called Utopia Factory, which contains separate spaces that represent different aspects of everyday life…
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The Big Duck
by katjaglaess •
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Song Dong
by katjaglaess •
Song Dong
Eating the City
London, February 2006
InstallationÂ
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Kacey Wong (HK)
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Kacey Wong is one of our collaborators in Hong Kong; check especially: – Wander (also participation at Venice Biennale) – Protest Art but also other works on the site.
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Francis Alÿs
by katjaglaess •
REEL – UNREEL
Kabul, Afghanistan 2011
In collaboration with Julien Devaux and Ajmal Maiwandi
20:00 min.
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Le Saut dans le vide
by katjaglaess •
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Peter Ablinger
by katjaglaess •
Peter Ablinger City Opera Graz 1984-86 Peter Ablinger WEISS/WEISSLICH 11A GERÄUSCHHEFT 1984-86
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Mary Koszmary
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Friedrich von Borries
Berliner Atlas paradoxer Mobilität
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Matterhorn am Zürichsee
by katjaglaess •
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Aglaida Konrad
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flashmob
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Allan Kaprow
by katjaglaess •
Yard, 1961 Environments, Situations, Spaces View of tires in court of Sculpture Garden at Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1962 Photo: Ken Heyman
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Ed Ruscha
by katjaglaess •
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Kevin Lynch
by katjaglaess •
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Modern Times (Factory Scene)
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Willi Dorner
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On Kawara
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