Guest speaker: Michelle Wun Ting Wong
Moderated by Prof. Ashley Lee Wong
19 February 2024 (Mon)
Venue: CKB UG05, Chen Kou Bun Building, CUHK
Time: 7:00-8:00pm
Hybrid event
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This event will be conducted in English. All are welcome.
This presentation examines the ideas of archives, and how one can work with them creatively and curatorially. It shares some of the theoretical considerations that underpinned the work processes of organising collection of the late Hong Kong artist Ha Bik Chuen (1925-2009), and how the contemporary art exhibition Portals, Stories and Other Journeys (Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong, 2021) was developed.
Michelle Wun Ting Wong is a PhD candidate in Art History at the University of Hong Kong, exploring the modernity emerging from Post WWII Hong Kong. Her writing has been published in Ambitious Alignments: New Histories of Southeast Asian Art, 1945–1990 (2018), the journal Southeast of Now (2019) amongst others. From 2012–20 she was a researcher at Asia Art Archive (AAA), focusing on Hong Kong art history and histories of exchange and circulation through exhibitions and periodicals. Curatorial projects include Portals, Stories, and Other Journeys at Tai Kwun Contemporary (2021), Afterglow, Yokohama Triennale 2020, and 11th Edition of Gwangju Biennale (2016). She runs the independent space New Park with artists South Ho Siu Nam and Billy HC Kwok.
Ashley Lee Wong is Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong
This talk is organised by the Master of Arts in Cultural Management Programme, CUHK, and supported by The Centre for Cultural Studies, CUHK.
Website: https://ccs.crs.cuhk.edu.hk
Enquiry: casperli@link.cuhk.edu.hk
Photo: An Archivist’s Table. Portals, Stories, and Other Journeys, Tai Kwun Contemporary, 2021. Photo: ©️ Virgile Simon Bertrand. Courtesy of SKY YUTAKA.