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October 2020
Viewpoints on View: Hon Lai Chu on Reading Exhibitions 4343
What are the possibilities of text in an exhibition space? In addition to providing information, might they offer interpretive opportunities? Acclaimed Hong Kong writer Hon Lai Chu presents her unique response to the exhibition Sight Unseen – Forking Paths in the CHAT Collection by pairing exhibits with texts that she has encountered in her daily life. The themes she explores include time and space, survival and resistance, as well as everyday artmaking. Hon brings in wide-ranging works including local writer…
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 »January 2021
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 »February 2021
At Home and Around the World: Situating Yin Xiuzhen in the 1990s 4343
Free Admission｜RSVP On the occasion of the exhibition Yin Xiuzhen: Sky Patch , John Tain, Head of Research at Asia Art Archive, will discuss the developments in Yin’s practice as a way to look at the particular confluence of globalisation and feminist practices that arose in the 1990s. Much of Yin Xiuzhen’s ongoing art practice examines, reflects on and resonates with notions of globalisation. Through her use of clothing, fabric and other everyday materials that are often associated with domesticity,…
Find out more »Viewpoints on View: Rose Luqiu on a Changing China 4343
What did a pair of jeans mean to the youth of China in the 1980s? How can contemporary art serve as a lens to examine the globalisation and modernisation of China? In these videos, former television journalist, commentator, editor, now a scholar, traveller and mother, Rose Luqiu shares her response to the exhibition Yin Xiuzhen: Sky Patch . Luqiu selects multiple artworks on view and explores through them topics such as the shift from collectivism to individualism and the implications…
Find out more »March 2021
Webinar: Weaving New Narratives in Textile Exhibition 4343
Free Admission｜RSVP To celebrate the launch of a new online exhibition Reading Textiles, Weaving New Narratives, we invite you to join our upcoming webinar on Weaving New Narratives in Textile Exhibition! Earlier this year, 4 fledging curators from Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines and Singapore came together to explore and discuss the topic of ‘Interweave Asian Textile(s) with Contemporary Urgencies’ as part of their e-residency programme. Under the mentorship of CHAT’s Executive Director and Chief Curator Takahashi Mizuki, they have curated…
Find out more »Women in Art: Leung Mee Ping on Yin Xiuzhen: Sky Patch 4343
Free Admission｜RSVP In the summer of 2002, Yin Xiuzhen and Leung Mee Ping participated in Four Corners, a group exhibition featuring installation works by 4 female artists at Artist Commune, a former artist collective based in Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong. The exhibition marked the beginning of a decade-long friendship. In this talk, Leung will share her professional and personal experiences with Yin, exploring the intersections, similarities and challenges of a woman artist in contemporary Hong Kong and Beijing.…
Find out more »April 2021
Poetic Emergences: Organisation through Textile and Code 4343
Poetic Emergences: Organisation through Textile and Code is a 4-day online Discussion Forum held on 16 – 19 April, 2021 that gathers the voices of local and international creative practitioners including weavers, programmers, philosophers and community workers to investigate the transformative processes of textile and code. The interlacing of threads is akin to the sequencing of instructions; both are actions that transform information into the perceptible experiences of textile(s) and computer code respectively. Yet, what emerges are not only such…
Find out more »May 2021
Viewpoints on View: Community Speaks 4343
In these videos, 4 members from the local Hong Kong community share their responses to the exhibition Interweaving Poetic Code . Participating voices include linguist Arthur Thompson, blind artist Trada Ip, reporter and CODA (Child of Deaf Adult) Lilit Marcus, as well as doctor and trans advocate Zephyrus Tsang. Each speaker selects artworks on view they resonate with, covering topics from Morse code and tailoring to deaf and blind experiences. Collectively, the 4 speakers forge unique connections between textile, code and…
Find out more »September 2021
CHAT Meets: Yee I-Lann 4343
CHAT Meets is an ongoing series of talks inviting curators, artists and academics to contextualise works on view from multiple perspectives. The inaugural instalment examines the creative contexts and diverse practices of artist Yee I-Lann. The first half of the series invites local and international scholars discuss the creative contexts of Yee I-Lann by situating Sabah within global modern history, examining the exchanges between Malaysia and Hong Kong, and delving into the art of resist-dyed batik textiles. The second half…
Find out more »October 2021
Following Traces: Spinning East Asia Creative Forum 4343
Spanning the Winter 2021 and Spring 2022 Programmes, the Spinning East Asia series presented by CHAT explores and attempts to make sense of the socio-cultural complexity of East Asia through the multiplicity of textiles. Before the official launch of the exhibition series, a series of online sharing entitled Following Traces will invite a few participating artists from the exhibition, as well as researchers and fellow speakers to share their thoughts, investigations and creative processes as they worked on these new…
Find out more »CHAT with Artist: Yee I-Lann 4343
Free Admission｜RSVP In this virtual tour of Yee I-Lann: Until We Hug Again , artist Yee I-Lann will be joined by the curator of the show, Takahashi Mizuki, to closely examine the artworks on view and the creative contexts that led to their creations. Join in for a unique opportunity to converse intimately with the artist and the curator. The session will be held live on Zoom and welcomes audiences to join for a Q&A session at the end. Zoom links…
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