Visual Arts

Supported by the Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme, the Asia Seed programme organized by Rooftop Institute would held an exhibition and sharing session of the programme Cycle 1 and 2, showcasing 36 students work at Casphalt during August and September.
Exhibition has two parts, in the Casphalt ‘s Artspace, there will showcase the students’ video work instructed by Vietnamese artist and Hong Kong artist Leung Yu-tung Ocean. Started from the micro-history point of view, the student take the moving images to depict the people and happening of family, community and campus. For instance, story about an old tree in front of home at Yuen Long walled village, a “slippers war” in public housing in memory, the upper decker and the cotton cloud, the new town planning and city space in Tseung Kwan O… furthermore, four students participated in the Vietnam art trip in July will exhibit their new video inspired from the visited places of Ho Chi Minh, Hue and Hoi An, and also with the photo-documentation from Rooftop Institute.
For the other part at Casphalt’s bookstore area, there will showcase the student observation exercises from the workshop by Japanese artist Motoyuki Shitamichi and Hong Kong artist Tang Kwok-hin. During the artist-in-residence, Motoyuki Shitamichi introduced the concept of “modernology” and “Roadside Observation”, and from these to explain a Japanese concept “見立て” as a way of creative thinking and naming practice for the street phenomenon. He invited students to find out those phenomena which draw their interest from Hong Kong cityscape, then took picture with cellphone, and name such discovered phenomenon. On the other hand, artist Tang Kwok-hin designed a situation for co-habiting with stranger, he invited students to share the table with random individuals in fast food store, using social communicating App in smartphone for voice recording, and asked them to describe the under-surface characteristic of this diner. Without knowing the specific age and gender, audience will approach the portrayed stranger in a close distance through voices, for example about an imagination of fried chicken and woman. During the course of exhibition, we will update the four students photographic roadside observation in-situ the trip of Shikoku in Japan, which will construct the cross – regional comparison and dialogue.