Jan 14 | Moderation(s)

Witte de With & Spring present
Moderation(s)

January – February 2013
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Spring and Witte de With are delighted to launch Moderation(s), a year-long program in 2013 which brings together an international group of 50 artists, curators and writers in contemporary discourse and production between the two organizations. Within this framework, Singaporean artist Heman Chong will steer the program, which will involve more than fifty artists and engender a conference, three exhibitions, three residencies and a book of short stories. 

Moderation(s) begins by inviting Barcelona-based curatorial duo Latitudes to a residency at Spring for the month of January during which they will produce Incidents of Travel. For this piece, they have invited artists Nadim Abbas, Ho Sin Tung, Yuk King Tan, and Samson Young to develop day-long tours that articulate the city and their artistic practice through routes and waypoints.

Spring is also pleased to host Para/site Art Residency Programme participant Claire Bishop for a talk on Thursday, January 17, 2013. Please read on for more details and to rsvp for events.

Moderation(s): Incidents of Travel

Latitudes & Nadim Abbas

Invited by Latitudes to participate in their work Incidents of Travel, artist Nadim Abbas has created a day-long itinerary which plots a course through a handful of sites in the city, which have in one way or another influenced the form, content, and processes of Nadim’s practice. Since Hong Kong has been his home for most of his life, some of these places have been all too familiar to him since childhood. This project now offers him the opportunity to spring fresh surprises on unsuspecting “tourists”, and possibly on himself as well.

 

Limited places. RSVP essential.
The first RSVP’s will receive a confirmation and additional information.
Please bring suitable walking shoes. Packed lunches will be provided.

 

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Date January 19, 2013
Time 10am – 8pm
Location Around HK
Event Walking tour
Cost Free admission

Moderation(s): Open Day with Latitudes

Latitudes & Heman Chong

Please save the date for food, film and a conversation between Heman Chong and curatorial duo Latitudes about what they found on their month-long Moderation(s) residency in Hong Kong.

Additionally, Bibliotheek, a collection of books selected by Moderation(s) participants that will function as a bibliography for the project, will be on site at Spring as a reading library throughout the Moderation(s) project. Future participants will be invited to suggest books, creating an ever-expanding common library that can be easily replicated by any individual, community or institution.  The first version of Bibliotheek can be found here. We invite you to come spend time reading.

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Date February 2, 2013
Time 7:30pm
Location Spring
Event Food, talk, film
Cost Free admission

Talk by Claire Bishop

“OS XXI: Contemporary Art and the Digital”

As part of the Para/Site International Art Residency Programme, Claire Bishop will in residence at Spring in Hong Kong.

Her talk looks at how the art market still revolves around visual artefacts produced as one-offs or in limited editions, and bearing traces of the artist’s hand.  At the same time, it presents the question of how we increasingly consume art digitally – whether through search engine queries, online databases, or through photographic documentation.  Is visual art guilty of repressing its relationship to new technology? Does its attachment to the aura of obsolete media (such as analog film, slide projections and archival installations) mean that visual art itself is soon to become outmoded?

Spring is delighted to co-host Claire Bishop in the Para/Site International Art Residency Program.

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Date Thursday, January 17, 2013
Time 8 – 9pm
Location Spring
Event Talk
Cost Free admission

Moderation(s) is presented in partnership with the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art.
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