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Ravel’s The Child And The Enchantments by Opera Box
Dec
29
3:00 PM15:00

Ravel’s The Child And The Enchantments by Opera Box

A young, mischievous child,
Toys and household objects in rebellion,
A one-act fantasy. 

As their inaugural production, Opera Box is proud to present Ravel’s surreal one-act opera. Expect the unexpected with Opera Box’s post-Christmas take on Ravel’s The Child and the Enchantments, in which a young mind journeys from chaos to understanding. 

Clocking in at just one hour, with reduced orchestration, and performed in English by some of Hong Kong’s most exciting voices, Opera Box strips The Child and the Enchantments to its essence, highlighting the tension between innocence and maturity. An opera to celebrate what has passed and to welcome new beginnings. Suitable for both the opera-loving and the opera-curious.

The performance is approximately 1 hour without an interval

29 Dec 2024 (Sun) 3:00pm / 7:30pm

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Geumhyung Jeong: Spa & Beauty at Kiang Malingue (Aberdeen)
Dec
7
to Dec 14

Geumhyung Jeong: Spa & Beauty at Kiang Malingue (Aberdeen)

Kiang Malingue is pleased to present “Spa & Beauty”, an exhibition by Geumhyung Jeong. The exhibition that runs from 7th through 14th December coincides with two performances by the artist, featuring humanised objects, props, videos and a number of sundries used in daily routines.

Jeong’s body of work ranges from performance, dance, choreography, theatre, video and installation. Since the beginning of her career, she has been investigating the relationship between the human body, the objects that are immediately associated with it, and its artificial counterparts through productions that combine languages and techniques from the fields of contemporary dance, puppet theatre, self-taught programming, and the visual arts. In the course of the physical interaction between her body and the objects, it becomes ambiguous who controls whom, blurring the line between inanimate and animate, the inauthentic and the genuine.

The two scheduled performances on the 7th and 14th of December are effectively a series of demonstrations, in which the artist, treating her body as a medium par excellence, activates the modern artefacts by using them in particular, even idiosyncratic ways, shedding light on the sprays, bottles, bathtubs, and the pleasure of consuming and touching.

Opening: Sat, 7 Dec, 4 – 6 PM

Performance: 7 Dec, 4 PM, 14 Dec, 4 PM

Gallery address: 13/F, Blue Box Factory Building, 25 Hing Wo Street, Aberdeen

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M+ at Night
Dec
6
7:00 PM19:00

M+ at Night

M+, Asia’s global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District (WestK) in Hong Kong, will present M+ at Night: Festive Enchantment on the evening of Friday, 6 December 2024, inviting visitors to a holiday party. The event will feature two well-loved local singer-songwriters, KIRI T and Moon Tang, who will sing individual sets infused with festive elements. Furthermore, an acclaimed local tap dance troupe from Step Out Studios will perform live jazz music. To round off this year’s M+ at Night series, DJs will deliver seasonal hits and keep the party going all night long.

The M+ at Night series for October, November, and December 2024, in collaboration with Warner Music Asia, is set to elevate the event to unparalleled enjoyment and experience through a series of curatedmusic performances and activities.

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Ghost of Raspberry at Para Site
Dec
6
to Dec 8

Ghost of Raspberry at Para Site

What does loss feel like on your tongue?

As part of ‘The Embrace and the Passage’, join us for Ghost of Raspberry, a participatory performance by Michele Chu featuring sound artist Lam Yip and food designer Alison Tan, delving into grief, memory, and loss. Drawing from her immersive installation rocking cradles, wet blankets, Chu translates personal anecdotes and the materiality of her work into an embodied, multisensory experience. This journey blends ritual, food, sound, scent and environment to explore communal and gastronomic grief. 

Each 30-minute session (max. 6 participants) offers an intimate space for connection, reflection, and shared experience. The performances will be in English.

Fri, 6 Dec, 6:30–10pm
Sat, 7 Dec, 4–9:30pm
Sun, 8 Dec, 4–9:30pm

Reservation and fully refundable deposit required—please refer to the sign-up links for details. Limited spots available.

Gallery address: 10B, Wing Wah Industrial Building, Quarry Bay

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Finnisage: Book Launch and Performance with Monique Yim
Nov
29
7:00 PM19:00

Finnisage: Book Launch and Performance with Monique Yim

Catch us at the gallery this Friday from 7pm to 9pm for the launch of @gianluca.crudele ’s book titled “Echo” with contributions from @peterchanart, @riccardo_chesti, @phizzykins, and @everhadpie

@monique_yim will perform a new piece devised in response to the imagery of Crudele’s solo exhibition utilizing feathers, a motif she has previously employed in her practice. The new work will ruminate on absence, fragmentation, and disembodiment.

The performance will begin at 7:45 pm.

Gallery address: 21 Square Street

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Closing Performance Levitation and Submersion at de Sarthe
Sep
28
6:00 PM18:00

Closing Performance Levitation and Submersion at de Sarthe

As a closing ceremony for Melting Suns on the Screen, DE SARTHE is pleased to present “Levitation and Submersion,” a performance by Liao Jiaming along with Natasha Cheung, Lenyx Choi, Brian Chu, and Ho Chi Wing. The performance initiates a non-verbal discourse regarding the binary notions of fate versus chance as well as creation versus destruction. To include audience participation, the performance also contemplates the role of open data and interaction in shaping our contemporary relationship with faith, desire, and one another.

Gallery address: 26/F, M Place, Wong Chuk Hang

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LEE Mingwei: Sonic Blossom at M+
Aug
27
to Sep 29

LEE Mingwei: Sonic Blossom at M+

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M+ will present Sonic Blossom, a celebrated performative installation by LEE Mingwei (b. 1964), in the Focus Gallery. Sonic Blossom is a live performance which features trained opera singers approaching a visitor in the museum galleries to offer the gift of song. It is inspired by the artist's experience of caring for his mother during her recovery from surgery, when they both took solace in listening to Franz Schubert's Lieder. With five chosen Lieder and a group of Hong Kong-based classical singers, Sonic Blossom transforms these songs into an extraordinary offering that elicits spontaneous moments of joy, sadness, and connection. Taiwan-born LEE Mingwei is an internationally recognised artist with a pioneering practice that foregrounds experience and artistic participation. Educated in Taiwan and the United States, LEE is part of a generation of artists who began to incorporate participatory elements into their art in the 1990s. LEE's work, however, has always taken a different approach, transcending cultural and political boundaries to cut to the core of the human experience and reveal our desire for connectedness.

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Participatory Experience: Knitting Conversations at M+
Aug
17
to Aug 18

Participatory Experience: Knitting Conversations at M+

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Currently on view, Movana Chen: Knitting Conversations is a monumental installation by artist Movana Chen reflecting on female labour, personal and shared memories, material transformation, and time. Originally conceived as a participatory work, Knitting Conversations was first exhibited in 2013 where audience members were invited to contribute to the work by bringing along a treasured book to shred into yarn, as the artist and participants knitted and conversed. This August, Movana Chen invites visitors to participate and exchange personal stories under the installation, experiencing a unique connection with others.

Artist Movana Chen will be facilitating the experience at M+ on designated weekends on 17, and 18 August, 14:00–17:30.

The event is free for valid exhibition ticket holders. Please retain a copy of your ticket to facilitate your entry to the gallery. Please see 'Get Tickets' for details. Participants are invited to bring a map that can be shredded to participate in the public workshop.

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Chan Ting: To Kill or to Heal? at at PHD Group
Aug
16
to Aug 17

Chan Ting: To Kill or to Heal? at at PHD Group

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As part of her solo exhibition “Dreamskin,” Chan Ting will unveil a new performance titled “To Kill or to Heal?” on Aug 16 and 17 at PHD Group.

Featuring performance artists Florence Lam and Hengsyun, the performance will delve into the duality of things, exploring how something produced for violence and war can be transformed into an instrument of healing and care.
Fri, 16 Aug
Sat, 17 Aug
Time: 8:30pm


Request to attend the performance by emailing info@phdgroup.art or Whatsapping +852 5943 7541

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Sounding Lines’ Closing Events at Para Site
Jul
27
12:00 PM12:00

Sounding Lines’ Closing Events at Para Site

Join us for two unique events that will celebrate and mark the conclusion of Aki Sasamoto’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, ‘Sounding Lines’, at Para Site.

Aki Sasamoto in Conversation with Ngaiming Mok
12-1pm
Para Site, 10B

‘Sounding Lines’: Performance by Aki Sasamoto
2:30pm
Para Site, 22/F

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Closing Performance by Mui Hoi Ying & Ho Chi Wing at Tomorrow Maybe
Apr
28
6:00 PM18:00

Closing Performance by Mui Hoi Ying & Ho Chi Wing at Tomorrow Maybe

A music and somatic performance will mark the conclusion of the Art Month at Eaton HK, Mui Hoi Ying invited the singer from singing halls in Yau Ma Tei neighbours and contemporary performance artist, Ho Chi Wing to interact with Mui's spatial installation, using music and body movements to contemplate the intersection of spirituality and geology in the context of human and non-human bodies. 

Venue address: 4/F Eaton HK, 380 Nathan Road, Jordan

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La Galerie Paris 1839: Hope Never Sleeps - 33 hours non-stop art project
Mar
28
to Mar 29

La Galerie Paris 1839: Hope Never Sleeps - 33 hours non-stop art project

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Hope Never Sleeps - 33 hours non-stop art project by La Galerie Paris 1839 French Artist Cyril Delettre will take part in a 33 hours non-stop project welcoming the visitors from Thursday March 28 at 11:00am until Friday March 29, 8:00pm.

During these 33 hours visitors are welcome to interact with Cyril Delettre, let him take portraits of you, he will print them, then display the photos on the window of the gallery to create the word 希望. The shooting will take place in front of La Galerie. The audience will be able to watch the shooting from the street. An original art installation Inspired by his series HOPE ( an ongoing project since 2022), art photographer Cyril Delettre creates an original installation for visitors to physically experiment entering into an art piece. Cyril Delettre's installation symbolizes the human ability to transform darkness into colours: you enter into the Black and White portraits of the artist and come out with colourful characters to brighten the hidden hope. On the path, by entering the artist’s spirit, you are invited you to go through his HOPE and rediscover yours. The audience is invited to touch, explore and take pictures.

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AWT Bar Hong Kong
Mar
26
to Mar 29

AWT Bar Hong Kong

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Join us at AWT Bar Hong Kong, a special pop-up edition at RONIN for Art Basel. From March 26 to 29, Art Week Tokyo will host AWT Bar Hong Kong, featuring artist-conceived cocktails alongside a bespoke food menu, select artworks on view, accompanied by an artist-curated playlist. The AWT Bar is open to all for a multi-sensory experience of Tokyo in Hong Kong.

Specialty cocktails are inspired by the works and practices of Rinko Kawauchi, Masato Kobayashi, Shinji Ohmaki, and Yuichiro Tamura. On display, are artworks by Simon Fujiwara, Saori Miyake, Daido Moriyama, and Kohei Nawa, available for purchase through their respective galleries. While having bites from a Tokyo feature bespoke menu designed by RONIN, listen to select tracks that artists Ken Kagami, Yuko Mohri, Aki Sasamoto, and Hajime Sorayama, have associated with their vibrant metropolis over the years. 

Public access. Expenses at the bar are at visitors' discretion. 

March 26 to 29, 2024, 6:00pm to 1:00am
Venue: RONIN, 8 On Wo Lane, Central

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M+ at Night: Hong Kong Street Culture
Mar
1
to Mar 2

M+ at Night: Hong Kong Street Culture

Experience the museum in a whole new way! Join us for a Friday night where dynamic lighting, energetic music, exciting creative activities, and food and drinks take over. Unwind from the stresses of everyday life and connect with friends and like-minded people.

When you picture Hong Kong after-hours, what gives the city its distinct flair? For the first edition in March, M+ at Night celebrates the ‘Hong Kong Street Culture’. On 1 March 2024, M+ invites the creative collective Yeti Out and its co-founder Arthur Bray to programme a wide range of activities for you to explore the streets and alleys of the city through mediums including sound, graphics, and typography. Imagine the interactions between people and their surroundings and discover how their everyday lives shapes the diverse street culture.

Price: HKD 180

M+ Members and Patrons can attend for free.

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Kongkee: Delusion Beat at Tai Kwun
Feb
29
8:00 PM20:00

Kongkee: Delusion Beat at Tai Kwun

The interweaving of murmuring voices, strings, beats, and rhythms seamlessly merges into the audience's ethereal memories, akin to a dream. This medley injects a variety of musical elements into Kongkee’s science-fiction extravaganza. 

"Delusion Beat" is inspired by Kongkee's comic Dragon’s Delusion, where Qu Yuan transforms into an electronic guitarist. In a world filled with endless desires, he uses music to enlighten souls who have been eroded by these desires. Kongkee also envisions Qu Yuan's soul reincarnating 2,000 years later, awakening in a cyberpunk rock world.

For this extraordinary musical event, Tai Kwun Contemporary will invite Veegay, the music director of Dragon’s Delusion — Preface, along with pianist and violinist K Tsang, vocalist Wynne Lo, and DJ Shelf-Index, who will be performing live music together. Join us for this evening of music and animated wonder!

Quotas are limited, on a first-come, first-served basis.

Venue address: Duplex Studio, Block 01, Tai Kwun

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Special Performance by Giraffe Leung at La Galerie
Dec
9
3:00 PM15:00

Special Performance by Giraffe Leung at La Galerie

Join us for an extraordinary artistic performance by Giraffe Leung, where he showcases his new work that incorporates coins.

La Galerie has an exciting plan that involves you, making you an integral part of the experience! By participating, you'll not only support Giraffe's future endeavors but also contribute your own personal touch to the creative process. Don't forget to bring your coins along!

Immerse yourself in an enchanting afternoon filled with tea, chocolate, and captivating artistic wonders. Engage with Giraffe as you witness his mesmerizing artist performance at 4:30 PM.

Mark your calendars for this special event:
December 9th, 3-6 pm, with a special artistic performance at 4:30 pm

Gallery address: 74 Hollywood Road, Central

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 Au Wah Yan: The Dance of the Dancing Plant at Art Space1999
Dec
8
to Dec 31

Au Wah Yan: The Dance of the Dancing Plant at Art Space1999

The Dancing plant,  also known as the telegraph plant, dances when it hears a sound. 

Sending stones, when held in hands, can communicate across long distances. 

The exhibition is divided into three chapters: 1) Picking up a stone. 2) When plants are everywhere. 3) They have ears. It is a collage of lithographs, image letters, and prose poems. Plot: one day, she got into the habits of reading newspapers , writing letters, and listening to the radio. In her eyes, nothing is of the past anymore. There exists another her, who goes to the coast to look at stones whenever the wind blows. There exists yet another her, who tries to pick up the most ancient printing techniques and hammer the silent communication underneath the earth into audible telegraph codes, in order to connect to the barriered present; to whisper through the walls using natural objects; to reach and connect with each other.

If one’s feet, covered with sand, touch the seawater. 

Wiping the stones repeatedly. 

You have to keep moist even if the oil and water are separated.

Sharing: 17/12 (sun)  3pm-4:30pm  - Ernest Ip x Au Wah Yan 

Performance: 30/12 (sat)  6pm-7pm  - Wong SIn

Gallery address: 10/F, Foo Tak Building, 365 Hennessy Road, Wanchai

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Maria Hassabi: I'll Be Your Mirror at Tai Kwun Contemporary
Oct
13
to Nov 26

Maria Hassabi: I'll Be Your Mirror at Tai Kwun Contemporary

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Tai Kwun Contemporary is delighted to announce a new live art exhibition by the trailblazing artist and choreographer Maria Hassabi (b. Cyprus; lives in New York and Athens). Her first solo exhibition in Asia, Maria Hassabi: I’ll Be Your Mirror will be presenting live installations that explore the sculptural body, image-making, and the deceleration of time. Comprising elements of performance, sound, photography and painting, the exhibition includes works newly commissioned for Tai Kwun’s architectural environment.

Maria Hassabi: I’ll Be Your Mirror gravitates around the production and transmission of image through the usage of mirrors dressed in gold. Playing with the myriad meanings and representations of gold in ancient and contemporary myths—as a colour in divination, as a symbolic representation of capitalism, or even a kitsch sample from pop culture—the permanence of gold historically connected the substance to eternity and the divine, yet this desire to possess gold has also turned into a symbol of capital and accelerated consumerism. The paradox between the immutability of gold and the shifting perceptions of its representation echoes the tensions in Hassabi’s practice—between subjects and objects, dance and sculpture, the live body and still images, the spectacular and the everyday.

The exhibition is constructed by durational performances which run daily from 11am to 7pm Tuesdays to Sundays, performed by dancers from Hong Kong and around the world. The artist will also be present in the exhibition for the first half of the exhibition period. A conversation with the artist will take place in October, while Tai Kwun Contemporary will also be hosting a series of public programmes during the course of the exhibition, so please stay tuned for further details.

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India by the Bay
Oct
7
to Oct 15

India by the Bay

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India by the Bay is a week-long celebration of Indian art and culture co-presented by Teamwork Arts and the Asia Society Hong Kong Center, with the support of the Consulate General of India in Hong Kong. The festival features literature, music, food, dance and theatre, encompassing both the contemporary and classic.

The Festival is dedicated to promoting mutual understanding and strengthening partnerships between India and Hong Kong. It is a unique opportunity for the people of Hong Kong to experience and engage with India’s rich cultural heritage.

SAT OCT 7 AT ASIA SOCIETY: Author Francesca Cartier, direct descendant of Cartier’s founding family, and Radhikaraje Gaekwad, the Maharani of Baroda, discuss Cartier’s creations for Indian royalty. 

SUN OCT 8 AT ASIA SOCIETY: Wellness Sunday, a full day of events that nourish the mind, body & soul. Wellness Sunday will feature chanting, pranayama, Iyengar yoga, storytelling, music and poetry for individual guests as well as families.  

MON OCT 9 AT ASIA SOCIETY: A presentation by private collector Romi Lamba with rare access to his astounding collection of antique Kashmir and European shawls woven in the 1800s. 

WED OCT 11 AT ASIA SOCIETY: An evening of music and cross-cultural collaboration featuring sitar player Pandit Shubhendra Rao, cellist Saskia Rao-de Haas, pipa player Belle Shiu (with permission of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra) and guitarist Tjoe Man Cheung.

THU OCT 12 AT ASIA SOCIETY: A literary evening exploring India’s push for eminence in world affairs. Editors Bibek Debroy and C. Raja Mohan discuss the acclaimed book, Grasping Greatness. The evening will be moderated by Ajay Kapur,  Head of Asia Pacific & GEMs Strategy Research at Bank of America Securities.

FRI OCT 13 AT ASIA SOCIETY: A candid conversation with award-winning actor, television director and author Neena Gupta and her daughter, fashion designer and actor Masaba - both stars of the Netflix series, 'Masaba Masaba'. They'll discuss fashion, film and family with Sanjoy K. Roy. A bit more about their Netflix show here. 

SAT OCT 14 AT XIQU CENTRE: An original, Broadway-style musical drama titled ‘Bollywood Love Story’, performed in English, for one night only at Xiqu Centre. 

•SUN OCT 15 AT ASIA SOCIETY: And finally, a gala dinner that takes guests on a culinary journey across India, with Chef Piku of New Delhi’s beloved restaurant, Jamun. 

Details and full programme

Venue address: 9 Justice Dr, Admiralty

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Memory Court: the Soundings of Things at Para Site
Sep
23
3:00 PM15:00

Memory Court: the Soundings of Things at Para Site

A semi-improvised lecture performance with sounds and objects
Created by Linda Chiu-han Lai with Longman Luk and Valerie Mak

Episode 1: Tree of Life in the Memory Garden | Episode 2: The Narrow Passage to truths | Episode 3: Forensics | Episode 4: Insights | Episode 5: Micro Narratives | Episode 6: Sand Adrift, Dust Afloat

‘Memory Court’ is a material space to invoke the limits of interpretation andrepresentational practices. Language becomes sounding. Bodies connect with sounds.Motions evolve in space into eclectic object events. Dialectic structures take overhermeneutic circles.

In six short episodes, ‘Memory Court’ is a performative response to Matteo Ricci’s‘memory palace’, Aby Warburg’s non-verbal art history experiment Mnemosyne Atlas,Gerhard Richter’s anomic archive Atlas, Martha Rosler’s Semiotics of the Kitchen andYvonne Rainer’s Trio A: the Mind is Muscle—all embodied in an assemblage event the artisthas developed with the Floating Projects.

‘Memory Court’ is far from a cosy-intimate personal space. The artist thinks of it as a crimescene re-enacted with objects on trial while a court stenographer tenaciously records themulti-sensorial events with improvised strategies. ‘Memory Court’ could be a lecture performance, but it surely evolves into an object event,tangentially connected with the installations Tree of Life and Bamboo Percussive currently onview at ‘signals…瞬息’.

23 September 2023 | 3–4pm | in English RSVP required here

Gallery address: 22/F, Wing Wah Industrial Bldg, 677 King’s Road Quarry Bay

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Art Jamming
Sep
23
2:00 PM14:00

Art Jamming

THIS SAT Wong Sze Chit will be having a FULL DAY Art Jamming with 4 talented HK artists, co-creating a larger scale painting on wood panel with the flow of live techno music.

Wong Yuk Shan
The one who likes peeking into other's lives (including her own) to explore the state of the human condition, mental emotions, and the distance and dynamics of relationships. Seeing things the way she perceives humans.

Ticko Liu
Liu’s surrealistic paintings of fantastical mountains-capes permeated with stylised clouds in decorative patterns stem from his ongoing reflection upon his artist identity in relation to his work and the city he lives in.

Giraffe Leung
Anchoring on a myriad of mediums and materials, together with his personal sensitivity towards the dynamics between the seen and the unseen, Leung’s works seek to engage the audience with an experience that redirect their attention to happenings one shall never be accustomed to.

Chonticha
Chonticha invests in the concept of dynamic relationships between subjects/objects and in space, and shifted towards more self-conscious perception. Her paintings reflect her sensitive awareness of contradictory ideas, which she utilizes with imagination during her studies of literature and observations of life.

23 SEP 2023 (Sat) 2 - 9 pm

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Colour-reveil experience with EnChroma at The Stallery
Sep
12
7:00 PM19:00

Colour-reveil experience with EnChroma at The Stallery

The Stallery is excited to announce that colour blind visitors are now able to borrow special EnChroma glasses for colour blindness during their visits to all upcoming exhibitions at the pop and street art gallery. Partnering with EnChroma to improve the gallery experience for colour blind visitors, The Stallery is the first gallery in Hong Kong to offer EnChroma colour blind glasses to enable accessibility to the arts of the people of Hong Kong! While people with normal color vision see over one million shades and hues, those with color vision deficiency only see up to 10% of colors. An estimated 350 million people worldwide are color blind: 1 in 12 men (8%) and 1 in 200 women (.5%), roughly 319,000 in Hong Kong alone.

On Tuesday, September 12 at 7pm, colour blind individuals including Ernest Chang, artist and founder of The Stallery, a local artist, and a public participant, will try on the EnChroma glasses for the first time while viewing Chang’s recently closed solo exhibition “Space Rich” for an emotional live reveal as they experience the colors of art. Their reactions and experiences will be captured on video and shared with the press and on The Stallery’s social media platforms post-event.

 Gallery address: G/F, 82A Stone Nullah Lane, Wanchai

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Performance-based Exhibition Baker's Lung at Goethe-Institut
Jun
29
to Jul 4

Performance-based Exhibition Baker's Lung at Goethe-Institut

Baker's Lung is a new work that combines the professional baking experience of Felix Del Tredici and the instrumental practice of trombonists and improvisers. Together with multifaceted performing artist Kalun Leung, the work explores the similarities between two ancient art forms in a unique performance-based installation that is currently in development. It is a one-of-a-kind experience that promises to be both thought-provoking and entertaining.

As brass performer and professional baker, Felix is fascinated by the fundamental process of energy transformation that converts lip vibration into sound and the grinding of raw wheat into edible foodstuff. Both music and food are communal experiences that allow for community connection, and Baker's Lung aims to amplify this connection between baking and music.

The installation draws on a variety of cource material, including body camera footage from Felix's bakery, different types of grains and seeds, old-time recipes, Hong Kong street market objects, and the sounds and visuals of dough mixing, a steam-injected oven, dividing and shaping breads, and the small mill grinding wheat berries. These audiovisual materials will be transformed in a variety of ways through interactive technologies, the interpretation of performers, and the participation of audience members.

Baker's Lung offers and artistic interpretation of the cacophony and insights from a baker experiences, provides a behind-the-scene view into the complexity and chaos that comes with the making of one of the most important and universal food staples.

Artists:
Felix Del Tredici
Kalun Leung

Time and date of the performance sessions:
29-30.6.2023 | 6pm, 6:30pm, 7pm, 7:30pm

Performed by:
Kalun Leung (trombone, invented instruments)
William Lane (viola)
Wilson Chau (horn)
Karen Yu (percussion)

Gallergy address: 14/F Hong Kong Arts Centre, No.2 Harbour Road, Wan Chai

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Snipe1: Metamaniaks at  Lucie Chang Fine Arts
Mar
9
to Apr 9

Snipe1: Metamaniaks at Lucie Chang Fine Arts

We are pleased to present METAMANIAKS, by Japanese artist Snipe1. The first of our international artists to visit Hong Kong after the covid. The artist will be presenting his fascinating graffiti paintings and sculptures.

A pioneer among Japanese graffiti writers, Snipe1 has been active since the dawn of Japan’s graffiti scene and later threw himself into the graffiti world of early 1990s New York during his teenage years. Snipe1’s graffiti draws upon the sensibility of street culture but incorporates an edge of “dirtiness” that lends to an unmistakable individual style. By pushing the boundaries, he continuously dares to toe the danger of breaking stereotypes.

In here, the artist aims to spark a conversation, to challenge people's thoughts, and to ultimately encourage them to question the reality we live in.

Opening Reception: March 9, 6-8pm

Live performance and guided tour: March 18, 3-5 PM

Gallery address: Unit C, 12/F, Gee Chang Hong Centre, 65 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Wong Chuk Hang

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Closing Event at Para Site
Feb
25
2:00 PM14:00

Closing Event at Para Site

This Saturday, 25 February, join us for closing events of our current exhibition 'Fanatic Heart', including a Cantonese Guided Tour at 2pm, followed by a Perfume Workshop and Sharing Session at 3pm with fragrance blogger Ching Chan, where she and exhibition curator Cusson Cheng will attempt to draw the connection between scent and idolatry.

The same evening, downstairs at 10B, Wing Wah Industrial Bldg., the artist Kong Chun Hei will host an open studio to preview his upcoming commissioned project at Para Site, 6–8pm, followed by a live performance by Haptic Collision, 8–10pm.

Gallery address: 22/F, Wing Wah Industrial Building, 677 King’s Road, Quarry Bay

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Closing Performance at Empty Gallery
Feb
18
to Feb 19

Closing Performance at Empty Gallery

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Long-time collaborators Raha Raissnia and Charles Curtis will premiere a new performance at the gallery on February 18 and 19, closing Raissnia’s current exhibition, نور (Nour).

Raha Raissnia will debut an expanded cinema piece incorporating both 16mm film and 35mm slides, in collaboration with Charles Curtis, whom Artforum has described as “one of the great cellists”, celebrated in the realms of both experimental music and classical performance.

The duo has previously performed at Miguel Abreu Gallery (2006), Xippas Gallery (2006), Arika’s Kill Your Timid Notion Festival (2008), and The Drawing Center (2018).

Gallery address: 19/F, Grand Marine Center, 3 Yue Fung St, Aberdeen

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Machine Visions at Osage Gallery
Nov
19
to Feb 4

Machine Visions at Osage Gallery

This exhibition explores how machine learning tools are being integrated into artistic practice. The works on show are the result of a two-year exploration of how machine learning can be used to synthesise music and synthesise 3D objects.

In the time elapsed since the commencement of this project, online visual culture has reacted to and absorbed a host of new techniques, from image recognition to style transfer, to natural language synthesis and more recently the text-to-image synthesis pipelines offered by tools such as MidJourney and Dall-e. Underneath these rapidly evolving creative toolkits lie a common computational approach of a dataset, a neural network, and a newly synthesised output based on what features the network can understand in the original dataset.

As the utility of these tools and the quality of their results improve, various cultural debates have been spawned, such as who ‘owns’ the collective cultural databases on which these systems are trained, and who therefore owns the works that these systems generate? Is there a tipping point where the human creative input relative to automated machine output shifts balance to the degree that we no longer consider the human to be the author of the work?

In her overview of modern visual communication, Joanna Drucker notes that representational strategies evolve historically with changes in technological production, from the relationship between 16th-century developments in optics and Renaissance painting to mechanised assembly lines and the industrial geometric abstractions of modernist artists such as Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. Considered in this broader trajectory, what we are witnessing is human creativity once again adapting to a paradigm shift, namely that of automation and artificial intelligence.

𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀: (RSVP: https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLScUS3c6X3b.../viewform...)

1. Exhibition Opening & Performance #1: 19 November 4 – 6pm [Debris]

2. Performance #2: 24 November, 7 pm [Archon]

3. Performance #3: 25 November, 7 pm[Archon] [AusCo LiveStream]

4. Performance #4: 10 December, [Perform Augment Remix] 3 pm

5. Performance #5: 14th January, [Debris] 3 pm

Gallery address: 4/F, 20 Hing Yip Street, Kwun Tong

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Haunted, Salvaged at K11 Musea
Nov
5
to Dec 18

Haunted, Salvaged at K11 Musea

Contemporary artist Andrew Luk and recorder player/composer Erikson Ting from Zeit Recorder Quartet, come together for their first-ever collaboration—Haunted, Salvaged, a zen garden constructed by the remnants of artificial materials.

Ting’s composition, 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘤 𝘚𝘦𝘢, inspired by Luk’s work, will be performed by his recorder quartet Zeit at Gold Ball located on the 2nd floor of K11 Musea every Saturday and Sunday from 3 pm to 3:30 pm during the exhibition. The ensemble will also perform selected works by renowned Japanese composer Ryohei Hirose. Let’s travel along the past and present with this unique installation, and immerse in the extraordinary audio-visual art experience!

Every Saturday and Sunday, 3 pm – 3:30 pm

Venue address: Gold Ball, 2/F, K11 MUSEA, TST

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InnerGlow at Tai Kwun
Sep
10
to Sep 25

InnerGlow at Tai Kwun

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Mid-autumn heralds the brightest moon of the year as well as the gradual shortening of days as we begin the slow descent into winter. This year, a new signature event designed for the whole family will light up Tai Kwun’s Parade Ground every night during a three-week season. InnerGlow features the dazzling creativity and technological ingenuity of The Electric Canvas, who, along with four groups of local artists, have reimagined Tai Kwun’s 160-year-old Barracks Block.

This action-packed 12-minute fantasy is shown five times each evening at Parade Ground, on the half hour starting at 7pm.

The programme is supported by Hong Kong Jockey Club and Principal Sponsor CLP Holdings Limited.

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CIP Final Project #5 - Breathing Flesh
Jul
26
to Aug 5

CIP Final Project #5 - Breathing Flesh

We all have and only have one body of flesh, powerful yet fragile. Incidents left us with wounds, stagnated and frozen in time; words are rendered invalid and lost. How shall we embrace our shattered pieces, continue to breathe, and live in this world?

Curated by Gigi Tang, “Breathing Flesh” has invited three emerging artists, together with the curator, to share their response to the seemingly unavoidable pain of life through different artistic mediums including ceramics, lacquer painting and performance art.

Returning to the roots of life, may we all someday arrive at a place of peace, where the light gets in.

Opening Reception & Artists’ Talk 26.07.2022 (Tue 二) | 6pm - 9pm

General Visit 27.07.2022 - 05.08.2022 | 11am - 7pm
*05.08.2022: Extend to 9pm
Closed on Sunday

Live Performances
Artist: Jovita Siu 蕭芷芊
26.07.2022 (Tue 二) | 6pm-8pm
30.07.2022 (Sat 六) | 11am-1pm
05.08.2022 (Fri 五) | 12pm-2pm, 3pm-5pm, 6pm-9pm
*Each session about 15 minutes

Venue address: 3/F Cheung Hing Industrial Building, 12P Smithfield, Kennedy Town

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Between the Frames: 'Hide & Seek' with Simon Liu at M+
Jul
8
7:30 PM19:30

Between the Frames: 'Hide & Seek' with Simon Liu at M+

Join us at the Grand Stair on Friday, 8 July at 19:30 for an audio-visual performance by moving image artist Simon Liu. This performance deepens the experience of the unique soundscapes of ‘Hide & Seek’, the series of pre-show commissions Liu created to celebrate the opening of M+ Cinema and showcased as part of M+’s screening programmes.

‘Hide & Seek’ offers a layered reflection of Liu’s body of work, playfully repurposing images of urban spaces and personal histories. Composed with modular synthesizers, the soundscapes in this series open new generative possibilities in the artist's creative practice. The series aims to engage audiences with moving image in the contemporary era and highlight our experience of viewing artworks collectively in a screening space.

This event features a conversation in English about ‘Hide & Seek’ between Liu and M+ Associate Curator of Moving Image Chanel Kong, followed by a live sonic performance accompanying a special composite cut of the series. Free admission. Registration not required.

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