[Nettime-ro] Para/Site presents rites, thoughts, notes, sparks, swings, strikes. a hong kong spring

[Cosmin Costinas <cosmincostinas2004@yahoo.com>]

rites, thoughts, notes, sparks, swings, strikes. a hong kong spring
13 Aprilâ29 April 2012


Opening: 
12 April 2012, 19â21 hrs


Para/Site
G/F, 4 Po Yan Street
Sheung Wan,ÂHong 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/Siteâs space accommodates works 
by Liu Chuang, Mona Vatamanu and Florin Tudor, a poem by Alfian bin 
Saâat 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)
 
 18.00â21.00, McAulay Studio, Hong Kong Arts Centre
 

 18.00â18.15            Welcome and Introduction by Cosmin Costinas 
(Executive Director/Curator, Para/Site, Hong Kong) and Venus Lau 
(curator, Hong Kong)
 
 18.15â19.15            Conversation: 
Alfian bin Sa'at (writer, poet, and playwright, Singapore) and Liu Wai 
Tong (poet, activist, Hong Kong)
 
 19.15â20.00            Lecture
 by Ekaterina Degot (art historian and curator, Moscow): Russian art and
 cultural institutions after the fall of the Soviet Union: a short 
overview
 
 20.00â20.15            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
 
 15.00â15.30            Presentation by Lee Weng Choy (art critic, Singapore): Horizons of Art Criticism
 

 15.30â16.00            Presentation by Galit Eilat (writer and curator,
 Eindhoven/Tel Aviv): Liminal Spaces and its aftermaths...
 
 16.00â16.15            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)
 
 18.00â21.15, Para/Site Art Space (registration recommended)
 

 18.00â19.00            Lecture by Natasa Ilic  (curator and critic, 
Zagreb/Berlin): History is not given. It has to be constructed. (IRWIN)
 
 19.00â19.15            Coffee Break
 

 19.15â20.45            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)
 
 15.00â15.30            Presentation by Hyunjin Kim (curator and writer, Seoul)
 

 15.30â16.00            Presentation by Philip Tinari (curator and 
critic, Beijing): The Battle for the Soul of the China/Avant-Garde
 
 16.00â16.15            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
WednesdayâSunday 12â19 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@para-site.org.hk




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