Workshops for Emerging Arts Professionals: New Flows is a laboratory for emerging arts professionals to reflect on the arts ecosystem and their role and agency within it. Adopting a circular model of exchange, leading figures in the field will host exchanges and workshops in Para Site’s Learning Space alongside off-site visits, interrogating the ethics of art work, diasporic solidarity, collaborative models, institutional forms, and sustainable futures. Facilitators include Adeline Ooi, who has directed initiatives to position Hong Kong, and Asia more broadly, into a crucial art world meeting point; Mai Abu ElDahab, director of Mophradat, a non-profit association supporting artists from the Arab world, generating inventive approaches to funding, commissioning, collaborating, and gathering; Guangzhou-based artist collective BOLOHO, now participating in CHAT’s Seed to Textile programme; Cem A, the artist behind @freeze_magazine; and Sakiya, a progressive academy connecting art, science, and agriculture in Palestine and beyond. Throughout, participants will consider the idea of professionalism after professionalisation and explore ways of practising together.
The participants are Amandine Vabre Chau (France/Hong Kong), Emilie Sin-yi Choi (Hong Kong), Jeremy Ip (Hong Kong), Tomoya Iwata (Japan), Amy Jones (UK), Linh Lê (Vietnam), Arianna Mercado (Philippines), Hue Nguyen (Vietnam/Taiwan), Kiko del Rosario (Philippines), Putri Siswanto (Indonesia), Yuji de Torres (Philippines), Binghuang Xu (China), and Bishal Yonjan (Nepal).
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