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ArtAsiaPacific
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Established in 1993, ArtAsiaPacific magazine is the leading English-language periodical covering contemporary art and culture from Asia, the Pacific and the Middle East.
Jaffa Lam: The Dignity of Labor
Based in the Fo Tan industrial area of Hong Kong, sculptor Jaffa Lam is inspired by the laborers of Hong Kong as well as the stories and forms of Chinese art. For more than a decade she has collaborated with former garment workers on creating colorful canopies patched together from recycled umbrella fabric as a means of creating a micro economy through her art projects. Her latest large-scale installation, Trolley Party (2023), created for the Encounters sector of Art Basel Hong Kong in 2023, celebrates the many laborers whose efforts happen behind the scenes. In this video, ArtAsiaPacific visits Lam’s studio as she’s finalizing the project. We revisit her recent exhibition inHong Kong as...
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Portrait of One's Own: Interview with Shinro Ohtake
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“Everything that influences me are paintings to me.” Shinro Ohtake is known for his multilayer works that incorporate all kinds of found materials and dive into the complexity of human’s memories and emotions. Held at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, his first retrospective in 16 years showcased 500 works, from scrap books to mixed-media collages and installations. In this interview wi...
Performance Art for All at Per.Platform
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The seemingly random, extreme, or bizarre acts that sometimes make up performance art can be difficult for audiences to grasp, and can even be painful to watch. For example, “Fluidity and Permanence”-the third performance-art festival organized by Hong Kong-based Per.Platform-featured artists eating 21 peaches, binding their bodies with threads, swallowing cotton, and balancing on a wooden bar ...
M+: In the Eye of the Beholder
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Who’s the best company to bring with you to M ? Is the architecture masterful or too much like a wet market? Which exhibits can guests actually remember? In this video, ArtAsiaPacific gathers the popular opinion on Hong Kong’s long-awaited visual-culture museum, which was shuttered for three months shortly after its grand opening on November 12, 2021, and relaunched at the end of the city’s fif...
Mapping Chinese Art with Uli Sigg
Просмотров 8312 года назад
Featuring an extensive selection of works from M ’s unparalleled body of contemporary Chinese art, the exhibition “M Sigg Collection: From Revolution to Globalisation” traces the pivotal developments in Chinese art history from 1970 to 2012. In this video, patron and diplomat Uli Sigg, who donated the collection to the Hong Kong museum in 2012, takes viewers on a tour through the show, which is...
Building Community through Sports at Powwow
Просмотров 343 года назад
Located in Hong Kong’s Wan Chai district, the Foo Tak Building was originally constructed in 1968 for residential and commercial purposes, but in 2003 the property owner decided to transform it into a haven for young arts professionals. Aside from artist studios, the building also accommodates a bookstore, and hubs for independent publications and philosophy discussion groups. The newest tenant...
Old World Glamour: Revitalizing Hong Kong's State Theatre
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For the denizens of Hong Kong’s North Point neighborhood, the State Theatre, with its notable concrete flying trusses, has been an architectural icon since it opened in December 1952. Originally dubbed the Empire Theatre before its 1959 rebrand, the former cinema and concert hall was a bustling entertainment hub in its heyday, and even makes an appearance in Bruce Lee’s last film, Game of Death...
Racing toward the Future at “Ready/Set/Fulfill”
Просмотров 493 года назад
Are drones the future of our cities? As societies’ desire for speed and efficiency accelerates, retail giants like Amazon are exploring the potential for remotely operated vehicles to colonize the airspace, leaving terrestrial traffic jams far behind. In their exhibition at De Sarthe gallery, “Ready\Set\Fulfill,” Hong Kong-based artists Andrew Luk and Samuel Swope created installations that for...
Zheng Bo: Life is hard. Why do we make it so easy?
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For his exhibition at Hong Kong’s Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden, Zheng Bo mounted locally grown orchids onto bamboo frames spelling out, “Life is hard. Why do we make it so easy?” Embedded into its lush surroundings, the plant slogan prompts viewers to consider the ways in which humankind has made survival challenging for non-human species. For the past eight years, Zheng has incorporated pl...
Luke Ching: Artist-Citizen
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What can artists do to strengthen the social fabrics of communities? For Hong Kong-based Luke Ching, theorizing and observing are not enough. Since 2013, Ching has served stints as a security guard, cleaner, and wet-market hawker in order to physically experience and understand the roles of these workers in society. In parallel, he initiated campaigns for the rights of service employees to sit ...
Interview with Francis Alÿs
Просмотров 16 тыс.3 года назад
Based in Mexico City since the late 1980s, Belgium-born artist Francis Alÿs is known for his performative projects staged around the world. Among his itinerant interventions into the daily circumstances of life in various communities are his engagements with the paradoxes and cruelties of borders in places such as Tijuana and Jerusalem. For the exhibition “Wet feet dry feet: borders and games” ...
The Impact of COVID-19 on the Art Market in Asia-Pacific
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Art Basel and UBS present a panel of experts, to discuss the findings of the mid-year survey as they impact APAC, and explore the challenges and opportunities facing the art market in 2020 and beyond. Speakers: • Dr. Clare McAndrew, Founder, Arts Economics, and author of The Impact of COVID-19 on the Gallery Sector • Marc Spiegler, Global Director, Art Basel • Adrian Zuercher, Head Global Asset...
Talking about the Book: Marian Pastor Roces in Conversation with HG Masters
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On September 4, deputy editor and publisher HG Masters spoke to critic and curator Marian Pastor Roces about her collection of essays, Gathering: Political Writing on Art and Culture, as part of NUS Press’s Talking About the Book series. Below is the recording.
A Tour of “Up Close - Hollywood Road”
Просмотров 913 года назад
Hollywood Road is Hong Kong’s second oldest street. The one-kilometer-long stretch of pavement running between Hong Kong Island’s Central and Sheung Wan areas is famed for its antique shops, which brim with curios and historical artifacts. However, many of the neighborhood’s businesses-some of which are over 30 years old-have found it increasingly difficult to connect with younger visitors. To ...
Interview with Jeffrey Shaw
Просмотров 2,2 тыс.4 года назад
Since the mid-1960s, Jeffrey Shaw has pursued new forms of interactive experience in art and cinema, creating experimental installations that utilize cutting-edge technologies. His recent solo exhibition at Hong Kong’s Osage Art Foundation, “WYSIWYG,” offered a unique opportunity for the artist revisit more than 50 years of his own creative output, updating older works and re-presenting past pr...
Interview with Muna Tseng on Tseng Kwong Chi
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Interview with Muna Tseng on Tseng Kwong Chi
Interview with Gao Ludi, Lu Song and Xie Nanxing
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Interview with Gao Ludi, Lu Song and Xie Nanxing
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