PAST- OPEN FORUM: WORK-IN-PROGRESS |
August 9 , 2009 (Sunday) @ 7:45 - 10:00pm Best before 11 Aug 2009 while my 24-years-old is still in progress...- AN EXERCISE OF AUTO-ETHNOGRAPHY, A DOCUMENTARY VIDEO ON ONE'S SELVES AND PEER EXPERIENCES...
by Jolene Mok "The purpose of screening this video is simple: to do it before my 24-years-old expires."
March 15, 2009 (Sunday) @ 3:00pm-4:30p
ABOUT THE PROJECT OF MCSOUNDSCAPE In Hong Kong, many spaces have been commodified. The McDonald restaurants are actually being designed as “non-places” since the interior designs, services and food in one McDonald restaurant are exactly the same as any other McDonald's in other parts of the world. However, the local people do not want to spend time in such “non-places”, instead they have been resisting such original design of space by re-constructing the spatial identity and giving new meanings to the space through practical and direct experience in their everyday life. The word “McSoundscape” means the Soundscape of McDonald restaurants in Hong Kong. This project aims at drawing awareness and understanding of how the commonly-practiced appropriation and transformation of space as a visual spectacle of Hong Kong further governs the changing spatial identities, characteristics and meanings of our city space. “McSoundscape” illustrates such cultural phenomenon of Hong Kong people using McDonald restaurants as their “home” temporarily and transitorily, and participating in some daily activities that they would have otherwise done in other private space of their own. The artists use "soundscape," instead of other visual formats such as photography or video, as the major medium to display our ways of life and everyday activities because soundscape allows audience to investigate the actual activities and people’s movement in the space, to listen to the details of the surrounding environment, and to discover themselves on how the boundary between public and private space being blurred. (Brian Kwok & Terrie Cheung) 「麥聲境」- 透過聲境藝術再現使用者如何重構麥當勞餐廳的空間意義 香港的空間很多都已被商品化，麥當勞餐廳本來就被設計成一處「虛無場所」(Non-places) ，無論環境設計、服務方式、銷售的食品等，皆與世界各地的麥當勞餐廳一式一樣。可是，街坊卻在這種毫無性格的空間中進行活動，透過個人的日常生活來實踐對這種「虛無場所」之抗拒，並重新建構和附予空間的意義。 這個名為「麥聲境」(McSoundscape) 的聲音作品，再現了香港人怎樣挪用了麥當勞的空間，作為他們短暫的「家」的奇特文化現象。作品揭示了人們正進行着一些在私人空間才會進行的日常活動，以及他們怎樣暫時性地轉化了該空間的功能和特點，並短暫地改變了空間應有的屬性和意義，甚至構成了一種獨特的香港城市景觀。藝術家特意透過聲境藝術來呈現人的活動空間，而非以我們慣常接觸的相片、錄像等媒體形式，來讓觀賞者用耳朵去感受和反醒私人空間和公共空間之間的意義。 (**The actual exhibition opened at Videotage on March 14 (Saturday). Visit www.videotage.org.hk) ABOUT THE TWO ARTISTS Brian Kwok received his Master's Degree in Design from the School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and currently a Lecturer at the School of Design. Before teaching, he was an Interactive Designer in both multimedia design and the advertising industry for years. He just completed another Master's Degree in Visual Cultural Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His area of interest ranges from new media arts to interactive installations. His works have been shown in Tokyo and Milan. Terrie Cheung received her training in multimedia design and animation in Toronto, Canada and earned her M.A. in Design from the School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2005. In 2008, on Dean’s List, she graduated with an M.A. in Visual Culture Studies from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She was a Game Graphic Designer in Toronto and Hong Kong, and currently a Teaching Associate at the Hong Kong Design Institute.
December 6, 2008 (Saturday) / 4:00-7:00pm MANGA by SO Kim-hoo苏剑豪 & CHEUNG Siu-hong 张兆康 This is a work-in-progress session in two parts : part one is a presentation by two young Hong Kong artists on their recent project called Manga which is both a performative photography project and a research and archival project. Part two is also a presentation but by a young Shanghainese curator on a show which she has not had a chance to stage but wants to share with a supportive audience about her ideas and dreams. She will talk about curating women painters in post-1980s China Work-in-progress sessions at Experimenta give the young and aspiring or merely aspiring curators and artists to tell the world about their next great ideas. We at Experimenta will invite relevant, supportive and experienced people to listen and give ideas.
MANGA Their influence in our lives is always overlooked, because most of our passion in these cartoon characters faded when we became adults. However, their spirits remain in our lives, and keep affecting us in different aspects. Some people even adopted the temperament of these fictional characters. We choose to explore by going into daily and routines of these adults at different ages and in different fields. We believe that some of their personalities can be revealed by these daily settings, e.g house, room, desktop…etc. All of them are places that we frequently leave our marks. We would explore those who are still passionate about the cartoon characters, who keep a collection of the characters in their house. We will also explore those whose passion had faded away, there is not a single clue that can be found related to their favorite cartoon character in their lives. To (re)act our favorite cartoon characters’ signature poses, a raw creativity (which is different from the cosplay) can be presented. These gestures can trigger our memories and bring us back to see our relations with these old friends. ( So Kim-hoo and Cheung Siu-hong) So Kim-hoo (Sam) and Cheung Siu-hong (Ahong) both graduated from the School of Creative Media’s Critical Intermedia Studies (2004), and have had strong interest in video and still imaging. So continued his graduate education with a full scholarship to complete his MFA in photography at New York’s Pratt Institutes; Cheung graduated with a MA in fine arts at the Central St. Martins College of Art & Design, University of Arts London. They returned to Hong Kong in 2006, they are now free-lance photographer, art director and art educator. Manga is their ADC-funded joint exhibition which will be published in March 2009 at Fringe Club. Kimhoo SO
WHAT WE GET? 当今社会越来越多的女性开始在社会生活中扮演着越来越重要的角色,在她们为社会做出越来越多的贡献的同时.她们在社会中也受到越来越多的伤害,亲情的梳理,爱情的背叛,友情的破裂……更多的是女性在社会的不平等地位，在艺术家的作品中表现的由为直接，沈娜的“右手”系列从一个女性的角度，关注着中国的女同性恋的生活。陈薇薇的“伤口”系列，从女性私密的心理表达出对浮华喧嚣世界的感触。王丹的“秋千”则用女性的身体表现当代女性在社会中的需求……所有这些都集中的表现为一种“新伤痕”艺术。 Jiajie is currently a final year student at the Shanghai University completing a Masters Degree in Modern and Contermporary Art History of China. She received her undergraduate degree at the Sichuan Fine Art Institute majoring in Art History. Jia jie has worked in curatorial projects for the Beijing contemporary Art Museum, Zendai MOMA and Duolun Musuem of Modern Art; she also writes for the Fine Art Focus Magazine in Shanghai. Exhibitions
|
