HART/Beat Newsletter - Issue 3 (Apr 2020)

Since the inception of HART Haus Social Studio* in 2018,  please join us in this interim reflection and assessment aiming to better the sustainable development of our project. Together, we hope to promote and evolve the communities that we formed and trust.

The key characteristic of Social Studio is the principle of value generation that fuels its dynamic realisations - such persistence forms the foundation for the collective experimental spirit and the individuals’ enrichment of artistic temperament. One of the things our team treasure most is the interactions between Hausians (HART Haus talents) inside the studio, for example during previous HART Hub social mixers, how artists shared their practices with one another, and those inspirations were reflected back on the latest artworks created by them. 

由2018年尾開始發展 HART Haus 匯舍* 至今，齊來作個小小回顧，旨在繼往開來持續發展這個項目，希望推廣我們團隊所組織和相信的社群。

匯舍有個特點，就是主軸精神原則始終不變，但實際操作及呈現方式一直幻化：HART 建基於創造價值，同時秉持實驗精神推進創意和藝術涵養。 HART團隊最為珍惜的，是Hausians（HART Haus藝術家）在工作室的種種交流。就像過往舉辦的HART Hub交流會，藝術家不吝互相分享自己的創作之道，所得啟發又再回饋於新作品的誕生上。

Based on what we co-created with the Hausians since late 2018, we can tell now HART Haus Social Studio have been developing as  specific site, as a space: it is like an experiment, or a pioneer, offering continuous inspirations and competing opportunities to its organising team and every stakeholder in the creative communities that we connected.

It is always easier said than done, especially when we still expect more feedback from the audience. Besides HART|Beat (the educational program launched that targets non-HART Haus users to participate, hence general public can gain a sense of HART from the interactions), all of the following programmes have demonstrated our determination in bridging with all ranges of communities and hubs.

• Cyanotype Workshop with Hong Kong Open Printshop

• Social mixer “HART Hub” co-hosted with HKU MBA class and Perfume Trees Gin

• Workshops launched by Make Scents outside of HART project spaces

Each participant gave us valuable insights. For example, the students of HKU MBA in the HART Hub are for sure interested in business administration, but many of them are actually curious in also how business and arts and cultures can co-exist and create synergy, which the event has provided them an opportunity to directly discuss with the creative talents, and therefore to learn about each other’s expertises. The participants of the workshops at Make Scents were interested in the previous experience of the artist Max Cheng in HART Haus Social Studio, and how the Social Studio explores the new model of artist studio. For the Hausians who participated in the cyanotype workshop and the workshops at Make Scents, they have expressed that the workshops have been providing them a chance to try out new mediums, which will be beneficial for their future practice of creation.

發展至今，我們與 Hausians 一起創造的匯舍開始演變成一個場所，亦可稱作一個空間，同時她也是個實驗，成為先河，給予團隊和跟我們連結的所有創意社群持續啟發和競爭機會。

說與知易而行難，尤其我們仍渴求有更多大眾的回饋。已推行的項目除了早前重點描述過的HART|Beat（讓非匯舍恆常使用者在工作者學習互動，感受我們的氣氛）、大家也能在以下的節目看到我們無間斷與匯舍外的大大小小社群緊密連繫：

• 與香港版畫工作室合辦的藍染工作坊

• 與港大 MBA 和白蘭樹下合作推出的 HART Hub 交流

• 由 Make Scents 團隊領班在 HART 地點以外推出的一連串工作坊

各參與者給予我們很多獨特的見解：例如參與 Hart Hub 的港大MBA的學生固然興趣在於工商管理，原來同時很多人好奇商業與藝術和文化如何融合和平衡，活動讓他們得以直接跟創作人士交流，互相認識各自的專業；Make Scents 工作坊的參加者則對於藝術家鄭志堅（Max）之前參與 HART Haus Social Studio 的經歷，以及 HART Haus 作為新模式的藝術家工作室感到興趣。至於參加了藍染工作坊和 Make Scents 工作坊的 Hausians 均表示，各式各樣的工作坊均讓他們探索了新的媒介，有助創作藝術。

HART team will make a holistic evaluation and assessment on Social Studio around August in summer, we hope soon we will be presenting to you all our insights gained from this core project by the end of the year, so to call upon more of your engagement and dialogues. Very much looking forward to you taking part in Social Studio activities with your roles defined by yourselves - we are now launching the Open Call for the Social Studio, please visit here for more details.

展望不久將來、預計暑期 8月，HART 團隊將再為匯舍作一整合性評估回顧，並希望在本年終能製作公開展示予各位參與交流。更期待大家以不同身份來 HART Haus 參與我們的匯舍的活動 - 現在匯舍正進行公開招募，詳情請參閱 這裡。

Riding on this review, we would like to THANK all the Hausians who inspire us all along:
藉此回顧，HART 團隊感謝各位 Hausians 的參與和啟發：

Nadim Abbas 唐納天, Ane Alfeiran, Shane Aspegren, Hugo Belloy, Raphaële de Broissia, Cindy Chan 陳樹貞, Clement Chan 陳偉邦, Geoff Chan 陳杰威, Tap Chan 陳沁昕, Max Cheng 鄭志堅, Un Cheng Yin Ngan 鄭燕垠, Joyce Chiang, Bouie Choi 蔡鈺娟, Jaime Chong, Chui Pui Chee 徐沛之, Espen Cook, Hiu K Studio, Alexis Holm, Angela Huang, Daniel Kamp, Kalina King, Ma Yujiang 馬玉江, Charlotte Mörling, Ng Ka Rick Garrick, Sheeta Ng 吳少慧, Antoine Rameau, Sharu Binnong Sikdar, Shinichi Tashiro, Amy Tong Ka Yan, Valeria, KC Wong, Natalie Wong 黃欣怡, Sharyn Wortman, Wu Jiaru 吳佳儒, Yang Hunan 楊虎男, Yuen Ka Yee Angela 阮家儀

有關 HART Haus 匯舍

匯舍是 HART Collective 成立的一個重點項目，旨在邀請駐港創意藝術專才投入恆常而密集的交流和積極的互動，以建設確立本土藝文生態的持續發展。HART Haus 是這個項目發生和進化的基地，着重發掘、探索與實踐藝術的手法及其多樣的可能性，並在過程中領略要訣和策略，成就各個規模和層次的計畫。

匯舍鼓勵藝術專才及各個社群成員（包括我們的伙伴及合作單位）在參與計畫的過程中秉持實驗精神，助益他們本身的成長及群體的組成。座談會、工作坊、作品展示（Showcase）等等的活動和概念呈現手法都是成員自發的合作成果。這個從前在堅尼地城的工業廠房，演變成現在靈活共享使用空間的工作室，獨特的環境引導創新、啟迪思維，銳意使創意工業更推進一步。此項目招募是循環制的，一期匯舍為期九個月，報名人士可詳閱我們提供的參與方案、按自身需要申報加入計畫。 歡迎各本地及國際駐港創意專才跟我們連結，共同為行業持續發展出心出力！期待跟大家協作營造具影響力及賦予人力量的社群集體。

About HART Haus Social Studio

By inviting Hong Kong-based creative talents specializing in arts to engage in intensive exchanges and dialogues, Social Studio is a core program initiated by HART Collective paving its way for sustainable development of the local art and cultural ecosystem. HART Haus is the space dedicated to such explorations of art practices and the discovery of new possibilities for creation process in the realisation of projects with various scales and spectrums in Hong Kong.

The aim of Social Studio is to foster talents by allowing them to explore, discover and experiment on their creative process, contributing to their own growth and the HART communities through dialogues, workshops and showcases that they initiate or collaborate with HART Collective partners. The flexible studio and salon spaces of this former factory floor in Hong Kong’s Kennedy Town district provide a favourable environment to promote innovations and develop new insights contributing to the creative industries. The program runs on a rolling basis with a typical period of 9 months as the standard duration for one session, talents applying to Social Studio will engage in a session for at least 3 months to a year, depending on the plan that they choose fitting their needs. The HART welcomes interest from local and international advocates to build a sustainable creative community with us! Let’s make this an empowering and impactful collective together.

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