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海的傷痕 —《游向自由》藝術家書分享會 THE SCARS OF THE SEA — “FREEDOM SWIMMERS” ARTIST’S BOOK SHARING 日期：2018年6月23日｜星期六 時間：晚上 5 至 7 時 場地贊助：艺鵠ACO｜灣仔軒尼斯道365-367號富德樓14樓 Date: 23 June 2018｜Saturday Time: 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Venue Sponsor: ACO｜14/Floor, Foo Tak Building, 365-367 Hennessy Rd, Wan Chai 對話｜賴明珠、黎嘉晉 In conversation｜Elva LAI, Edward LAI 主持｜劉曼堃 Host ｜ LIU Mankun 藝術家賴明珠於德國遊學期間創作《游向自由》（Freedom Swimmers）一書。該書並行討論了兩個在時間和地域上相隔甚遠的事件——敘利亞難民危機和香港近代史上最大規模的人口遷移運動“大逃港”。藉在藝鵠的書籍分享活動，她將與近年赴英、德進修「和平與衝突研究」並在地中海島國馬爾他進行獨立採訪的撰稿人黎嘉晉對談，從本土藝術家和實踐者的視角出發，述說歐洲難民的真實困境以及香港和西歐社會在難民議題上的共情體驗，歡迎大家屆時到場閱讀書籍和參與交流。 Artist Elva Lai’s book “Freedom Swimmers” made during her study in Germany juxtaposes two events situated in different regions and eras——the Syrian refugee crisis and the largest human population movement in Hong Kong’s recent history known as “the Great Escape to Hong Kong”. During this book sharing event at ACO, she will discuss with Edward Lai K.C., an independent journalist who recently pursued a Master degree in peace and conflict studies in Britain and Germany, about the hardships of refugees’ lives in Europe and Hong Kong as well as the possibility to find a common ground for migration communities in the two areas. All are welcome to join. |
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藝術創作人｜賴明珠
2017年於德國萊比錫視覺藝術學院完成裝置與空間課程後碩士學位。期間相遇來自敘利亞的難民。由冬天到夏天，與難民一起學習德語及在德國生活，完成藝術計劃《游向自由》。書本詳細紀錄難民悲喜交集的逃亡經歷，讀者可以在字𥚃行間看見各國社會的暗湧。計劃於2017年在瑞典、德國、比利時及香港展出。 www.thisiselva.com ART PRACTITIONER｜ELVA LAI Elva LAI was born in 1989 in Guangdong, China and raised in Hong Kong. She finished the post-master programme at the class of installation and space, the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig in 2017. She received the Master of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2013 and 2015 respectively. She was awarded the Hong Kong Human Rights Art Prize in 2013 and Freeman Creative Prize in 2015. She is also the winner of The Landskrona Foto and Fröfabriken Creative Space Residency 2016 and took part in the Landskrona Foto Festival 2017 in Sweden. |
對話嘉賓｜黎嘉晉
自由撰稿人，基督教《時代論壇》週報「全球視野」專欄作者。兩年前出來出走英國與德國，修畢和平與衝突研究文學碩士：今年一月至四月於盧旺達一非牟利機構實習，學習從事後屠殺國民復和工作。 https://laikachun.wordpress.com GUEST｜EDWARD LAI LAI, Edward Ka Chun is a Master of Arts graduate in Peace and Conflict Studies, offered by the University of Kent, England and the Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany. After graduation in 2017, he took a voluntary internship at Christian Action for Reconciliation and Social Assistance (CARSA) in Rwanda where he worked with a cadre of professionals in post-genocide peace education and personal reconciliation. Since 2017, he has been the regular contributor to the column “Global Vision” of the Christian weekly newspaper, Christian Times, in which he served as an assistant editor from 2009 to 2015. He published articles on European refugee issues in Chinese news sites HK01 and Initium Media. 主持｜劉曼堃 藝術寫作者和創作者。希望通過書寫和研究記錄並參與藝術的發生和機制演變。曾任當代藝術期刊編輯，藝術碩士在讀。常駐香港和上海。 HOST | LIU Mankun LIU Mankun is a writer and practitioner of contemporary art based in Hong Kong and Shanghai. She sees writing and research as ways to witness and intervene the evolving mechanisms of art. She worked as an editor at LEAP Magazine and is now an MPhil candidate. |
Exhibition 4:
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01.12.2017 - 16.12.2018
VERNISSAGE - 30.11.2017 / 18H - 21H00 ODRADEK RUE AMÉRICAINE 35 - 1050 BRUXELLES VENDREDI ET SAMEDI 14H - 18H OU SUR RENDEZ-VOUS WWW.ODRADEKRESIDENCE.BE |
The book: Freedom Swimmers
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1st print order from Germany:
https://mzin.de/shop/elva-lai/ 2nd print order from Hong Kong: https://www.aco.hk/ Please be informed that for images of refugees from Communist China, the copyrights have been settled with ISD HKSAR, AP, Getty Images and British Pathé. |
This project juxtaposes the escape of Syrian refugees and the history of refugees from China to Hong Kong in the 60s and 70s. In the framework of this project, the history of Hong Kong “Freedom Swimmers” in the 60s and 70s is presented, and the life of Syrian refugees are presented as illustrations. This juxtaposition hopes to reveal the familiar and the unfamiliar situations that refugees face in different eras and locations. Most importantly, how we could relate ourselves to the refugees by understanding the issues of giving and taking.
MAJOR SPONSOR: Landskrona Foto Festival 2017 The Landskrona Foto and Fröfabriken Creative Space Residency 2016 SPONSOR: Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC) Art and culture outreach (ACO) This project is supported by the Arts Development Fund of the Home Affairs Bureau, the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. |
FREEDOM SWIMMERS 游向自由
Elva Lai 賴明珠 BOOK DESIGN Rita Sabbo Printed in 2017 ISBN NUMBER 978-3-00-057299-9 PRINT RUN: First print:20 Second Print:28 Printed in Germany ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Prof. Joachim Blank Fabian Bechtle ON VIEW DURING WINTER 2017 1. Sweden, Landskrona Landskrona Foto Festival: landskronafoto.org 2. Germany, Leipzig MZIN: mzin.de 3. Hong Kong 1a Space: oneaspace.org.hk 4. Belgium, Brussels ODRADEK: odradekresidence.be |
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2017 Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong
2017 Ausstellungsprojekts in der Gedenkstätte Deutsche Teilung Marienborn, Germany
2017 Landskrona Foto Festival 2017, Sweden
2017 1a Space, Hong Kong
2017 Artist Residency in ODRADEK, Brussels, Belgium. http://odradekresidence.be
2017 Ausstellungsprojekts in der Gedenkstätte Deutsche Teilung Marienborn, Germany
2017 Landskrona Foto Festival 2017, Sweden
2017 1a Space, Hong Kong
2017 Artist Residency in ODRADEK, Brussels, Belgium. http://odradekresidence.be
Seminar und Symposium “Über die Grenze”, SS 2016
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Institut für Theorie, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig
mit Prof. Dr. Dieter Daniels,Sven Bergelt und in Kooperation mit der Fachklasse für Installation und Raum Prof. Joachim Blank und Fabian Bechtle |
Durch die aktuellen Migrationsbewegungen, auch als ‚Flüchtlingskrise’ bezeichnet, erhalten territoriale Grenzen in und um Europa eine lange nicht gekannte Bedeutung. Die seit dem Schengen-Abkommen verschwundenen Kontrollen zwischen den EU-Nachbarstaaten werden sukzessive wieder eingeführt. Insbesondere jedoch sind die Außengrenzen der EU akute Konfliktzonen geworden.
Unter dem bewusst doppeldeutigen Titel ‚Über die Grenze’ werden in diesem Seminar einerseits die politischen, historischen, sozialen und zwischenmenschlichen Bedeutungen von Grenzen untersucht. Theoretische Texte sowie exemplarische künstlerische Arbeiten werden einer Analyse unterzogen. |
“How about the other 80% you forgot?”
Master of Fine Arts - Graduation show 2015 - Solo exhibition of Elva LAI
10th July, 2015 ~ 31st July, 2015
3/Floor Cheng Ming Building, New Asia College, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
10th July, 2015 ~ 31st July, 2015
3/Floor Cheng Ming Building, New Asia College, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
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The exhibition "How about the other 80% you forgot?" investigates the life between important memories, those redundant and daily life in the distant past that we may unaware of. However, memories are motionless and they reside in space, especially when we decide to move out of it and revisit the space after a long time, we could see those daily life in the past vividly. By depicting and washing a deteriorated house, which was abandoned since its owners had emigrated, we would be able to find out how memory in the distant past exists in present.
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2016
Landskrona Foto Festival Event - on 21st August, 2016
Artist talk with Jenny Maria Nilsson
For more: http://djupvattenmyt.tumblr.com/post/148833109603/elva-lai
June to August, 2016
Artist in Residency stay in Sweden
The Landskrona Foto and Fröfabriken Creative Space Residency 2016
http://www.landskronafoto.org/en/residency/
Landskrona Foto Festival Event - on 21st August, 2016
Artist talk with Jenny Maria Nilsson
For more: http://djupvattenmyt.tumblr.com/post/148833109603/elva-lai
June to August, 2016
Artist in Residency stay in Sweden
The Landskrona Foto and Fröfabriken Creative Space Residency 2016
http://www.landskronafoto.org/en/residency/
The Landskrona Foto and Fröfabriken Creative Space Residency 2016
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LANDSKRONA FOTO RESIDENCY 2016
ELVA LAI The Landskrona Foto Resident 2016 is artist Elva Lai from Hong Kong. The jury’s motivation: Elva Lai (Ming Chu) was born in China in 1989, but grew up in Hong Kong. She is educated in Hong Kong, the United States and is currently Meisterschüler at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig. Thus she has a broad education, where photography plays a substantial and important role. It can be about the context in which her work is presented, but foremost it is about time and history. Her journey from China to Hong Kong has given her a special relationship with migration and memory. What is the meaning behind the memories of the past? When does a memory become a story? In her art Lai combines her work with found photographs. These can come from her family photo album, details from life before migration that materialize the memories. What do they mean now? How can one merge then and now? Is it even possible? Elva Lai’s work is a fascinating meeting of materials full of excitement, history, absence, longing and wonder. Elva Lai: www.thisiselva.com The Landskrona Foto Residency Program received 82 applications from 38 different countries. The jury consisted of Jenny Nordquist, Jenny Lindhe and Thomas Millroth. 
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LANDSKRONA FOTO RESIDENCYPROGRAM
Landskrona Foto and Fröfabriken Creative Space have initiated residency program for fine-art photography beginning in the Spring of 2016. The program’s scope for this year is the city’s district Öster, a socioeconomically diverse neighborhood currently undergoing modernization. The residency program provides accepted artists with a space to cultivate their creative process in an environment rich in cultural resources and discourse. CONTEXT Landskrona Foto has in recent years been established as one of the Nordic regions’ eminent photography initiatives and encompasses the renowned Landskrona Foto Festival and the first Swedish historical photo exhibition. Landskrona Foto is an ongoing project seeking to develop a hub for the art of photography. Fröfabriken Creative Space is a new collaborative platform for art, production and meetings. It is situated in a former seed plant in Landskrona. 1600 sqm have been remodeled to accommodate artists’ and photographers’ specific workspace needs. Today there are 13 ateliérs, one photo studio and a multi-use hall for meetings, events, and group activities. The artists, photographers and designers in Fröfabriken welcome participants of the residency program into a stimulating environment with access to local and global networks within the artistic and photographic industries. RESIDENCY – 185 sqm studio in Fröfabriken Creative Space – Circa three month period between May 15th – September 15th 2016 – Apartment in central Landskrona – Travel & production budgets – Living expenses – Mentorship based on artist’s needs – Participation in Landskrona Foto Festival 2016 – The project will be exhibited during Landskrona Foto Festival 2017 | ||
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EMERGING ARTISTS
Elva Lai Ming Chu ( WINNER OF EMERGING ARTIST CATEGORY ) Esda Ng Joe Yiu Joyce Lo Lo Chi Kit ( WINNER OF HKRAC CHOICE AWARD FOR EMERGING ARTIST CATEGORY ) Sim Chan Tang Kwok Hin COMMUNITY ARTISTS Alain Jacquier Fung Tzs-Chung Alvin ( WINNER OF COMMUNITY ARTIST CATEGORY ) HK Arun Jack Li Yip Fuk ( WINNER OF HKRAC CHOICE AWARD FOR COMMUNITY CATEGORY ) Linda Barnes Lindsay Qian Tyler Whitlock |
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Recognising the important role of art in society to raise awareness and defend human rights,local human rights non-governmental organisation HKRAC has inaugurated an annual Hong Kong Human Rights Art Prize. By featuring two categories,the ground-breaking Prize both offers local artists a meaningful opportunity to showcase their work while at the same time engaging the greater community.
The Emerging Artist category was open to young professional artists in Hong Kong under the age of 35 years old. In order to enter,these artists had to be nominated by someone of good standing in the Hong Kong art community. The Community artist category was open any non-professional Hong Kong based artist of any age. HKRAC received well over 50 entries for the prize and they represented a diverse,talented and exciting collections. With great deliberation,our judges,Melissa Lee,a visual arts lecturer at the Chinese University of Hong Kong,Kacey Wong,a well known Hong Kong artist,and Vincent Piket,the Head of Office of the European Union in Hong Kong,whittled the competition down to seven finalists in each category and 2 winners. HKRAC has also awarded an HKRAC Choice Award,chosen by its staff,to one artist in each category. Each of these four winners will be auctioned off in a live auction by Christie’s on November 5 at our event. |
The finalists in each category,as well as the winners,can be seen below. Each of these 14 pieces of art will be available for sale by auction on November 5 at our one night only exhibition at the Sundaram Tagore Gallery. Please email cwaterhouse@hkrac.org for more information or prices and to RSVP if you wish to attend. Attendance is free and all are welcome.
HKRAC is excited to invite you to celebrate the power of art in protecting human rights at our inaugural Hong Kong Human Rights Art Prize - a one night only exhibition and charity auction on 5 November at Sundaram Tagore Gallery. Showcasing Hong Kong's most talked about emerging artists, unique and stunning artwork will be available to purchase in a live Christie's auction or via silent auction. Attendance is free and please feel free to invite friends! All proceeds raised will go directly to HKRAC and the exhibited artists, thanks to our generous supporters. http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/?u=92e13b7c1ed7db383d143974f&id=9ff93a495e&e=eddd0a16f9 |