About the Event
Chasing the City Frames: from Hong Kong to Houston
Opening reception:
Emergency Room Gallery
Thursday, January 31
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
The Emergency Room, a project of the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts, is happy to present new works by four Hong Kong artists in a group exhibition. The works will be exhibited at the Emergency Room gallery, located in room 402, Sewall Hall, Rice University. The exhibition will be on view January 31 - March 24, 2019.
The event is free and open to the public.
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Chasing the City Frames: from Hong Kong to Houston
The famous Cantonese saying: “Having the time to die, but no time to be sick,” perfectly describes the living and working condition of many Hong Kong people.
It is pathetic, indeed.
“Chasing the City Frames: from Hong Kong to Houston” brings freeze-frame images from stop motion animations made by four Hong Kong artists, ruminating about their hometown to Houston, and allow some of these frames to start a new journey in a new narrative.
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About the Artists
Clara CHEUNG
Born in Hong Kong, Clara Cheung is the founder of C&G Artpartment, an eleven-year-old alternative art space in Hong Kong. Her art-making and curatorial practices critically address various social issues and intend to fill up the crack in the art of ecology in the local context. Recent projects of C&G include Not as Trivial as You Think: Shanghai Art Quiz in 2018’s Shanghai Biennale.
CHENG Yee Man (Gum)
Born in Hong Kong, Gum has curated more than 100 art exhibitions, educational programme, seminars, exchange programme since the year of 2000. As one of the founders of C&G Artpartment, his curatorial directions mainly criticize politics, social issues and art eco-system. His artworks explore various media like paining, drawing, performance, stop-motion animation, photography, video and installation.
Lau Ching-wa (Jess)
Was born in Hong Kong in 1991. She explores the fading time, self memories and the ever changing urban landscapes as subject matters, focuses on the qualities of different medias and the possibilities of their textures. She usually works with moving images, animation and installation.
Lam Kin Choi
Lam was born in 1988 and is an artist based in Hong Kong. He graduated in 2012 from the School of Creative Media, the City University of Hong Kong, a major at the Critical Intermedia Laboratory. He works in different mediums such as moving image, installation and drawing and his art mainly focuses on the intimate aspects of our daily life, while seeking elements of mystery.
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About the Emergency Room
Situated in a 9’x13’ former office, the Emergency Room is a gallery exhibiting contemporary art within the context of the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts at Rice University. Offering a BA in studio art, film and photography or theatre, the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts is in the midst of a renaissance - visual culture at Rice has never been more dynamic than it is right now.
For additional information and directions please visit vada.rice.edu
Press inquiries should contact Associate Professor Christopher Sperandio at sperandio@rice.edu
