A conversation in three parts with Professor Petula Sik Ying Ho, Department of Social Work and Social Administration at the University of Hong Kong. Next to being an educator, Ho is an author, researcher and videographer specialised in gender and sexuality qualitative research and cross-cultural comparative studies. The interview was broadly based on Ho’s lecture for TC participants titled “Alternative Knowledge Processes for Transcultural Collaboration”. 

A conversation in three parts with Professor Petula Sik Ying Ho, Department of Social Work and Social Administration at the University of Hong Kong. Next to being an educator, Ho is an author, researcher and videographer specialised in gender and sexuality qualitative research and cross-cultural comparative studies. The interview was broadly based on Ho’s lecture for TC participants titled “Alternative Knowledge Processes for Transcultural Collaboration”. 

For the third and last phase of this year’s programme, individual portraits of the current groups are published in order to give a glimpse into the day-to-day collaborations, convey the intensity of the work process and sketch the interplay between the individual and the collective. Today we present a day in the work of Simona Bischof (art education), Vivian Chan (music/piano), Silas Kutschmann (music/pop), Mei Ting Spencer Poon (fine arts/video), Miley Mei Yan Wong (cinematic design/digital art) and Sir Meng Yau (fine arts) the result of which was presented in the final group exhibition 说了/ 没说 : SPOKEN / UNSPOKEN on the 24th November 2018.

For the third and last phase of this year’s programme, individual portraits of the current groups are published in order to give a glimpse into the day-to-day collaborations, convey the intensity of the work process and sketch the interplay between the individual and the collective. Today we present a day in the work of Jiaming August Liao, Sijia Star Liu, Claudio Rainolter and Jingying Zhang the result of which was presented in the final group exhibition 说了/ 没说 : SPOKEN / UNSPOKEN on the 24th November 2018.

For the third and last phase of this year’s programme, individual portraits of the current groups are published in order to give a glimpse into the day-to-day collaborations, convey the intensity of the work process and sketch the interplay between the individual and the collective. Today we present a day in the work of Keng Chen (fine arts/performance), Wen-Chi Liu (writing/fine arts/performance), Nikolai Prawdzic (dramaturgy/theatre), Dino Radoncic (design/performance), Nathalie Stirnimann (fine arts/performance) and Stefan Stojanovic (fine arts/performance) the result of which will be presented in the final group exhibition 说了/ 没说 : SPOKEN / UNSPOKEN on the 24th November 2018.

Welcome to our final exhibition! 31 young international artists present their experiments whose overarching interest concerns expression beyond, beneath and between words. >> FB-EVENT The one-day happening conveys artistic strategies that deal with implicit and explicit expression. By creating spaces of ambiguity, gaps, cracks, traces and tensions, the entanglement of SPOKEN/UNSPOKEN poses an intriguing playground. One that turns out to be a fruitful prism through which a myriad of topics can be looked at, thought about and reflected. The group show will be followed by a dinner buffet and a closing party for the fun-loving folks. For the fourth year running, our international semester programme gathered graduate students from 7 art universities from East Asia and Europe and a wide range of cultural and professional backgrounds. After 14 weeks of experiments with a collaborative approach—including a two-week exhibition at McaM Museum in Shanghai—the 31 participants of this year’s edition are proud to present the results of their third and final working phase here in Hong Kong. PROGRAMME 4.30PM WELCOME DRINK AT MAIN ENTRANCE 5.00PM FORBIDDEN FRUIT …

For the third and last phase of this year’s programme, individual portraits of the current groups are published in order to give a glimpse into the day-to-day collaborations, convey the intensity of the work process and sketch the interplay between the individual and the collective. Today we present a day in the work of Florian Geisseler (film), Mengying Li (photography/graphic design), Joel Schoch (music composition) and Anbang Wang (drama) the result of which will be presented in the final group exhibition 说了/ 没说 : SPOKEN / UNSPOKEN on the 24th November 2018.

For the third and last phase of this year’s programme, individual portraits of the current groups are published in order to give a glimpse into the day-to-day collaborations, convey the intensity of the work process and sketch the interplay between the individual and the collective. Today we present a day in the work of Diego Kohn (composition/performance), Leonard Kai Fung So (fine arts/theory), Marco Spitzbarth (fine arts/digital art) and Ingjerd Ytterdal Holten (fine arts/painting) the result of which will be presented in the final group exhibition 说了/ 没说 : SPOKEN / UNSPOKEN on the 24th November 2018.

Back in Hong Kong! For many of us, it feels more like home now. Communication is a bit easier. Getting around as well. Temperatures are mild. But more than that, it’s the establishing of daily rhythms that creates the feeling, eating at the same dumpling place again and the fact that streets, corners and spaces slowly interweave with our own stories. Last but not least, the continuous togetherness. Here we are again. All photos by Florian Geisseler.

Week 11

Week 9 

Our partner departments at the China Academy of Art proved to be excellent hosts and did everything they could to give us a diverse insight into the school, the local culture and the surroundings. In the free time, many of us were eager to venture a bit out and into nature after the Shanghai countdown with all its taxi rides, online orders and endless concrete fly-over highways. All photos by Florian Geisseler.

Some impressions from the memorable opening of our Shanghai exhibition 说了/ 没说 : SPOKEN / UNSPOKEN (20/10/2018). So proud! To read a review of the event click here. All photos by Peitao Chen.  

The whole group went into full-on focus mode during the days preceding our exhibition opening and performance event 说了/ 没说 : SPOKEN / UNSPOKEN and turned the villa into a 24h work zone. In those busy days, Max Hanisch’s portable espresso maker was a silent but reliable supporter of the cause. Here are some behind-the-scene shots. Photos by Florian Geisseler and Franziska Meierhofer.

With poor (read: inexistent) Mandarin skills, moving around in Shanghai (as well as ordering food or asking for the toilet) is not exactly a piece of cake. Hadn’t it been for our Chinese colleagues who gracefully helped everyone navigate through the megalopolis: some of us would probably still roam its overwhelming vastness today–fairly lost on some six-lane road, trying to catch a cab without getting run over by an electro-scooter, and, of course, with an amazingly clueless look on their faces. All photos by Florian Geisseler.

A conversation with Fu Liaoliao, head of the curatorial department of Ming Contemporary Art Museum (McaM)—our partner, host and unique exhibition space for SPOKEN / UNSPOKEN in Shanghai. McaM is currently the only institution in China that is primarily dedicated to performance and live-based art.

TC core team member and Shanghai local Zhao Chuan took the group on a break from the intensive preparation for Saturday’s exhibition at McaM and and provided an insight into the diversity of the local art scene from underground to big shot. Literally underground is AM Art Space‘s location downtown—the first station of our tour. There, the group had the privilege to meet four local artists: Yu Ji, Coca (Dai Jian Yong), Gao Jie and Wu Meng. In the afternoon, the group gathered at the museum of contemporary art PSA (Power Station of Art) for a guided tour through the current exhibition as well as a talk by Shi Hantao, chief coordinator of the 2018 Shanghai Biennale. Photos by Florian Geisseler and Franziska Meierhofer.

A conversation with artists Mayumi Arai and Nina Willimann who met in the first edition of Transcultural Collaboration in 2015. Throughout the past three years and despite being based as far apart as Zurich and Tokyo, they have continued to work together and have evolved their research and practice by exploring several fields of interest making use of a myriad of artistic means in the context of residency programs around the world. On October 20, they will be part of the exhibition opening and performance day SPOKEN / UNSPOKEN taking place in McaM’s villa in Shanghai.

Opening & Performances: 20 October 2018 2:00 – 6:00 pm Panel Talk: 21 October 2018 2:00 pm Exhibition: 21 October – 4 November 2018 Address: McaM – 436 East Yonghe Road, Jing’an District, Shanghai   We cordially invite to the opening of SPOKEN / UNSPOKEN on 20 October 2018 (Saturday) starting at 2:00 pm at McaM’s villa for a vibrant day full of performances and installations developed by 36 young international artists. Performances will be taking place at different time slots between 2pm and 5:30pm.   The performances and exhibition consider and display questions of language, cultural codes and artistic strategies dealing with implicit and explicit expression. By creating spaces of ambiguity, gaps and tensions, the entanglement of SPOKEN / UNSPOKEN poses a fundamental conundrum. To delve into their interrelatedness, it is key to move beyond a binary perception of the two aspects. This can be achieved by unveiling their coexistence in daily life, in different cultures and, lastly, in the arts themselves.   In the two-week exhibition, 36 artists will present their collaborative explorations of the spoken and unspoken, the tangible and intangible, as …

Renowned Hong Kong artist and social activist Kacey Wong welcomed the group to a sunset debate at his rooftop studio on Aberdeen Island. The evening encompassed discussions around the strength of art works, the differences in life style, attitude and methods between artists and designers as well as the potentials, challenges and illusions around “artivism”, local real estate values and the philosophy of Hong Kong’s black kites who can easily be admired from Wong’s terrace. All photos by Florian Geisseler.