16/05/2013
FINAL DEADLINE for submissions of abstracts is TOMORROW at MIDNIGHT (Hong Kong time). This is the last opportunity to get your voice heard about the prospect of arts, the metropolis and Hong Kong. For submissions please send your abstracts or creative projects to:
[email protected] (Abstracts)
[email protected] (Creative works)
Those of you going into graduate employment or study after the summer, this event is a free pass to cultivate skills in public speaking, discussion, networking and an appreciation for interdisciplinarity.
An example abstract for a creative presentation is below, last call for those of an upcoming generation with something to say about the direction of creativity in and of our urban spaces.
'Taking Hong Kong For A Walk feat. Bangkok'
"Writing the city and reading the city lead often to unemotional encounters with architecture, eroded landscape, migrated populations and the commercial transactions. Negotiating a personal route through the space of urbanity requires skill as well as courage in the process of decipherment. What is chosen to signify the city also obscures it, therefore the emblematic elements that one can use to write the city need to be chosen carefully, or not at all. Selections of panoramas, scenes of unsurpassable resonance in the haze of the quotidian, and pocket-kept artifacts from a space constructed in accordance with overwhelmingly quantitative measure can form an intuitive framework to write the urban experience. Journalism aside, what are the subjective criteria for such a practice? The option to adopt an Impressionistic approach in only painting what comes to the eye in fact makes for an eye-watering result in poetry. The city is out of control in its visual offerings, nothing, I believe can be shown as it really is, not just because of the ‘disappearing’ prospect of Hong Kong that Ackbar Abbas suggests, but because what comes seems relevant is in fact the reasonable ‘takes’ one can make of urbanity. Covering the scenarios partially and recording only momentarily, the prospect of writing the city requires vigilance of aperture as well as a nod to the notion of frenzy- take a shot at what’s being raised in the moment and hold it there in words."
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