Tam Chi Wing Kevin has over four decades of experience working in the knitting industry. In the 1970s, hand flat knitting machines from the Brother company was imported into Hong Kong. Tam began working as a sales of single- and double-bed knitting machines and was assigned to research and develop machine mechanics with engineers in Japan. Tam currently focuses on teaching knitting and brings together creativity with craft. Image courtesy: BY Y.B. Studio Asia
Centre for Community Cultural Development (CCCD) is a pioneering non-profit arts organisation founded by a group of social workers and artists (visual arts, theatre, community arts) in 2004. They promote and practice community culture and arts, and are dedicated to embrace diversity. Through a variety of community cultural development projects within and beyond the local community, they explore the creative potential and cultural resources of people, and thus cultivate personal qualities, empower individuals and equip them to face social changes. […]
Ji Hye Chung collaborated with artists from various fields in Korea and Europe through choreography and performance. She is interested in the paradox that appears when conflicting concepts coexist within social and personal issues, and is interested in expanding the range of communication that can be communicated with the work, focusing on movement. In addition, she analyses the reason for the action that the movement makes, and looks into the social waves generated by accumulation in the body. Recent choreography […]
Sasha de Koninck is a PhD student in the Intermedia, Art, Writing, and Performance programme at the University of Colorado Boulder. She presents her work in the form of multisensory experiences through the research and development of smart textile material for the body that is at the same time intimate, sensitive and loud. Her practice explores how clothing reveals the details and subtleties of our personalities and how life cannot always be explained in words. She believes that as a […]
Trada Ip became interested in knitting as a primary student. She was taught fundamental knitting skills by her Home Economics teacher in secondary school, and continued on self-learning with knitting books. After her blindness, she had no choice but to give up this interest because it was difficult for her to go to the woollen yarn shop. In 2009, with the support of volunteers from an organisation for the visually-impaired, she picked up knitting once again, and even participated in […]
Amy K. S. Chan is an Associate Professor at the Department of English and the Director of Centre of Comparative Gender Research at Hong Kong Shue Yan University. Chan is a local Hong Kong scholar teaching and doing research in technoscience culture, gender studies, literary studies and science fiction. Her doctoral dissertation is on Cyberfeminism. She is particularly interested in exploring the intersections of Deleuzian philosophy, technoscience culture and Chinese culture and philosophy. She has co-edited World Weavers: Globalization, Science […]
Laura Devendorf is an artist and a researcher who questions relationships between technology and culture by playfully subverting and reinterpreting categorisations of ‘machine’ and ‘body’. Her work presents alternative understandings of technology that draw heavily from feminist techno-science, trading notions of efficiency for engagement, control for humility, and individualism for cooperation and care. Her work takes the form of garments and tapestries with embedded electronics, open-source software and mixed-media systems. Devendorf is an assistant professor in the ATLAS Institute and […]
Based and works in Mexico City, Munoz works across textiles, performance, drawing, sound and experimental electronics to explore the relationship between technology and society with a special interest in the interaction between material forms and social discourse. Munoz often invites peripheral communities for creative production of e-textiles, involving local employees and businesses. She was a resident of the 2014 and 2016 programme at Nordic Artists’ Center Dale, Norway, at Kultur Kontakt, Vienna, Austria in 2015, at the Bauhaus Dessau, Germany […]
Satomi Mika and Hannah Perner-Wilson have been collaborating since 2006, and in 2008 formed the collective KOBAKANT. Together, through their work, they explore the use of textile crafts and electronics as a medium for commenting on technological aspects of today’s ‘high-tech’ society. KOBAKANT believes in the spirit of humour technology, often presenting their work as a twisted criticism of the stereotypes surrounding textile craftsmanship and electrical engineering. KOBAKANT believes that technology exists to be hacked, handmade and modified by everyone […]
Po Leung Kuk Anita L.L. Chan (Centenary) School is Hong Kong’s first special school funded by the Education Bureau for pupils with moderate-grade mental deficiency. The school was established in 1978, and its main target group is children aged 6 to 18 with special learning needs. In 2018, the new school premise was officially completed, and Po Leung Kuk Anita L.L. Chan (Centenary) School was relocated from Choi Wan Estate’s former site to 15 Chi Kiang Street, To Kwa Wan, […]