20 March – 10 April 2016
Exhibition
Exhibition Opening: 20 March 2016 (Sunday), 7:00pm
Dates: 20 March – 10 April 2016
Time: 11:00am – 7:00pm
Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions)
Description
This exhibition is in an attempt to free curatorship from conventions by shifting roles and practices, playfully exploring the identity of the “artist-curator”. Curators appropriate artistic strategies and artist integrate curatorial elements, making it increasingly indistinguishable between artist and curator. This exhibition embraces this trend and asks curators to pair in groups of two to produce artworks for partner’s curation and vice versa, such that each participant is as much a curator as they are an artist. By easing themselves of the responsibility to offer transcendental experiences, curators become each others’s mirrors, facing their own identity crisis, asking fundamental questions – thus expelling doubts and scratching the unspoken need to destabilise manifests.
Participating Artists / Curators
- Enoch Cheng, artist, writer and self-taught director
- Adrian George, Deputy Director and Senior Curator, UK Government Art Collection
- Nuria Krämer, Head of Connecting Space Hong Kong
- Isaac Leung, Chairman, Videotage
- Zhenhua Li, Curator Film, Art Basel Hong Kong
- Hongjohn Lin, Curator, Taipei Biennial 2010
- Ying Tan, Curator, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA)
- Fu Kuen Tang, independent dramaturg, producer and curator
To celebrate the opening of the exhibition, our amazing curator-artists prepared a series of performances. One show only. Grab your drinks and enjoy!
- Isaac Leung in collaboration with two medical doctors, Dr Belinda Poon and Dr Patricia Poon: Viral Agent
- Adrian George: Barriers and Burning Buckets
- Enoch Cheng and Fu Kuen Tang, joined by dancers Renato Ferreria, Mei Hon and Tin Chak Leung: Glabspheellanoid
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- Viral Agent by Isaac Leung
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- Bucket by Adrian George
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- Glabspheellanoid by Enoch Cheng and Fu Kuen Tang (Photo Credit: Chi-wai Cheung)