This exhibition provides insights into the research practices of the MPhil and PhD students at Hong Kong Baptist University’s Academy of Visual Arts (AVA).What is research? For us at AVA, research means connecting with a subject in order to understand it, communicate it, and propagate it such that it might live on in form and meaning, pushing past the limits of the original and researcher alike. 

 

This exhibition provides insights into the research practices of the MPhil and PhD students at Hong Kong Baptist University’s Academy of Visual Arts (AVA).What is research? For us at AVA, research means connecting with a subject in order to understand it, communicate it, and propagate it such that it might live on in form and meaning, pushing past the limits of the original and researcher alike. Beyond the subject matter, each participant in this exhibition brings unique direction and insight to the practice of research itself. The displays do not make up a fixed archive of objects or of “results”, but they are works in progress, bridging the gap between ideas, events, and their record, and present an opportunity to look into the researchers’ processes of exploring their chosen direction.