Art and Design at Asia Art Archive: ART HK 09
Time: 14th – 17th May, 2009
Location: Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
Presented By: AAA for ART HK 09
AAA presents a series of programmes with some of the leading experts and practitioners in the field. Backroom Conversations includes panel discussions and screenings that touch on a number of prevalent issues and offer a first-hand look into the contemporary art world today.
Saturday 16 May, Room N106 (Exhibition Centre)
Panel Discussion-Museum Focus
In light of major museum projects in Hong Kong and around the region, for ART HK 09, AAA continues to consider issues first raised at last year’s conference around the museum, this year, taking as our point of departure themes or areas of interest that are prevalent in contemporary art practice today.
2:00 to 4:00 pm | Art + Design
Participants:
Ron Arad, Founder, Ron Arad Studio
Defne Ayas, Co-Director of programme, Arthub
Lim Geun-jun, Art and Design critic
Michael Lin, Artist
Siu King-chung, Assistant Professor, School of Design, HK Polytechnic University
Moderated by Charles Merewether, Director 2006 Sydney Biennale
In recent years, the region has seen an increasing number of exhibitions that explore the crossover of art and design, from MOT’s Space for your Future, the Chanel Mobile Art project to the 6th Shanghai Biennial HyperDesign. As Hong Kong embarks on building M+, a major museum with a mission to focus on visual culture, questions as to how to approach the interdisciplinary are raised. For this discussion we look at the ways in which the bridging of art and design are manifesting themselves; whether we need a new vocabulary for an expanding discourse; and how museum strategies are revisited to include these recent developments. At the same time, we question the presumed distinction between art, craft and design in a region where the boundaries have not historically been so clear cut.
4:30 to 6:15 pm | Participation, Collaboration and The Everyday
Participants:
Leung Mee Ping, Artist
Daravuth Ly, Co-Director, Reyum
Frances Morris, Head of Collections, International Art, Tate Modern
Hammad Nasar, Founder, Green Cardamom
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Artist
Moderated by Vasif Kortun, Director, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center and Curator, Taipei Biennale 2008
Artists and curators internationally have been working around these themes for decades. And in many regions of the world, where there isn’t a museum going public nor infrastructure, where the white cube is not definitive, participation, collaboration and the everyday are key in thinking about contemporary art practice and its’ public. At the same time, by bringing these projects and activities in to a more formal museum structure, the very nature of the museum is transformed. AAA invites artists and experts to discuss these issues both as alternative and in relation to the museum.
