Inspiring visual arts exchange between the UK and Hong Kong
Symposium
Screenshot of Peer to Peer UK/HK 2020 Closing Event
The Peer to Peer:UK/HK 2022 symposium includes live performances, panel discussions, conversations and exchanges spread over the 2 weeks of the festival. Please book on to individual sessions using the links below.
Morgan Wong’s new lecture performance piece Journey looks into scenic imageries taken in rural China in the 1970s to connect oral history, archive, and teaching and learning.
Artists Ama Dogbe and Yarli Allison will discuss experiences of their shared online ‘micro’ residency. Expect issues such as the gender health data gap and the assimilation of diasporic communities, through game art.
Rebecca Burns, Programme Co-ordinator (Redeye), Chloe Chow, Senior Project Manager (WMA) and two artists from the exchange Anna Sellen and Joseph Leung
Event Description:
Can we move to a future where artistic careers are not linked to location? A discussion re-imagining the way artists work and collaborate.
In this live event, the artists and curator in the Back/Forth Mail Art Project will respond to questions for Hong Kong, raised by public participants from Sheffield’s streets.
Ways of Learning – In conversation with artists, Morgan Wong and Hicham Gardaf
Date:
Tuesday 4th October 2022
Time:
UK: 10-11.00am
Hong Kong: 5-6.00pm
Hosts:
Polly Brannan (Open School East)
Participants:
Morgan Wong and Hicham Gardaf
Event Description:
Join artists Morgan Wong and Hicham Gardaf to discuss their newly commissioned artworks Journey and The Storyteller as part of their collaborative commission Ways of Learning.
Artists Seema Mattu, Eason Tsang Ka Wai and Uma Breakdown.
Event Description:
A discussion exploring the quickly developing realm of worldbuilding by artists using digital technology, and the wellbeing applications that might result from it.
Tang Kwok-hin and Yang Yeung, project curators, and Chan Ting, Lead Artist, Hong Kong, supported by Saffy Wilson, UK; and artists/students from Fine Arts Departments of The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Falmouth University, Cornwall, UK.
Event Description:
This interactive and participatory event is currently being devised by artists at The Chinese University Hong Kong and Falmouth University, UK
Teresa Kwong (HKAC) and Matthew Pendergast (Curator and deputy director Castlefield Gallery)
Participants:
Artists Nicola Dale (UK), John Powell-Jones (UK), Florence Lam (HK) and Lazarus Chan (HK); organisational representatives: Juliana Chan (Per Platform, HK), Lindsay Taylor (University of Salford Art Collection, UK).
Event Description:
Castlefield Gallery, Per Platform and the University of Salford Art Collection will come together to think about art as something that operates at the very edges of what we might understand language to be, and also how language has the potential to be become a medium in its own right – rather than simply a tool with a predetermined purpose.
