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Exhibition: “Writing off the Wall”

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 [...]

Nadim Abbas: Cataract

Published in LEAP, Vol. 2 No. 1, February 2011 Text by Robin Peckham. Nadim Abbas Experimenta LG/F., 89-95 Hollywood Rd., Central, Hong Kong 5 November – 11 December Nadim Abbas, in his first complete solo exhibition, composes a scene that so resists interpretation that the viewer defaults into passive observation, submitting to a rather flaccid [...]

The Border Show: Notes toward an exhibition

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 [...]

Void on Fire: Work by Nadim Abbas

“Void on Fire: Work by Nadim Abbas” Published by Gallery Exit. Text by Venus Lau. “The fire runs, and hollers on the blank page” Liu Wai Tong, “Mysticism, a Song of Failure” Telling stories with the body itself, narrative cannot avoid a trajectory from one door (material or imaginary) to another, walking or rushing between [...]

Big, Small, and Potential: Chinese Art in Spaces and Places

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 [...]

Exhibition: The Border Show

The Border Show Nadim Abbas, Matt Hope + Jon Phillips, Hu Xiangqian, Huang He, Jin Jiangbo, Leung Chi Wo, Li Jinghu, Adrian Wong Curated by Venus Lau and Robin Peckham Organized by the Society for Experimental Cultural Production Opening 8 January 2011, 17:00 – 21:00 And running through 28 January 2011 Open weekends 12:00 – [...]

Nadim Abbas: Cataract

Published on Artforum.com Critics’ Picks. Text by Robin Peckham. Nadim Abbas Experimenta LG/F., 89-95 Hollywood Rd., Central, Hong Kong 5 November – 11 December For his first major solo exhibition, Nadim Abbas has chosen to transform a small, hidden exhibition space into a singular environment of optical effect based on the collapsed figure of the [...]

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 [...]

A Roller Control

First published on World Wide Pop. Text by Robin Peckham. Cantopop may have been revolutionary back in the days of Sam Hui, the godfather of the Hong Kong sound, but today a younger generation of new irascibles is looking to make a change in the musical landscape of the island metropolis. A Roller Control, which [...]