(Chinese text below) HART Social Studio Showcase “#Ew! Normal?” presents an exciting opportunity to visit the space where 17 artists of diverse backgrounds explore synergetic art practices and create a community of their own. This particular showcase brings up the question of what it means to be ‘social’ in the ‘socially distanced era’.
Visitors will not only have the opportunity to view displayed artwork from each of the artists, but also have the chance to be welcomed into the private workstations of the participating artists. The showcase also consists of the dialogues and dynamics arising in the art ecosystem.
The opening of the showcase will be at 6pm, 20 November (Friday) with a collective performance; rethinking the community building ethos of HART Haus. The showcase will also include a workshop to reveal how both communal and individual narratives are created from participant photographs, and will occur on 28 November (Saturday). Lastly, online panel discussion and live studio will occur on 9 January (Saturday), and the online performance will occur on 6 February (Saturday). They will involve the participating artists and the members of the collective performance to examine a deeper meaning the social within contemporary art practice.
The showcase will open to the public from 20 November 2020 until 5 February 2021. Prior to visiting, make sure to reserve a timeslot 24 hours in advance at the top of this page. We look forward to showcasing the social with you through these final days of a most abnormal year.
Artist List (Surname in Alphabetical Order)
Nadim Abbas, Ane Alfeiran, BH, Damian Boylan, Cindy Chan, Tap Chan, Chui Pui-Chee, Kora Kwok, Jen Yoohyun Lee (The Buoy), Cassie Kaixin Liu, Marty Miller (The Buoy), Doris Ng, Herman Rahman, Sharu Binnong Sikdar, Amy Maria Tong, KC Wong, and Wu Jiaru
HART 匯舍展示《#Ew! Normal?》將是一場拜訪創意工作室的刺激體驗—在這裡17個藝術家背景各異，協力探索藝術創作，並共構創意社群。這場工作室展示將探討在「社交距離」的時代中，何謂「社交」。
訪客不單可以觀覽每位藝術家的作品，更能參觀參展藝術家的私人工作區。活動將致力展現一個藝術生態中，蘊釀的對話和動態。
《#Ew! Normal?》將於2020年11月20日（五）下午六時開幕，並設有集體表演活動，反思 HART Haus 構建社群的精神。《#Ew! Normal?》同時將於11月28日（六）舉辦工作坊，以群眾的相片揭示集體和個人的故事。壓軸的是1月9日（六）的線上講座和工作室直播、以及2月6日（六）的線上表演，屆時將邀請參展藝術家和表演活動的成員，探討當代藝術創作中社交的深層意義。
而工作室將於2020年11月20日至2021年2月5日開放予公眾參觀。拜訪前請先於至少24小時前在上面的網頁報名。期待在這個不尋常的一年的最後日子，為你展示社群！
參與藝術家（按姓氏排列）
唐納天、Ane Alfeiran、BH、Damian Boylan、陳樹貞、陳沁昕、徐沛之、Kora Kwok、Jen Yoohyun Lee (The Buoy)、劉開炘、Marty Miller (The Buoy)、吳玳誼、Herman Rahman、Sharu Binnong Sikdar、Amy Maria Tong、黃家銓、吳佳儒
Address 地址
HART Haus, Cheung Hing Industrial Building, 12P Smithfield, Kennedy Town
堅尼地城士美菲路 12P 祥興工業大廈 3 樓 HART Haus
Live Studio 工作室直播《Bridging Be-sides》
Time and Date 時間和日期: 17:00 - 18:00, 9/1/2021 (Sat 六)
Panelists: BH, Jen Yoohyun Lee, Marty Miller, Toi Yee Doris Ng
Language 語言: English 英文
Online Performance 線上表演《Be-sides》
Time and Date 時間和日期: 15:00 - 18:00, 6/2/2021 (Sat 六)
Panelists: Ane Alfeiran, BH, Jen Yoohyun Lee, Cassie Kaixin Liu, Marty Miller, Toi Yee Doris Ng, Herman Rahman, Amy Maria Tong, Jade Cheung, Michelle Chu, Judy Kong, Herman Lau, Liren Stanley Shi, Gigi Tang, Edith Tso, Quinn Wong, Yoshino Wong
Language 語言: English 英文
“Be-sides'' is an experimental project. Our aim is to confront and reflect upon our own art practices through the audiences and the platform - “Ew! Normal?” during the 2020 HART Haus showcase, which has now been extended to 5 Feb 2021. This is a co-articulated performance between the Hausians (artists), docents, and the HART team.
After the first performance at the opening of the showcase “Ew! Normal?”, the second part of the performance has been postponed a few times due to the heightened Covid-19 measures. Part 2 of the performance is now scheduled to take place on 6 Feb 2021. “Bridging Be-sides” is an intimate virtual event to bridge the two parts of the performance. This is to be broadcasted via Instagram live through our social platforms and 4 artists’ personal accounts on 9 Jan 2021, from 5 to 6pm Hong Kong time.
“Bridging Be-sides” joins the first part - in-person encounters with artists through the docents in the studio space - and second part of the performance - online encounters and poignant perceptive discussions amongst the participants. “Bridging Be-sides” invites audiences across the globe to have a peek into the working process of four artists - BH, Doris Ng, Marty Miller and Jen Yoohyun Lee. This live open studio will last an hour. Here, the audience can have a real-time rendezvous with the artists’ work-in-progress, from the artists’ points of view. What is on live will be the hands of the four artists, busily working on their own painting, multi-media art, photography and narrative art projects. Yet, we hope to subtly blur the lines between participant and artist, therefore asking what it is to view each other normally within this strange time. This curated approach to the social provides a view of the artmaking process and evokes interest for Part 2 of “Be-sides”, occurring on February 6th!
《Be-sides》是一個實驗性項目。我們的目標是透過觀眾和2020年HART匯舍展示《Ew! Normal?》這個平台（節目已延長至2021年2月5日），對抗和反省我們的藝術創作手段。這將是一個由Hausian（藝術家）、導賞員、和HART團隊共同推動的表演。
自《Ew! Normal?》開幕日的第一場表演後，第二場表演活動因疫情被推延數次。第二場表演現將在2021年2月6日舉行。而《Bridging Be-sides》這場親密的線上活動，將是連接兩場表演的橋樑。活動將在2021年1月9日，香港時間下午5至6時，在我們的社交平台和4位藝術家的個人社交帳戶上直播。
《Bridging Be-sides》連接了表演的第一部分—在工作室空間透過導賞員接觸藝術家；以及第二部分—參加者在網上動人演譯的討論活動。《Bridging Be-sides》希望邀請世界各地的參加者窺探四位藝術家—BH、吳玳誼、Marty Miller和Jen Yoohyun Lee—的創作過程。直播將時長一小時。觀眾將能以藝術家的視點，與藝術家正在創作的作品實時相遇。直播將是展示四位藝術家，動手創作繪畫、多媒體藝術、攝影，以及敍述性的藝術項目。然而，我們希望低調地模糊參加者和藝術家的界線，從而質問在這不正常的時代中如何正常地互相對待。這個對社交的策劃方式將為2月6日舉行、第二部分的《Be-sides》提供觀賞藝術創作過程的角度，勾起對活動的興趣。
Online Panel Discussion 線上講座
《Sharing on Social Studio, Showcase and Art Interpretation 分享有關匯舍、匯舍展示，以及藝文界的演繹傳釋》
Time and Date 時間和日期: 16:30 - 17:00, 9/1/2021 (Sat 六)
Language 語言: Cantonese 廣東話 / English 英文
Sharing Facilitator 分享專員: Jeannie Wu 胡津如 (Director of HART 總監), Committees of “Ew! Normal?” 《Ew! Normal?》團隊成員
This session is a casual sharing on serious topics responding to the recent collaborative works that Hausians realised with HART, we hope to engage you with this interesting interactive session.
是次輕鬆分享會關注一些認真的題目，以回應近期 Hausians 與 HART 的種種協作。希望你的參與、跟我們多一點互動能夠豐富探討，開展大家有創意兼有趣的旅程。
Hausian Herman’s Archive Workshop
匯舍藝術家 Herman 的檔案工作坊
16:00 - 18:30, 28/11/2020 (Sat 六)
Idea developed and hosted by
工作坊意念及主辦
Herman Rahman
The aims of the workshop is to expand ideas around the archive, the limits, potential and looking at an archive as a departure point in one's practice. The workshop looks to view an archive as a means of not only preserving the past, but about modes of sharing the common. Participants are encouraged to build an archive, with the eventual goal of building up narratives using a common pool of images. The ideas around the workshop include authorship. multimodality, and appropriation, including the application of the archive in an art practice.
這個工作坊希望拓展關於檔案（Archive）的概念、界限，以及潛能，將檔案視為實踐的起點。這個工作坊嘗試將檔案看待成不只是紀錄過往，更是一種分享共同點的模式。參加者嘗試建立檔案，務求使用共同的影像庫敍事。工作坊的意念將包括著作權、多模態、以及挪用，包括將檔案應用在藝術創作上。
Objectives
Exchange of image and ideas
Reflection on an archive as an intersection of community and narrative building
Collective and individual memories and modes of seeing and remembering
Representational strategies
Requirement for the participants
Bring 20 printed photographs, with a single image not being any bigger than 4x6 inches
The photographs need not necessarily be taken by the participant
Examples include, but not limited to; vernacular images, portraits, landscapes, images from historic events.
工作坊目標
分享圖像和意念
反思檔案如何作為社群和建立敍事的交差點
創造集體和個人回憶，以及觀看和記念的方式
制定表徵策略（representational strategy）
參加者須知
請攜帶20張打印照片，每張不能超過4至6吋
照片不一定需要由參加者拍攝
例子包括（但不限於）：日常影像、肖像、風景、歷史照片