China Studies Centre, The University of Sydney
Date: Tuesday 23 November 2020
Time: 7-8pm (AEST)
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This presentation will begin as a reflection on the two-fold project ‘Mobile M+: Moving Images’, which took place in Hong Kong in 2015 across multiple sites. The project embraced Hong Kong cinema of the 1980s and 90s, particularly Clara Law’s Floating Life (1996), as a prelude to reimagining the migrant experience. With the inclusion of works by a number of pioneering Hong Kong artists such as Ellen Pau, Yung’s experience of organising this project, and by extension his time at M+, will also serve as departure points to consider the challenges of conserving the image(s) of Hong Kong.
About the Speaker
Yung Ma is Artistic Director of Seoul Mediacity Biennale 2021 His most recent roles was curator in the Contemporary and Prospective Creation Department at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, a post created in collaboration with K11 Art Foundation. Ma was formerly Associate Curator of Moving Image at M+, Hong Kong, and co-curator of the Hong Kong Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2009 and 2013. He holds an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art, London, and a BA from the University of Reading, UK. He has also taken part in a post-graduate degree in Film Direction from the Beijing Film Academy.