A matter of ownership: dialogues on art and cultural space of
A special forum involving artists, architects and critics from
Synopsis of presentations
Stories of our home
, housing half of the Hong Kong population, has been the major apparatus in the urbanization process in Hong Kong. The stories outlining five decades of provide a starting point in re-thinking the concept of in the unrelenting modernization.
The presentation is on how to consider a city as a laboratory –. How new business, art work, strategies emerge from Hong Kong as a laboratory to develop new ideas.
Urban space in Hong Kong cinema and video
A broad visual survey of the domestic space and urban landscape in mainstream cinema/TV and independent videos finds intricate articulations of conflicting desires for home and city. Modernized city space and housing can be the subject of celebration, the source of conflict, a casual backdrop, or simply an excuse for other hidden desires. Issues are multiple: class-based, gender-based, of contingent discourse formations, and lustful appropriation… Some eye-catching keywords: and many more postcard icons…
, video database of urban space of Hong Kong
, is a database to present 50 stock-keeping video clips captured by a tool for panoramic shooting over the course of a year. The artists drifted through the cityscape with this tool, bringing in all the donut imagery. They stock-keep these clips without converting the images into a, and categorize them into three different tropes.
The tide is changing. But will the cultural awakening under Hong Kong’s economic downturn last?
