Hong Kong Conversations Talk #1 | How to Make a Great Name for Your Artist Group

After six months of renovation, Asia Art Archive's library now reopens to the public, with a new exhibition “The Collective School” and its corresponding public programme “Hong Kong Conversations.”

The first talk invites eight Hong Kong–based artists and cultural workers who represent the vanguard of local art collectives in the mid-1990s to early 2000s. Coinciding with a period of watershed moments in Hong Kong’s cultural landscape, they adapted and responded to artistic, social, and political shifts.

Artists Chen Shi-Sen, Lai Chun Ling, and To Yeuk share why working collectively is essential to their performance-based and socially-engaged practices. Scholar Siu King Chung, artist Duncan Wong, and researcher Phoebe Wong discuss how and why collectives emerged in the mid-1990s in response to new art forms and topics, such as installation, community art, and cultural studies. Leung Ka Man and Ocean Leung share their experimental practice and its relation to their educational work.

Register for the talk to learn about the evolution of collectivism, collaboration, and self-organisation as artistic strategies in Hong Kong. The talk will be conducted in Cantonese, and is moderated by AAA Researcher Anthony Yung.

More Details: https://aaa.org.hk/tc/programmes/programmes/hong-kong-conversations-2022-the-collective-school