#parasitehk

[oculablog]

Ellen Pau, Portrait (2018). Courtesy the artist and Para Site.

Ellen Pau, What about Home Affairs?, Para Site, Hong Kong (8 December 2018–3 March 2019). Courtesy the artist and Para Site. 

[gordoncheung]

Last day to bid via link in bio! My Window on display at @sohohousehongkong for @parasite.hk online Benefit Auction with @edelassanti and @yasmostashari is available until tomorrow, November 19 10AM EST. 🚨 Window #8, 2018 Unique piece of Financial Times newspaper, bamboo, and adhesive. 🚨 Para Site is Hong Kong’s leading contemporary art centre and one of the oldest and most active independent art institutions in Asia. Contributions from the auction will go directly towards the institution’s future – including supporting and sponsoring artists, public programmes, and publications. 🚨 #GordonCheung #BritishChineseArt #ParaSiteHK #ContemporaryArt #ArtAuction #PSAuction2020 #HKArt #OnlineAuction #OnlineSale #BuyArtOnline #BuySculpture #BidArt #SohoHouseHongKong #SculptureArt #ArtForSale #ArtAuction (at Soho House Hong Kong) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHvB2T7lBj5/?igshid=ropf20lxex29

[hemanchong]

I’ve never separated work and life and I don’t think I can. I’ve always worked where I lived and I usually work until I collapse from complete and utter exhaustion. It’s the only way (I was heavily addicted to sleeping pills for 2 years) I know how to get to sleep without being addicted to any coma inducing substance. I’ve always made paintings on tables. I don’t really know how else to make one. It’s kinda like desktop painting, which is similar to desktop publishing I suppose. Here is a very, very early painting. One that predates the book covers and everything else. The painting obviously an Ed Ruscha rip-off. The text is obviously lifted from Godard. I don’t know why nobody called me out on it. I wish someone did. This is a painting made in 2008 for the @parasite.hk fundraising auction. @distantatlas asked me to donate something so I took the opportunity to make a painting the way I think I know how to make a painting which is to make some kind of layout with texts of some sorts. Anyway. Painting. #HemanChong #Breathless #2008 #ChristinaLi #ParasiteHK #DesktopPainting #DesktopPublishing (at Blk 3 Haig Rd) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHDS1oAl5CD/?igshid=ruzwwgkz21xh

[3standardstoppage]

@parasite.hk will host a sharing session about their publication works at Postpost Space, #3ssbeijing 9/4/2020, 7pm Presenter: Anqi Li, Curator of Education and Public Programs @cucurrucucuanqi #parasitehk #pospost #3ssstudios #3standardstoppage (at 3Standardstoppage) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEr3KOqg9ZS/?igshid=wrgwx5e3wdkz

[hinaet]

#charleslimyiyong #parasitehk (at Para Site)

[hinaet]

Howie Tsui's Kowloon Wudang Walled City LOT11 at Para Site's annual fundraising auction. #howietsui #parasitehk #parasitehongkong #hqueens (at H Queen's - 80 Queen's Road Central)

[hinaet]

呢排成日見到黃炳,，呢個位係全場最靚位，唔錯唔錯！ At Para Site's annual fundraiser auction! #parasitehk #parasitehongkong #wongping #hqueens (at H Queen's - 80 Queen's Road Central)

[para-site-hk]

#himynameis - 14 Oct 2017

What a crisp Saturday morning. One that showed up out of nowhere in the midst of a Fall season that very much resembled something close to the surface of the sun here in Hong Kong. It was a sign of times of sorts, the typhoon coming into town just as all of this year’s participants of the Workshops for Emerging Art Professionals sauntered into Para Site and this eight-day programme.

Something close to the feel of a reunion-orientation rolled out, as the participants met in person after having already met through the interwebs (this social bunch!), hence the oxymoron.

Today was a day essentially for introductions, which in itself entails presentation, so in a most natural course of events, what ensued was what was right within the newly mint walls of the Education Room. A testament to its name, the room was subsequently filled with the knowledge of the projects and proposals from each participant, ranging the corners of the world that they are from. These proposals were the first we knew of our now 12 participants, from a pool of over 80, slowly distilled into a palatable typhoon of ideas. Each took their turn to present their curatorial intentions through their proposed exhibitions, outlining a number of focuses important to them and the larger discourse of the art/curatorial diaspora. These proposals will be the focus of their week here, perhaps readily malleable by the encounters and discussions they have with the art community, its leaders, and institutions in Hong Kong.

We’ll check back in with their proposals at the end of this programme, but for now, a quick taster test includes talk of the effects of visual language contextualised to its location, curatorial stance in direct challenge to the existing notions of art and cultural history, tensions in academic traditions, language in all senses of the word, synthesis of human experience, and art’s ability to be both a welcome intervention as well as a leader of gentrification.

The day quickly rolled into evening, now we’re up to a Typhoon 3, leaving brains a little winded, so a quick walk to stretch the legs later, we have a performance by artist Léuli Māzyār Lunaʻi Eshrāghi.  tagatanu'u, a performance highly reliant on speech and language as an integral tool for expression, the artist conveyed using several tongues to touch upon the body, spirit, sex-shaming of indigenous communities, coupled with issues of commodification, exoticism, the colonisation of labour, and reclaiming intergenerational trauma, leaving a trail of gold flecks and an aroma of coconut milk in his wake.

As far as orientation days go, this one smoothly segues into conversation over dinner at the favourite neighbourhood joint, amidst liplicks and toasts to the week ahead, so must be a sign of good times in the forecast right?

More to come, but signing off this Saturday typhoon, 

Apoorva Rajagopal, Para Site