May 03, 2018

Translation(s) I-III at Osage Art Foundation Hong Kong


TRANSLATION(S) I-III AT OSAGE GALLERY HONG KONG
Curated by Zoran Poposki and Laurence Wood

Translation(s) I-III: Translating New Territories | May 11-20, 2o18 | Curators’ talk: 11 May 2018, 5 PM | Opening reception: 11 May 2018, 6 PM | Osage Gallery Hong Kong | 20 Hing Yip Street, Kwun Tong, Kowloon | www.osagegallery.com

Featured artists: Daniel Arnaldo-Roman (PRI), Justin Ascott (UK), Damon Ayers & Tess Word (HKG/USA), Lynn Book (USA), Victoria Hindley (USA), Arnold J. Kemp (USA), Jessica Ledwich (AUS), Luis Lara Malvacias (VEN/USA), Eva Petric (SLO/AUT/US), Zoran Poposki (HKG/MKD), Tang Kwok Hin (HKG), and Laurence Wood (HKG/UK).


Translation(s) I-III: Translating New Territories is a survey of the first five years of the international art project Translations(s). Curated by Zoran Poposki and Laurence Wood, the exhibition at Osage Gallery Hong Kong showcases a selection of more than 30 works of video art, painting, and drawing by 13 artists investigating translation as a key strategy of global negotiation and interchange between agents from different cultures. In the contemporary emerging network of new pathways between multiple formats of expression and communication, our daily practices, as well as our sense of self, rely on constant translation and mediation between identities and cultures. The Translation(s) project explored that ongoing process of negotiating complex cultural interplays.
Working under a curatorial concept encouraging diverse explorations and interpretations of the theme, the artists featured in the project explore perspectives of a world rapidly transforming into a global translation space by the physical movement of people, and the consequent mediation and negotiation to establish and understand new personal and collective cultures.
Background
The first edition of Translation(s) I was released in 2013 and was screened at international art festivals in Hong Kong, Slovenia, Denmark, Italy, and Canada. The second edition Translation(s) II: Translating the City was screened in 2015 in Hong Kong and Slovenia. The third edition Translation(s) III: Bodies in Transit was screened in 2017 in Slovenia and the UK.
The artists in T1 used a variety of visual approaches to translate the impact that living and working in different cultures has upon them. Simultaneously personal and universal, global and local, sometimes our contemporary lives can seem like journeys in an apparently chaotic universe, a territory which may be travelled forwards and backwards in time and space. In this changing terrain, our daily practices, and our sense of self, can rely on constant translation and mediation between identities and cultures. The project explored that ongoing process of negotiating complex cultural interplays.
T2 (Translating the City) explored urban space and place through the medium of video, employing a variety of strategies and interdisciplinary approaches, from mapping and public space performance, to the exploration of spatialized identities, cultural memory, and cultural translation. The participating artists reconsidered the city as a space of negotiation and interchange between agents from different cultures, the scene of an ongoing process of translation.
T3 (Bodies in Transit) explored one of the most topical issues of contemporaneity: the traversing of borders. Migration, immigration, and refugees, people and cultures meeting, mixing, melding or clashing, forcing collectives and individuals to come face to face with difference or similarity, and to consider questions of our underlying common humanity.
About the curators
Zoran Poposki (MFA, PhD) is a transdisciplinary artist, researcher, and educator, exploring themes of (cultural) translation, spatial epistemology and social practice. His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions, screenings and festivals worldwide.
Laurence Wood is an artist based in Hong Kong and the UK. Formerly Head of College and the Dean of Fine Art, Architecture and Further Education at the University for the Creative Arts in the South East of England, he is currently a Professor in the Department of Cultural and Creative Arts at the Education University of Hong Kong.
Acknowledgments
Osage Art Foundation / Artfirsthand / The Education University of Hong Kong.

December 24, 2017

Cha/ Voice & Verse cover art and feature

Photo courtesy Voice & Verse

Zoran Poposki's art project Hong Kong Atlas is featured on the cover and as a special feature in the the tenth anniversary issue of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, themed "Writing Hong Kong", published in Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine Issue 39-40.

Editorial: Tammy Ho Lai-Ming.

POETRY: Henry Wei Leung, Shirley Geok-lin Lim {S. GL. Lim}, Kit Fan, Louise Ho, Simon Patton, Nicholas Wong, Susan Lavender, Eddie Tay, Dorothy Chan, Michael O'Sullivan, Lai Kuen Seimao Chan, Alan Jefferies, Wawa {Mei Wa LO}, Chris Song, Tse Hao Guang, Joshua Ip, Collier Nogues, Ching Lim Lee Ching, Peter Kennedy, David McKirdy, James Shea, Marco Yan, Reid Mitchell and Karen Cheung

PEEL STREET POETRY: Peel Street Poetry Poets

FICTION: Hon Lai Chu (translator: Andrea Lingenfelter), Xu Xi, Abel Han Song, Christophe Tong Yui (translator: Chris Song), Lawrence Pun (translator: Chris Song), Joe N. Brown, James Hatton and Daniel Zhao

ESSAYS: Wong Kwok Kui (translator: Chris Song), Antony Dapiran, Danica van de Velde, Brian Ng and Melanie Ho

INTERVIEW: Chris Patterson, Jason S. Polley and Madeleine Thien

CREATIVE NON-FICTION: Ting J Yiu

PHOTOGRAPHY & ART: Zoran Poposki (cover artist), Kingsley Ng, Stephanie Cheung, Bruce Brown, Po Wah Lam and Aaron Anfinson (cover artist)

BOOK REVIEWS: Douglas Kerr, Jason S Polley, Michael Tsang, Abraham Overbeeke, Mike Ingham, Natalie Liu, Jason Y. Ng, Matt Turner, Vivian Tang, Janice Tsang, Ray Hecht, Liz Wan, Judy Wu, Bill Lantry, Nicholas Chan and Joyce Lau

FILM REVIEWS: Karen Fang and Susan Blumberg-Kason


(Cover art: "Hong Kong Atlas 3" by Zoran Poposki.)

Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine Issue 39-40 is available at the Eslite Bookstore (CWB and Tai Koo) and the Hong Kong Reader Bookstore (Mongkok).

December 02, 2017

Rise Art Prize 2018 Shortlist


Zoran Poposki has been shortlisted for the Rise Art Prize 2018 in London. His work was reviewed by the expert regional judging panel and chosen in the 1% of almost 16,000 submissions of artists per region to be shortlisted. 


The regional judges panel included: Audrey Yeo (Founder and Director of Yeo Workshop Gallery, Singapore), Emilya Colliver (Founder and Director of Art Pharmacy Consulting and Art Pharmacy online, Australia), Nathalie Johnston (Founder and Director of Myanm/art, Myanmar), Amelia Abdullahsani (curator, art advisor and collector, CEO of the advisory firm Ameliorate International, UK), Alice Russotti (researcher, Singapore), Mandy d'Abo (Founder and Director of Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong), and Vicky Xu (Founder and CEO of Areteos Art Consultancy, Hong Kong).

All regional finalists will be invited to exhibit up to two works at the Rise Art Prize international art exhibition in central London next year. There the global judging panel will decide who becomes our Global Artist of the Year and wins the £10,000 cash prize. The final judging panel is looking very impressive, with names including Gavin Turk, Harland Miller, Fiona Banner and David Bailey.


December 01, 2017

Artist Talk at the Kowloon City Book Fair


2017 Kowloon City Book Fair

The Moving Homeland: Reimagining Hong Kong Culture While Translating Macedonian Poetry
Guest Speakers:Marija Todorova, Zoran Poposki, Huang Yu
Host:Kong Kei Wing
Date:17/12/2017 (Sun)
Time:16:00-18:00
Venue:HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, 2/F Library

Organizers: Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine / Musical Stone Culture Ltd.
Language:English (Supplemented with Cantonese)


聲光如書頁 -從寫作閲讀到電影及其他藝術
嘉賓:麥華嵩,周漢輝
主持:周鉑陶
日期:17/12/2017(日)
時間:14:00-16:00
地點:香港兆基創意書院 1/F 多用途室

主辦團體: 聲韻詩刊 Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine 石磬文化

October 03, 2017

Crossing Border ︳Border Crossing — International Festival Of Intermedia

Images courtesy MOST
Date: 9 - 21/10/2017 * 
Time: 11:00 - 22:00 
Location: L0, L1 Gallery; L2-L8 Blue Wall and Public Space; JCCAC, Hong Kong

Crossing Border_Border Crossing - International Festival of Intermedia is a cross-media art festival for Hong Kong and international artists for experimental arts. The festival is hosted by MOST and brings to Hong Kong nearly 30 artists with almost a hundred pieces of work. The festival covers the range of contemporary art, including architectural concepts, video, new media, space-sound devices, live art, theatre performances, and various forms of transformation and extension. The festival emphasizes the physical and iconic boundaries of the city. (Mo (ve) ment "), which is the main platform for Hong Kong and overseas art workers to explore and create public spaces and ideas. The core program will be held from October 6 to October 21, 2017 at the Shek Kip Mei Jockey Club Creative Art Center JCCAC, To Kwa Wan's Cottage Art Village CDAV, North Point Oil Street Real Oi!, Central Hong Kong Vision Art Center vA !, Jockey Club Creative Art Center Black Box Theater BBT, and Hong Kong Space Museum.



DATE
OCTOBER 6-21, 2017 (HONGKONG) FESTIVAL CURATORS Andrew LAM (Hong Kong) WANG Jing (New York-Shenzhen) Donna YUEN Man Hei (Hong Kong)

SCHEDULES VENUES PROGRAM 2017 CORE X PARALLEL PROGRAMS SEP 16- OCT 3 2017 10 - 18 “SILK ROAD- Portal to World Imagination’ XI’AN ART MUSEUM-CHINA Exhibition and International Forum OCT 6 (FRI) 15 - 17 Overnight UIC-Zhuhai University-CHINA Repulse Bay-HONG KONG International Forum of Crossing Border @ MOST 9 (MON) - 21 11 - 20 JCCAC-HONG KONG L0 L1 GALLERY EXHIBITION 6-7 (SET-UP) 6-8 (Fri-Sun) 12 - 18 vA! (Visual Art Centre) VIDEO SCREENING 8 (SUN) 9 - 12 Oi! PERFORMANCE-DISCUSSION  8 (SUN) 14 - 17:30 vA! TALK X PERFORMANCE 8 (SUN) 21 - 24 MOST-JCCAC SLIDE SHOW OF FESTIVAL ARTISTS (OPEN) 9 (MON) 14 - 17 17 - 18:30 18:30 - 19:30 JCCAC L1 CENTRAL COURTYARD JCCAC L1 GALLERY JCCAC L1 GALLERY PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL FORUM FESTIVAL OPENING & COCKTAIL RECEPTION 9 (MON) 20 - 23 WAH FAT INDUSTRIAL CENTRE, KWAI HING (ROOFTOP) VIDEO SCREENING, STUDIO VISIT & BBQ NIGHT (Coach departs at 7:30pm from JCCAC to Kwai Hing) RSVP 9802-9440 10 (TUE)-21 11 - 18 CATTLE DEPOT ARTIST VILLAGE (CDAV) SPACE N2, 8 N5 (OCT 10 ~15) & PUBLIC SPACE EXHIBITION--WORKSHOP-PERFORMMANCE- OPENING RECEPTION (5PM) 10 (TUE) 14 - 17 CDAV PUBLIC SPACE PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE-WORKSHOP (Coach departs at 7:00pm from CDAV to JCCAC) 10 (TUE) 20 - 22 JCCAC L0 BBT BLACK BOX THEATRE PERFORMANCE/ EXTENDED MEDIA 14 (SAT) 10:30 - 13 HONG KONG SPACE MUSEUM FILM/ VIDEO SCREENING 11 (WED) 16 - 17 OCAT-SHENZHEN-CHINA* ONE-Hour Group PERFORMANCE 
OCT 9 – NOV 4 10 - 22 JCCAC COMMON SPACES INSTALLATION, PAINTING, DRAWING   Artists coming to HK are marked by # below JCCAC! JOCKEY CLUB CREATIVE ARTS CENTR (http://www.jccac.org.hk) L0 GALLERY OCT 8 (SUN) – 21 11AM - 8 PM MEDIA INSTALLATION 4 Cornelia ERDMANN (Berlin-Hong Kong), Andio LAI (Hong Kong), Conny ZENK (Viennia), Julia HENDRICKSON (Vancouver), Andreas GUSKOS (Szczecin) L1 GALLERY OCT 8 (SUN) – 21 11 AM - 8 PM PHOTOGRAPHY, INSTALLATION, MIXED-MEDIA CHEUNG Wai Ying Steffi (Hong Kong), CHIU Ching Yi (Hong Kong), Edward CHEUNG (Hong Kong), Sharon LAI Sze Long (Hong Kong), LAI Chun Ling (Hong Kong), Jolans FUNG (Hong Kong), Levina CHAN (Hong Kong), CHEUNG Kit Yin (Hong Kong), Veron SUNG (Hong Kong), Liv TSIM (Hong Kong), daDa (Zhuhai), LIANG Jiawen (Hong Kong), Zoran POPOSKI (Hong Kong), Delphine RICHER (Burgundy), YANG Rochelle (Taipei-Hong Kong), O Jin Sun (Incheon), SHIN Gyung Jin (Seoul), Shannoh WALSH (Vancouver) L1 CENTRAL COURTYARD OCT 9 (MON) 2 - 5PM 11 PERFORMANCE Video: Janice TO (Hong Kong), Anita CHENG (Hong Kong) Performance: LEE Tal (Incheon#), Rolf HINTERECKER (Cologne#), Thomas ZOLLINGER (Biel#), Stanley FEVRIER (Montreal#), Philippe CHARMES (Paris-Hong Kong), Joyce CHAN (Hong Kong), WONG Wai Yim (Paris-Hong Kong), O Jin Sun (Seoul#), LIU Xiang Lin (Shenzhen#), Agnes BEAR (Hong Kong), Yero NG (Hong Kong), Daisuke Takeya (Toronto-Tokyo#), PUN Xing Lei (Hong Kong-Beijing#), Becky BO (London), Anita CHENG (Hong Kong)

MO
VEMENT- MEDIATING A MOMENT IN TIME AND A MOVEMENT IN HISTORY The FESTIVAL 2017 questions, twists and manipulates the meanings of MOMENT and MOVEMENT. While the FESTIVAL may create seminal/ visual objects of curiosity, complexity and ideas for speculation, it is not simply a moment of ‘art attack’. The second praxis of the FESTIVAL 2017 embraces platforms/ methodologies of pedagogy for public mediation and it forges co-extensive spaces and initiatives for such co-participants as artists, educators, school-cum-public learners to develop self, interactive or constructive learning. The FESTIVAL 2017 focuses on “MO(VE)MENT” and it accredits our daily gesture, attitude, act of identity, self/ co-existence, difference, intervention, detachment, escapism, nomadism. Every moment or movement in our daily life, or resistance to localization, globalization, or its hybrid mix (glocalism) is celebrated. The FESTIVAL makes every participatory moment count and makes every momentary memory further-lingering. Together the artists explore the extension of art form and kinaesthetic awareness, investigating the intelligence of visual and body form, and their intervention in space. The image/ imagined/ imaginary of each project restructures the relationship between the MOMENT of intervention and MOVEMENT bearing enduring thought-practice. Every frozen, visualized or performative moment embraces its intrinsic and intuitive value and the FESTIVAL brings this value further to public understanding or historical impact. “MOVEMENT” not only presents images or attitudes existing in “the current moment of space-time”, it supports projects with thought-discussion in “the (art, culture, urban, …) movement of the past or future” as well. The dialogical platform is not simply intending to renew a page in the ontology of history or globalism, nor spearheading geo-political culture towards a movement encompassing collateral event at the expense of discourse; rather, it emerges from a speculation with OUR TIME and a dialogue with history IN THE EVERYDAY. 


INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON CROSSING-BORDER BORDER-CROSSING | International Festival of Intermedia 2017
L1 CENTRAL COURTYARD- JCCAC Art Village
OCT 9 (MON) 5:00 - 6:30PM
EXHIBITION & POST-PERFORMANCE DISCUSSION


The forum brings the discourse of the crossing-border phenomenon to the centre of discussion, focusing on artworks or their branching-out ideas which narrate their connection and possibilities with other artworks in enacting or refreshing heritage and urban spaces, be they banal, unused, pop-up, or alternative. The forum is a new glocal mediated and/ or body-derived platform where the rich heterogeneity of cultural production is experienced as imaginative metaphor non-definitive.
The festival forum aims at assisting the co-participants to explore ways on how the conventional demarcation of space-time, global-local strategy can be transgressed, and how the local praxes can be positively assimilated to world-view experiments to create new, shared experience.
Tragectories of Platform:
1. The Phenomena of Population Migration, Border Issue, Aesthetic and the broader
2. Trans/ Inter/ Cross-media of the Festival
Forum Discussants (tentative):
1. Andrew LAM, (Hong Kong) Independent Writer and Curator, Adviser of Art, National Grand Theatre-China, Festival Director (Chair)
2. Dr. Rochelle YANG (Taipei-Hong Kong), Director of Visual Studies MA Program, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Moderator)
3. Andy TAM (Zhuhai), Assistant Professor, Beijing Normal University, Hong Kong Baptist University United International College, Artist of the 2016 Crossing Border Festival (Moderator)
4. Enoch CHEUNG (Hong Kong), Artist of the 2016 Crossing Border Festival
5. Valerie VIVANCOS (Paris), Sound and Performance Artist, Composer
6. Dr Zoran POPOSKI (Macedonia-Hong Kong), Creative Media Studies, Hong Kong University of Education)
7. Dr. HUNG Keung (Hong Kong), Curator, New Media and Ink Artist; Associate Professor of Hong Kong University of Education
8. WANG Jing (New York-Shenzhen), Independent and Guest Curator of Festival
9. Liane DITZER (Cologne), Performance Network Researcher
10. Donna YUEN Manhei (Hong Kong), Independent and Guest Curator of Festival
11. Jeff LEUNG (Hong Kong), Independent Art Critic and Curator
12. Dagmar I.Glausnitzer-SMITH (Berlin), Director of Berlin Performance Art Week.

September 12, 2017

Global Art Awards Finalist


Zoran Poposki is Finalist in the Global Art Awards 2017 in association with The Wall Street Journal, in the Painting Award category with his artwork X (Vision of Vladimir Ilyich and Two Angels on the Island of San Lazzaro degli Armeni as Recorded by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo)

The Global Art Awards, to be presented on 17 November 2017 at the Burj Khalifa, Armani Hotel Dubai - are the international Awards for the Visual Arts. They were created to honor and generate public recognition of the achievements and positive contributions of artists, galleries, and art professionals worldwide.


Courtesy The Global Art Awards 2017

Global Art Awards judges include some of the world's most respected art professionals, art collectors, gallery owners, art critics, art entrepreneurs and local emiratie high profile society, including members of the Middle East Art Collector Association.  The Global Art Awards harnesses the insights and talents of more than 10 judges every year. This year the jury includes: Mahmood Bin Karam Al Farsi (UAE, Commercial Director Arab Fashion Council, Manager for Abu Dhabi Media. Jury Member of the UAE Government. Film Producer at Keller Edde Studios, Los Angeles, California), Sophie Neuendorf (USA, Artnet Director, Gallery Network & Partnerships), José Ignació Ruiz Caparrós (China, President at Anacart & Caelis Gallery), Cristoph Noe (Hong Kong, LarrysList / Art Collector Society Contributor at Forbes, Art & Culture), Joobin Bekhrad (Toronto, Award-winning writer, Founder and Editor of REORIENT, Guest Editor of Columbia University’s Columbia Journal), Daryl Goh (Singapore, Founding Curator at NPE Art), Jean Minguet (France, ArtPrice Head Economist & Art Market Analyst), Ghada Kunash (UAE, Founder of The Workshop - Dubai. Art Gallery owner Fann - A' - Porter).

September 05, 2017

Voice & Verse cover feature

Image courtesy Voice & Verse and the artist
The new issue of 聲韻詩刊 Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine in Hong Kong features cover art by Zoran Poposki, the work on paper Alma (Goethe in Kurbinovo) from the series Theoria.  

August 30, 2017

Exhibition in China



Silk Road Imagination Journey Exhibition
Curated by: Andrew Lam

Xi'an Art Museum (西安美术馆)
西安市曲江新区大唐不夜城贞观文化广场
Xi'an
CN
September 16th - October 1st
Opening: September 16th 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Artists: Ling Beadman, Robert Cahen, Frank Chan, Sarawut Chutiwongpeti, Jose Drummond, William Furlong, Andreas Guskos, Nguyen Thuy Hang, Chu Haopei, Rolf Hinterecker, Selh Husein, Wang Hsin Jen, Hybrid Space Lab, Joein Leong, Kay Mei, Lisa Park, Zoran Poposki, Minka Stoyanova, Li Tal


《絲路:世界想像旅程》展覽開幕式暨主題論壇
邀請函
非常尊敬的 Andreas Guskos,Nguyen Thuy Hang, 趙靜怡, Chu Haopei, Conny Zenk x Matthias Hurt x Daniel Aschwanden , Rolf Hinterecker, 譚達強, 譚倩婷, Frank Chan, HYBRID SPACE LAB , Joein Leong, Jose Drummond, 蔣志, Kay Mei Ling Beadman, Li Tal, 劉青, 白夜,D-Print Painting, 和麗斌, Lisa Park, Minka Stoyanova, Oahgnuh x Ielnay, Pradeep Chandrasiri, Rashid Rana, Robert Cahen, Saleh Husein, Sarawut Chutiwongpeti, Siddharth Choudhary,徐珺, 黃宏達, Wang Hsin Jen, William Furlong, Zoran Poposki, 徐坦, 姚瑞中 先生/女士

為了促進當代藝術的發展和多國之間的文化交流,陝西省文化廳、西安曲江新區管理委員會和西安美術館共同主辦“絲路:世界想像旅程展覽開幕式暨主題論壇”,此次活動得到了國際著名藝術家、學者等各界的大力支持,我們相信本次展覽活動的舉辦不僅可以鼓勵國內外藝術家的藝術交流和探討,而且也能帶來其它長久而深遠的影響。
《絲路:世界想像旅程》展覽開幕式將於2017年9月9日在西安美術館舉行。與此同時,舉辦為期一天的國際學術主題論壇。期間來自國內外的10多位藝術家、學者將參與本次開幕式及論壇,本次活動的舉辦必將進一步推動社會和藝術界對中國乃至國際當代藝術的重視和支援。

Xi’an Art Museum is one of the largest art museums recently built in China and attracts 800,000 visitors a year. The lot size of the museum is 17,000 square meters including two exhibiting galleries. Introducing international contemporary art to China is one of the museum’s crucial strategies. Since its opening, the museum has hosted more than sixty exhibitions, including Graphic Design Biennale China Germany 2009 (2009), solo exhibition of Käthe Kollwitz (2010), Marcriboud Retrospective (2010), 2010 Germany Contemporary Art Exhibition (2010), Contemporary Art from The British Council Collection 1980-2010 (2011), solo exhibition of Fang Lijun, 20 years Retrospective Exhibition of 1991 San Diego Chinese Artistic Creation Seminar (2011), Masterpieces from The Warburton Indigenous Art Collection Australia (2011), and solo exhibition of Jannis Kounellis (2012).