In this episode Som Supa’parinya shares insights about her recent solo exhibition in Bangkok, Thailand where she is showcasing works that delve into her personal and Thailand’s geo-political histories.
Her artistic journey has been deeply shaped by her connection to the Ping River, which has influenced Supaparinya family's legacy and her understanding of how landscapes change as a consequence of political and environmental forces.
Through Supaparinya works, she revisits past experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic and engages with the current political climate in Thailand.
By intertwining personal narratives with broader themes of climate change and history, Som Supaparinya seeks to invite viewers to reflect on the impact of human activities on nature and the importance of remembering lost landscapes.
Som Supaparinya's body of work is a powerful interpretation, blending past and present, and encouraging dialogue about the environment, economic implications, and the ongoing narrative of the Thai landscape.
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Artist Lin Yan shared insights into her journey from Beijing to Paris and New York, highlighting her deep connection to Xuan paper as a medium.
Lin’s work blends traditional Chinese techniques with contemporary themes, reflecting her lived experiences, including caring for her aging parents.
She discussed his latest exhibition, showcasing small installations that invite viewers to engage with the material and concepts of memory and nature.
Lin's art serves as a diary of her experiences, merging personal narratives with artistic expression, creating a unique dialogue between the past and present.
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TSAI Ming-Jiun is a curator and an artist based in Taichung, Taiwan. Ming-Jiun shares her journey from studying art in Taiwan and the UK to her current role as a deputy director of Asia University of Fine Art.
Ming-Jiun discusses her curatorial practice, emphasising her research while highlighting her recent project, "We as Partners," which focuses on the often-overlooked roles of art administrators. Ming-Jiun reflects on Taiwan's complex cultural identity, the importance of collaboration in the creative field, and her work that focuses on the practice and research of contemporary curating.
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Stefano Rabolli Pansera is the curator and director of both the Bangkok Kunsthalle and the Khao Yai Art Forest in Thailand. Originally from Italy, Stefano relocated to Thailand to initiate a new project that blends art, nature, and healing.
With a background as the former director of Hauser & Wirth Gallery in Switzerland, Stefano brings a unique perspective to the art world, emphasising the importance of nurturing our environment through artistic expression.
We delve into his curatorial process, his philosophy on art and nature, and the exciting developments of the two initiatives. Founded by philanthropist and art patron Marisa Chearavanont, I talk with Stefano about the Khao Yai Art Forest initiative and the Bangkok Kunsthalle.
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In this episode of The Last Supper I speak with Burmese artist Thee Oo Thazin, currently residing in Thailand's Songkhla province for an artist residency. Thee Oo Thazin shares insights into her artistic journey, from her early passion for drawing in Myanmar to her evolving work that explores themes of identity, societal expectations, and environmental issues.
We discuss her most recent projects, including her series "Braids," which reflects on the burdens faced by women in Burmese society, and "Pressure to Entertain," which examines the pressures of social dynamics in the context of recent political turmoil. We also touch on her collaborative work titled ‘Record of Rain’ with British artist Lauren Smith, focusing on environmental awareness through art.
Thee Oo Thazin (1993, Yangon) graduated from the National Management College, Yangon, Myanmar, specialising in English for Professional Purposes in 2012 and worked as a copywriter in advertising agencies. Although drawing has been a major interest since a young age, digital art was introduced to her by her designer colleagues. She decided to learn fine arts and began attending LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, specialising in Fine Arts (Graphic Novel) in 2017, graduating in 2020. She is now working as a freelance illustrator and full-time artist. Her works became well known among youths through social media in 2018. She participated in two group exhibitions: "Word Therapy" and "Building Bridges" in 2019, and another one called "Midsummer" in April 2022. "18/29" is her first solo show.
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In this episode, we're diving into a conversation with our guest, PR and Communication specialist Irene Lam, whose multicultural background offers a unique viewpoint on the art world. We’ll explore her early years and fascinating journey from studying history to becoming an editor in the art and culture field.
We’ll also discuss the rise of South Korean art, the differences between working in Seoul and Hong Kong, and how spatial environments influence artistic expression.
Irene shares insights into PR strategies for abstract art, the unique characteristics of communication in the art scene in South Korea, and what emerging artists can do to gain visibility.
Finally, we’ll reflect on the future of art in Asia and the exciting projects on Irene’s horizon.
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Today, I’m really excited to have Meg Maggio, a veteran in the contemporary art scene in China, who played a key role in establishing one of the first foreign-invested art galleries in the country. With over 20 years of experience in the art business, Meg specialises in 20th and 21st century art.
Originally trained as a corporate lawyer, she has spent nearly 30 years living in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. A Mandarin speaker, Meg continues to guide clients in building their contemporary art collections.
In our conversation, we’ll explore the intricacies of art collecting, the challenges of managing multigenerational family collections in Asia, and the current state of affairs of the art world in the region.
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In this episode I visit Hong Kong born stand-up comedian Vivek Mahbubani. We’ll talk about his creative journey, starting from his days in a heavy metal band to his transition into comedy.
Vivek opens up about his experiences growing up as an Indian kid in Hong Kong, how lymphoma cancer was a blessing, confronting discrimination and how these challenges influenced his outlook on life. We explore how comedy acts as a powerful medium for self-expression, allowing him to provide a unique perspective on everyday situations.
At the end we talk about his introspective research that informs his performances and we touch on his next project, a possible comedy world tour.
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Hong Kong-based curator and producer Joel Kwong discusses mental wellness, the central theme of this year’s Microwave International New Media Arts Festival. We explore how Artificial Reality tackles various mental wellness issues, such as domestic violence, and consider how technology can foster empathy. Additionally, we delve into concepts like a panic room for relaxation and the potential for AI to provide emotional support, among other topics.
Microwave International New Media Arts Festival 2024
How You Doin’
Public opening: 26th October 2024
Closing: 24th November 2025
Exhibition Hall, Low Block, Hong Kong City Hall
5 Edinburgh Place, Central, Hong Kong
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In this podcast I sat down with artist Liao Jiaming and talked about his current show in Hong Kong, talked about tarot card reading, we discussed the intricate relationship between artificial intelligence or AI and humanity, the search for personal identity and Liao discuss the complexity of fingers.
Liao Jiaming was born in 1992 in Guangdong, China, and currently lives and works in Hong Kong. He obtained his BA in Journalism from Sun Yat-sen University in 2016, and his MFA from School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong in 2019. Liao’s practice investigates the physical and bodily manifestations of identity vis-à-vis gender, technology, and socio-cultural influences. His works span across objects, videos, installations, and performance, crafting narratives that explore traditional as well as contemporary social practices via post-technological means of image-making.
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This episode features the group exhibition ‘Karmic Fissures’ at Podium Gallery in Hong Kong by Phoebe Hui, Chloë Cheuk, Kin Ting Li, Genie Hui, and Yi To.
Interweaving media art, sculptures, installations, and paintings, the exhibition navigates between philosophies drawn from quantum physics and Buddhism to speculate how one may uncover microscopic, nuanced dynamics within hegemonic, overpowering orders. Through acute mindfulness of complex yet traceable loci of causes and effects, the artists open up karmic fissures to evoke radical transmutation and intervene in the logic of impossibility.
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In this special 100th episode, we sit down with photographer and writer No.223, to explore his unique approach to capturing the essence of modernity and sexuality over the last two decades. From his unconventional process of discovering subjects on social media to his boundary-pushing depictions of nudity, Lin offers a glimpse into the moments that define our contemporary experience.
Lin Zhipeng (aka No.223) Born in Guangdong, China in 1979, Graduated from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies with major of financial English. Lin Zhipeng is a photographer and freelancer writer based in Beijing. Created in 2003, his blog “North Latitude 23” where he published everyday pictures accompanied by short texts received millions views and made him famous among the web community. Presented for years in group exhibitions in China and abroad , Lin’s works have also been the object of several solo shows both nationally and internationally ( Delaware Contemporary Museum ; Walther Collection Ulm ; De Sarthe Gallery Beijing ; Stieglitz19 Gallery Antwerp ; M97 Gallery Shanghai, etc). He has published photography books in China, France, Canada, Japan and Italy.
With Lin Zhipeng, everything is tinged with a resolutely pop seduction. The colour, the shapes, the textures, the framing used are all symptomatic of a visual culture rocked by the flow of images, bodies and symbols that have marked our entry into the second millennium. Far from the traditional and unconstructive criticism of an "overconsumption" or "saturation" of images, those of the artist celebrate the vitality of his generation, starting with the staging of his life and that of his entourage. Mixing love and chaos, fantasy and eroticism, his photographs act as the collective poetic diary of a generation eager to escape social pressures and to aspire to the pleasures of life in a society that is as indifferent as it is rapidly evolving.
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I sat down with Dr. Marty Miller, a Hong Kong based artist and researcher. Our discussion spanned a broad range of topics, starting with an exploration of image ontology. We delved into Dr. Miller's research involving AI models and their ability to detect and reinterpret patterns in Sham Shui Po, a busy residential and shopping district in Hong Kong, and we explored AI hallucinations and human imagination.
Marty Miller (PhD) is a visual culture and technology learning researcher pursuing his PostDoctorate at CityU's School of Creative Media within The Studio for Narrative Spaces. His research notes how image-creation practices adapt to emergent technology and why this influence informs the meanings created. Specifically, found photography and technological literacy designs fuel his scholarly output, funded creative work, and integrated teaching practice.
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The Supper Club event is initiated by Willem Molesworth and Ysabelle Cheung (PHD Group), Alex Chan (THE SHOPHOUSE), and is co-organised with the Fringe Club in Hong Kong, and will be curated by independent curator Anqi Li. The exhibition space will be adapted by BEAU Architects.
Supper Club is open from 25 - 30 March 2024, and will operate late night hours daily from 4pm -1am.
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Artist Trong Gia Nguyen discussed the role of appropriation in his work and how he dissociates himself from materiality. We also delved into the notion of distributed ownership and possession of art, the intricate relationship between physicality and virtuality and how he sold his work on eBay.
Trong Gia Nguyen is a multi-disciplinary artist currently based in Brussels, Belgium. Having also lived in Vietnam and New York City over the last 20 years, his wide array of works examines structures of power in their myriad forms, scrutinizing the soft foundation upon which contemporary life plays out, often behind the façade of fairness, sincerity, tradition, and civility. Regularly employing humor while at other times engaging sober reflection, Trong's work elevates the condition of doubt as it reveals and disrupts the undercarriage of our most trusted spaces - domestic, cultural, political, and economical. His work includes everything from iPhone applications to installation, film, painting, sculpture, performances, and web-based projects.
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The Supper Club event is initiated by Willem Molesworth and Ysabelle Cheung (PHD Group), Alex Chan (THE SHOPHOUSE), and is co-organised with the Fringe Club in Hong Kong, and will be curated by independent curator Anqi Li. The exhibition space will be adapted by BEAU Architects.
Supper Club is open from 25 - 30 March 2024, and will operate late night hours daily from 4pm -1am.
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Gallerist and art technology founder Shyevin S'ng discussed her journey of becoming a gallerist in Vietnam, we addressed frequently asked questions from new artists, how to price new art, what good art is, and we talked about the future of art with Cohart which is a new online social marketplace for artists and art collectors that Shyevin co-founded in San Francisco.
As a community and business builder, Shyevin S'ng serves as an art dealer, gallerist, advisor and friend to the art community, where she is able to extend my network far and deep. She has worn multiple hats over the past 15 years and was responsible for guiding and nurturing artists and collectors who believe in her. As a business owner, Shyevin has built a global team with the purpose to extend and expose her brand to all the art community. She has been fortunate to have enjoyed a successful career in art, where now she extended her career to art and tech with Cohart where she serves as co-founder. Shyevin has an extensive background in strategy and business development, fund raising, advising / mentoring and community development.
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The Supper Club event is initiated by Willem Molesworth and Ysabelle Cheung (PHD Group), Alex Chan (THE SHOPHOUSE), and is co-organised with the Fringe Club in Hong Kong, and will be curated by independent curator Anqi Li. The exhibition space will be adapted by BEAU Architects.
Supper Club is open from 25 - 30 March 2024, and will operate late night hours daily from 4pm -1am.
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Artist Serene Hui delved into meaning-making, the impossibility of communication in an unknown environment, the origins of scold, gossip and siren, voice modulation or how we understand voices within our body and how this impacts female leaders.
Serene Hui is a Hong Kong-born artist. Her practice is research-focused and multi-faceted, engaging primarily with installation, audio and live works, printmaking and text. Serene's work is involved in a discursive, artistic and political exploration of her own context, using the geographical distance from personal lived experiences to investigate the wider socio-political impact of how meaning is made and who has access to making it. Her practice is currently invested in epistemological colonialism for the ways it affects social structures, languages, psychology and its potential susceptibility for manipulation. In her works she addresses obscurity and nuances by creating an ontological shift of displacement - meaning to transform social conventions, normative ignorance, and language ambiguity into resistance, reflection and criticism of contemporary systems.
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Artist, designer Lin Pei-Ying delved into the fascinating world of viruses and how genomes offers us a look into our past, the origin of why we believe viruses are hostile, how viruses inform her work and how her work addresses the relationship between knitting and genomes, and we talked about how humanity can benefit from the development of AI.
Pei-Ying Lin is an artist/designer from Taiwan and is currently based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. She is a PhD Candidate in the department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Science and the Department of Industrial Design at the Eindhoven University of Technology. She also holds a MA in Design Interactions from the Royal College of Art, UK and a BSc in Life Science from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. Her main focus is on the combination of science and human society through artistic methods and is particularly interested in building a common discussion ground for different cultural perspectives regarding elements that construct our individual perception of the world. Recently she has been focusing on manipulating the boundary of invisible/visible, living/non-living and finding ways to build tools and methods that facilitate such explorations. She has won the Honorary Mention of STARTS Prize 2020, Honorary Mention in Hybrid Arts Category of Ars Electronica 2015, Professional Runner Up in Speculative Concepts of Core 77 Awards 2015, and BioArt and Design Award 2016. Her project PSX Consultancy is a permanent collection of the Museum of Architecture and Design, Slovenia.
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Su Yu Hsin is an artist originally from Taiwan but now based in Berlin. We delved into her captivating exploration of water, her unique filmmaking techniques to understand intricate ecological relationships, and her fascinating discovery of an underground waterway in Taipei.
Su Yu Hsin(b.1989) is an artist and filmmaker based in Berlin. She approaches ecology from the point of view of its close relationship with technology. Her artistic practice is strongly research-oriented and involves fieldwork where she investigates the political ecologies of water. Her work reflects on technology and the critical infrastructure in which the human and non-human converge. Her analytical and hydropoetic storytelling focuses on map-making, operational photography, and the technical production of geographical knowledge. Her video installations are exhibited worldwide in museums and International Art Biennials: the Centre Pompidou-Metz, the Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Taipei Biennial 2020 and 2023, ZKM Karlsruhe, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, among others. Her films have been screened at Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul and e-flux.
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Taiwanese-based artist Lo Yi-Chun talked about her captivating projects including "Carbohydrate Fueling Cycle I, II, III", an exploration of the history of economic crops within the global trade context. We also delve into "The Diver," a piece that she created for the Green Island Human Rights Art Festival and capoeira. Lastly, we re-experience Neolithic artefacts in Kaohsiung, delving into the rich historical significance they hold.
Lo Yi-Chun (b. 1985, Taipei) uses natural media such as banana peels, tobacco, and bagasse to create a wide range of objects and spatial installations that reflect on the history of economic crops in the context of global trade. In addition to exploring the relationship between agriculture and politics, her work also addresses the movement of people and commodities in the globalized world.
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In today’s discussion, artist Ting-Ting Cheng delved into the complexities of individualism in the context of post-colonialism. She shared her project that explores the challenges of constructing one's own island, as well as her work centred around inconclusive debates. We also addressed the concept of fluidity in identity and how a seemingly simple interview request for the Steel Art Festival unexpectedly transformed into a new art project.
Ting-Ting Cheng is an artist from Taiwan, graduated from MFA Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London. She likes to reinterpret archival and found materials to construct narratives in the current context. She had solo exhibitions at Taipei Fine Art Museum and other institutions and galleries in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Spain, UK and more. She had participated in Tokyo Biennial, Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil (São Paulo), Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architechture (China), and group exhibitions at Jim Thompson Art Center (Bangkok), Daegu Art Factory, Hong-Gah Museum (Taipei), Künstlerhaus (Vienna), ISE Cultural Foundation (New York), National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, National Art Museum of China...etc. She was the resident artist at Iniva (London), CFCCA (Manchester), Zero Station (HCMC), MMCA (Seoul) and more.
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