MaD@West Kowloon - Wall-less Art Complex
MaD@West Kowloon - Wall-less Art Complex
Break the walls and be part of art – join artists in creative processes
Life Art Festival
You don’t need a ticket and you don’t need to be quiet. Join 6 local artists/art groups and have fun with art under the blue sky!
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C&G Artpartment Clara CHEUNG CHENG Yee-man Gum |
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LAI Wai-yi Monti Monti is an artist and educator working and living in Hong Kong. Her work, ranging from site-specific installation to drawing and mixed media, probes into ways of seeing and reflects on personal observations, in particular, on the relationship between art and the environment. Having obtained her BA (Fine Arts) from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, she is currently completing her MA in Environmental Art at the Aalto University in Finland. She has presented solo exhibitions in Hong Kong and Finland, and has participated in joint exhibitions in Hong Kong, Beijing, Taiwan, Estonia, Finland and Germany. |
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LAU Hok-shing Hanison Hanison received his BA(FA) and MFA from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 2005 and 2007 respectively. He was selected as one of the highlighted artists by the Hong kong Art Promotion Office in its "Artists in Neighbourhood scheme II 2008". He has taken part in artist-in-residence projects in Portland, USA (2008) and South Korea (2010 & 2011). Over the past few years, he has exhibited extensively in USA, Australia, South Korea, Mainland China and Hong Kong. His works have been collected locally and internationally. He is currently a lecturer at the Hong Kong Art School. |
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LEE Chun-fung Fung graduated from the Fine Arts Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2007. He is one of the founding members of the Shanghai Street community art space: Woofer Ten, and hosts a weekly art critique programme at the radio station FM101. He has curated several art projects, such as "Hong Kong Anarchitecture Bananas" (2008) ,"FENG YU PIAO YAO AI GUO SHI─ art response to June 4th 20th anniversary" (2009) and "Artivist in residence" (2011). Fung participated in Openspace Bae International Artist-in-Residence Programme in Busan in 2010 and AIR 3331 International Programme, organized by 3331 Arts Chiyoda, in Tokyo in 2011. He has just rented an apartment opposite to the luxury properties in West Kowloon as studio. |
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Stephanie SIN As a painter, Stephanie draws on fragmentations of individual and collective routines and insinuates the paradox of life in her rhythmical and abstract imageries. She received her BA (FA) from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (co-presented with the Hong Kong Art School) in 2008 and is currently studying a master's programme in Visual Art at the Hong Kong Baptist University. |
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Start From Zero (SFZ) Start from Zero is a street art crew founded by the Hong Kong street artist Dom in 2001. It began with a "start from zero" sticker, which is now a symbol of the crew. "Start from zero" can also be a slogan for encouraging people when they are unhappy, down or miserable. Apart from using stickers, SFZ is also good at using wheat pastes and stencils to convey messages on streets. SFZ is from the street and works quietly to promote street art culture in Hong Kong. The crew has taken part in various exhibitions and live painting performances. |
Cross the Line Theatre
Let our skyline be the set. Four artists from diverse fields will break disciplinary divides and open a new vista.
Open rehearsal workshops will be held on 18, 26.12.2011 and 2.1.2012.
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Dorothy TSE (literature) Dorothy teaches in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where she is also completing her PhD. She is a co-founder of the literary magazine Fleurs des Lettres. She writes fiction and has received numerous awards, including the 8th Hong Kong Biennial Awards for Chinese Literature (for her short-story collection 好黑 [So Black], 2003), the 15th Unitas New Fiction Writers' Award, among others. She is a grantee of the Robert H N Ho Family Foundation and is now participating in the International Writing Programme of the University of Iowa. |
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Adrian TSING (music) Adrian graduated from the Music Department of the University of Western Ontario. Apart from working on commercial music for advertisements, Adrian is also a music director and composer for theatrical works. Since 2001, Adrian has published three solo albums and presented four solo concerts. He is the founder of Music Is Free Foundation (MIFF), which promotes sharing through music. Starting from December 2010, Adrian has paid monthly visits to Sichuan, offering music lessons to high school students who have gone through the devastating earthquake. |
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Chloe WONG (dance) After graduation from the School of Dance of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Chloe received a Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund Scholarship and went to Hollins University for her master's study. With grants offered by the Hollins University, Chloe represented the university and participated in the Monaco Dance Forum 2006. Chloe's choreographic works have toured Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Malaysia, New York and Virginia. |
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Rico WU (theatre) Rico is an actor, director and drama instructor. He is currently an associated artist of Duende Physical Theatre. Previously, he was a fulltime actor and Education Officer at Shuning Theatre. Rico is now reading an MA in Ensemble Physical Theatre at the University of Huddersfield. In 2008, he took part in workshops and performances organized by PUSH Theatre in New York. In addition to creating his own works, he is also devoted to researching on performance and professional training. |
