Category Archives: art
UNESCO FISS: Cultural Development & Sustainability, part 2
A couple of snaps from yesterday’s event. It’s interesting to hear what others think about the state of HK culture and the West Kowloon Cultural District. Very happy to have been part of the discussion, and am looking forward to… Continue reading
UNESCO Focus Issues Seminar Series: Cultural Development & Sustainability in Hong Kong
Sonia Chow will be one of five invited speakers at UNESCO’s Arts in Education Observatory for Research in Local Cultures and Creativity in Education “Focus Issues Seminar Series.” Join the discussion on cultural development and sustainability in Hong Kong. Open… Continue reading
Category art, culture, design, events, hong kong
Tags cultural development, education, Focus Issues Seminar Series, hkied, hong kong, RLCCE, sustainability, UNESCO
The public service announcement: Dumb Ways to Die
A 3-minute public service announcement video for Metro Trains Melbourne. The endearingly silly cute graphics and sticky indie folk sound made me watch it immediately a second time. An effective and unexpected take on the standard warnings which makes the… Continue reading
Category advertising, art, design, favourites, music, presentation tips, productivity, tools
Tags dumb ways to die, metro trains melbourne, public service announcement, video
The pushpin pointillist: Eric Daigh
A modern-day Chuck Close, Eric Daigh paints portraits with pushpins and pixels. >> via Co.Design >> Eric Daigh website
Category art
Tags Eric Daigh, painter, pointillism, portraits, pushpin, video
PechaKucha Night HK in Cathay Pacific’s inflight magazine!
Four-page article on PechaKucha Night HK by Kate Whitehead in the November 2012 issue of Silkroad, DragonAir / Cathay Pacific’s in-flight magazine for Asia-Pacific. Happy to be featured!
Category art, culture, design, events, hong kong, japan, pechakucha, press
Tags cathay pacific, dragonair, hong kong, kate whitehead, pechakucha, pechakucha night, silkroad
PechaKucha Night HK – Wed Dec 5, 2012 @ XXX Gallery
Special guest at the next PKN HK: Mark Dytham of Klein Dytham architecture, and co-founder of PechaKucha Night! RSVP list is not open yet, so check back here or on the Facebook page closer to the date for priority entry.… Continue reading
Category art, culture, design, events, hong kong, japan, pechakucha, unexpected
Tags hong kong, klein dytham architecture, mark dytham, pechakucha, pechakucha night, xxx gallery
JR INSIDE OUT in HK, part 2
Two months after the casting for JR’s Inside Out Project in Hong Kong, we hit the opening of JR’s Pattern exhibit and – surprise! My face was staring back up at me from the footbridge! Later we heard that 175… Continue reading
Category art, design, events, germany, hong kong
Tags french artist, galerie perrotin, german artist, inside out, jr, peter zimmerman
The Internet Cat Video Festival
As I write this post, The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis is getting ready to screen a curated 65-minute programme of internet cat videos to an audience of 5,000. Post-screening, the official selection and winning entries will be posted online.… Continue reading
Category art, cat
Tags art museum, cat videos, cats, film festival, fontshop, matthew carter, minneapolis, walker art center
The megalopolis called Twitter: Ai Weiwei’s city
New interview with Ai WeiWei by Jonathan Landreth in Foreign Policy, via The Atlantic. Beijing’s greatest problem is that it never belongs to its people. Though it’s a city of more than 10 million, people living here are like people… Continue reading
The death of an icon: art critic Robert Hughes
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. – Robert Hughes Robert Hughes, art critic / writer / historian, R.I.P. >> NYT obit for Robert Hughes Shock of… Continue reading
Category art, food for thought
The story behind ‘Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry’
Interesting but too short Q&A with Alison Klayman, director of the documentary “Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry” >> TIME Magazine / Documenting the Dissident Film trailer
Category art
The Spectacle: Rashaad Newsome @ FEAST Projects
This was back in May but I’ve just come across the video and had to share it. A special performance by Rashaad Newsome at FEAST Projects during ArtHK – it was a true spectacle, the energy was uncontainable. The show… Continue reading
The Sachiko Kodama show @ Hester Chan in London
I wish I was in London… This Thursday, the HCFA is holding a private screening of Japanese media artist Sachiko Kodama’s 8-minute film “Breathing Chaos” – definitely worth checking out if you are in the neighbourhood (closest tube: Bethnal Green).… Continue reading
Category art
The casting call: JR Inside Out in HK
As 2011 TED Prize Winner, French artist JR was challenged to change the world. His response? Inside Out: a global art project transforming messages of personal identity into works of art. Well worth 24 minutes of your attention, his presentation… Continue reading
Category art, events, food for thought, hong kong, life, photography
Tags change the world, French, galerie perrotin, hong kong, inside out project, jr, photography, TED, TED Prize Winner 2011, transformation
The Canadian national anthem reworked by William Shatner
July 1st is Canada Day. William Shatner’s modern take of O Canada, captured in this 2011 NFB short by Jacob Medjuck. It makes me laugh and strangely homesick at the same time. Not a bad thing in my books… think… Continue reading
Category art, presentation tips
Tags canada, john medjuck, nfb, video, william shatner
The dreamscape
Phillip Schuster’s Skate Villa, Salzburg: hunting lodge turned indoor skate park
Exhibition @ the Harbinger, May 18 – 21
A new series of work by Sonia will be shown at the Harbinger Gallery (Waterloo, Ontario) as part of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts New Inductees Exhibition, May 18 – 21. COMMUNICATION BLOCKS plays with the interruption of an… Continue reading