Speaker: Chantal Wong and Inti Guerrero (Curators of Myth Makers — Spectrosynthesis III at Tai Kwun)

Moderator: Prof. Yongwoo Lee

Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/mycuform/view.php?id=1880528

Enquiry: haoqianyu@cuhk.edu.hk

 

ZOOM link will be sent two days before the event.

 

Abstract:

Myth Makers—Spectrosynthesis III is one of the first major survey exhibitions on LGBTQ+ perspectives in Hong Kong and draws inspiration from artists addressing “queer mythologies”—who highlight either same-sex love and desire or gender fluidity as found in ancient belief systems and traditions in Asia. On the conversation with curators of Myth Makers — Spectrosynthesis III, we will hear the curators, Inti Guerrero and Chantal Wong talk about Myth Makers in relation to exhibition making and the curatorial themes that unfold through the three distinctive chapters of the exhibition: queer mythologies on and off the stage (chapter 1); body politics, control, and criminalisation (chapter 2); and queer futurities and the re-imagination of the body (chapter 3).

 

Biography:

Chantal Wong: Chantal is the co-founder of three charities in Hong Kong: Learning Together, empowering refugee and asylum seeker youth to take on leadership through access to education, scholarships, and leadership training; Women’s Festival, a platform promoting gender awareness and equality through public discourse; and Things That Can Happen (2014-2017), an art space that explored the role of art in society. She is a Ford Global Fellow, a global community working to combat inequality brought together by the Ford Foundation. Until recently she was the Director of Culture at Eaton in Hong Kong, a purpose-driven hospitality brand where she led a culture and programming team to transform the property into a champion for creativity, artistic experimentation and safe-space for intersectional and marginal communities. Prior to this she worked with Asia Art Archive, a research centre and archive of modern and contemporary art from Asia as head of strategy helping to build up an invaluable resource for the (re)writing of histories with post-colonial perspectives from the region.

 

Inti Guerrero: Independent curator and art historian, Inti has curated exhibitions across Asia, Europe, and Latin America. He was the artistic Director of bap - bellas artes projects in the Philippines (2018-2022), the Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator at Tate, London (2016-2020), curator of the 38th EVA International, Limerick (2018) and Artistic Director of TEOR/éTica, San Jose. He has also curated or co-curated the exhibitions: ‘Institute for Tropical and Galactical Studies’ in Yokohama Triennale 2020, Yokohama Museum of Art; ‘Ming Wong. Your Special Island’ at the CCP Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila (2019); ‘Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs’ (touring at MCAD, Manila, Para Site, Hong Kong, and Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, 2016-2017); ‘Udlot-Udlot: on Jose Maceda’ at Asia Art Archive (2016);  ‘Afterwork’ (touring at Para Site, Hong Kong; and ILHAM, Kuala Lumpur, 2016-2017); ‘A Journal of the Plague Year’ (touring at Para Site, Hong Kong; The Cube, Taipei; Arko Art Center, Seoul; and Kadist Art Foundation and The Lab, San Francisco; 2013-2015). He has edited and contributed his writing to numerous books, magazines, and exhibition catalogues and has taught and lectured at different universities, art academies, and institutions across the world. Recently, he was named co-Artistic Director of the upcoming 24th Biennale of Sydney (2024).

 

 

This event is organized by MA in Cultural Management Programme, CUHK and supported by the Centre for Cultural Studies, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, CUHK