What items does our community bring in?
What it means when an art space begins to collect?
Cares who, the why of curating?

Becoming the immediate past, politics of disappearance

Since Wooferten opened its door in 2009, people brought in various kinds of things.  All these things will be featured in the forthcoming exhibition at Woofer Ten.

Some people gave us artifacts that they think are artistic and worth exhibiting; some people just gave us things for some unknown reasons.  A very big portion of these objects belong to a number of families and local stores, which have moved or closed down in the last 2 years and do not want to dispose them.  No doubt these objects reflect (or actually formed) the ways of living and cultural histories of the community in Yau Ma Tei.  The aging community seems to be on the brink of a tipping point, being swiped by the frenzy property market soon.

Tiny West Kowloon Biennale (Take 2), deliberately invites no artist (as everybody is one). Other than bringing out the hard facts and stories about the exhibiting objects to the audiences, the project hopes to further previous discussion about community art in first round, by focusing on to the crucial (yet not unproblematic) role (if not art) of curatorship.

As our community is bearing great pressure withholding the tides of drastic changes, how should community art response and intervene, if not by some sort of art of no return?

Tiny West Kowloon Biennale (Take 2): Tipping Point, Community Art of No Return
Curator: LAU Kin Wah
Opening: 2/4/2011 (sat) 3pm
 

Related Events:

Opening Special Ceremony:  2/4/2011 (sat) 7pm
Opening the curatorial bible:
Harold Szeemann--with by through because towards despite

Reading Group: 9/4 3pm 
A reading group host by Lau Kin Wah, discussing over the exemplar exhibition curated by pioneer curator Harold Szeemann (1933-2005), namely the Grand Father: A Pioneer Like Us (1974) which the curator got his inspiration from.
 
Sharing and Discussion: What does community art serve and deserve?
16/4 3pm (To be confirmed)
What community art could do for community?
When an aging community is at its tipping point, what does it mean by ‘vitalization’? Especially via art?  Isn’t it irony, that art feeds again on the “politics of disappearance”?
In the session, we will share and reflect on curating community art, and making sense of community preservation.

More events will be further announced, and will be posted onto the Woofer Ten website and facebook.

Organized by: Woofer Ten