Published in another version in LEAP. Text by Robin Peckham. This past year has seen the consolidation of a number of strategies for adapting to the at times paradoxical but always parallel challenges of survival and production, many of which would be unrecognizable or even barred from the institutionalized cosmopolitan alternative systems by which they [...]
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Published in Time Out Hong Kong. Text by Robin Peckham. Though one may be forgiven for expecting otherwise, the exhibition does not actually offer any coherent alternative reality, and neither does it have much to say about the comfortably worn territory of simulation in contemporary art. Curated by Davina Lee of Diorama Projects, the collection [...]
First published on ArtSlant. Text by Robin Peckham. Spectral Evidence Sreshta Rit Premnath, Simon Leung, Lin + Lam; curated by Steven Lam 15 July – 5 September 1a Space Unit 14, Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Rd., To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong For its inaugural curatorial residency, 1a Space has invited [...]
First published on ArtSlant. Text by Robin Peckham. From the Vanishing Point: Demolished Public Housing Estates in Hong Kong Eddie Chan, John Choy, Michael Wolf 5 June – 18 June 1a Space Unit 14, Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Rd., To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong Curator Carl Cheng positions this group [...]
October Contemporary 2009 Text by Robin Peckham First published in Redbox Review The last two instances of October Contemporary, during which Hong Kong art spaces, galleries, and other organizations nominally unite to provide the city with well-conceived exhibitions, lectures, and performances throughout the month, served as excellent barometers of new directions in the local art [...]