Hijacking Space

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
Hong Kong, 24 Feb 2008

Hijacking Space

Mara Show
in-conjunction with Hong Kong-Shenzhen Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture
Central Police Station, Hong Kong
Sun, 24 Feb 2008
1-8pm

In the marathon symposium, Mara Show, held on Sun, 24 Feb 2008, 1-8pm, in-conjunction with Hong Kong-Shenzhen Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, at Central Police Station, Hong Kong, artists Lee Chun-fung and Michael Lee Hong-hwee will speak about the inspirations and aims of their curated exhibition Hong Kong Anarchitecture Bananas: Artists who reclaim space, to be held at Artist Commune, Hong Kong, 29 Mar - 17 Apr 2008. Their presentation, titled "Hijacking Space", is scheduled at 5.45pm.

Following that, Michael Lee will give his presentation, "Small is big," at 6pm on Eniminiminimos: Artists who make things small, an exhibition he recently curated at Studio Bibliothèque, Hong Kong, during 12-13 & 19-20 Jan 2008.

The full schedule is as follows:
1300-1315 Joshua Lau/ Philip Fung/ Selina Mak
1315-1330 Winnie Davies
1330-1345 Wallace Chang
1345-1400 Elisa Pang
1400-1415 Gloria Yeung
1415-1430 Lam Tung Pang
1430-1445 Kal Ng & Hong Kong Chingying of Visual Arts
1445-1500 Aaron Robin
1500-1515 Laura Belevica
1515-1530 Shelley Woo
1530-1545 Break
1545-1630 Forum
1630-1645 John McArthur
1645-1700 Feng guochuan
1700-1715 Amy Tai
1715-1730 Ephes Lau
1730-1745 Hin
1745-1800 HK Anarchitecture Bananas
1800-1815 Mic Lee
1815-1830 Hong Kong Design Community
1830-1845 Sam Sham
1845-1900 Vincent Young
1900-1915 Kevin Lim
1915-1930 Manfield Yueng, Stephan Suen
1930-2000 Sharing and Thanks

Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008
Time: 1-8pm
Venue: Main Courtyard, Central Police Station, 10 Hollywood Rd, Hong Kong
Contact: Mr Joshua (+852) 9198 2376, or Ms Selina Mak on (+852) 9881 5882
Url: http://www.hkszbiennale.asia/

About Lee Chun-fung
Lee Chun Fung is the Programme Officer of Artist Commune, Hong Kong. He recently graduated from Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Fine Arts Department. In his art, he offers humourous takes on social issues through diverse media including painting, sculpture, video, installation and performance.
<lee_fung2002@yahoo.com.hk>

About Michael Lee Hong-hwee
Michael Lee is a Singapore-born artist based in Hong Kong. He explores his concern about the relation between desire and space through model-making, book-making, photography, video, installation, writing and curating. He was a recipient of Young Artist Award (Visual Arts) 2005, conferred by National Arts Council, Singapore.
<http://www.michael.farm.sg/>

About Mara Show
The event is inspired by Pecha Kucha which was started in Tokyo, Japan in Febryary 2003 by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham as a designers' show and tell event.The Biennale Festival will bring this global event to Hong Kong for the very first time, inviting designers from all creative fields to exchange and interact at this very unique and fun event.The concept behind Pecha Kucha is to keep presentations concise, the interest level up and to have many presenters sharing their ideas within the course of one night. Therefore the 20x20 Pecha Kucha format was created: each presenter is allowed a slideshow of images, each shown for 20 seconds each. Mara-show in Hong Kong targets to include 100 presentations from all design related disciplines over an 8-hour long event.
<http://www.hkszbiennale.asia/>