Paper, an affordable and flexible medium, has been utilised in our daily life as tissues, money, books, letters, tickets, receipts, and so forth, as well as metaphors, in different human cultures. It has distinctive uses and cultural connotations in Asian contexts. In contemporary art, can paper become an individual art form and go beyond its common role as a support material and surface for writing, drawing, painting, printing, wrapping, and so on? In a digital age when the significant functions of paper, especially writing, have gradually diminished or been replaced, can the experimental contemporary paper art foster our connections or reconnections with paper and its cultural, intellectual, and spiritual significance in the past?
Paper, an affordable and flexible medium, has been utilised in our daily life as tissues, money, books, letters, tickets, receipts, and so forth, as well as metaphors, in different human cultures. It has distinctive uses and cultural connotations in Asian contexts. In contemporary art, can paper become an individual art form and go beyond its common role as a support material and surface for writing, drawing, painting, printing, wrapping, and so on? In a digital age when the significant functions of paper, especially writing, have gradually diminished or been replaced, can the experimental contemporary paper art foster our connections or reconnections with paper and its cultural, intellectual, and spiritual significance in the past?
[CCL-recognised Artist Talk] Many Incarnations of Paper in Contemporary Art
Date | 20.03.2025 (THU)
Time | 15:00–16:30
Venue | CVA 402, Lee Shau Kee Communication and Visual Arts Building, HKBU (5 Hereford Road, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong)
Language | English
Speakers | HUO Yun, WAI Pong Yu, Juri HWANG, SHUM Kwan Yi, Augustine PAREDES, LI Wing Yuet
Moderators & Discussants | WANG Yizhou, YANG Tong
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Exhibition Guided Tour to Art Basel Hong Kong 2025 Parallel Exhibition: Paperscape
Date | 20.03.2025 (THU)
Time | 17:00–17:45
Venue | G/F–1/F, Koo Ming Kown Exhibition Gallery, Lee Shau Kee Communication and Visual Arts Building, HKBU (5 Hereford Road, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong)
Language | English
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*Only the artist talk is CCL-recognised