3rd Wave

07/11/2025

Can't dream of a better message left by a visitor in our show: 'DIS PLACE IS ODD' ~Jo. An exhibition should leave you with a sense of unease. Come again Jo!

01/10/2025

HEArt, 3rd Wave’s six-month programme (research, workshops, activities and final exhibition at the Catalyst gallery) commencing in November 2025 -Apply Now or Never.
HEArt’s OPEN DAY at the new Catalyst gallery (218 Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan): Sunday 19th October 2025 at 4pm, after TIME TO PRETEND gallery talk starting 2pm. Applicants are encouraged to bring a CV and a short presentation of your work. Alternatively, send CV and covering letter (1500 words) to: [email protected]. Successful applicants will be called for interview early November.

07/03/2025

15/09/2024

TIME TO PRETEND

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then pretending to be something we’re not could simply be the utmost resentment that smiles – to dream of illusions, rancid yet organic. Time to Pretend is 3RD WAVE’s latest experimental excursion into the deep time of relations between visual arts, science (sometimes fringe and even pseudo) and technology to engage the students to question our serial-produced realities, to challenge the poetics of failure where confrontation with and digression from social norm occurs.

《扮得及時》

獨自在高峰
高處未算高
浮雲在冷笑
暗示前無路

如果盲目的模擬仿效是一頂由頭笠到落腳的高帽，那麼自己假裝是自己就可能是一項用手倒立登上珠穆朗瑪峰來自我鞭屍的偉大壯舉 -本末倒置顛倒夢想紅白即藍死不足惜雖恥猶誠。《扮得及時》係3rd Wave再一次對視覺藝術、邊緣甚至偽科學和街頭掩眼法之間深層關係進行無利可圖的實驗性探索。旨在引導參與者批判質疑這個失控膨脹的現實，挑戰現世一眾行屍走肉遊魂野狗，為離經叛道的詩意另賦新詞。

https://youtu.be/90qVZWOPCnE

For further info, please see:  https://www.frederiquedecombe.com/3rd-wave-creativity-courses/projects

11/12/2023

Duchamp Woz Ere | A Convenient Masterp(i)e(c)e
The Catalyst
Opening | 16th December 2023, 6:30pm

Art is dead. Long lives art.
An inconvenient exhibition to celebrate the missing link in contemporary art since Duchamp took his perennial master p*e in 1917.

Just before this Christmas 2023, the Catalyst gallery will be plumbed and fitted with functional urinals and repurposed as a public lavatory to honour R. Mutt, an alter-ego of the visionary and prominent artist Marcel Duchamp, and pay tribute to one of his greatest ready-made p(i)e(c)es, Fountain, the non-art ‘thing’ that was once nihilistically placed on a plinth more than a century ago, returning to Caesar what was once Caesar’s.

Visitors will be able to access and use the various hand-crafted urinals in their originally intended state; we encourage female users make uninhibited, free-range use of the facility alongside their male counterparts and furthermore, by committing to the core value of equality of the two sexes, no toilet paper will be provided under any circumstances. We care because you do.

https://www.xevarion.org/
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藝術不再 死而後矣

在今年的又一次虛假耶誕普世歡騰的日子來臨前, the catalyst 適逢喜慶日子特意為紀念藝術家Marcel Duchamp 而將七百餘呎有限地方搖身變成一個可圈可點但又無可厚非的公廁,以表揚其幻影假身R. Mutt並向其驚世masterp(i)e(c)e鉅作, Fountain 作影後致敬。

務請各路英雄豪傑放開懷抱無拘無束完全奔放,直接噴射入場內精心人手打造的匠心尿兜：更鼓勵男女無障礙地一齊如廁.....

Duchamp Woz Ere
The Catalyst
開幕| 2023 年 12 月 16 日，6:30pm

25/08/2023

𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐮𝐬
𝐄𝐏𝟒.𝟏 - 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞

https://youtu.be/HwY7e6DddQY

第4.1／4集
香港第一個專為那些尋找主流教育方式以外的人而設的創意思考課程- Are You Spartacus。
記錄了5位學生在上課6個月的種種經歷，2023 年 8月27日4pm將在 Catalyst 舉行的閉幕會。
一切危在旦夕，一切都將受到挑戰。這五位學生能成功擺展及奪得獎金嗎？睇下自有分曉！

The 4.1th
instalment of a 4-part documentary chronicle the journey of 5 art students joining the first creativity course in Hong Kong, dedicated to those who are aspiring for something other than average lamestream educational system - one that has been responsible for producing conformists and automatons.

A 6-month course with art prizes and an Award Ceremony will take place on 27th, August 2023, 4pm at the Catalyst, everything is at stake and everything will be challenged. Will these 5 cut it? Watch it and find out.

www.areyouspartacus.com
www.xevarion.org
www.frederiquedecombe.com

link in bio

05/09/2022

18th September, 2022/ 3-5pm
ARE YOU SPARTACUS OPEN DAY

Venue: 3rd Wave Studio - Unit B, 2/F Hollywood Building,186 Hollywood road, Sheung Wan

RSVP : [email protected]

2022年9月18日3-5pm

ARE YOU SPARTACUS  課程講座
地點：3rd Wave教室 - 186號上差館里荷里活大樓2B室

www.areyouspartacus.com

#號外雜誌 #啟視錄

31/07/2022

Cometh forth, Spartacus, your time is now.

Are You Spartacus, a project coalescing video documentary series, an education programme at 3rd Wave, a graduation exhibition and art prizes at the Catalyst. The project is open to all, from everyday hidden talents, to art students and to practicing artists, who possess the gladiator spirit, who are prepared to go into the unknown, to face their own inner enemy and re-emerge triumphant.

More details and apply here: www.areyouspartacus.com

EXHIBITION PRIZES AWAIT
– Best in Show HKD$50,000
– Most Controversial and/or Perilous HK$35,000
– Most Wicked HK$15,000
– Most Uncompromising (Hidden prize TBA)

《Are you Spartacus》是一項集記錄片、3rd Wave課程、於The Catalyst舉辦畢業展覽並奪取獎項殊榮於一身的計劃，歡迎來自社區不同界別的人仕參與，由隱世高手、美藝文青至人老心不老的藝術前輩，只要擁有著不撓鬥士精神，有志探索未知的歧途，敢於面對自己的夢魘，都可前來一嘗摘下后冠脫穎而出的滋味。

Are You Spartacus獎金:

- 最優越作品HKD$50,000
- 最具爭議性 / 險峻作品HK$35,000
- 最不羈作品HK$15,000
- 絕不妥協精神特別獎(於展覽時揭曉)

詳情及申請細節請瀏覽: www.areyouspartacus.com