Saturday
May112013

Uli Sigg Collector - Vogue China Collections Spring Summer 2013

Vogue China -Two days at home with the world's foremost collector of Chinese contemporary art.

Images Virgile Simon Bertrand
Words Davina Lee

 

Wednesday
Mar202013

What's Not To Like - Sophie Calle For the Last and First Time

Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

20 March 2013 - 30 June 2013

http://www.haramuseum.or.jp/

 

Just when you think that you have had enough of contemporary art, something like this comes along. Sophie Calle's video, photography and text:-

  • the act of seeing the sea for the first time
  • the last picture. A blind person describing the last thing that they saw before they lost their vision

A temporary invitation to someone else's life.



  

Sunday
Mar032013

Asia Society Hong Kong - Women in the Arts Panel Discussion

8 March 2013

12.15 - 2.00pm

 

Asia Society Hong Kong

9 Justice Drive, Admiralty

Hong Kong

 

In 1971, Linda Nochlin wrote an essay whose title posed a question that would pioneer an entirely new branch of art history. The essay — "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" — explored possible reasons why "greatness" in artistic accomplishment was only within the purview of the male gender. Nochlin argues that social predilections and education systematically precluded the emergence of great women artists. Now over 40 years since Nochlin’s ground-breaking essay, how have women in the arts challenged the status quo? Do women still experience a subliminal gender bias? Is there a glass ceiling within the arts establishment for women? Are the challenges of the 21st century any different than those in the past? Panelists will consider what it is to be a woman and work in the arts today.

Panel Discussion with Light Lunch with Lalla Essaydi, Artist, Davina Lee, Curator, Melissa Lee, Public Art Curator and Consultant, Nancy Tong, Documentary Filmmaker, Joanna Lee, Founder of Museworks (Moderator)

For tickets to this event, please access the following link

http://asiasociety.org/hong-kong/events/women-arts

 

Saturday
Jan212012

One Suitcase Per Person Closing Event Talk and Drinks

Sunday 29 January 2012

4.00- 6.00pm

 

1a space 

Unit 1401, Cattle Depot Artists' Village

63 Ma Tau Kok Road

Kowloon

Hong Kong

 

 

You are cordially invited to a floor talk and informal drinks for the close of One Suitcase Per Person.  Hiram To and Davina Lee will discuss the works by the artists and the impetus behind the project.

Please join us on Sunday afternoon for a final viewing of this unique collaborative exhibition which will close on 31 January 2012.

Tuesday
Dec272011

Curatorial Process and the One World Exposition: A Conversation with Isaac Leung

Saturday 7 January 2012

6.00pm – 8.00pm

Talk 6.30pm (in English)

Generously hosted by Spring (Workshop)

3/F Remex Centre, 42 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Hong Kong

Free Admission


Stills from Yang Fudong's The Fifth Night, 2011

Courtesy Yang Fudong and Spring (Workshop)

 

To welcome in the new year and to the mark the end of the One World Exposition, Diorama Projects presents a special talk with co-curator of the event, Isaac Leung to be followed by a reception.  Hosted by Spring, a new non-profit art space in Hong Kong, the event will also be a final opportunity for viewing Yang Fudong’s multiscreen video installation The Fifth Night (2011).

Isaac Leung will share his thoughts and experiences as co-curator of the One World Exposition on the closing of the event.  In conversation with Davina Lee, Leung will discuss the curatorial process surrounding the event and the intention through the One World Exposition to provide a "grounded platform to problematize the existing paradigm of (media) art".

Isaac Leung is a practicing artist, curator and researcher in art and culture. Leung received an Honorary Fellowship of a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the New Media Art Department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, the University of the Arts London. His passion in exploring issues in contemporary art began during his time in college. During 1998-2008, his artworks were exhibited in over 30 venues across the globe. His works were featured on National Public Radio (USA), and in Agence France-Presse (France), Chicago Tribune (USA), NY Arts Magazine (USA), Chicago Readers (USA) and the South China Morning Post (Hong Kong). As a Board Director of Videotage, he initiated and participated in projects that included exhibitions, workshops, lectures, publications, online projects and symposia, including 40 Years of Video Art in Germany and Hong Kong (Hong Kong and Germany), Borderline International Film Art Exhibition (Beijing, China), The 12th Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition (Venice, Italy; Hong Kong) and Microwave International New Media Arts Festival (Hong Kong).

Leung is currently a doctorate researcher at the School of Creative Media, the City University of Hong Kong, specializing in the contemporary Chinese art market.  In the meantime, interdisciplinary One World project is being materialized as an academic thesis for a Master of Philosophy degree at the Lingnan University.

Davina Lee is Hong Kong based independent curator, writer and founded Diorama Projects in 2008.  Lee graduated with an MA in Photography (Contemporary and Historic) from Sotheby's Institute, London (2007) and is a practicing lawyer.  The objective of Diorama Projects is to identify, develop and realize projects that will stimulate artistic and cultural exchange and collaboration.  At the core of each project is the desire to engage audiences at all levels, from passive observation to active critical debate. Since its creation Diorama Projects has organised and created a number of events in Hong Kong and France, including Diorama Projections, a series of monthly screenings of video work and live conversations with new and established artists.

Lee has previously curated the following exhibitions One Suitcase Per Person (2011) for 1a space, Hong Kong, 30 Lux (2011) and I’ll Be Your Mirror (2011) for 2P Contemporary, Hong Kong, Simulated Alternate Realities (2010) for 1a space, Chroniques Hongkongaises (2010) Festival Voies Off, Arles, France, Proxemics (2009), Artistree for Swire Properties, The Mother of All Journeys (2009) for Amelia Johnson Contemporary, Distance Decay (2009) Festival Voies Off, Arles, France, China Lucida (2009) for Amelia Johnson Contemporary, Espace Liminal - Photographies d’Architecture (2008), Le Moniteur, Paris, and Dialogue (2003) at the Foreign Correspondents Club, Hong Kong.  In addition to critical essays on art and photography related subjects, Lee has written for the Journal of the Royal Photographic Society, Muse, Qvest, Monocle, Hong Kong Tatler and Vogue China.

About Spring:

In the autumn of 2012, Spring will open as a non-profit arts space committed to an international cross-disciplinary program of artist and curatorial residencies, exhibitions, music, film and talks. Anchored in the Wong Chuk Hang industrial neighborhood of Hong Kong, Spring will serve as a platform and laboratory for exchange between the vibrant artists and organizations that define Hong Kong's rich cultural landscape and the emerging and established artists and organizations around the world that seek to engage in far-reaching dialogue. www.springworkshop.org

About One World Exposition:

It is the first substantial project that aims to explore the development of Chinese media art from regional, national and global perspectives. Through a series of exhibitions, screenings, performances, artist talks and symposia, this project hopes to enrich the public’s understanding of contemporary Chinese media artists and their works from different context and cultural backgrounds, and hopefully bridge artistic and cultural exchange between regions and across time. www.oneworldexpo.org

About Videotage: The organization brings together internationally recognized media artists from diverse backgrounds and disciplines, who work on video art, film, lighting, theatre, computer game and interactive media. www.videotage.org.hk

For more information please email info@dioramaprojects.org or go to www.dioramaprojects.org