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Acentered:
Reterritorised Network of European
and Chinese Moving Image
@ Art Basel Hong Kong
Crowdfunding Lab, Level 3 Concourse,
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
22 – 26 March 2016
During Art Basel Hong Kong Opening Hours
SELECTED WORKS FROM THE MOMENTUM COLLECTION
Featuring:
Qiu Anxiong // Thomas Eller
Janet Laurence // Kate McMillan
Tracey Moffatt // Sumugan Sivanesan
Li Zhenhua
(Click on artists’ names for more info.)
Curatorial Statement
MOMENTUM will take part in Acentered: Reterritorised Network of European and Chinese Moving Image during Art Basel Hong Kong. Presented by the Art Basel Crowdfunding Initiative, Acentered is part of the Crowdfunding Lab and curated by Videotage.
The 21st century defines an emerging set of complex relationships between creativity, knowledge, capitalism, and innovative technologies. Today, we live in a world that revolves around networks and necessitates a belief in a future that is powered by the connection of people – a culture that embraces fluidity, collaboration, and creative mobility.
During Art Basel Hong Kong, the Crowdfunding Lab features video art works from the Videotage Media Art Collection, the MOMENTUM Collection, and from other international partners including: Casa Asia (Barcelona & Madrid), Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art/University of Salford Art Collection (Manchester), The Chinese University of Hong Kong/Department of Fine Arts, City University of Hong Kong/School of Creative Media, Connecting Spaces (Hong Kong-Zurich)/Zurich University of the Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University/Academy of Visual Arts, The Hong Kong Institute of Education/Department of Cultural and Creative Arts, and videoclub (London). Videotage also presents a series of roundtable discussions at the booth on a variety of relevant topics in the art world today.
DISCUSSION PROGRAM
Swapped!
Exchange Artists On Exchange
Mar 24, 15:00 – 16:00
@ Crowdfunding Lab, Level 3 Concourse,
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
Speakers:
Rachel Rits-Volloch, Founding Director, MOMENTUM, Berlin
Morgan Wong, Artist, Hong Kong
Moderator:
Kevin Lam, Assistant Curator, Videotage, Hong Kong
A roundtable discussion between artists from Videotage’s Kickstarter campaign, selected by the Art Basel Crowdfunding Initiative to be endorsed on their curated page. This campaign supports a trans-national project to raise the awareness on the experiences of immigrants in the epicenters of Asia and Europe – Hong Kong and Berlin – through an artist exchange program. A presentation will be held by Morgan Wong and Rachel Rits-Volloch to discuss the concepts behind the campaign.’
Salon Program:
Collaborative Network – Curating in the 21st Century
25 March, 14:00 – 15:00
@ Auditorium, Entrance Hall 1A, Level 1,
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
How should curating be in the 21st century? By bringing together veteran curators across the globe, this discussion contemplates different views regarding contemporary curating, with a focus on new networking channels.
Speakers:
David Elliott, Freelance Curator, Writer and Art Historian, Berlin
Menene Gras Balaguer, Culture and Exhibitions Director, Casa Asia, Barcelona & Madrid
Isaac Leung, Artist, Curator and Chairperson, Videotage, Hong Kong
Jamie Wyld, Director, Videoclub, London
Moderator:
Adrian George, Deputy Director and Senior Curator, UK Government Art Collection, London
The Dying Institutions:
Museums and Art Schools in the 21st Century
25 March, 16:00 – 17:00
@ Crowdfunding Lab, Level 3 Concourse,
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
Speakers:
Rachel Rits-Volloch, Founding Director, MOMENTUM, Berlin
Louis Ho, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities & Creative Writing, HKBU, Hong Kong
Jonathan P. Harris, Head of School of Art, Faculty of Arts, Design and Media, Birmingham City University, Birmingham
Ying Tan, Curator, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art; Curatorial Faculty, Liverpool Biennial
Chantal Wong, Strategy & Special Projects, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong
Moderator:
Iven Cheung, Assistant Curator, Videotage, Hong Kong
Roundtable discussion with curators, art historians, and educators from universities and art institutions across the globe will discuss the future of curatorial and educational practices.
Roundtable Discussion:
Inside Out: The Rise and Rise of the Youtube Generation
26 March, 14:00-15:00
@ Crowdfunding Lab, Level 3 Concourse,
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
Speakers:
Susie Au, Film Director, Installation Artist, Handmade Films, Hong Kong; Chan Ka Ming, Angus Kwok & Yeung Chun Yin, One Letter Horse, Hong Kong; Jan Cho, General Manager, TBWA\ Hong Kong, Head Of Digital, Hong Kong; Ben Tang, Programme Manager in Arts Programme, TV and Advertising Director, Hong Kong; Jamie Wyld, Director, videoclub, London.
Moderator:
Ellen Pau, Founding Director, Videotage, Hong Kong.
Practicing video artists, famous local YouTubers, and film directors host a roundtable discussion exploring the impact of new channels and the rise of artists with non-conventional training, and how that is changing the art-making environment in Hong Kong.
Performance: Startup!
26 March, 16:00-17:30
@ Crowdfunding Lab, Level 3 Concourse,
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
Speakers:
Enoch Cheng, Artist, Hong Kong; Andrew Luk, Artist, Hong Kong; Tang Kwok Hin, Artist, Hong Kong; Mak Ying Tung, Artist, Hong Kong;
Moderator:
Christopher Lee, General Manager, Videotage, Hong Kong.
Local and international artists present their ‘Art Startup,’ an ambition to develop innovative projects in the age of information technology. Visitors are welcome to participate in this art startup event.
Migrating Images:
Strangers In A Strange Place
An Artist Residency Exchange between MOMENTUM Berlin & Videotage Hong Kong
Amir Fattal & Morgan Wong
SUPPORTED BY
MAKE IT HAPPEN!
SUPPORT THE KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN >>
“…trying to start a life in a strange land is an artistic feat of the highest order, one that ranks with (or perhaps above) our greatest cultural achievements…”
Joe Fassler, “All Immigrants Are Artists,” the Atlantic (August 2013)
Videotage (Hong Kong) and MOMENTUM (Berlin) invite you to support Migrating Images, our research-based artist exchange program that aims to capture, explore, and redefine the ephemeral experience of two cities – Hong Kong and Berlin – with video art.
Your contribution will support two artists (one based in Hong Kong and one Berlin) to engage and research the impact of immigrant societies in these two multicultural epicenters, and their research will become the basis of their video art projects to explore the multiple aspects of migration on the community.
Besides exploring issues related to migration, the exchange artists will participate in a series of workshops and lectures in the local art scene during their residencies. After they have returned, they will also play the role of the curator for a show in their home base featuring selection from the collections of Videotage and MOMENTUM respectively. Migrating Images is conceptualized to be a multi-dimensional exchange project that involves the local art communities of the two cities.
Tales of Two Migrating Cities
Both Hong Kong and Berlin are “migrating” in multiple sense of the word. In their histories, both Hong Kong and Berlin have emerged as epicenters of Asia and Europe under continuous waves of immigration. In recent years this movement of people is happening even in a faster pace. In the last decade Hong Kong suddenly finds herself opening its doors to large numbers of new immigrants from mainland China and Southeast Asia, while the demographics of Berlin have also changed dramatically due to newcomers of non-German descent. The current Syrian refugee is an even more pressing issue – especially in the world after the Paris attacks.
Besides the movement of people, both Hong Kong and Berlin are also home to migrating objects. As a former British colony, Hong Kong is still laden with artefacts from its colonial past. This has become an issue of hot debate under Chinese rule – are these objects to be retained or replaced by those that bear marks of the current Chinese regime? On the other hand Berlin’s ethnographic museums are full of objects that remind viewers of their origin and their “migration” during the colonial era. With these commonalities, one might ask: how has this “migrating” experience shaped these cities? How have the culture, religion, and social customs of the immigrant communities impacted these epicenters in Asia and Europe respectively? How has the flow of people changed the city fabric in a visible – or invisible – manner?
Amir Fattal was born in Israel in 1978, and is currently based in Berlin. Fattal graduated from Universität der Künste, Berlin, in 2009, and is a conceptual artist whose practice is one of historical reflection grounded in the history of aesthetics and cultural schisms. Coming himself from a migration background, Fattal is concerned throughout his practice with connections between cultures – through their history, memory, architecture, and geographical diaspora which transposes cultures to new and different nations. Working in a variety of media ranging from sculpture, installation, photography, video, 3D printing, musical composition, and more, Fattal makes contemporary art which always subtly political, reflecting conceptually upon the history of art, architecture, minimalism, and modernism.
Morgan Wong was born in Hong Kong in 1984, and is currently lives and works in Hong Kong. Wong graduated from the Slade School of Fine Arts in London in 2013. Wong’s interest in durational performances investigates the irrepressibility of time as a predicament, to recuperate a new consciousness of physicality, time and space. Such a practice follows the vein of phenomenology, and specifically how to become more aware of the relationship between one’s volition and action. The pursuit of timelessness is not only a humanistic quest; its social and political connotations question the fundamental value of an individual as an agency for change.
ABOUT Art Basel
Art Basel stages the world’s premier art shows for Modern and contemporary works, sited in Basel, Miami Beach, and Hong Kong. Defined by its host city and region, each show is unique, which is reflected in its participating galleries, artworks presented, and the content of parallel programming produced in collaboration with local institutions for each edition. In addition to ambitious stands featuring leading galleries from around the globe, each show’s singular exhibition sectors spotlight the latest developments in the visual arts, offering visitors new ideas and new inspiration. For further information please visit artbasel.com
ABOUT Videotage
Videotage is a leading Hong Kong-based non-profit organization specializing in the promotion, presentation, creation and preservation of new media art across all languages, shapes and forms.
Founded in 1986, Videotage has evolved from an artist-run collective to an influential network, supporting creative use of media art to explore, investigate and connect with issues that are of significant social, cultural and historical value.
Videotage is dedicated to nurturing emerging media artists and developing the local media arts community. It has organized numerous events and programs since 1986, including exhibitions, presentations (Dorkbot), festivals (Wikitopia), workshops, performances, residency program (FUSE) and cultural exchange programs, as well as continually distributing artworks through its networks and publications; and developing an extensive offline and online video art archive (VMAC).
New initiative Acentered – Reterritorised Network of European and Chinese Moving Image is a project umbrella that interlinks extensive media art institutions in China and Europe. Videotage is planning to further initiate exchanges between Europe and China looking at the future of experimental moving image.
ABOUT the MOMENTUM COLLECTION
The MOMENTUM Collection was established in 2010 through the generosity of a small group of artists who’s work was shown at MOMENTUM | Sydney in May 2010. The donations of their works constituted their investment in MOMENTUM’s then-nascent model as a global and mobile platform for showing time-based art. Five years later, the MOMENTUM Collection has expanded from its original roster of 10 to 32 exceptional international artists. The Collection represents a cross-section of 120 outstanding artworks in a diversity of media: video, performance, photography, painting, collage, and text. It ranges from some of the most established to emerging artists representing 18 countries worldwide: Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Korea, China and Hong Kong, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Finland, Bulgaria, Turkey, Israel, Ethiopia, Poland, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, the US, the UK, Canada. The growth of the Collection reflects the growth of MOMENTUM itself. While we develop and nurture our relationships with these artists, we continually endeavor to bring their work to new audiences worldwide – both through our web archive, and through cooperations with partners such as LOOP and IkonoTV, as traveling exhibitions, and through educational initiatives such as the Time_Art_Impact Dialogues with Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
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Collaborative Network – Curating in the 21st Century
Exchange Artists On Exchange
Museums and Art Schools in the 21st Century
