More mountains -- my recent #writing about some (if not all) of the people and #Stories behind the "transformation of Hong Kong's arts ecosystem" (already underway), a primer of sorts Nf labour of love in all sorts of ways for the return of @ArtBasel in #HongKong this week 🌄 (at Hong Kong) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp9T4OWr4GB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The day (and every day) after -- as the appropriate time to say thank you to those special women with whom I have engaged in meaningful, ongoing and sometimes hard-to-hear dialogue(s) over the years -- so often about #art and these days, in contemplating about lives well-loved and thus well-lived #InternationalWomensDay (Image: @jaspersebastiansturup) (at Hong Kong) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpjuVmDLp4h/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Sunday Reader -- thankful for #BrilliantTrees inaugural Guest Reader #JoanneCheng @lungfushan #HKU, all of the #artists #poets and those who joined in on a day of contemplative reading through poetry, sharing and discussion "under the trees" @taikwun.hk and the #ArtistsBookLibrary @taikwuncontemporary #HongKong (at 大館 Tai Kwun) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClL0MSzLZSr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Fly me to the moon -- Oh happy (portrait of #Cordelia as a paper rabbit) lantern making, many a mooncake eating,, friends and family gathering to celebrate, mid-Autumn Festival day! 🥮🐰🌕 (at Hong Kong) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiVhnYjPWOj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Sight for sore eye(lid)s -- a (full) circle motif seems appropriate in those moments when you recall the first time experiencing seminal works of art. I was reminded of this again recently through the opportunity to host the effervescent @pipilotti_rist_studio in the *refreshed* #ArtistsBookLibrary for the #BehindYourEyelid exhibition now on view at @taikwuncontemporary (go team!) and in sites throughout @taikwun.hk #HongKong (at 大館 Tai Kwun) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg1de8nFofu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

A long time coming, a short time gone ⏳🌫⌛ Welcome one, welcome all to #BREACHINGSANCTUM 🤍⚡🤍 #REPOST @designtrust DESIGN TRUST GRANT SPOTLIGHT: Announcing exhibition opening soon #DesignTrustFeatureGrant “Breaching Sanctum” coming Thursday, 19 May 2022 @taikwun.hk F Hall Studio on view until 31 May 2022. @breaching_sanctum is an exhibition of existing and newly commissioned art and design works alongside related research and reference materials, public programmes, and a publication in the form of a “reader”. The project delves into the work of a generation of Chinese female artists, designers, and architects born in the 1980s—on the cusp of the 1990s—and the influence of that era, alongside current developments, innovations, and pressures connected to urbanism, sustainability, and the built environment, on their work. The project also serves as a means of breaking down barriers that have often been in the path of female practitioners’ research and achievements. Curated by #DesignTrustFeatureGrant recipient Ingrid Pui Yee Chu, the exhibition presents works from Leelee Chan, Tap Chan, Joyce Wang Studio, Ko Sin Tung, and Zhang Ruyi.

Exhibition details:

BREACHING SANCTUM

19 - 31 May, 2022, Daily 11am–7pm

F Hall Studio, Block 17

Tai Kwun, 10 Hollywood Road, Central, Hong Kong

@marisayiu @designtrust

@chupuiyee1771 @breaching_sanctum @doubleleechan @tappchann @sachinstudio @joyce.wang.studio @zhang_ruyi @nimble_love_ivory @brucelee.2084 @ice.keisuet @sarawong.hk @y.i.n.g.z

[1] “Breaching Sanctum” poster, designed by @StudioHik

[2] Unknown Sky, Tap Chan (2015), image courtesy of the artist.

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HELLO, HELLO #BREACHINGSANCTUM #闖入聖殿 (at 大館 Tai Kwun) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cdk0OQ3rizJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

I want my B(OOK)TV -- so much to unpack (literally) from Good Afternoon Hong Kong! by @chihoichihoi

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智海:《香港午安》

Chihoi, Good Afternoon Hong Kong!

翻閲香港藝術家智海的《香港午安》（台灣挪石社，2017）就如同網上介紹最新手機或科技產品的「開箱」體驗。這本特製畫書比火柴盒略大，紙盒裏外的一幅幅手繪插圖，引領著我們去尋寶：一部如玩具電視般的掌中幻燈機，可以讓讀者觀看特別委託德國老牌廠商沖製的「電視上看不到的香港八景」幻燈片。幻燈機的復古風格讓人想起香港七十年代末最興盛的電子工業。

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内附的中英小誌説明書有一篇《八景筆記》，以香港機場、文華東方酒店、白仙嶺和舊天星小輪鐘樓等地點為背景，記載了個人和社群在時代變遷中流離失所的點滴故事。

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《香港午安》是一個時間膠囊，通過幻燈機的模擬鏡頭，描繪了一趟虛擬旅行。打開這個小小的「八寶箱」，就可看到藝術家書籍原來也有如此這般的景致。

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Exploring Good Afternoon Hong Kong! (nos:books, 2017) evokes the experience of "unboxings" by netizens introducing the latest mobile phone or tech gadgets online. For Hong Kong artist Chihoi, this starts with a cardboard container barely bigger than a matchbox. Replete with vivid text and illustrations, its exterior and inside flaps effectively advertise the treasure trove within, including a "full colour slide viewer" in the form of a miniature plastic toy television. Sourced from a traditional factory in Germany, its retro style recalls Hong Kong's heyday as an electronics hub beginning in the late-1970s, and where "8 splendid views of Hong Kong unseen on TV" can be seen and "read".

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The box also contains a zine in the form of an instructional guide. Entitled "Notes on the Eight Scenes" Hong Kong's airport, Mandarin Oriental hotel, Pak Sin Leng Mountain, former Star Ferry Clock Tower and other sites, serve as backdrops to relay stories of personal and communal displacement amid the challenges of changing times.

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In the end, Good Afternoon, Hong Kong! is a time capsule depicting virtual travel through an analog lens. In so doing, it simultaneously "unpacks" a vision of what an artist book can be.

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#LoveBooksByArtists（心水藝術家書籍），我們會從藝術家書籍圖書館精心挑選其中藏品，公諸同好。圖書館集中搜羅亞洲藝術家主導出版的書籍，並不時舉辦講座、展覽、工作坊等活動，推廣書籍作爲藝術表達的媒介。

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#LoveBooksByArtists features selections from the Artists’ Book Library—a growing collection of Asia-centred, artist-driven publications—and through its programme of talks, live events, displays, editions, workshops, and special projects highlighting books as a medium of artistic expression.

智海:《香港午安》（2017） Chihoi, Good Afternoon Hong Kong! (2017). (at Hong Kong)

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Chairocracy -- and I'm the chairator (of this post) #BringItOn #REPOST @taikwuncontemporary #LoveBooksByArtists 梁慧圭（Haegue Yang）：《VIP’s Union 2001–2018》（貴賓聯盟 2001-2018) Haegue Yang, VIP’s Union 2001–2018 藝術機構當中的大人物（VIP貴賓）是如何界定的？韓國藝術家梁慧圭以有趣而獨特的方式作出回答。2018 年她在奧地利格拉兹美術館舉辦過一場展覽，同時出版了這本圖錄《VIP's Union 2001-2018》。她經常將日常物品融入藝術實踐。那次展出分為兩個階段，由百多名人士慷慨借出的椅子和其他家具先是分佈於展覽空間，供訪客坐著歇息；後期它們轉變成「眼看手勿動」的藝術品。在此，藝術機構的「貴賓」一方面是借出展品的重要人物，另一方面，他們所擁有的物品有些被「推翻在地，到處亂放」，仿佛一幅由芸芸藝術機構結集而成的面貌，映襯出周遭的文化生態圖。 圖錄亦探討了藝術行業的運作。除了借用表格和作品歷次裝置的演變軌跡外，書籍裏反光頁面的設計把讀者的面容暗中收進書内，藝術家以風趣手法表達抽象概念，解構了展覽圖錄作爲文獻記錄的刻板模式。 How are the VIPs of art institutions defined? The Korean artist Haegue Yang's playful and idiosyncratic answer comes by way of VIP’s Union 2001–2018, a publication produced on the occasion of her 2018 exhibition at Austria’s Kunsthaus Graz. Yang, who frequently incorporates everyday objects in her practice, presents chairs and other furniture, borrowed from over 100 people, in two phases: initially, as functional seating throughout the art space and then within a non-interactive setting. Here “VIPs” also serve dual roles: as exhibition lenders, and through their possessions, some of which are shown “tipped over, scattered”, the installation emerges as a collective portrait of art institutions and their surrounding cultural ecology. The publication also addresses the operation of the cultural complex. Besides loan forms and a genealogy tracking past installations, reflective surface treatments implicate readers within its pages that deconstruct the documentary function of exhibition catalogues in a conceptually witty way. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #LoveBooksByArtists（心水藝術家書籍），我們會從藝術家書籍圖書館精心挑選其中藏品，公諸同好。圖書館集中搜羅亞洲藝術家主導出版的書籍，並不時舉辦講座、展覽、工作坊等活動，推廣書籍作爲藝術表達的媒介。 #LoveBooksByArtists features selections from the Artists’ Book Library—a growing collection of Asia-centred, artist-driven publications—and through its programme of talks, live events, displays, editions, workshops, and special projects highlighting books as a medium of artistic expression.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 梁慧圭：《貴賓聯盟 2001-2018》，鳴謝柏林出版社「BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE」 Haegue Yang, VIP’s Union 2001-2018 (2018). Courtesy of BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE. (at 大館 Tai Kwun) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbmaSpNF9Mp/?utm_medium=tumblr

HELLO! #BREACHINGSANCTUM #闖入聖殿

#REPOST @designtrust In honour of #InternationalWomensDay 2022, we are delighted to highlight #DesignTrustFeatureGrant recipient Ingrid Pui Yee Chu and her ongoing project “Breaching Sanctum”, that delves into the work of a generation of Chinese female creators, designers, and architects born in the 1980s – on the cusp of the 1990s – a decade that continues to impact international Chinese contemporary culture.

Through a curatorial approach to stimulate an active dialogue between invited participants and audiences, “Breaching Sanctum” opens up, unfolds, and attempts to break down barriers that have often been in the path of female practitioners’ research and achievements. The female perspective also becomes a critical lens to examine current developments, innovations, and pressures connected to urbanism, sustainability, the built environment, and technology as well as their own subjectivity and millennial perspectives in the rapidly changing world of the 21st century. Scheduled to open this year, “Breaching Sanctum” will present an exhibition focusing on newly commissioned creative and design works, along with a series of public programmes, a reading area, and a publication. More recently, Ingrid Pui Yee Chu has also contributed to Leelee Chan’s Art Journey, Tokens From Time featuring one of the invited female sculptor Leelee Chan’s latest works.

International Women’s Day 2022 imagines a gender equal world, a world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination; a world that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive; a world where difference is valued and celebrated. Together we can forge women's equality. Collectively we can all #BreakTheBias.

國際婦女節之際，我們欣然與大家分享信言設計大使專題資助計劃獲得者朱珮瑿和她的策展研究項目“闖入聖殿”。該項目梳理了在中國當代文化發生巨變的1980-1990年間出生的中國女性藝術家、設計師及建築師，以及她們的最新作品。

通過策展實踐激發受邀藝術家與觀眾間的積極交流，“闖入聖殿” 嘗試展開、辨明繼而打破在女性實踐者的研究與職業道路上的障礙。女性視角也成為了一個關鍵的方式來討論在快速變化的21世紀中由城市化、可持續性發展以及科技技術所帶來的潮流、創新與挑戰。計劃於今年舉行“闖入聖殿”， 將展出受邀女性藝術家的最新作品，亦會策劃一系列公共項目、讀書區及出版物計劃。最近，朱珮瑿亦參與撰��了受邀參展的雕塑藝術家陳麗同的出版物Leelee Chan’s Art Journey, Tokens From Time。

2022年國際婦女節提倡一個性別平等的世界，一個沒有偏見、成見、歧視的世界，一個多樣、平等而包容的世界，一個重視差異性的世界。讓我們一同為女性平等而努力，一同消除偏見。(at Hong Kong)

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HELLO! #BREACHINGSANCTUM

#InternationalWomensDay

#HongKong (at Hong Kong)

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Mirror power -- Thank you #DanGraham (1942-2022) for your artists' books, films and videos, magazine pages, pavilions, performances, writing and more. Your work has left so much for us 'contextualisers' to do, in continuing to share the power of your “two-way” plus practice, and in contemplating how transparency, reflection, accessibility and all the lessons they beget, can inform our own.

Image: 'Two-Way Mirror Cylinder Inside Cube and Video Salon' #RooftopUrbanParkProject @diaartfoundation #NewYork

Photo: @jmassier (at New York)

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Namesake (in stone) -- people always find it difficult to read, write, and pronounce the second half of my Chinese name: 瑿. I have trouble with the character too, mostly because Chinese writing means that strokes go from left to right, and from up to down.

So, I asked my father about this -- already aware about how German lessons resulted in my first (non-Chinese) name -- to which he replied: “'Yee' means 'black jade'.”

Needless to say, it was a welcome surprise to come across Hong Kong's famed “Giant Jade Stone” recently. Located in the Yau Sim Mong district of Kowloon, these historic stones are as ubiquitous as they are lauded for being auspicious charms and symbols of “nobility and moral integrity”. Translation? Even if this stone is of the more well-known green variety, I'll still be going back to visit (often) to see how much of this rubs off 🪨📿. (at 香港大玉石 Hongkong Giant Jade Stone)

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Writing Journey (fulfilled) -- thank you Leelee Chan @doubleleechan for inviting me to contribute to your newly released BMW Art Journey book, 'Tokens from Time' (Hatje Cantz, 2022).

What a joy it was to share in your journey, and now in seeing what has come from our discussions about the possibilities for art in print, as well as your research and pandemic-era experiences delving into our material world. Now, in its final "hybrid" form existing somewhere between a catalogue, a travelogue, and an artists' book, you ask important questions about what it means to be an artist working today, as well as through the lives of all those you encountered, in opening up possibilities for the future.

Along with the artist, the book serves as a testament to the efforts of all those involved: thank you to series editor Andras Szanto for originating and propelling this edition and growing book series forward, along with Myles McDonnell for his insightful editing, the innovative #DoubleStandards design team, Art Basel and fellow contributors.

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#LeeleeChan #TokensFromTime #BMWArtJourney #Book #ArtBasel #BMW #BMWGroupCulture #HatjeCantz #Writing #HongKong

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#BOOKEDHK 📚 綜合症與虛構故事 | Syndromes and Fictions ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 印刷品在華裔奧地利藝術家楊俊的實踐中至關重要，於今次BOOKED: 中，他爲書展創作了裝置作品《綜合症與虛構故事》，當中包含瓷磚圖案的牆紙、石雕和長凳，影像作品和由他製作的藝術家書籍，探索人如何建立自己的「自我意識」，以及這意識如何隨著時間和轉變中的環境而演化。 楊俊和策展人朱佩瑿將就著此特別項目，與印刷出版在楊俊跨學科實踐中所扮演的角色進行討論。他以帶有遊戲人間的意味，利用印刷方式製作藝術品，同時印刷品中的故事也可視爲另一種旅行。 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Art in print plays an integral role in Chinese-Austrian artist Jun Yang’s practice. For BOOKED:, he creates the installation, Syndromes and Fictions including tiled “wallpaper”, pedestals and bench seating, alongside moving image works and his artist books, to explore how people build their own “sense of self” and how this evolves over time through changing surroundings. Jun Yang and curator Ingrid Pui Yee Chu will discuss his special project, as well as the role of publishing in his multidisciplinary practice. His approach to art in print distinguishes itself in its more playful aspects, while cultivating the experience of books as a form of travel. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 📆 19.12.2021 | 5:30–6:30 pm 📍 對談空間（賽馬會藝方1樓）Talk Area (1/F JC Contemporary) 🗣 講者 Speakers：楊俊 Jun Yang & 朱佩瑿 Ingrid Pui Yee Chu 💬 英語 English ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #TaiKwunContemporary #TaiKwun #BOOKED #HongKong #ArtistsBookLibrary #LoveBooksByArtists #ArtistsBooks #ArtBook #ArtBookFair #BookFair #Publishing #LimitedEditions #ContemporaryArt #HKArt #HongKongArt #大館當代美術館 #大館 #當代藝術 #香港藝術書展 #藝術書 #藝術家書籍 #藝術家書籍圖書館 #出版 (at 大館 Tai Kwun) https://www.instagram.com/p/CXpMwn0vRS_/?utm_medium=tumblr

Follow your he/#art in the palm of your hand this December! 💘📖🤲📖💘 BOOKED: #4 is around the corner! ⠀���⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 📆 16.12.2021 | 3pm–7pm 17.12.2021 | 3pm–9pm 18-19.12.2021 | 12pm–7pm 📍 1/F Galleries (JC Contemporary & F Hall) 🎟 $40 （Regular ticket）| $30 （Concession ticket） Tickets are now available at Ticketflap, so book your tickets at https://www.ticketflap.com/booked202112 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Marking its return to the Tai Kwun Contemporary galleries, the forthcoming edition of BOOKED: Hong Kong Art Book Fair welcomes over 80 local, regional, and international exhibitors—including publishers, artists, booksellers, and organisations—complemented by a programme of book launches, talks, workshops, displays and performances. Reading is another form of travelling. In light of ongoing travel restrictions, the art book fair once again features Hong Kong–based exhibitors along with our twinning programme, which offers non-local exhibitors the opportunity to participate from a distance and to stay connected over great distances through books. The distribution of books can also serve as its own form of “travelling” by expanding horizons and sparking one’s imagination. The exhibitor list and more programme details will be released soon! Please stay tuned! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #TaiKwunContemporary #TaiKwun #BOOKED #BOOKEDHK #HongKong #ArtistsBookLibrary #LoveBooksByArtists #ArtistsBooks #ArtBook #ArtBookFair #BookFair #Publishing #LimitedEditions #ContemporaryArt #HKArt #HongKongArt #大館當代美術館 #大館 #當代藝術 #香港藝術書展 #藝術書 #藝術家書籍 #藝術家書籍圖書館 #出版 (at 大館 Tai Kwun) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWtCb_RgJcH/?utm_medium=tumblr

🍊Anaranja🍊 you glad -- what a lovely surprise scroll-seeing so sharing #ClaudiaPenaSalinas #ForeverAndToday 2012 commission on view once again, this time in #NewYork at @theclemente through Nov 5. According to @claudiapenasalinas : “Anaranja, 2012 installation first shown at Forever & Today is part of 'A Poet in New York or New York in a Poet' exhibition curated by @camarafrias opening tonight @theclemente Anaranja took the exhibition site at the border of the Lower East Side and Chinatown as its starting point and developed out of walking explorations in search of the various expressions of the fruit and color Orange. A book of photographs and various musings was also published.” Congratulations to all! xF&T 🍊🧡 (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CU0A_3cJY7I/?utm_medium=tumblr