Group work and practice based explorations Mentoring Lecture by Dr. Fiona Y. W.  Law on Urban Co-habitation in Disappearance  Street Cat Photography and Animal Advocacy in Hong Kong Lecture/Introduction by Hong Kong based Artist Trevor Yeung Introduction by Daniel Späti Field trips to Ocean Park Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Bird Market & Monkey Hill in Kam Shan Country Park Full day boat trip to Sai Kung Country Park The third week was not predetermined by a program. The students worked in groups on their first project, which will be presented in the following week. They immerse themselves in the semester topic Bonds & Ties for the first time. While some groups started working conceptually at the beginning of the week, others took some more time in forming the groups. At the end 7 groups – some work in pairs, others in a group of 7 – deal with different topics all related to bonds and ties: bondage, sexuality, strangers, time, space, privacy, human & non-human, cultural codes, symbols, conflicts, politics and protests. Dr. Fiona Y. W. Law  (Department of …

Come join us on an evening of experimental performances on 4th October 2019 (Friday), 7pm – 9pm at HART Haus. 27 young international artists and designers from the Transcultural Collaboration programme will be live improvising for you with sounds and visuals. The performances are the results of a one-week CoLab workshop facilitated by guest artists Andreas Siagian (ID) and Simon Dietersdorfer (AU). CoLab is an interdisciplinary laboratory on experimental collaborative practice presented in performative ways. CoLab would like to invite multidisciplinary artists to work together developing ideas for collaborations, learning through the process of experimentation, interaction and improvisation. Instead of a solo project, CoLab is only for collaboration, inviting artists to negotiate, adjusting and connecting with other artists in the form of collectives. Performances by: Tobias BIENZ, Duy BUI, Raúl CASTRO ESTÉVEZ, Clair Ka-kiu CHAN, CHEN Zhenglang, Cindy CHENG I-Hsin, FU Lingbo, Rafael GIL CORDEIRO, Gloria HERTIG, Brooke JACKSON, Nuriia KHASENOVA,  LEI Xuan, LEUNG Lok Kwan, Rose Zi-Rui LI, LIU Shiyan, MA Kam Leung, Choon Peng NG, QIAN Yuxuan, Timo RADDATZ, Syahriar Tri RIZALDI, Colin …

Self-presentations Mapping the semester topic Bonds & Ties Workshop with Elodie Pong Group building Workshop with Professor Sik Ying Ho, I support Jaqueline Wong …and die! Field trip to 480.0 Gender & Art Space in Yau Ma Tei This year’s semester topic looks at different forms of bonds and ties, including those with our body, family, friends, society, cultures, animals, plants or objects. We gathered in smaller group and mapped the wide territory of the topic and visualized and discussed our individual understanding of Bonds & Ties. For the workshop with Artist Elodie Pong, we were invited to bring 3–5 objects that relate or represent our professional inquiries. In a playful approach we studied the objects in their arrangement. We discussed the questions of how they are represented, how are the objects related to each other, the way they are arranged? How do we put meaning into things? How do people see art from different perspectives? Later, each of us created a collage with prints, images and photographs we have collected in the recent days …

Arrival in Hong Kong: Program-Kick off at AVA, Kai Tak Campus Self-presentations Lecture: Mark Gandolfi on Building Relationships Welcome Dinner in Sham Shui Po Exercises: Getting to know each other with Zhao Chuan Lecture: Hong Kong as a Laboratory of Global Cultural Identity by Mathew Gordon Excursion: Housing in Hong Kong & Historical Tour of Hong Kong The first week of the program was all about bonding and getting to know each other – and for many also getting to know the city of Hong Kong. Hong Kong locals welcomed the guest students with open arms and took the lead when it came to exploring the city’s busy streets. In different exercises and changing group formations we’ve got to dive into intense discussions, shared and exchanged perspectives and got to know each others practices. Psychologist Dr. Mark Gandolfi gave the first lecture on how we connect, bond and tie with ourselves and others. Marking psychology as the common denominator, he touched the semester topic from the perspectives of genetics, feelings and relationships. Gordon Mathews, Professor …