Sept 17 | Autumn Program

Autumn Program 2014
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Autumn greetings to you from Spring Workshop.  First, we are delighted to report that the many new trees and plants that HK Farm are guiding into a green installation on Spring’s terrace survived this week’s Typhoon 8. The best surprise gift of the storm was, beyond the glory of branches and leaves dancing in the wind, an artist-in-residence dancing in the wind! (Our Spring HongKong FB page has evidence of Ming Wong’s operatic yellow-silk typhoon dance.)

We have a full fall schedule at Spring and hope that you will be able to join us for some of the events below.  Please contact us any time with questions or comments, and know that you and your friends  and family are always welcome to join us here for a moment of cultural adventure.  Hope to see you soon.

Islands Off the Shores of Asia
co-presented with Para Site
September 27 – December 7

Join us on the evening of September 27, for the opening of Islands off the Shores of Asia, an exhibition co-presented by Spring Workshop and Para Site, based on the ideological, historical, mystical, and fictional interpretations of the remote and largely uninhabited islands claimed by different nations across East Asia. In recent years, these small islets have become the focus of growing nationalism in the region and vehicles through which countries are choosing to project national pride and power.

Curated by Cosmin Costinas and Inti Guerrero, the show features artists including Julieta Aranda (Mexico), Rosa Barba (Italy), Alvaro Barrios (Colombia), James T. Hong (Taiwan), Katsushika Hokusai (Japan), Takiji Kobayashi (Japan), Charles Lim (Singapore), MAP Office (Hong Kong), Pak Sheung Chuen (Hong Kong), Howie Tsui (Hong Kong/Canada), Ming Wong (Singapore) in collaboration with Thomas Tsang/Dehow Projects (USA), and Zheng Guogu (China).

Click here for more on the exhibition

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Opening reception:
5-8pm Saturday, September 27
Artists present will include James T. Hong, Charles Lim, MAP Office, Pak Sheung Chuen, Howie Tsui, Ming Wong and Zheng Guogu with curators Cosmin Costinas and Inti Guerrero
6-7pm Artist talk 
To coincide with South Island Art Day, the show is open for viewing from 12pm to 8pm on September 27.

Other related programs: 
Boat explorations through Hong Kong’s remote islands guided by artist Charles Lim (Singaporean representative at the 2015 Venice Biennale) on 28 September and by artist James T. Hong on 26 October 2014
Curators’ tour
7 December 2014 

EXHIBITION HOURS:
September 27 – December 7
12pm to 6pm (Tuesday to Sunday, 0pen on Public Holidays)

Spring x Asia Art Archive
Walid Raad

Spring is delighted to host Walid Raad during his tenure as artist-in-residence at Asia Art Archive from September 21 to 28. During this time, Raad will meet with various individuals, organisations and institutions in Hong Kong to extend his research interests.

Raad’s residency will also include an artist talk on 23 September. In his talk, Walid Raad will introduce his two ongoing, long-term projects. In The Atlas Group (1989-2004), Raad explores various historical and imaginary episodes from the Lebanese wars of the past few decades. In Scratching on Things I Could Disavow (2007-present), Raad focuses on the history of Islamic, modern and contemporary Arab Art, and the growing infrastructures for the arts emerging in Arab cities such as Abu Dhabi, Qatar and Beirut.

Walid Raad is an artist and an Associate Professor of Art in the Cooper Union (New York, USA) whose works have been shown in the Louvre, Paris; Documenta 11 and 13, Kassel, Germany; Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK; the Venice Biennale and other museums and venues across the world.  He is the recipient of the Hasselblad Award (2011); Guggenheim Fellowship (2009); Alpert Award in Visual Arts (2007); Deutsche Börse Photography Prize (2007); and Camera Austria Award (2005).

(Image credit: Walid Raad, I Might Die Before I Get a Rifle, 1993. Courtesy of the artist.)

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Date September 23, 2014 (TUE)
Time 7-8pm
Location Spring
Event Artist Talk
Cost Free
 

Hong Kong Farm
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Other Programs

Urban agriculture specialists and artist collective HK Farm (Glenn Eugen Ellingsen, Michael Leung and Anthony Ko) have taken over Spring’s main terrace in a year-long residency starting September 2014. Their approach to experimental farming includes extensive documentation, time-lapse photography, sound recording and projection, food sculpture and an edible harvest. Information on public planters workshops and school tours will be available soon. Click here to follow their progress: Spring Workshop x HK Farm Tumblr.  (Photo at right taken by Glenn Eugen Ellingsen in Summer Studio at Spring)

In November, we will welcome Croatian choreographer/dancer-in-residence Bruno Isakovic when he will create a site-specific work for Spring produced by Alice Rensy to be performed on November 29.  Please mark your calendar.  We also look forward to welcoming back Heman Chong and Christina Li, as well as inviting new collaborators Janine Armine and Julie Peeters for an intensive work session on a new project to be debuted in early 2015.

In December, we welcome Ang Song Ming and Boris Mikhailo as artists-in-residence.

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