alternative art guide

An article by Severine Grosjean

With a visionary perspective, alternative spaces bring information, enjoyment and delights to the city. They justify the production of visual art projects from around the world. There is now an urgency for alternative spaces to reflect on their existences and political agencies relative of their local community.

Founded by the curator, artist and researcher Ellen Pau, Videotage is one of the most fundamental new media art institutions in the Greater China region with a perpetual commitment to serving artists and communities in Hong Kong. Videotage conceives new media art as a cultural movement that brings art and technology productions to nodes of intersections in the digital and network era. Founded in 1986, Videotage has evolved from an artist-run collective to an influential network, supporting creative use of media art to explore, investigate and connect with issues that are of significant social, cultural, and historical value. Dedicated to nurturing emerging media artists and developing the local media arts community, Videotage has organized numerous media arts events and programs while developing an extensive offline and online video art archive (VMAC). The network is hotbed of creativity and innovation, where artist, technologist, academia, practitioner from both private and public spheres, actively engage with technology and address contemporary social, political and cultural concerns. They continue exploring how citizen media and social media reshape humankind in the era of network culture. Videotage support to media artist and general public for the development of media art and strengthen the position of Videotage as a cultural hub of knowledge transfer for art, culture and technology in the local, regional and international regime.

blue art image of hand holding egg — Videotage

An article by Severine Grosjean.

Surprise! Art can be found just about anywhere, even in the unlikeliest of places. We scour the city beyond the mainstream art galleries, to reveal the quaint shops and venues doubling up as art spaces. From independent shops to coffee shops, you can soak up some culture without venturing into high-end galleries.

TongLau Space is an Artist Run space, founded by Noelle Ng Polin, provides opportunities for motivated local and overseas artists to create and show case their works, create workshop for sharing skill and exchange through art. We expect more and wait for you to make them happen!

Tong Lau which mean an old architectural residence building in Hong Kong. The reason of TongLau Space set up in a residential building, we believe history, life and art can not be separated. We create a relax and comfort living studio workshop artist in residency exhibition＋ sharing space not only for artist to stay and live but also for enhancing art and cultural exchange and sharing of ideas in contemporary art. TongLau Space is a new Artist Run association, to bring lively AIR program to Hong Kong and to create more choices and opportunities for artists from overseas.