All posts tagged: Yim Sui Fong

Artist-parents’ ideas: alternative ways for parents 藝術家父母的創意:別樣的親子互動方式

Talk 講座 Artomity at Art Basel Exchange CircleFriday, Mar 29, 1.30 pm – 2.30 pm 3月29日下午1時30分至2時30分John Batten, Yim Sui Fong, Joey Chung 約翰百德、嚴瑞芳、鍾晧怡 Art Basel Exchange CircleLevel 1 Concourse near Entrance 1AHong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre Artomity at Art Basel Exchange CircleRooftop Institute Inspired by the 1960s art collective Fluxus, Hong Kong’s Rooftop Institute has published a new book, Event Scores 2: Ideas between Artist-Parents and Their Kids, exploring ‘instructional art’ between artist-parents and their children, contributed by 45 artist-parents from around the world. These alternative ways for parent-child interactions are suggestions for action open to the reader’s interpretation, ranging from helping parents and children co-create with anything around them, to reflecting on their relationship and getting along with each other. Editors Yim Sui Fong and Joey Chung introduce the story behind the book and share examples, when as artists and young mothers they originally collected ideas from other artist-parents that all parents could use while their children were at home during COVID.Event Scores 2 is a new book, published in English and Chinese, of further alternative ideas by artist-parents from around the world. 香港的天台塾受1960年代的激浪派(Fluxus)文藝派流啟發,新出版了《事件譜2:藝術家父母與子女的點子》,邀請 45位來自世界各地的藝術家父母共享他們與子女的「指令藝術」。這些別樣的親子互動方式提供了行動建議,任由讀者解讀和演繹,有的幫助親子利用身邊事物共同創造,亦有對雙方關係和相處的思考。 …

Event Scores by Artists-Parents 事件譜之又係藝術家又係阿爸阿媽

Published by Rooftop Institute 出版社:天台塾 /Ysabelle Cheung / There is a backwater thought that once an artist (usually female, according to patriarchal hierarchies) bears children, they become somewhat infertile in their creative practices. “After I gave birth, some people apparently thought that I had retired to take care of my child,” Wong Wai Yin once stated in an article. In truth, she had only taken a five-year hiatus from traditional exhibition-making. Then, in 2016, she produced Without Trying, a monumental solo exhibition at Spring Workshop that revealed her engagements in entirely new creative practices as a result of motherhood: learning French, dog training, spiritual response therapy and playing the ukulele. This peeling away from the art world circuit and its capitalist expectations can be liberating, a fact that Wong and 48 other Hong Kong-based artist-parents reveal in Event Scores by Artists-Parents. Published by Rooftop Institute and grouped into six chapters, the contributions document in writing and photographs the co-learning experiences that occur daily between artists and their children, reframed playfully as highly experimental “event scores” or “instructional …

The Body and the City at Goethe-Gallery

The Body and the Cityarmechan, C&G Artpartment, Andio Lai, Lai Sim Fong, Lee Hiu Wa, Moe Satt, Nadya Sayapina, Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, Sebastian Stumpf, Tran Luong, Wong Wing Tong, Ulyana Nevzorova, Yim Sui Fong, RiK Yu   Sep 9 – Oct 23, 2021 Opening: Thursday, Sep 9, 6.30pm  / Guided Tour: 7pm Artist Sharing and Guided Tours:Saturday, Sep 18, 2 – 3.30pmWith artists Andio Lai and RiK Yu, and curator Wong Ka YingFriday, Sep 24, 2 – 3.30pm With artists C&G Artpartment and Wong Wing Tong, and curator Wong Ka YingSaturday, Oct 16, 3 – 4pmGuided tour by Curator Wong Ka Ying Goethe-Gallery and Black Box StudioGoethe-Institut Hongkong14/F Hong Kong Arts Centre  2 Harbour Road, Wan Chai   http://www.goethe.de The exhibition The Body and the City presents selected interdisciplinary art works from across the world by 14 artists / collectives, including performance art, sculpture, photography, moving images and conceptual art, which are reflecting on both the body and the city as the subject rather than the object.