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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 »Little Cotton Dreamer 4343
Tickets $50｜RSVP In this online workshop, participants will be provided with a mini tour in The D. H. Chen Foundation Gallery and complete an exercise book with the help of a CHAT docent. You will learn about the methods of spinning and making, experiment with diverse materials, explore possibilities and learn from both history and your peers. Participants will receive in advance a material kit with an exhibition Exercise Book with stickers, cotton in various stages of spinning and fabric…
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…
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 »Patching Intergenerational Relationships: Lui Tai-Lok on Yin Xiuzhen: Sky Patch 4343
Free Admission｜RSVP Thank you for supporting CHAT! The event is full, and we are pleased to open more quotas for joining the event online. Our team will email you the Zoom meeting ID 3 days before the event. *CHAT would actively review the situation of holding on-site events. For those who registered on-site seats, please check for our updates through email. CHAT’s Winter Programme 2020 sees the world-premiere of two new video works by artist Yin Xiuzhen titled Sky Patch (2020) and…
Find out more »Make Your Own Nuno Accessory with Family 4343
Tickets $390｜RSVP Join with family (or friends that are like family!) to learn how to make a scarf or a tote bag with fabrics from Nuno Textiles! This workshop brings together textiles from last winter’s Sudo Reiko: Making NUNO Textiles exhibition and the concept of family collaboration from Yin Xiuzhen’s exhibition, and invites families to make a textile piece together. Learn a few hand stitches, experiment with beautiful textiles at CHAT Lab and take home a scarf or a tote…
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
CHAT Winter Programme 2020 Docent Tours 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 »CHERRY Draw Frame Demonstration 4343
Let’s witness the only draw frame in Hong Kong running at CHAT! Leung Fung Yee (aka Auntie Yee) worked as an experienced machine operator who operated spinning machines at different cotton mills including Nan Fung Textile from 1980s to 1990s. She is now retired but she comes to work at CHAT to make CHERRY draw frame alive again! The draw frame performing one of the essential processes in the spinning production is donated by the last cotton-spinning mill in Hong…
Find out more »Worry Not! Make-a-Doll! Parent-Child Workshop 4343
Tickets $50｜RSVP Feeling worried and anxious in these uncertain times? You are not alone! Join local artist collective Storychick for a workshop that begins with a storytelling session of the children’s book Animal Masks Designer. Learn about the concept of family in the CHAT’s galleries and create your own Worry Dolls─perhaps resembling your family, friends, fairies or your favourite critters! Let them become your wonderful companions in the year 2021. Materials needed: All material provided. Target: For children aged 3…
Find out more »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…
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