Exhibition map and forum schedule now available as PDF here! “Writing off the Wall” Nadim Abbas, Bai Xiaoci, Lee Kit, Kitty Ko Sin Tung, MAP Office, João Vasco Paiva, Adrian Wong, Samson Young Curated by Venus Lau and Robin Peckham Organized by Kunsthalle Kowloon (S.E.C.P.) Opening 26 May 2011, 14:00 – 20:00 Forum 29 May [...]
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Text by Robin Peckham This is an experiment in exhibition-making. It begins with the situation of cultural production and circulation throughout the Pearl River Delta, a conurbation that forms a cyclical distribution structure through which goods travel more freely than people. Encompassing a near continuous metropolis that stretches from Hong Kong and Shenzhen in the [...]
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Published in Yishu, Vol. 10 No. 1, January-February 2011. Text by Robin Peckham. It has become a truism: Chinese art is big not only in terms of physical scale, but also in the impressions it imparts to the observer. Chinese art, and not just that of the big, red, and shiny variety, tends toward the [...]
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Also tagged Adrian Wong, Cao Fei, Chu Yun, Douglas Young, Gary Chang, Lee Kit, Lin Yilin, Liu Chuang, Liu Wei, Nadim Abbas, Xu Zhen, Zheng Guogu
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Saturday, December 4, 2010
Published in Hong Kong Gallery Guide. Text by Robin Peckham. Contemporary art in Hong Kong has never troubled itself much with out-and-out identity politics, neither in the affirmative sense of working through sincerely posed questions we find in the United States and Southeast Asia nor through the embarrassingly naive denial we read in mainland Chinese [...]
Monday, November 29, 2010
Published on ArtSlant. Text by Robin Peckham. The Constrained Body: Works by Ho Siu Kee Hong Kong Arts Centre (3/F Experimental Gallery) 2 Harbour Rd., Wanchai, Hong Kong 7 – 26 November Ho Siu Kee, too, celebrates the release of a retrospective monograph with a small exhibition in the Arts Centre galleries; it would appear [...]
Published on ArtSlant. Text by Robin Peckham. MAP Office: Runscape 10 Chancery Lane Gallery G/F, 10 Chancery Lane, Soho, Central, Hong Kong 4 – 20 November MAP Office, a once-European architecture office that has completed a transformation from analytical design to conceptual art world antics over its 15 years in Hong Kong, now attempts to [...]
“Demolishing the Virtual: ‘RMB City’ and the Crisis of Art-Reality” Published in Digimag. Text by Venus Lau. Artist Cao Fei formally launched her last major project, “RMB City,” almost two years ago in January 2009. Nearing the end of its predetermined lifespan, the Second Life platform should come to an end within the next several [...]
First published by Para/Site Art Space in a catalogue for the exhibition This is Hong Kong. Text by Robin Peckham. Download the original attachment Kingsley Ng, “Record: Light,” 2008, 3’06″ “Record: Light” presents a seemingly tranquil view of Central district in Hong Kong at night, including several of the landmark architectural features that characterize the [...]
First published on ArtSlant China. Text by Robin Peckham. Moving Sideways Tang Contemporary Art Basement, Hollywood Center, 233, Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, China March 10, 2010 – April 2, 2010 With well over a decade of experience with artistic and architectural research in south China, MAP Office continues to probe the social ecologies [...]