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Jörg Scheller Head of BA Photography ZHdK, Art Historian/Journalist/Musician, Bern/Switzerland Jörg Scheller (*1979), PhD, is an art historian, journalist, and musician. He has been tenured lecturer in art history and head of photography at the Zurich University of the Arts since 2012. In 2013, he was the curator of the Salon Suisse at the 55th Venice Art Biennale. From 2009–2012, he was the coordinator of an international research project on the Venice Biennale (focus Eastern/Central Europe) at the Swiss Institute for Art Research, Zurich. In parallel, he was assistant professor at the University of Siegen, Germany (until 2013). Besides, he had teaching assignments at the University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe, at the Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, at the University of Strasbourg, and at the University of Arts in Poznan, Poland (ongoing). In 2011, he was awarded his PhD for a dissertation on the myth of Arnold Schwarzenegger (supported by a scholarship from the German Research Foundation, 2007–209). His research is focused on bodybuilding, exhibition history, and popular culture.      

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Prof. Dr. Jörg Huber Critical Theory and Aesthetics, Zurich/Switzerland Jörg Huber, *1948, studied art history, literature, modern history and philosophy; professor for Critical Theory and Aesthetics; head of the Institute of Critical Theory and professor at Master of Arts in Fine Arts at Zürich University of the Arts (until october 2013). Publications in the fields of critical theory, theory of art, aesthetics, and theory of visual culture.      

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Thank you for visiting Various section. We will be back soon with various projects and events belonging to the Transcultural Collaboration Program 2016. Are you interested in what happened last year? Please have a look in our Archive.          

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Thank you for visiting the Group Works section. We will be back soon with new collaborative works from this year’s participants. Until then, please have a look at last year’s Group Works,  as well as their final presentations during the Hot Pot Festival.        

Claustrophobia

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Hot Pot – Spicy Little Art Festival Site specific two-room multimedia installation by Liane Mah, Philipp Spillmann, Ma Haijiao, Tobias Fandel Saturday, 21 November, 5pm Kai Tak Campus, Academy of Visual Arts “absense” invites you to experience a very unusual spatial performance situation. How do your physical feeling and your thoughts affect your perception of space, movements, sounds and not least images and words? What can you see, what can you hear and how do you deal with it? Does your cognition leads you to new aesthetical experiences by reflecting the absence? https://vimeo.com/151017337 https://vimeo.com/152030410 A two-room installation, video documentary, room two, Liane Mah (performance), Ma Haijiao (video), Tobias Fandel (sound) absense/ intense days. Long nights. Composing, cutting, dancing, hammering, painting the walls. Claustrophobia. A feeling very typical for Hong Kong. A psychological reaction to a suffocating situation. A physical reaction to the suffocation of modern live. Modern livestyle. Routine. Spaces and possibilities to move. In our work we started to dig deeper in the topic of noise which brought us step by step to the topic of claustrophobia, which we explored by text, sound, movie …

HOT POT – Spicy Little Art Festival

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What happens if 22 artists from Asia and Europe from a wide range of art and design disciplines are collaborating for 14 weeks? HOT POT – Spicy Little Art Festival proudly presents the final works of 6 art collectives, an explosive blend of cultural and artistic ingredients from Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan, Japan, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Romania. Come and taste two days of hard-boiled, finger lickin’ crisp or tenderly melting performances and installations.

HOT POT at AVA/Kai Tak Campus

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Performances & Installations by 5 art collectives: “Ab(sence)”, “Tutu & Ida in Hong Kong”, “How to Disappear (Almost Completely)”, “Fucking Dead Banana”, “!?tahw” Afterparty with DJ Yao! Keep it boiling with drinks, food and dance till late!
Saturday, 21 November, Kai Tak Campus, Academy of Visual Arts

HOT POT – Spicy Little Art Festival proudly presents the final works of 6 art collectives, an explosive blend of cultural and artistic ingredients from Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan, Japan, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Romania. Come and taste two days of hard-boiled, finger lickin’ crisp or tenderly melting performances and installations.

HOT POT at Connecting Space

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Friday, 20 November, Connecting Space Hong Kong
Performance: “The Net[t]”. DJ-Set by DJ Sniff

HOT POT – Spicy Little Art Festival proudly presents the final works of 6 art collectives, an explosive blend of cultural and artistic ingredients from Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan, Japan, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Romania. Come and taste two days of hard-boiled, finger lickin’ crisp or tenderly melting performances and installations.

UAKTI – Solo Recital on Bass and Contrabass flute by Matthias Ziegler

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Recital by Swiss flautist Matthias Ziegler

This recital features the world-renowned Swiss flutist Matthias Ziegler and his very unique amplified contrabass flute. A solo recital, in which Ziegler use his amplified contrabass flute to perform a program of musical works which includes contemporary extended techniques and amplified techniques enabling listeners to hear sounds that they never been heard.

Amplifying the flute in a particular way makes it possible to increase the volume of the micro sound structures inside the flute to an audible level. It is like looking at the instrument through a magnifying glass. There is a whole orchestra inside the flute which opens new sound worlds for composers and improvisers.

!?tahw

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I think you’re serious. Fishes in plastic bags don’t move a lot.
Plastic bag top left. Two fishes. Moving fast.
Plastic bag middle right. One fish. Moving slowly.
Plastic bag top right . Three fishes. Not moving.
Plastic bag bottom left. Four fishes. Moving fast.

LECTURE SERIES ON TRANSCULTURALITY

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Throughout the whole semester of the 1st pilot of “Transcultural Collaboration” in autumn 2015 we are having a regular and continuous lecture series framing and defining the program focussing on various aspects of “Transculturality”, which is the core topic of this graduate semester program.

Project Description

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When you go on a journey you have a goal. Most of the time you have a particular place in mind and an idea of what you are going to do there. Most people follow a certain path and even plan their whole trip from the beginning to the end. A map helps you to orientate yourself in unknown places. If you get lost you asked google maps where you are and it leads you to your chosen location. But what happens if you get lost? Maybe you end up somewhere you never would have expected.
What does it feel like to get lost, being a stranger in Hong Kong?

Practice 2: Renaturalization

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As a martial art, T’ai Chi is externally a soft exercise, but internally hard, even as it seeks softness. If we are externally soft, after a long time we will naturally develop internal hardness. It’s not that we consciously cultivate hardness, for in reality our mind is on softness. What is difficult is to remain internally reserved, to possess hardness without expressing it, always externally meeting the opponent with softness. Meeting hardness with softness causes the opponent’s hardness to be transformed and disappear into nothingness.

Practice 1: Uniformity

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Uniform adjective: Remaining the same in all cases and at all times; unchanging in form or character. Denoting a garment forming part of a person’s uniform.
Uniform noun: The distinctive clothing worn by members of the same organization or body or by children attending certain schools