Paper Offerings Culture in Hong Kong and Its Future — Conversation between Foreign and Local Artists
Conference / Lecture
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Date
16 Feb 2023
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Organiser
School of Design
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Time
18:30 - 20:00
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Venue
V302, Jockey Club Innovation Tower, 3/F, Block V, PolyU Map
Speaker
Chris Gaul
King-Chung Siu
Rosanna Li Wei-han
Enquiry
School of Design sdmktg@polyu.edu.hk
Summary
The world of paper offerings is a microcosm of Hong Kong that reflects the city's aspirations, obsessions and desires. Yet the public pays little attention on its cultural connotation. Australian artist Chris Gaul photographed and curated a selection of paper offerings and wrote an enchanting book For Heaven's Sake, showcasing their ingenious and creative designs in the eyes of a foreigner. In this talk, he will invite two local cross-disciplinary artists King-Chung Siu and Rosanna Li for a conversation on the paper offerings culture, and will give a reading guide for the design students.
Event Format: In-Person
Language: English
Registration Deadline: 14 Feb 2023
Successful registrants will receive a confirmation email and a valid QR code to enter the campus (for external visitors only) before the event.
Keynote Speaker
Chris Gaul
Author of For Heaven's Sake, Hong Kong's Paper Offerings for the Afterlife (joing via Zoom)
A visual designer, writer and curator who takes a particular interest in the material culture of East Asia. He was born in Australia and over the past fifteen years has lived and worked in Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China. He studied Design and International Studies at the University of Technology and Chinese language and culture at Yunnan Normal University in Kunming and National Cheng Kung University in Tainan. In addition to working as a visual designer, he teaches at the UTS School of Design, curates exhibitions and writes and lectures on material culture and design.
King-Chung Siu
Chair of Community Museum Project
An art and design commentator, an installation artist, an independent curator, King is actively involved in arts policy and art/design curriculum development in Hong Kong. As past-President of the Hong Kong Society for Education in Art and a founding member of the installation group NUX, King loves to produce experimental videos, explore possible forms and approaches for installation art, as well as initiate collaboration among students, teachers, designers and artists through curating exhibitions and publishing projects, such as 'The Blackbox Exercise', 'Journey to the East '98', “Lo Ting Archeology”, 'Home Affairs', 'Cityscapes Reading Guide', 'Designs You Don't Know What to Do With', and “In Search of Marginalized Wisdom”, etc.. He co-founded the Designs You Don’t Know What to Do With Association and the Community Museum Project in 2002 & 2003 respectively. King led the Art and Design in Education and Social Design Programmes of the School of Design and was Associate Professor and Associate Dean of the School before his retirement from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in May 2022.
Rosanna Li Wei-han
Hong Kong Artist
osanna is a ceramic artist and an art & design educator. She taught at the School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University between 1990 and 2016. Some of her life-size public art works are currently on display in Yau Tong MTR Station, Lee Tung Avenue in Wanchai, and the Hong Kong International Airport. She is a collector of paper shoes for the deceased, and part of her collection was shown in the “Supermarket of the Dead,” an exhibition curated by Prof. Wolfgang Scheppe, at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden Museum, Dresden, Germany in 2015.
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