Peer to Peer: UK/HK
Peer to Peer: UK/HK 2022 is a programme designed to inspire and encourage meaningful cultural exchange between the UK and Hong Kong’s visual arts sectors and to forge enduring partnerships. The Peer to Peer:UK/HK 2022 symposium from 26th Sept to 9th Oct 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. Starting on 26th September, free and online.
Event Title:Launch of Peer to Peer:UK/HK 2022 FestivalDate:Monday 26th SeptemberTime:UK: 10-11.00am Hong Kong: 5-6.00pmHosts:Sarah Fisher, Open Eye Gallery and Lindsay Taylor, University of Salford Art CollectionParticipants:Nicola Smyth, Arts Council England
Ying Kwok, Ambassador HK
Representatives from each partnershipEvent Description:Please join us to celebrate the launch of the online festival and hear from, and about, the people that made it possible.View Event Recording:Available here
Event Title:Journey – live performance by Morgan WongDate:Monday 26th SeptemberTime:UK: 2-3.00pm Hong Kong: 9-10.00pmHosts:Yim Sui Fong (Rooftop Institute)Participants:Morgan Wong and Joey ChungEvent Description: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.View Event Recording:View Morgan’s performance of Journey here.
DAY 2: Thursday 29th September
Event Title:Ama Dogbe & Yarli Allison in conversationDate:Thursday 29th SeptemberTime:UK: 10-11.00am Hong Kong: 5-6.00pmHostsLouise Latter, BOM and Angel Leung, VideotageParticipants:Ama Dogbe and Yarli AllisonEvent Description: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.View Event Recording:Available here
DAY 3: Friday 30th September
Event Title:Artist, Power and PlaceDate:Friday 30th SeptemberTime:UK: 10-11.00am Hong Kong: 5-6.00pmHosts:Paul Herrmann, RedeyeParticipants:Rebecca Burns, Programme Co-ordinator (Redeye), Chloe Chow, Senior Project Manager (WMA) and two artists from the exchange Anna Sellen and Joseph LeungEvent 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.View Event Recording:Available here
DAY 4: Sunday 2nd October
Event Title:Back/Forth: Questions on the Road!Date:Sunday 2nd October 2022Time:UK: 10-11.00am Hong Kong: 5-6.00pmHosts:Reds Cheung (1a Space)Participants:Clara and Gum (C & G Artpartment) and Mark ChungEvent Description: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.View Event Recording:Available here
DAY 5: Tuesday 4th October
Event Title:Ways of Learning – In conversation with artists, Morgan Wong and Hicham GardafDate:Tuesday 4th October 2022Time:UK: 10-11.00am Hong Kong: 5-6.00pmHosts:Polly Brannan (Open School East)Participants:Morgan Wong and Hicham GardafEvent 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.View Event Recording:Available here
DAY 6: Wednesday 5th October
Event Title:Worldbuilding and WellbeingDate:Wednesday 5th October 2022Time:UK: 10-11.00am Hong Kong: 5-6.00pmHosts:Peter Bonnell and Helen StarrParticipants: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.View Event Recording:Available here
DAY 7: Friday 7th October
Event Title:Noughts and CrossingsDate:Friday 7th October 2022Time:UK: 10-11.00am Hong Kong: 5-6.00pmHosts:Tang Kwok-hinParticipants: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, UKView Event Recording:Available here
DAY 8: Saturday 8th October
Event Title:Art at the Edge of LanguageDate:Saturday 8th October 2022Time:UK: 10-11.00am Hong Kong: 5-6.00pmHosts: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.View Event Recording:Available here