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16/5/2012

Backroom Conversations

Convention and Exhibition Centre HKCEC, Hong Kong

For the 5th year in a row as ART HK's official education partner, Asia Art Archive presents Backroom Conversations, a series of discussions in which leading experts and practitioners in the contemporary art field consider key issues affecting the art world. For the second year, the ‘Burger Collection Keynote Lecture’ honours a significant voice in the field today and ‘Open Platform’ selects projects from around the world that demand to be heard.

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Whose History? FULL
Thursday 17 May 3:30-5:30pm
Language: English with simultaneous Mandarin interpretation

Speakers: Manuel Borja-Villel Director, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid | Iftikhar Dadi Associate Professor and Department Chair, Department of Art, Cornell University, New York | Marian Pastor Roces critic and independent curator, The Philippines
Moderator: Reiko Tomii, independent scholar and Co-founder of PoNJA-GenKon, New York

Multiple histories of modern and contemporary art in Asia and elsewhere are being constructed to take particular local contexts into consideration. However, we have yet to develop methodologies to create a larger sense of history that encompasses these localised stories. This panel looks at diverse case studies and contact points to illuminate these parallel artistic developments under the concept of contemporaneity.


AAA Burger Collection Keynote Lecture: Okwui Enwezor FULL
Thursday 17 May 6-8pm
Language: English with simultaneous Mandarin interpretation

The AAA Burger Collection Keynote Lecture recognises an academic voice that has made significant contributions to the field and invites that individual to present his/her ideas. This year, AAA welcomes Okwui Enwezor. One of the most influential curators and theorists in contemporary art, Enwezor is a curator, art critic, writer, poet, educator, and specialist in art history. His extensive accomplishments include serving as artistic director of Documenta 11 (1998–2002), the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale (1996–1997), and the 7th Gwang-ju Biennale (2008). He currently serves as Director, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany and Adjunct Curator of the International Center of Photography in New York.


Open Platform
Friday 18 May 1:30-3:30pm
Language: English

To give voice to projects and ideas that demand to be heard in 2012, AAA once again presents Open Platform with a call to cultural producers and organisers to submit proposals for 28-minute presentations to be held during ART HK 12. Parameters for presentation content are again wide reaching and can include anything from lectures and performances to the introduction of art projects, books, workshops, and beyond. A panel of judges including Alan Cruickshank (Broadsheet), Kao Tzu-chin (ARTCO), Elaine Ng (ArtAsiaPacific) and Mark Rappolt (Art Review) has selected four presentations based on diversity of content, originality, format, and relevance to today’s world.

Presenters: DOXA Hong Kong, London, Paris | Suresh Jayaram Bangalore | Parallel Lab Hong Kong | Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries Seoul


The Collection as Social Sculpture
Friday 18 May 4-6pm
Language: English and Japanese with simultaneous Mandarin and English interpretations

Speakers: Rahaab Allana Curator, Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, New Delhi | Toby Kamps Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, The Menil Collection, Houston | Fram Kitagawa Chairman of Art Front Gallery Co. Ltd.; President of Gendaikikakushitsu Publishers; General Director for Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial; General Director for Setouchi International Art Festival
Moderator: Daniel Kurjakovic Curator/Head of Programs, Burger Collection, Hong Kong

The term 'collection' today is commonly understood to refer to an entity that acquires, stores, and lends works of art. This panel will ask what might happen when a private collection expands upon such known tasks to become more broadly enmeshed in the social fabric. What transformations are necessary for the collection to eventually become a social medium, engaging with the concerns of civil society?


The Decade Revisited... FULL
Saturday 19 May 2-4pm
Language: English with simultaneous Mandarin interpretation

Speakers: Hans Ulrich Obrist Co-director of Exhibitions & Programmes and Director of International Projects, Serpentine Gallery, London | Gayatri Sinha art critic and curator, New Delhi | June Yap independent curator, Singapore; Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator, South and Southeast Asia
Moderator: Inti Guerrero Associate Artistic Director of TEOR/éTica, San José, Costa Rica

Once again, AAA asks art professionals to reflect on the past 10 years through the introduction and consideration of three key works or projects. Which will actually be remembered as signifiers of the times? Which have the potential to impact the way we will consider contemporary art practice in the decade or even century to come?


Artists Through the Lens
Saturday 19 May 4:30-6:30pm
Language: English and Mandarin with simultaneous interpretation

3 conversations
Cao Fei artist, Beijing | Hu Fang Co-founder and Artistic Director, Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou
Chen Chieh-jen artist, Taipei | Amy Cheng independent curator, Taipei
Tam Wai Ping artist, Hong Kong | Janet Chan Assistant Head of Research+, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong

The camera lens plays a crucial role in contemporary art. In three conversations, three multi-disciplinary artists whose work encompasses different media and subject-matter—Cao Fei from China, Chen Chieh-jen from Taiwan, and Tam Wai Ping from Hong Kong—will discuss the way lens-based media functions in their practices and the decision making processes involved.


Acknowledgements:
In conjunction with ART HK 12
Sponsored by Home Affairs Bureau
Additional support from Burger Collection, Platform, Yana & Stephen Peel
Media Partners: ArtAsiaPacific, Time Out


Satellite Programmes:
The Royal Academy of Arts in Conversation with artist Mariko Mori
Thursday 17 May 12-1pm
N106-108, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
Artist Mariko Mori will join Charles Saumarez Smith, Secretary and Chief Executive, Royal Academy of Arts, and Richard Chang, collector and Trustee, Royal Academy Trust, in a conversation about her practice and participation in the 'Apocalypse' show at the RA in the wider context of the Japanese and Chinese art scenes.

Sharjah Biennial 11: A New Cultural Cartography
Thursday 17 May 2-3pm
Sharjah Biennial 11: A New Cultural Cartography
N106-108, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
Sharjah Art Foundation President Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi and Sharjah Biennial 11 Curator Yuko Hasegawa will discuss the history of the Sharjah Biennial, established in 1993 and now one of the key cultural events in the Middle East. Moderated and contextualised by Director of the MA Programme in Cultural Management, CUHK, Professor Oscar Ho, this talk will propose a new orientation for cultural relationships between the Far East, the Middle East, North Africa, and Latin America.

'Reactivation' in Shanghai – three talks by curators of the 2012 Shanghai Biennale
Saturday 19 May 11:30am-1pm
N106-108, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
Three curators from the Shanghai Biennale will give presentations about the curatorial motivations behind the ninth edition of one of Asia's first international biennials. This year, the event moves to an historical power plant on the Huangpu River, inspiring an investigation into artists who ‘generate energy.’ Johnson Chang will speak about inter-Asian cultural dynamics in light of the lingering political realities of the Cold War, Jens Hoffman will identify recent artistic trends through the work of young artists from around the world, and Qiu Zhijie will explicate his world-view of the past and future through his hand-drawn 'Reactivation' world map.

Intelligence Squared Asia Debate: "Contemporary Art Excludes the 99 Percent"
Friday 18 May 2012 6.30-8pm
N101, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre
Speakers: Ben Lewis UK documentary film-maker, author and art critic | Paul Chan Hong Kong-born American publisher and artist | Joseph Kosuth artist | Elizabeth Ann Macgregor Director, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Moderator: Hung Huang commentator on culture, founder, Brand New China
Tickets: HK$300 per person through HK Ticketing (www.hkticketing.com | +852 3128 8288)

Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
1 Expo Drive, Wanchai, Hong Kong

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