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…
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…
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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