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June 2020
DIY [Design It Yourself] with Samson Young 4343
Tickets $1,500｜RSVP Design your own unique sweater inspired by Samson Young’s artwork for CHAT’s Spring 2020 exhibition. Led and hosted by the artist himself, this experience taking place at CHAT Lab is a great opportunity to hone your design skills and create a unique garment for yourself. Participants will mix and match different colours and types of knit fabric, and customise the sweater with embroideries and prints. The unique designs made by the participants will then be assembled by CHAT’s…
Find out more »August 2020
Sight Unseen – Forking Paths in the CHAT Collection 4343
Download CHAT Summer 2020 Leaflet VR 360° virtual exhibition #ep0813ddbaaac88.fullscreen{width:100vw!important;height:100%!important;max-height:100vh;top:0;left:0;position:fixed;z-index:1000000;margin:initial; max-width:initial;} const ezlIfm0813ddbaaac88=iFrameResize({checkOrigin:false,inPageLinks:true},"#ep0813ddbaaac88");window.addEventListener('message',function(e){if(e.data==='fullscreenOn0813ddbaaac88'){document.getElementById('ep0813ddbaaac88').classList.add('fullscreen')}else if(e.data==='fullscreenOff0813ddbaaac88'){document.getElementById('ep0813ddbaaac88').classList.remove('fullscreen')}}) Over the past few years, from the planning stage to the opening of the art centre, CHAT has engaged various artists in commissions, residencies and exhibitions, and eventually many of their works were added to the CHAT collection. These works, whether figurative or abstract, literal or allegorical, all reflect the core of CHAT – its connection with textile and the textile industry. Cleverly realised and interpreted…
Find out more »Day Measures: Stories from Former Workers 4343
Download CHAT Summer 2020 Leaflet Work and leisure, sight and sound, the technical and the personal – counterpoints that become intertwined in practice. In the CHAT Arcade, audio recordings from former workers are presented alongside the instruments of labour that once measured their productivity in garment manufacturing, cotton-spinning and knitwear machine repair. Each installation of sight and sound is further animated by a personal object shared by the workers, revealing the unique narratives unexpected of factory work. Come with careful…
Find out more »DotStampede 4343
For this free, self-guided activity for the whole family, visitors are invited to use stamps to make their own postcards or mini artwork. Inspired by the graphics designed for CHAT Summer Programme 2020 Sight Unseen: Forking Paths in the CHAT Collection, colourful stamps and papers are ready at CHAT Lounge for visitors to mix and match into their own designs.
Find out more »Online Patchwork 4343
Tickets $90｜RSVP Join us and learn how to repurpose fabric swatches to create your very own patchwork! In 2016, CHAT’s Artist-in-Residence Taguchi Yukihiro developed his artwork Patch Pass – Umbrella, a piece that recycles umbrella fabrics to create a patchworked canopy, which is now part of this season’s exhibition Sight Unseen – Forking Paths in the CHAT Collection. Inspired by this work, this beginner level online stitching tutorial teaches participants the basics of patchworking. CHAT’s experienced Textile Programmes team will…
Find out more »Makers of Hong Kong: A Monthly Sharing 4343
Engage in a conversation with a textile expert and leave with a renewed perspective on the making and makers of Hong Kong! The one-hour session will be conducted through Facebook live and will include a Q&A session. ‘Made in Hong Kong’ is a distinguishing emblem of quality and history that has carried different meanings over the generations. A turnover of display in The D. H. Chen Foundation Gallery will examine 9 items and processes that are ‘Made in Hong Kong’,…
Find out more »Old Tee But Good Tee: Online Crocheting Workshop 4343
Tickets $250｜RSVP Join us to discover how to give your old T-shirts a new life! CHAT’s Summer Programme 2020 Sight Unseen – Forking Paths in the CHAT Collection features the work Fabric of CHAT by Movana Chen, whose artistic practice involves using thin paper strips sourced from books and documents and knitting them into paper fabric. Inspired by her practice, this workshop invites participants to upcycle a T-shirt by stripping it into yarn and crocheting it into a beautiful home…
Find out more »September 2020
Docent Practice: Reading Sight Unseen 4343
For 2020 Summer Programme Sight Unseen – Forking Paths in the CHAT Collection, our experienced docents will team up to offer our audience a refreshed form of guided tours. In this series of videos, groups of docents will share their interpretations of our curated artworks and selected text scattered around the exhibition, traversing text-based items, heritage exhibits and artworks, as well as the significance of an open and cross-disciplinary reading of art. 【Docent Practice: Exhibition in Time】 【Docent Practice: Poetic Musings】 【Docent Practice:…
Find out more »Lecture Performance by Morgan Wong 4343
In this unique lecture performance, artist Morgan Wong will use his past creative experience and archives as materials to reorganise, imagine and interpret scattered clues of time and memory, and revisit the concept of the self through a process of defamiliarising memories.
Find out more »Tapestry in Time: Hand Weaving Workshop 4343
Tickets $550｜RSVP Led by local collective Breakthrough Art Studio, this hand weaving workshop will introduce the fundamentals of ‘tapestry’ weaving, a technique historically deployed to achieve complex woven images, such as those seen in medieval carpets and Chinese kesi silks. This workshop also includes a short tour of the current exhibition, Sight Unseen – Forking Paths in the CHAT Collection, to closely examine works of contemporary art that reveal the significance and the historical development of the ‘tapestry’ technique. Materials…
Find out more »CHAT with Artist: Aziz + Cucher 4343
Aziz + Cucher are known for incorporating various art mediums into their interdisciplinary work. How does the duo explore the increasingly undefined and fluid boundaries of identity, globalisation and the post-human condition? In this curated artist talk, Anthony Aziz and Sammy Cucher shares their creative process in general and their works displayed in CHAT’s Summer Programme 2020 Sight Unseen – Forking Paths in CHAT Collection. The artist duo will dive into their practice of using computer generated data, which converted…
Find out more »Felt Like Reading 4343
Tickets $390｜RSVP At CHAT, we love reading as much as we love making, so we have invited felting expert Vivian Hui to teach you how to make a felted cover for a favourite book or diary! In this hands-on workshop, participants will choose from a selection of recycled fabric scraps and colourful merino wool roving, and transform them into their own felted book jacket. On top of learning about wet felting techniques, they will be experimenting with the use of…
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