Lamma Mia
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Date
09 Aug 2022
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Organiser
Department of Chinese Culture
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Time
19:30 - 21:00
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Venue
Online via ZOOM
Speaker
Anthony Leung Po Shan
Moderator: Kathy Mak
Enquiry
An Kwok yukan.kwok@polyu.edu.hk
Summary
In recent years, Hong Kong has witnessed a growing interest in reinforcing the research components in community art projects, especially those that take place in rural areas, including island, as a site for artistic experiment and social regeneration. Initiated and co-curated by art practitioner Anthony Leung Po-shan, herself a resident of Hong Kong’s Lamma Island, “Lamma Mia” brings an insufficiently explored island studies perspective to research-based art project. This talk sheds light on how the project’s relational aesthetic approach reveals the inseparability of the land and the sea in forming Lamma Island’s unique local community and cultural landscape. Ultimately, this project invites the audience to reconsider Hong Kong as a place characteristically grounded on a high ratio of land-sea interface.
Keynote Speaker
Anthony Leung Po Shan
Independent researcher and curator
Leung is an acclaimed art practitioner in Hong Kong; her research interests include contemporary art, cultural politics, and the creative industries. In the past two years, she has dedicated herself to the new realm of island studies. For which she has received a grant from the Lord Wilson Heritage Trust to conduct research about the coastal village on Lamma Island she is living; and is the co-curator of the research-based public art project titled Lamma Mia, which took place in Spring 2022.
Moderator: Kathy Mak
