Peter Tsi is the most popular guest lecturer of arts administration courses here. He is the former director of HKIFF. He will share his recent experience on producing & marketing film 十月围城 in Mainland China for this Christmas.
Date: Nov. 26 (Thu)
Time: 9:30am – 12:20pm
Venue: Y5109
(Posted by Phoebe)

SO Yan Kei is famous for her large scale installations e.g. a volcano, a room size spaceship and a lift. She is not rich and she realized her installation by asking sponsors. Once, she wrote 30 proposals for an art work. In the guest lecture, she will show her works and talk about how she raised money to realize her works and sharing her experience in writing proposals.
Date: Nov.30
Time: 6:30pm – 9:20pm
Venue: B2531
(posted by Phoebe)

Content:
1. “Art”, “Markets”, and “Art Markets”: An Overview
2. Under the Hammer: A Behind-the-scenes look at Auction Houses
3. How to Sell the Art You Make and Make Art that Sells
Date: November 9th (Monday)
Time: 6:30pm – 9:20pm
Venue: ACAD B2531

Jehan Chu is an Art Advisor and Auctioneer with over 9 years of industry
experience. Formerly with Sotheby’s Auction House in New York, and Head of
Client Development in Asia, he left in 2008 to start Vermillion Art Collections, a
specialized art advisory working with private and corporate art collectors.
(Posted by Phoebe)

Ernst Logar (http//:www.logar.co.at) an artist from Vienna is in Hong Kong temporarily working on a new project and needs an assistant for video work. A great opportunity to learn from a practising artist. Please write to him ernst@logar.co.at or call him directly at 6561 6738.
Date: Nov. 9
Time: 8 am – 10am
helper fee: $50/hr
(posted by Phoebe)

VISUAL MUSIC 09, the Opening Concert of the Microwave International New Media Arts Festival
Nov 13, 2009 / 8pm
Rotunda 3, 6/F
Hong Kong International Trade & Exhibition Centre
1 Trademart Drive, Kowloon Bay
Tickets: $650 (seated), $420 (standing), $320 (students) / available from HK Ticketing
Internet booking: www.hkticketing.com / ticket purchase hotline: 31-288-288

To view poster, click:
Microwave-concert-HKVM_091103

Film Festival Hors Pistes 2010 at the CENTRE POMPIDOU, supported by VideoArtWorld

Open Call – Hors Pistes 2010
Oct. 12 2009 – Nov. 15 2009

The HORS PISTES film festival offers a showcase to unique and audacious videos and films that move away from traditional genres to blend fiction with documentary, contemporary art or experimental formats. The festival, which is non competitive, will be held from February 19th to 28th, 2010, at the Centre Pompidou.

CENTRE POMPIDOU – HORS PISTES FILM FESTIVAL
75191 PARIS CEDEX 04 – FRANCE
http://www.centrepompidou.fr/horspistes2010

The deadline for entries is 15th November, 2009.
SUBMISSIONS
• Any international 25-65 minutes length work completed after January 2008 is eligible for entry.
• No submission fee is required.
• Works may be screened in theatre in either 16 or 35 mm film format or in Beta or mini DV video.
• DVD of the work is to be sent – accompanied with the artist’s contact
• All works in language other than French or English MUST BE SUBTITLED.

The address is :
Centre Pompidou, services Cinemas / Hors Pistes
HORS PISTES
75191 Paris CEDEX 04, France

(posted by Linda)

Chinese sound art: 2,500 years of listening
public talk by Yao Dajuin

October 16, 2009 (Friday)

7 – 9 pm
@EDT Lab, 4/F, Academy for Performing Arts, 1 Gloucester Road, Wanchai
(gather at 6’45pm, G/F foyer for venue direction)

Founder of China Sound Unit and educator, Yao Dajuin gives a talk addressing the history of Chinese ways of listening and how it compares and conflicts with those of the West.
*in English, supplemented by Mandarin

Dajuin Yao is a sound artist, music producer, curator, radio host, art historian. For decades, Dajuin has been promoting experimental music through radio shows, websites and teaching. He has curated large-scale international new media events, including Sounding Beijing 2003 and the opening ceremony for the 2008 Shanghai eArts Festival. In 1997 Dajuin founded China Sound Unit, which is devoted to documenting and recontextualizing Chinese urban sound phenomena with a series of recordings, performances and installations. Each installation covers one city and makes use of various historical, spatial and aural analogies. Dajuin is also the producer of the sound art record label Post-Concrete. He has developed full curricula in sound art in China and Taiwan and currently teaches at the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou. http://www.post-concrete.com

Enquiry: Yeung Yang – yangy@soundpocket.org.hk
presented by soundpocket
http://www.soundpocket.org.hk

(Cedric)

CIL graduate LEE Tak-nga Zoe (ZoeLydia) (2004) has two paintings included as part of a group show in ufoArtgallery in Central. A solo of her paintings will take place next year in March at the same gallery.

Dates: Oct 2-23, 2009
ufoArtgallery // G/F 39 Graham Street, Central, Hong Kong / Fon: 2151-3772 / Mon-Sat, 11am-7pm

See full image, click here [...]

(posted by Linda)

Patty Chang will come to HK next week and give a talk in Visual Art Center. http://www.aaa.org.hk/newsletter_detail.aspx?newsletter_id=727
I showed her works in SM1011. Remember the artist who cut her “breast” and shaved her pubic hair?
(Phoebe)

The 3rd edition now since 2007, October Contemporary has evolved into more than just a joint platform for contemporary art in HK. This edition specially brings in all art spaces and groups big and small, emerging and experimental…, not just to show, but think, make and act art.

The month-long program would be a good chance for us to survey the diversity, variety, repetition, strength and problems… of our local art scene.

Check out the month-long program here:
http://www.oc.org.hk/

(posted by Linda)