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MICROWAVE 2007
Hong Kong’s Microwave Festival has come a long way since its foundation in 1996, and made perhaps its biggest splash yet with 2007’s edition, “Luminous Echo”. As the festival was completely rebranded in 2006, and in 2...
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HELLO KITTY SECRET HOUSE
"What if you could follow her daily routine, see what she sees, hear what she hears, share a part of her life inside yours?" This quote comes from the website of Hong Kong's hottest design event of the season, and the...
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CAO FEI “COSPLAYERS”
It's been a while since a genuine "art star" has had a show in Hong Kong, so the opening of Cao Fei's COSplayers at Para/site Gallery in Sheung Wan was quite an occasion. The young Guangzhou-based artist has been busy...
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HABITUS
Going to Habitus, a "designed space" owned by renown Hong Kong artist and designer Kith Tsang Tak Ping, feels like a form of time travel. One must first follow the antique tram-car tracks from one of Sheung Wan's MTR ...
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MOVANA CHEN “EXPLORES THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE BODY AND ITS CLOTHES; FINE ART AND FASHION”
None of us really knew what to expect when we entered Para/site gallery on the evening of August 31st. The night air outside was still sweltering with summer, the newly-renovated main floor of the gallery was slightly...
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JAMSEN LAW RETROSPECTIVE
It is only natural that video has emerged as a dominant medium for artists in Hong Kong. In a city where most young artists still live with their parents in tiny flats, and can't afford studio space or physical materi...
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MY MOLESKINE PROJECT
It's just a little black notebook. But because of its pocket-size, iconic elastic strap and illustrious history, the Moleskine has become the Platonic Ideal of little black notebooks. Used by Vincent Van Gogh for sket...
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GET IT LOUDER 2005
For months now, the Chinese design community has been thrumming with excitement about "Get It Louder." Described by its curators as a "a visual noise made by young designers and artists around the globe", this event i...
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FOTANART OPEN STUDIOS
Hong Kong is probably one of the hardest cities in the world to be a young artist. Besides the fact that most galleries only show foreign or Mainland Chinese artists these days, besides the fact that Hong Kong's tycoo...
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WEST KOWLOON CULTURAL DISTRICT
Not long ago, West Kowloon was just the name of an area-the Western part of Hong Kong's Kowloon peninsula, to be exact. Today, however, those two words mean so much more, as they have become a short-hand for the contr...
