May 20 | Final Act of Moderation(s)

 

Spring x Witte de With
Moderation(s): The Exhibition
Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art
Rotterdam
Opens May 22, 2014
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What a journey the Moderation(s) project has been!

As a finale to this program that has included more than 150 participants in 6 different events between Hong Kong and Rotterdam, Spring invites you to the last act: The Part In The Story Where A Part Becomes A Part Of Something Else, a large exhibition held at the space of our project’s partner in Rotterdam, the Witte de Witte Center for Contemporary Art. Curated by Heman Chong and Samuel Saelemakers, the show features over 40 artists from Hong Kong and elsewhere, including A Constructed World, Nadim Abbas, Allora & Calzadilla, Ang Song Ming, Bik Van der Pol, John Cage, Chen Zhen, Ceal Floyer, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Minja Gu, Sharon Hayes, Ho Rui An, Ho Sin Tung, On Kawara, Kwan Sheung Chi, Nicolás Lamas, Lee Kit, Michael Lee, Gabriel Lester, Marysia Lewandowska, Charles Lim, MAP Office, Anthony Marcellini, Ahmet Ögüt & Cevdet Erek, João Vasco Paiva, Willem de Rooij, Praneet Soi, Koki Tanaka, Leung Chi Wo + Sara Wong, Magdalen Wong, Adrian Wong, Haegue Yang and Trevor Yeung.

Please join us for the opening on Thursday, May 22 at the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam in the company of many of the artists, including Nadim Abbas, João Vasco Paiva, MAP Office, Leung Chi Wo + Sara Wong, Trevor Yeung and Adrian Wong.

The exhibition will run from May 22 to August 17, 2014.

Ongoing:
The Permeability of Certain Matters

The  exhibition ”The Permeability of Certain Matters” features Christodoulous Panayiotou’s new photography works in concert with Philip Wiegard’s handmade wallpaper.

During his 2-month residency at Spring, Panayiotou embarked on a project in China’s Guangdong province, researching what has become home to the world’s largest concentration of artificial flower factories.  Accepting Panayiotou’s invitation to collaborate, Wiegard took up a residency at Spring, directing production of a handcrafted wallpaper titled “Festoons” inspired by a German design from the 1770s. The wallpaper was produced by 32 children recruited from across Hong Kong over the course of an eleven-day workshop.   Topics such as production, representation, economy and the history of child labor are central to the exhibition.

On Sunday, June 8, from 3 to 5pm, we will hold a children’s workshop led by Clara Cheung (please click here to register your child).

EXHIBITION OPENING HOURS
May 3-July 13
12pm to 6pm (Tuesday to Sunday)
Including public holidays

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Date May 3-July 13, 2014
Time Tuesday-Sunday
12-6pm
Location Spring
Event Exhibition
Cost Free
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Spring x HK New Music Ensemble:
Rajesh Mehta

Spring is delighted to host Rajesh Mehta as composer-in-residence from May 20 to June 9.

During his stay in Hong Kong, Rajesh will invite us into his musical cosmos by sharing his ongoing music-architecture project “Sounding Buildings” featuring a site-specific response to Spring’s unique environment.  He will conduct workshops involving members of the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble and students from The Modern Academy and the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, and engage the wider public with an Open House on June 6 at the end of his residency at Spring.

Things you can expect to hear are Mehta’s trumpet innovations such as the “drumpet” and extensions including “swinging tubes and singing lamps” as well as the results of his past involvements with architects Steven Holl and Daniel Libeskind.

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Date June 6 2014
(FRI)
Time 7-9pm
Location Spring
Event Open House
Cost Free

Spring x Asia Art Archive:
Sumangala Damodaran

Singing Resistance: a musical performance with Sumangala Damodaran

Sumangala Damodaran, along with Pritam Ghosal, Mark Aranha, Neelambari Bhattacharya, and Simon Hui from the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, will perform a concert featuring songs from India’s anti-colonial and immediate post-colonial resistance movement. The songs, in six Indian languages, have been archived and interpreted by Damodaran, and belong to the tradition of the Indian People’s Theatre Association. The songs cover important historical events like the Second World War and the Bengal Famine and reflect impulses and influences from various Indian, world musical and poetry traditions.

In addition, the programme will incorporate Hong Kong protest songs as we consider the universality of the song as an expression of resistance.

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Date 14 June, 2014 (SAT)
Time 6 – 8pm
Location Spring
Event Performance
+ Dinner
Cost Free admission

 

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