RTHK Interviews with David Diao, Ken Lum and Davina Lee

RTHK interviews with artists David Diao and Ken Lum and curator Davina Lee are now available for listening at your leisure.

For Jonathan Douglas' interview click here:-

http://tinyurl.com/6m7wlss

For Phil Whelan's interview on Morning Brew:-

http://tinyurl.com/83k33oj

ONE SUITCASE PER PERSON | DAVID DIAO | KEN LUM | HIRAM TO

Many thanks to everyone who came along to the opening of One Suitcase Per Person on 23 November in the presence of the artists and curator and to the forum held on 26 November 2011.  Hong Kong's museums were well represented that evening with guests from the Hong Kong Museum of Art, M+ and the Hong Kong University Museum and Art Gallery.  Dr. Lars Nittve's opening speech recalled how he first became familiar with the work of David Diao and Ken Lum as a young art critic and that the impetus for the creation of M+ was attributable to the pioneering work of organizations such as 1a space.

Saturday's forum moderated by Davina Lee was well attended with participants from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong University, M+, the Asia Art Archive and Para/Site as well as notable artists, curators and members of the public.  Participants were able to exchange views and obtain insight into the experiences and motivations of the three artists of working within an international artistic field and the varying responses that their works have received from different audiences.

What's Not To Like? Paris Photo 2011/Le Bal/Offprint

Paris, November 2011.  To say why we like it would take too long.  So here it is.  In bullet points:-

Paris Photo 2011 - Grand Palais

• Bye bye Carrousel du Louvre, hello Grand Palais, site of the Universal Exposition 1900.  Ornate, light-filled gem of the Industrial Revolution, with space to play.  Happy visitors, light-averse gallerists protecting the 19th Century prints with curtains of felt.
• Guest country: Africa, selections from Rencontres Bamako, plus usual suspects Pieter Hugo, Samuel Fosso, Malike Sidibe, Seidou Keita. 
• New to Paris Photo 2011 - dedicated curated exhibitions, including Artur Walther's piquant collection counterbalancing African photography with August Sander and Bernd and Hilla Becher and Giorgio Armani-curated "Acqua".
• Highlights Grimaldi Brancolini - Peter Fraser's Deep Blue series, Clare Strand's tables and Sophy Rickett's anarchic office lady behaving badly.

Le Bal - Topographies of War 

• Exemplary curating by Jean-Yves Jouannais and Diane Dufour - no lectures, no mawkishness, no posturing rhetoric.
• Walid Raad's meticulous documentation of spent ordnance, collected, catalogued and traced to its sources
• Luc Delahaye and Eyal Weizman's The Space in This Room is Your Interpretation on the chilling subversion of critical texts by Deleuze and Guettary by the military 

Offprint

• Second year for this exciting new bookfair allowing artists to sell direct to the public
• Rooms and rooms of self-published photography books, rare vintage books and a range of small independent publishers.

Asia Society Lecture - Contemporary Asian Theater on the Global Stage – Putting Asian Artists in the Spotlight

Monday 21 February 2011

Asia Society Hong Kong - Evening Discussion with DAVID KA-SHING TSE, Creative Director, Chinatown Arts Space 

David Ka-Shing Tse is a key figure responsible for increasing the representation of East Asians in the sphere of arts and culture in the UK. David will give an overview of the British East Asian arts scene, and discuss his experience of co-founding the Yellow Earth Theatre (YET), which under his leadership became Britain’s only revenue-funded British East Asian touring theatre company. At Chinatown Arts Space (CAS), where David is currently the Creative Director, one of his key focus areas is to rebrand ‘Chinatown’ away from a place synonymous with food and shopping, to being a hub for young Chinese and East Asians to express themselves through art forms like dance, drama, music and visual arts. David read law before training at Rose Bruford College (acting) and the Leicester Haymarket Theatre (directing). He studied Beijing Opera movement with Lee Siu Wah and during M. Butterfly with Jamie Guan. For his services to theater, David was awarded Fellowship of Rose Bruford in 2007. Clips will be shown from David’s previous YET works as well as his latest production for CAS, Piccadilly Revisited – a film and music performance inspired by the life of Hollywood’s first Chinese film star, Anna May Wong, that will be performed at the 2011 HK Arts Festival. The discussion will be moderated by Davina Lee, independent curator and writer. 

Location:

Helena May, Blue Room, 35 Garden Road, Central

Cocktail reception at 6.30 p.m., Presentation at 7.00 p.m., Close at 8.00 p.m.

$180 Asia Society members/Full-time students;

$230 Non-members  (Priority to members)  

For booking please go to www.asiasociety.org or call +852 2103 9508

30 lx VIRGILE SIMON BERTRAND

A few photographs from the opening of 30 lx at 2P Contemporary Gallery, Hong Kong, curated by Davina Lee. Thank you to everyone who came along and made the event so memorable...

Gallery Director Pui Pui To and Virgile Simon Bertrand

RTHK television interview for "The Works"

Opening reception for 30 Lx