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March 2021
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 »Curator Tour of Yin Xiuzhen: Sky Patch 4343
Deposit $50｜RSVP CHAT's curator Wang Weiwei will guide the audience through CHAT’s Winter Programme exhibitionYin Xiuzhen: Sky Patch by introducing the artworks on display and sharing her experience of conceiving and planning the exhibition with the artist. Deposit will be refunded in full upon attending the programme. Participants can also register for Women in Art: Leung Mee Ping on Yin Xiuzhen: Sky Patch.
Find out more »Patching Relationships: Decorative Mending 4343
Tickets $450｜RSVP This workshop is inspired by Yin Xiuzhen’s practice of involving family and loved ones in her work, and also by My Clothes, her artwork made with beloved garments from throughout her life. CHAT invites participants to make together with their loved ones by learning how to decoratively mend a pre-loved garment for each other. FashionClinic by T’s Toby Crispy will introduce 12 selected basic stitches for mending as illustrated on her Slow Stitch Nomad poster, and guide participants…
Find out more »Screening of Weaving and Post-Screening Discussion 4343
How do family stories reflect greater social and economic shifts? What does the textile industry─its degradation and its remnants─look like under a documentarian lens? The documentary film Weaving (directed by Wang Yang, 2017) is set in the city of Xi’an in 2016, during a 5-year demolition of the last textile weaving factory in northwest China. Tracing the end of the communist era, the film follows two worker families as they confront and negotiate with a society of materialism and shifted values.…
Find out more »April 2021
Weave the Sound: Sound Journey of Himalayan Singing Bowls 4343
Due to popular demand, this event has already been fully booked. Thank you for your support! A participatory and multisensory experience by Tsang Man-Tung on Yin Xiuzhen: Sky Patch ! Through a combination of a gallery tour and participatory exercise, this event gives visitors the chance to enjoy a multisensory experience in a museum setting. Inspired by Yin Xiuzhen’s Prajnaparamita , artist and Himalayan singing bowl player Tsang Man-Tung from Allpamama will lead a meditative, participatory-based workshop. Join us after-hours at CHAT for…
Find out more »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
Interweaving Poetic Code 4343
Taeyoon Choi, the Artistic Director of Interweaving Poetic Code , is a renowned educator, writer, artist and activist. Through his multifaceted practices of computation, he critically examines the codes of conduct of operation and the coded system embedded in the technology surrounding us whilst exploring alternative ways of shaping an inclusive society with the idea of care. Even though Choi’s past practices have not directly engaged with textile(s), CHAT, as an art centre of textile industrial heritage, invited him because of…
Find out more »Docent Tour: Spring Programme 2021 4343
Join us for a 45-minute guided tour led by a CHAT docent to engage closely with our seasonal and regular exhibitions while conversing with fellow visitors. Creative interpretations and constructive debates are encouraged; conversations on textile heritage and contemporary arts will be expected. Tours are free-of-charge, open to all and conducted in Cantonese or English. Walk-in registration is open to 4 participants and must be conducted on-site 15 minutes prior to the start of the tour.
Find out more »Stampede: Unlearned Critters 4343
A free, self-guided stamping activity for the whole family. Inspired by the drawings that Spring Programme 2021 Artistic Director Taeyoon Choi developed for the exhibition, visitors are invited to use stamps at CHAT Lounge to create their own drawing collages.
Find out more »Unlearning Space 4343
We define unlearning as a way of questioning how we learn and what we learn, so as to recognise internal growth and create a community of self-taught learners. In this space for walk-in workshops and programmes, we invite you to make something on your own, under the themes of weaving, knitting, coding, drawing and computing with various craft, textile and technology. Facilitators consist of different community members and our CHAT team will provide on-site guidance and assistance. The concept is…
Find out more »Reading as Care: Queer Reads Library at CHAT 4343
What unexpected networks of care can arise through independent publishing and alternative modes of reading, writing and circulation of literature? In this special display at CHAT Reads, local collective Queer Reads Library (QRL) responds to seasonal exhibition Interweaving Poetic Code with reading materials that reflect on the central themes of care, community and inclusivity. The expansive selection from the QRL archive ranges from poetry and zines to artist sketches and news clippings in order to make important but underrepresented narratives…
Find out more »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…
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