Sustainability Art Talk V - “Celia Ko, From "That Moment Now", "Crated Memories" to Sha Lek Corner Public Art piece: An

Programme Detail 

Date: 2021.08.01 (Sun)

Time: 2:00 - 4:00pm

Venue: Sha Lek Corner (38 Sha Tin Wai Road, Sha Tin)

Free of Charge

*Seats are limited and will be allocated on a first-register, first-served basis. Online via Zoom with pre-registration

The talk will mainly be conducted in Cantonese. Summarised English transcription is available via the chat room function in Zoom. 

Registration link：https://bit.ly/3wREl0j

 

 

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Summary 

In the fifth session of the Sustainability Art Talk series, our artist in residence at Sustainability Art Hub, Celia Ko, will share her unique research and artistic employment on the theme of memory as a tool for sustainability art. In her previous works "That Moment Now" and "Crated Memories", Celia tried to keep every discovered personal memory and family story fresh in a form of cultural sustainability.  Sustainability, to her, could mean for something to continue for a longer period of time.  Although bygone ways of living and old objects are often put away, they still emerge in new ways when we are doing personal and collective reflections on values, experiences, knowledge, and aesthetics. Hence, memory is not necessarily distanced nor merely depicting an older time. In Celia’s practice, family stories and history are being revealed and memory has been elevated to a sustainable cultural essence.

 

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Speaker 

Celia Ko 

Graduated from California State University, earned her MA in Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Hong Kong. She is a pioneer in community mural painting in Hong Kong. She was invited as an artist-in-residence at Lingnan University in fall 2008, and is now one of the artists in residence at Sustainability Art Hub. Her work is collected by the Hong Kong Museum of Art and private collectors.

 

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Organizer 

 

ARTISTS CO-OP

ARTISTS CO-OP is a non-profit art organization founded in 2016 by some artists in Fotan, with a view to supporting artists in the continuous pursuit of art creation and unleashing their creative potentials fully.  With the enduring support of the art community and various funders and authorities, Artists Co-op has set up the Sustainability Art Hub at Sha Lek Corner to provide a platform for developing and promoting sustainability art and sustainable art practice.

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Disclaimers 

‘Sustainability Art Talk’ is one of Artists Co-op's SUSTAINABILITY ART HUB programmes.  The SUSTAINABILITY ART HUB is financially supported by the Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.  The content of this program does not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

 

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Artists Co-op 

Address: 38 Sha Tin Wai Rd, Sha Tin, N.T.

Email inquiries: sustainabilityarthub@gmail.com

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