[oberlist] HK* evnt: Para/Site presents rites, thoughts, notes, sparks, swings, strikes. a hong kong spring

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Subject: [artacontemporana] Para/Site presents rites, thoughts, notes,
sparks, swings, strikes. a hong kong spring
From:    "Cosmin Costinas" <cosmincostinas2004 at yahoo.com>
Date:    Tue, April 10, 2012 11:08 am
To:      artacontemporana at yahoogroups.com
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rites, thoughts, notes, sparks, swings, strikes. a hong kong spring
13 April–29 April 2012


Opening:
12 April 2012, 19–21 hrs


Para/Site
G/F, 4 Po Yan Street
Sheung Wan, Hong Kong

www.para-site.org.hk



     Para/Site proudly presents rites, thoughts, notes, sparks, swings,
strikes. a hong kong spring, a month long assembly of events and
situations, composing an ever evolving non-spatial exhibition. A few
 works and poems installed in the space at Para/Site combine with talks,
 performances, screenings and exercises of curating by artists in an age
 of mobile images to produce a restless exhibition. Artists, curators,
critics, art historians, architects, scholars and writers from different
 parts of the world contribute answers, interpretations, reflections,
interrogations and dialectics through different forms of artistic
practice and speech.


     Spring comes back every year; the
 unity and univocality of this season as an object, both semantic and
physical, are bundled together under the inexhaustible qualities of its
name. On the other hand, spring marks a commencement and a promise. a
hong kong spring is restlessly aware of the radical political spectre
this word once again holds. The surrounding streams of tension in the
polity of Hong Kong and Mainland China entertain this sense of unease
and unspoken hopes.


     Scholar Ackbar Abbas describes a
Hong Kong phenomenon of mourning for the loss of things that still
exist, as if summoning the ghost of collective history in the midst of
its own miscarriage. People mourn for the ghosts of a spectral history, a
 history yet to come. If this concept of premature history can also be
borrowed to look at the art history of Hong Kong then a hong kong spring
 interrogates the possibilities of art history and archival narratives
in expanding the space of form in art criticism and practice. It focuses
 on the discursive formations in the void of the cultural fabric of Hong
 Kong by borrowing the entangled ontological architecture of the living
and the ghostly.


     Para/Site’s space accommodates works
by Liu Chuang, Mona Vatamanu and Florin Tudor, a poem by Alfian bin
Sa’at and an architecture of humble size designed by artist Zheng Guogu
attempting to provide an enclosed viewing experience for moving images
curated by a number of artists. This setting is joined by the series of
events taking place at Para/Site and other venues throughout Hong Kong.


     rites, thoughts, notes, sparks, swings, strikes. a hong kong spring
is curated by Cosmin Costinas and Venus Lau.


 Program:

 Forms of Criticism

 13 April 2012 (Friday)

 18.00–21.00, McAulay Studio, Hong Kong Arts Centre


 18.00–18.15            Welcome and Introduction by Cosmin Costinas
(Executive Director/Curator, Para/Site, Hong Kong) and Venus Lau
(curator, Hong Kong)

 18.15–19.15            Conversation:
Alfian bin Sa'at (writer, poet, and playwright, Singapore) and Liu Wai
Tong (poet, activist, Hong Kong)

 19.15–20.00            Lecture
 by Ekaterina Degot (art historian and curator, Moscow): Russian art and
 cultural institutions after the fall of the Soviet Union: a short
overview

 20.00–20.15            Coffee Break


20.15-21.00            Artist talk: Bai Xiaoci (artist and researcher,
Shenzhen), hosted by Venus Lau: Spectral Architecture - the
Political-Economic Meaning of Government in China


 14 April 2012 (Saturday)

 15.00-19.30, McAulay Studio, Hong Kong Arts Centre

 15.00–15.30            Presentation by Lee Weng Choy (art critic,
Singapore): Horizons of Art Criticism


 15.30–16.00            Presentation by Galit Eilat (writer and curator,
 Eindhoven/Tel Aviv): Liminal Spaces and its aftermaths...

 16.00–16.15            Coffee Break

 16.15-16.45            Presentation by Pauline Yao (curator and scholar,
Beijing): The Dematerialization of the Art Critic


 16.45-17.15            Presentation by Keiko Sei (scholar and activist,
 Bangkok): Communal Experience, Border and Art ~ Examining Waves

 17.15-18.15            Video Screening (programme selected by the speakers)

 18.15-18.30            Coffee Break

 18.30-19.30            Plenary Session





 Writing Recent (Urgent) Histories

 20 April 2012 (Friday)

 18.00–21.15, Para/Site Art Space (registration recommended)


 18.00–19.00            Lecture by Natasa Ilic  (curator and critic,
Zagreb/Berlin): History is not given. It has to be constructed. (IRWIN)

 19.00–19.15            Coffee Break


 19.15–20.45            Lecture by Tony Chakar (architect, artist and
writer, Beirut): 1. One Hundred Thousand Solitudes 2. Speak Mouthless

 20.45-21.15            Discussion, moderated by Cosmin Costinas


 21 April 2012 (Saturday)

 15.00-19.30, Para/Site Art Space (registration recommended)

 15.00–15.30            Presentation by Hyunjin Kim (curator and writer,
Seoul)


 15.30–16.00            Presentation by Philip Tinari (curator and
critic, Beijing): The Battle for the Soul of the China/Avant-Garde

 16.00–16.15            Coffee Break


 16.15-16.45            Presentation by Miguel Lopez (writer, researcher
 and curator, Lima): Discarded Bodies. Images of Death in the 1980s War
in Peru

 16.45-17.15            Presentation by Ahmad bin Mashadi (art historian
and curator, Singapore)

 17.15-18.15            Video Screening (programme selected by the speakers)

 18.15-18.30            Coffee Break

 18.30-19.30            Plenary Session





 28 April 2012 (Saturday)

 15.00-20.00, Para/Site Art Space (registration recommended)

 15.00-15.45            Presentation by Lee Kit (artist, Hong Kong)

 15.45-16.30            Presentation by Adrian Wong (artist, Hong Kong/Los
Angeles)

 16.30-16.45            Coffee Break

 16.45-17.30            Presentation by Chow Chun Fai (artist, Hong Kong)

 17.30-18.15            Presentation by Nadim Abbas (artist, Hong Kong)

 18.15-18.30            Coffee Break

 18.30-19.15            Presentation by Kitty Ko & Kong Chun Hei (artists,
Hong Kong)

 19.15-20.00            Presentation by MAP office (artists, Hong Kong)


 During the entire session, interventions by Joao Vasco Paiva (artist,
Hong Kong), Adrian Wong, Xu Qu (artist, Beijing), Zhao Yao (artist,
Beijing) and Li Liao (artist, Beijing) will be on view.
For more information and live streaming please refer to: www.para-site.org.hk


rites, thoughts, notes, sparks, swings, strikes. a hong kong spring is
curated by Cosmin Costinas and Venus Lau.


Para/Site address and opening hours:
G/F, 4, Po Yan Street, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
Wednesday–Sunday 12–19 hrs
Closed on public holiday


Hong Kong Arts Centre
2 Harbour Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong


For further information, please contact:
Para/Site Art Space
G/F, 4, Po Yan Street
Sheung Wan
Hong Kong
t: +852 25174620
f: +852 25176850
e: info at para-site.org.hk






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