March 28–31, 2018
38 Museum Drive, Kowloon
Hong Kong
Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 10am–6pm,
Friday 10am–10pm
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M+ booth at Art Basel Hong Kong
The M+ booth at Art Basel Hong Kong invites visitors to explore Hong Kong’s new museum of visual culture. It features videos and information about the Herzog and de Meuron-designed museum building under construction, the growing M+ collections and ongoing exhibition and participatory programmes. There will also be Meet M+ Curators and Conservators sessions, where visitors can learn more about the M+ team and their work. M+ curators will also take part in a number of Art Basel’s Conversations and Salon discussions.
Other M+ events taking place during the fair include, a choral performance related to the exhibition Samson Young: Songs for Disaster Relief World Tour on March 28 and 30 at Theatre 2 in the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, and the Wikipedia edit-a-thon on women in art in Asia at the Asia Art Archive booth on March 30.
Date: March 28–31
Venue: P8, L1 Concourse, outside Hall 1C, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
www.westkowloon.hk/artbasel2018
Samson Young: Songs for Disaster Relief World Tour
Co-presented by M+ and the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Samson Young: Songs for Disaster Relief World Tour is the Hong Kong edition of the exhibition Songs for Disaster Relief conceived by Hong Kong-based multidisciplinary artist Samson Young for the 57th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale 2017. Featuring a series of sculptures, objects, videos, and site-specific sound installations, the exhibition offers a unique audiovisual experience that re-examines the popularity of charity singles from the 1980s. Creatively repurposing and misreading iconic songs made by popular artists for charitable causes, Young draws on seemingly unrelated past and current events to explore the social, political, and philosophical implications of a past cultural phenomenon in a cross-cultural context.
Date: March 28–31
Time: 11am–6pm
Venue: M+ Pavilion, West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong
www.westkowloon.hk/songsfordiasterrelief
ICA, with M+ and Hong Kong Arts Centre present: films by Trinh T Minh-ha
On March 28 and 29, in partnership with the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London and the Hong Kong Arts Centre, M+ presents a short screening programme of three works by the filmmaker, writer, theorist, and composer Trinh T Minh-ha.
Hugely influential in the fields of feminism and postcolonial studies through her writing and moving image work, Vietnamese-born, US-based Trinh T. Minh-ha has been invited to Hong Kong during Art Basel Hong Kong by the ICA. During her stay she will attend the two-night screening and discussion programme to talk about her work. The screenings feature the three films: The Fourth Dimension (2001), Forgetting Vietnam (2015) and Reassemblage (1982).
Date: March 28–29
Venue: Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
www.westkowloon.hk/filmsbyTrinhTMinhha
M+ Rover
On 31 March, M+ Rover, the customised travelling creative studio and exhibition space, tours to the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Piazza with the pop-up exhibition Thing beyond Things. Co-created by artist Ng Ka Chun and local secondary students, the exhibition shows how everyday objects can be transformed and given an imaginative new form and purpose.
Date: March 31
Venue: Hong Kong Cultural Centre Piazza, Hong Kong
www.westkowloon.hk/mplusrover
