賽馬會創意藝術中心座落於深水埗白田街的前石硤尾工廠大廈，預計於二零零七年第四季度落成啟用，並期望成為本地藝術及文化的匯聚點。中心內的工作室租金分別為每平方呎港幣五元和八元。全日制藝術課程的學生或同類課程的近期畢業生可以申請租金資助計劃，如獲批可以每平方呎港幣三元租用工作室。此項計劃由香港浸會大學策劃及執行，香港藝術發展局和香港藝術中心擔任策略夥伴，蒙香港賽馬會慈善信託基金資助翻新工廠大廈和部份啓動費用，並獲特區政府民政事務局全力支持。
有興趣的人士可登入以下網址www.hkbu.edu.hk/jccac瀏覽中心的詳情和下載申請表，截止申請日期為2006年12月21日。中心將安排有興趣租用人士參觀石硤尾工廠大廈，查詢電話: 2353 1311。
The retrospective on Choi Yan-chi comes in two parts, [Re-]Vision at 1a space, opening on Wednesday November 1 and [Re-]Fabrication at Para/Site Art Space on Friday November 10, 2006.
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[Re-]Fabrication
Choi Yan-chi’s 30 Years, Paths for Inter-disciplinarity in Art (1975-2005) [part of the “HK Artists in the 1980s” series]
Venue: Para/Site Art Space
Exhibition Date: 11 November to 23 December 2006
Curator/Researcher: Linda C.H. LAI
Opening: Fri, 10 November, 2006 (Fri), 6:30pm
Open forum 2: “The Practice of Art and the Practice of Criticism: a projective dialogue for art education in Hong Kong” (Bilingual)
Date: Sat, 25 November 2:30-4:30pm
Choi Yan-chi with various artists, art writers and educators (chaired by Linda Lai)
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[Re-]Vision
Venue: 1a space
Exhibition Date: 1 to 29 November 2006
(Dialogue with Linda C.H. LAI)
Opening: 1 November, 2006 (Wed), 6:30pm
Open forum 1:
“The paths of inter-disciplinarity: being a local artist of Hong Kong” (in Cantonese)
Date: 18 November (Sat) 2:30-4:30pm /Choi Yan-chi in dialogue with art students and artists
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For more information, please read the press release of the exhibition.
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Just so many exciting events:
Date: 9 November – 12 November 2006
Venue: Drama Theatre, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (other than specified)
Cultural Ecologies: Communicating Contemporary Art in the 21st Century
Measuring Creativity, Happiness, and Well Being
Creative Education Summit
Media Arts in the Contemporary Society
Experiencing Architecture
Asian Arts, Culture and Modernity
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From the website of LCDS’s Art Promotion Office:
In his residence at the Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, sound artist Cedric Maridet explores the sonic and spatial relationships between the sound generated from the air management system and its surroundings. The Visual Art Centre is located within the Hong Kong Park arena. The artificiality of the different biotopes recreated in the park echoes the artificiality of the air flowing system created inside the building. Air cond- itioning systems in buildings are artificial air management devices that aim to renew the air in order to clean it from the CO2 breathed out by people and pollutants released by furniture and the building itself. It also comes from the characteristics of modern architecture to bring comfort and quality of air in- dependently from outside climate. Such a setting creates an idea of confinement in a closed space, and of the building as an autonomous entity. Air can be treated through a concept of fluidity in a physical aspect. However, on a phenomenological aspect, it is a quality of a space. The air conditioning system is also a sound generator in an acoustic design’s point of view.
The site-specific sound installation focuses on the sounds of the artificial manage- ment of air of the Visual Arts Centre. A sensitive to initial conditions generative system is implemented through the use of a chaotic map as in weather prediction. Sonic and spatial variations will be mapped according to outside air qualities such as temperature and humidity, as well as visitor’s presence in the exhibition space as being air-processing bodies. The result is a sonic simulation of a hybrid ecosystem, which focuses on an idea of breathing as a transformation process, and a new relationship between arch- itecture and its environment. Through their sole presence, audience is not only an essential parameter in the work, but also listeners to experience the created sonic space.
Date : 10－20.11.2006
Time : 10:00am－9:00pm
Venue : Exhibition Hall
Admission : Free
Behind the Scene : Artist Talk
Speaker : Cedric Maridet (in English)
Date : 11.11.2006 (Saturday)
Time : 3:00－4:00pm
Venue : Exhibition Hall
Admission : Free
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Hong Kong Salon Seexchange + Videotage present Tobaron Waxman – “GenderFluXXXors UnCoded: an FTM Supornova”
Date: Nov 3 (this Friday)
Time : 19:30
Venue: Videotage (No. 13, Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Rd. To Kwa Wan,
Kowloon, HK)
Tobaron Waxman is a performance artist, whose work contextualizes gender, embodiment, and the physical experience of time as systems of inscription. His work also includes elements of traditional Jewish texts and philosophy, as well as politics and desire. He will present “GenderFluXXXors UnCoded: an FTM Supornova” which takes the form of a performance lecture.
This presentation provides ample moments in film/video history which construct a trans-sexual gaze. Waxman includes in his lecture the works of transsexuals and gender queer contemporary artists, focusing on the identity constructions of female-to-male erotic subjects or transmen. In this way, he reminds the audience of the constructed nature of their Erotic gaze, while simultaneously acquainting them with underground histories in queer imaging, including a variety of ethnicities, body sizes, and cultural expressions, the unifying element being the Female-to-Male content. The goal of this presentation is to empower and encourage Transgender/Transexual/Genderqueer cultural production, with a critical eye, on a grassroots level, as well as to encourage pride and self-love.
For more information about the performance lecture, please visit here.
