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September 2020
15 Days of Garment Making 4343
In this video, retired seamstress Kwok Hang Lin will describe her experience working in garment manufacturing, an industry that once measured her productivity and wages every 15 days. The conversation will reactivate objects on display at the CHAT Arcade, such as a handwritten notebook that kept track of her wages and fabric reconstructions of bygone fashion styles. Watch, listen and learn technical aspects of garment making, as well as personal stories of labour and leisure from this former worker.
Find out more »October 2020
Dot Word Dot: Print Your Own Tote 4343
Tickets $550｜RSVP In this workshop, participants will make their own customised tote bag with fabric printed with the graphics developed by Benny Leung for CHAT’s Summer Programme 2020, Sight Unseen – Forking Paths in the CHAT Collection. Join CHAT’s Textile Programmes team and Sewing Team for a whole day of screen printing, sewing and embroidering in an intimate, small-group setting. You will be able to select your own fabric from a variety of options at CHAT Lab, choose the motifs for…
Find out more »#CHATwithYou Online Programmes 4343
CHAT is proud to present #CHATwithYou – a diverse array of online programmes featuring content from our 2020 Winter Programme Yin Xiuzhen: Sky Patch and Makers of Hong Kong: In Conversation. Participants can take part in a series of online co-learning workshops, sharing sessions on Hong Kong making and virtual guided tours of our seasonal exhibitions! While CHAT is temporarily closed, catch up on the latest #CHATwithYou online programmes. Come join us at our online workshop and don’t miss your chance to…
Find out more »CHAT with Artist: Yin Xiuzhen 4343
Free Admission｜RSVP Yin Xiuzhen's works are often interwoven with personal memory and history. In this artist talk, she will share her practice and experience on artistic production by Zoom and engage in dialogue with curator Wang Weiwei to discuss the concepts and planning of her exhibition at CHAT. Audience is welcomed to join the talk at CHAT Lounge or participate in the sharing by Zoom. Free Admission, RSVP is required. Zoom meeting ID will be shared with registered participants via…
Find out more »Public Participation: Sky Patch・In Transit 4343
Deposit $50｜RSVP Activities taking place at Yin Xiuzhen's spatial installation Sky Patch・In Transit at The Hall of The Mills encourage participants to come together for creative exchange and compromise in these challenging times. Arrive in this ‘airport terminal’ on selected dates to ‘patch’ the sky with blue second-hand garments. Materials Needed: All materials and instructions provided. Experience Level: Suitable for participants aged 12 or above.
Find out more »Yin Xiuzhen: Sky Patch 4343
Yin Xiuzhen’s exhibition at CHAT marks the Beijing artist’s first solo institutional presentation in Hong Kong. Yin’s art often revolves around the use of found objects that have been marked with personal traces. Through the process of collaging and rearranging old objects, she interweaves together codependent or contradicting memories and experiences, both personal and communal, thus contemplating the condition of the individual in our fast-changing political, social and natural environments. The COVID-19 pandemic, which broke out during the planning of…
Find out more »In Transit Stamp-ede! 4343
A free, self-guided stamping activity for the whole family. Inspired by Yin Xiuzhen’s installation Sky Patch・In Transit, which recreates an airport experience at The Hall of The Mills, visitors are invited to make and stamp their own Art Passports at CHAT Lounge.
Find out more »November 2020
Curator Tour of Yin Xiuzhen: Sky Patch 4343
Deposit $50｜RSVP CHAT's curator Wang Weiwei will guide visitors on a tour around Winter Programme 2020 exhibition Yin Xiuzhen: Sky Patch. She will introduce the artworks on display and share her experience of conceiving and planning the exhibition with the artist. Deposit will be refunded in full upon attending the programme.
Find out more »Make Your Own: Masks with Nuno Textiles 4343
Tickets $390｜RSVP Join CHAT’s Textile Programmes team to learn how to make your own decorative fabric masks using Nuno textiles! Designed by CHAT’s Sewing Team and using textiles from renowned Japanese textile brand Nuno, these masks are a fun accessory to wear over your surgical mask while expressing your creative self. Participants can pick from the many fabric options at CHAT Lab to stitch a personalised, colourful mask using hand stitching and embroidery techniques, along with unique trims and embellishments.…
Find out more »January 2021
Making Thursdays: Meditative Heart Sutra Embroidery 4343
Tickets $90｜RSVP In her artwork Prajnaparamita ,artist Yin Xiuzhen recreates the sound frequency of the Buddhist Heart Sutra with second-hand garments. This beginner-level tutorial introduces participants to the basics of letter embroidery while listening to meditative music. CHAT’s experienced Textile Programmes team will guide this weekly online workshop on Zoom. Upon registration, participants will receive a DIY pack including an embroidery hoop, pre-cut pieces of fabric, needles and threads. Join us and learn how to write with a needle! Experience…
Find out more »Make Your Prajnaparamita Sculpture! 4343
Artist Yin Xiuzhen turns the soundwaves of Prajnaparamita into soft sculptures. Now we can also learn how to visualise sound! Download the worksheet and follow the instructions, get ready with your tools, and make your own sound wave soft sculpture!
Find out more »A Tale of Two Cities: Women Worker’s Bodily Politics in Hong Kong and Shenzhen 4343
Free Admission｜RSVP This talk reflects on the body politics experienced by women workers in Hong Kong and Shenzhen in the context of globalisation and industrialisation. Stories of women workers provide vivid accounts of the systematic changes in these two cities, and their subjective experiences reveal the tensions of capital, family and personal desire. Space, workspace, collectivity and individuality are interwoven through nuanced body politics in the cities of Hong Kong and Shenzhen. The talk will be conducted in Cantonese with…
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