For over half a year in 2017, CHAT organised Weaving Wednesday to connect to different communities. To share the joy and magic of weaving, we hosted a special edition on a Saturday. There were 6 kinds of looming demonstrations and exercises using upcycled materials: Backstrap Loom – the oldest form of loom in the world; Portable Weaving Grid – A hands-on weaving kit enabled crisscrossing threads and fabric on recycled wooden frame; Weaving Square – an action-filled square-shaped floating installation […]
“Born in 1983, lives and works in Hong Kong. Lai has explored to translate various unique textures into different forms and media. The subjects in her paintings and installations are seemingly banal and mundane, however, she carefully depicts the power, politics and historical narratives behind these ordinary objects. Lai’s recent exhibitions include “Interval in Space” hosted by Osage Art Foundation, Hong Kong (2017); “Let the night breeze send away yesterday’s dreams” at Surplus Space, Wuhan, China (2017); “Against the Light: […]
Jung Yeondoo Jung Yeondoo lives and works in Seoul. His creative practice focuses on photography, video and installation that involve the direct and indirect performance of his subjects, affectionately looking at human life between fiction and reality. He draws upon the everyday lives of people; as he shares his artistic concepts with those involved, he playfully explores the boundary between visual art and performance. Jung has recently been creating a series of multi-channel video works that document the perspectives of […]
Born in 1975 in Hiroshima, Japan. Based in his home city, Iwasaki has made miniature landscapes out of common items such as towels, cleaning brushes and bookmarks. Many of his works were inspired by the history of Hiroshima city that was rapidly reconstructed after its destruction by A-bomb dropped in 1945. Reflecting the devastation and recovery of Hiroshima, Iwasaki has been aware of fragility and transformation of modern urban landscape. His recent solo exhibitions include “Turned Upside Down, It’s a […]
(Director CEO, Textielmuseum, Netherlands) Errol van de Werdt, Director CEO, Textielmuseum, Netherlands, was educated in different cities in the Netherlands-leiden, Amsterdam, Groningen and Zwolle. He received a bachelor degree in Museology from the Reinwardt Academy in leiden and a master degree in Art History and Archeology in Amsterdam. In 2000 Errol became director of collections and research in Utrecht Centraal Museum. Recently he started as General Director of the TextielMuseum and TextileLab and is now General Director (CEO) of the […]
(Co-Director, Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile, Hong Kong) Teoh Chin Chin is Co-Director of Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile. Before joining CHAT as Head of Development, Teoh earned her MA History of Art (Distinction) with a focus on East Asian art history from The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, after a successful career in private equity and investment banking. Prior to joining the arts field, she was Head of Asia for Greenpark Capital, and […]
(Director, Hong Gah Museum, Taiwan) Frankie Su is based in Taipei, Taiwan. She received a MA degree with distinction from Department of History of Art, University of Essex. Su worked as assistant curator in Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei between 2003 to 2006, then she moved to Beijing to join the initiative team of setting up Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art located in 798 Art District in Beijing. Su is now Director of Hong-Gah Museum, a privately-funded contemporary art museum […]
(Artist, Japan) Nishio Yoshinari lives and works in Nara. After obtaining a Ph. D. in Fine Arts from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2011, Nishio stayed in Nairobi, Kenya for two years as a grantee of the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs. He currently works as Junior Associate Professor at Nara Prefectural University. His works have consistently referred to relationships between fashion and communication, as he has developed art projects with the cooperation of citizens and students around the […]
(Co-Artistic Director, ZeroStation, Vietnam) Visual artist, independent curator, art critic and poet. His art practices concern about the relationship between present and past, and the intervention of different temporal-spatial dimensions. His works have been shown internationally in Japan, France, and USA. Nhu Huy has been writing, translating and publishing domestically and internationally on Vietnam contemporary art, culture, and art theory, and has been guest speaker for numerous international conferences. Huy is the founder and artistic director of ZeroStation, Ho Chi […]
(Partner, Inside Outside, Netherlands) Aura Luz Melis is educated as an architect at the Technical University of Delft and The Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism in Sao Paulo. She joined Inside Outside in 2005 where her interdisciplinary approach was formed through the wide range of projects she has worked on, many of which connect architecture to interior design and landscape. These projects include the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, the Rothschild Bank in London, the gardens for Qatar Education City Headquarters and […]