WHAT WE SEE & MAKE SEEN

Seminar "Visualisation Strategies & Public Spheres"

Visualisation Strategies & Public Spheres. A study of the notions and functions of art in public spheres in Hong Kong and Zurich. As a work in progress it is a working blog and serving as a tool for exchange.
Focus on transculturality, contemporary art in Hong Kong, Public Art, Performance in public space.
http://www.whatwesee.ch/

Dealing with cultural difference

Zygmunt Bauman, polnisch-britischer Soziologe und Philosoph. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygmunt_Bauman
From Pilgrim to Tourist, or a short history of Identity https://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/tourist/Baumann-pilgrim-tourist.pdf

Photo:
Francis Alÿs, Turista, Mexico City, 1994, Photographic documentation of an action
Courtesy of Francis Alÿs and David Zwirner, New York, Image: Enrique Huerta © Francis Alÿs, http://www.exporevue.com/magazine/fr/index_francis_alys.html 

Tang Kai Yiu Frank

Experience of Chinese Landscape Painting, by Tang Kai Yiu Frank (Hong Kong)

Chinese Landscape paintings emphasize the combination of the environment and the painter himself. However, it comes as a dubious statement that people nowadays are still touched by the paintings and experience the feeling of the painter.

"If we don't build on traditional, what should we build on?" Xu Bing. Landscape painting in an urban area. Relationship between landscape and mindscape. Reality vs Virtuality. www.tangkaiyiu.com

Hong Kong - links to Audio artists, label, venues

From:
Syrphe.com
http://www.syrphe.com/african&asian_database.htm
check there for latest listings.

Interview with C-Drík Fermont, curator and producer of Syrphe-database.
By Julian Bonequi, published @ norient.com
http://norient.com/blog/syrphe/