Researcher and curator Michelle Wong on artist Ha Bik Chuen, big egos, resurfacing the story of Hong Kong, and her one hit wonder.
Curator and researcher Michelle Wong
Ep.85 | Researcher and curator Michelle Wong talked about her PhD research, discussed her work on Hong Kong artist Ha Bik Chuen, big egos in art, the weird sculpture in Aberdeen in Hong Kong, and she explained her project New Park.
Michelle Wun Ting Wong is a PhD candidate in Art History at the University of Hong Kong, exploring the modernity emerging from Post WWII Hong Kong. Her writing has been published in Ambitious Alignments: New Histories of Southeast Asian Art, 1945–1990 (2018), the journal Southeast of Now (2019) amongst others. From 2012–20 she was a researcher at Asia Art Archive (AAA), focusing on Hong Kong art history and histories of exchange and circulation through exhibitions and periodicals. Curatorial projects include Portals, Stories, and Other Journeys at Tai Kwun Contemporary (2021), Afterglow, Yokohama Triennale 2020, and 11th Edition of Gwangju Biennale (2016). She runs the independent space New Park with artists South Ho Siu Nam and Billy HC Kwok.
Ha Bik Chuen's studio in To Kwan Wan, 2014. Image courtesy of Asia Art Archive and the Ha Bik Chuen Family.
Walid Raad, Untitled #79, 2020. Installation view of Portals, Stories, and Other Journeys, Tai Kwun Contemporary, 2021. Photo: Kwan Sheung Chi. Image courtesy of Asia Art Archive.
An Archivist's Table, installation view of Portals, Stories, and Other Journeys, Tai Kwun Contemporary, 2021. Photo: Kwan Sheung Chi. Image courtesy of Asia Art Archive.
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