Podcast with Wolfgang Zinggl

Wolfgang Zinggl is a Member of Parliament of Austria and the spokenperson for arts and cultural policy for the Green Party, but before these (in his own words) an active member of socially engaging artist group WochenKlausur that he founded in 1993 and exhibited in Venice Biennale in 1999. Stepping on both tracks of art and politics, Zinggl talks about how he has become politician from a State Curator and an art critic. Recorded on August 19, 2009, 39 min., English. Listen

Podcast with Stephan Lugbauer

Saprophyt/ Installation view Jenni Tischer, Alle eure Farben, June 2009 Saprophyt is a very new art space founded by two young Austrian artists, Barbara Kapusta and Stephan Lugbauer in Vienna in August, 2008. Someone says artist-run initiatives are like generational phenomenon and almost all ambitious artists in the beginning of their career would similarly make their own space. Stephan Lugbauer talks about his ideas and thoughts about Saprophyt, named after a kind of fungi which live on dead matters. 51 min, English. Listen

Podcast with Dominik Portune

A brief introduction of Depot, an independent organization promoting knowledges and debates of art and culture within a greater context of civil society in Vienna by its present team member Dominik Portune. English, 15 min. Listen

Podcast with Davide Quadrio

Davide Quadrio, also known as Dadou in China, speaks about BizArt, an independent art organization that he co-founded eleven years ago, and his experience in China. It's an interview made on March 13, 2008 when the commercial development of Chinese art was still burning hot. English, 50 min. Listen

Podcast with Zoe Butt

Slowly catching up with all those interviews that I did last year, I upload here the one with Zoe Butt, Director of International Programs at Long March Project conducted on March 14, 2008. She talks about generally Long March Project and her rather new position back then. Possible changes of Long March Project are also mentioned in it, now somehow as a note to the recent closure of its two of three galleries. English, 52 min. Zoe also co-curated Time Ligaments, opening this Sat, May 16, 2009 at 10 Chancery Lane Gallery Art Projects in Chai Wan. Listen

Michael Lee

(photo by Qinyi Lim)
Singaporean artist Michael Lee Hong-hwee was based in Hong Kong for the last 30 months and has just bidded farewell to his first loft-studio in Fo Tan and moved back to Singapore. He talks about his artistic practice and Hong Kong experience. English, 53 min.
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ruangrupa

"ruang rupa" means "visual space" in Indonesian. On Feb 17, 2008, I visited the artist-run space ruangrupa in Jakarta for the first time and saw a huge residential house-turned art space, a dog, some friends and artists. In this podcast, Ade Darmawan, Indra Ameng & Reza 'asung' Afisina talk about the organization, programming and development of ruangrupa. 75 min., English. Listen

Podcast with Tobias Berger

Tobias Berger talks with Hong Kong art critic Jaspar Lau at the time bidding his farewell to Hong Kong after three and a half year as Executive Director of Para/Site Art Space. From September 2008, Berger will become the Chief Curator of the brand new Nam June Paik Art Center in Seoul. English, 60 min.
Remark: this is the second recording of the interview after a disastrous technical problem of the recorder. However, the technical problem repeated and a ten min-long sound clip was missing in the first quarter of this recording.
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Podcast with Roger McDonald

Roger McDonald, Deputy Director and Co-founder of A.I.T. (Arts Initiative Tokyo), one of very rare curator-initiatives in Asia, talks about the founding of their organization in the context of contemporary art development in Japan. 47min. English
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Podcast with Xu Zhen

Xu Zhen, artist, also Co-founder and Artistic Director of BizArt, Shanghai talks about his organization with reference to the development of contemporary art in China in the last ten years. Mandarin, 48 min. 藝術家徐震，上海比翼藝術中心的藝術總監，在十年中國當代藝術發展的語境中，談說他參與創辦的藝術空間。（普通話，48分鐘）
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Podcast with Mella Jaarsma

Cemeti Art House co-founder Mella Jaarsma talks about her art space and the art environment in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It's the first episode of Work Space, a new series of interviews on art spaces in Asia. English. 32 min.
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Podcast with Lee Kit

A chat with Hong Kong artist Lee Kit who has recently completed a one month-residency in Wellington of New Zealand, hosted by the Enjoy Public Art Gallery. Lee talks about his project and experience in Wellington and compares its art scene with that in Hong Kong. Cantonese, 41 min.
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Podcast with Sarah Van Ingelgom

Fo Tan is an old industrial area in Hong Kong, recently revived by artists' studios. Sarah Van Ingelgom talks about her Blue Lotus Gallery, the first gallery equipped with a regular exhibition programme in Fo Tan. English, 30 min.
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Podcast on VITAL BODIES

Arts writer/ project organizer Yeung Yang talks about her recent participation in VITAL BODIES: International Conference in Liverpool John Moores University which was part of Vital'07: International Chinese Live Art Festival in Manchester. Cantonese, 33 min.
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Podcast with Vanessa McRae

Vanessa McRae, Exhibitions Manager of the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane has spent eight weeks in Hong Kong as her AsiaLink residency. She talks about her observation and experience in the Hong Kong arts community.
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Podcast on Microwave festival

A chat in Cantonese with Jeff Leung to review this year's Microwave International New Media Arts Festival and the new media arts development in the main stream visual arts context.
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Podcast on '85 New Wave & etc.

A chat in Cantonese with independent curator Jeff Leung on the inaugural exhibition "'85 New Wave: the Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art" of the long-anticipated Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing; also some thoughts and observations on the art scene in Beijing.
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New podcast

I have just tried to create a podcast on arts in Hong Kong and beyond. Basically I hope to make a space which is "casual" enough to "seriously" talk about art as we always tend to wait for the serious moment before we would do anything serious. I invite people to chat on things happening at the moment (we can't wait too much!) I think the voice recording is somehow an alternative document to writing which is unfortunately not so popular in our community. The trial episode is in Cantonese and I have Jeff Leung with me to talk about October Contemporary as seen from outside.