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…
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…
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,…
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…