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Who Cares? Essays on Curating in Asia

Published in LEAP, Vol. 2 No. 1, February 2011 Text by Robin Peckham. Fominaya, Alvaro Rodriguez, and Lee, Michael, eds., Who Cares? 16 Essays on Curating in Asia. Hong Kong: Para/Site Art Space with Studio Bibliotheque and seed | projects, 2010. 187pp. ISBN: 9789889896393 (pbk.). We find in Hong Kong something of a curatorial anxiety: [...]

Soundpocket: Around

Published in LEAP, Vol. 1 No. 6, December 2010. Text by Robin Peckham. Yeung, Yang, ed., Around (Pocket:1). Hong Kong: soundpocket, 2010. 370pp. ISBN: 9789881948014 (pbk.). There has been a surprising resurgence of interest in sound art in Hong Kong over the past few years, spurred by a combination of factors from a strong research [...]

Popular Music in Contemporary Art, or, adolescents groping in the dark

First published in Randian. Text by Robin Peckham. During a recent debate over sound art that seemed to grip several quarters of the Hong Kong art world for the better part of the summer of 2010, one of the recurring topics of discussion was the relationship between art and music. Dominated by figures emerging from [...]

From ‘Resonant Forms’ to ‘Resonance’

“Resonant if Unsound: Concept, Style, Execution” First published in Hong Kong Gallery Guide. This text describes a general critical framework. Text by Robin Peckham, with thanks to Venus Lau and Rachel Connelly. Marcel Duchamp inaugurated one of the manifold lineages of experimental art in the twentieth century with a push towards what he termed “non-retinal [...]