Fo Tan Art Talk Marathon/The Art of CUHK

As part of "The Art of CUHK" which started on Saturday, there was a mini-Open Studios event at Fo Tan this past Sunday. It was mostly geared toward CUHK-affiliated artists and alumni, but some other events were up, like an exhibition called "Autobibliophiles: Artists Who Make or Use Books", at the new studio of Singaporean artist Michael Lee.

Adrian and I made a book for the show as "Embassy Projects". It's called "Why I Like You and Vice Versa: A Book About Us", and I'll post some scans later perhaps. It's sort of like a twisted children's book, made with construction paper and felt and offensive in-jokes. You can see it on the shelf here (red with yellow/black felt head).



I also appeared in a marathon series of art talks held at the studio of Warren Leung Chi Wo and Sarah Wong. In the past year I've ended up doing a handful of art talks (not really sure why people invite me), but never before in Cantonese, so I was straight-up terrified. I think Warren and Jeff thought it would be funny to have me up there, sort of like a trained seal doing tricks. But I survived, and though I'm sure I sounded like a six year old, I'm glad I did it. And at the very end, Sarah Tse (another Fo Tan artist) brought around rabbit-shaped rice cakes she cooked for us. It was almost too pretty too eat (almost).




The schedule of the talks, most moderated by Warren or Jeff...
3:00-3:30 梁展峯 Jeff Leung, curator/ 黃頌恩 Magdalen Wong, artist
3:30-4:00 方敏兒 Janet Fong, curator/gallerist
4:00-4:30 黎健強 Edwin Lai, art historian/writer
4:30-5:00 葉旭耀 Ip Yuk Yiu , filmmaker/curator/teacher
5:00-5:30 何慶基 Oscar Ho, curator/teacher
5:30-6:00 楊秀卓 Ricky Yeung, artist/teacher
6:00-6:30 黃思源 Gina Wong, art lover/business woman
6:30-7:00 三木 Chen Shishen, artist
7:00-7:30 Samantha Culp, writer
7:30-8:00 張康生 Enoch Cheung, artist/teacher

Magdalen talking with Jeff at the beginning...