Para Site

Monique Yim: ‘Moments of Encounter’

Start
Jan 12, 2025
End
Jan 26, 2025

Venue

Terrible Baby
4/F, Eaton HK, 380 Nathan Rd, Jordan Hong Kong
Courtesy of Monique Yim｜由嚴穎嘉提供

12, 18, 19 Jan 2025
Para Site, 10/F
2–9pm
Each session: approximately 50 minutes
In Cantonese
Registration and deposit required here

 

26 Jan 2025
Terrible Baby, Eaton HK
2–6pm
Each session: approximately 50 minutes
In Cantonese, Mandarin or English
Registration required here

 

As part of the exhibition ‘The Embrace and the Passage’, Moments of Encounter is a series of intimate exchanges hosted by artist and therapist Monique Yim. At Para Site, within an contemplative installation by Michele Chu, participants are invited to share personal experiences of change or separation. In response, Yim selects and prepares ingredients with them, crafting a personalised herbal tea blend that reflects their state of being. Through shared conversation and sensory engagement, the sessions foster reflection, release, and support. The final sessions shift to Terrible Baby, Eaton HK, a communal setting where people and things are constantly on the move, offering participants a moment to pause and exchange before continuing on their way.

Schedule

Sun 12 Jan

2pm: 1p
3pm: 1p
4pm: 1p
5pm: 1p
7pm: 1–3ppl
8pm: 1–3ppl

 

Sat 18 Jan

2pm: 1p
3pm: 1p
4pm: 1p
5pm: 1p
7pm: 1-3ppl
8pm: 1-3ppl

 

Sun 19 Jan

2pm: 1p
3pm: 1p
4pm: 1p
5pm: 1p
7pm: 1–3ppl
8pm: 1–3ppl

 

Sun 26 Jan

2pm: 1–3ppl
3pm: 1–3ppl
4pm: 1–3ppl
5pm: 1–3ppl

About the artist

Monique Yim

Monique Yim (b.1984, Hong Kong) is an artist, educator and mental health professional as a certified hypnotherapist, gestalt counsellor, and mindfulness and expressive arts instructor. She received her MA from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK and studied postgraduate programmes at Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland.

Yim mainly engages in performance, photography, video, mixed media installation, participatory art, public and community art, as well as film and theatre. Her works address human conditions, including social, cultural, identity, body, gender and queer issues, as well as the experiences of marginalised minorities. Since 2006, she has been featured in over 200 exhibitions, festivals and residencies across more than 30 cities in Asia, Europe and the Americas. She has received international and local awards, including the ‘Visual Art Performance Made in Public Space Prize’ at Kassak Centre, Europe (2018), shortlist nominations for the ‘Human Rights Arts Prize’ in Hong Kong (2021) and the ‘Colours of Humanity Arts Prize’ in Hong Kong (2022 and 2023). She curated ‘Performance Art Marathon’ at the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong (2014).

Yim has served as a consultant, lecturer, workshop instructor, speaker at talks and research conferences, and professional trainer at over 100 overseas and local universities, schools, arts and cultural organisations, social services institutions, healthcare institutions, diverse arts events, and community arts projects. She is dedicated to performance art education and has pioneered interdisciplinary practices and teaching methods in performance art in Hong Kong, including cross media art, creative education, cultural and gender studies, general education, life education, mindfulness, expressive arts therapy, psychology and psychotherapy, wellbeing and healing, philosophy, and spirituality.

Yim’s practice and works have consistently been featured in the media, cited in academic texts, and selected as research or teaching materials worldwide.