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Hong Kong: The Blue Lotus 2014 / 15 photographs and collages (title unknown) A mix of vacation photographs and historical documents builds a small, atmospheric narrative.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…
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…
“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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Frog King (Harmony Happiness) from Zheng Zhong Company on Vimeo. Homepage Frog King Hong Kong
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…
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…
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).
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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Song Dong
Eating the City
London, February 2006
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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.
REEL – UNREEL
Kabul, Afghanistan 2011
In collaboration with Julien Devaux and Ajmal Maiwandi
20:00 min.
Peter Ablinger City Opera Graz 1984-86 Peter Ablinger WEISS/WEISSLICH 11A GERÄUSCHHEFT 1984-86
