As part of this year’s curatorial platform IRL {In Real Life}, the Chat Room - using the idea of online chat rooms as a framework - connected artists, collectors, curators, thinkers, and gallerists together, to discuss a wide range of topics in an informal setting.
PROGRAMME
Wednesday 16 October
3.15-4.15pm
X Zhu-Nowell, Assistant Curator at the Guggenheim Museum New York and guest curator of ASIA NOW 2019, with Gary Zhexi Zhang, artist and writer
4.30-5.30pm
He Xiangyu “Yellow Book” Discussion & Book Signing
with Li Zhenhua, independent curator, and He Xiangyu, artist
Followed by a signing of the book - on sale at the ASIA NOW ticket office
5.45–6.30pm
“Spiritually Millennial: Art and Religiosity in the Mind of the Asian Millennial Artist”
with Khairuddin Hori, Curatorial Director at Chan + Hori Contemporary and former curator at the Palais de Tokyo and Singapore Art Museum.
Moderated by Sürreya Wille, former Global Strategic Partnerships lead at Artsy
Thursday 17 October
11.15am-12.15pm
“Video art's place in Asian art museums: Cernuschi Art Vidéo” (in French)
with Maël Bellec, Chief curator at Musée Cernuschi
‘Cernuschi Art Vidéo #3 : Transmissions' , a selection of seven artist video works, will be screened during the fair. Click here for more information
12.30-1.45pm
“The Evolution of the Form and Function of Private Cultural Institutions”
with Oliva Sartogo and Alina Sartogo, Co-founders of ARTinD, Nicole Ching, Co-founder of Museum 2050, and Lu Xun, collector and Founder of Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing
2-3.15pm
“Does Technology Change How We Experience Art?”
with Charleen Leo, curator/project manager of Future World at the ArtScience Museum Singapore, Sylvain Levy, Co-founder of DSLcollection, Masha Faurschou, Founder of SABSAY gallery and partner at Khora Contemporary, and Liu Wa, artist
Moderated by Benoit Baume, Founder of Fisheye Magazine.
3.30-4.30pm
“The Art of Collecting New Media” (in French)
with Karen Levy, Founder of The Art of This Century, Thibaut Wychowanok, Editor-in-chief of Numéro Art and Numero.com, and Margot Mottaz, Associate Curator at PaceX
5-6pm
with Heri Dono, artist, and Constance de Monbrison, curator at the musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac
Friday 18 October
11-12am
“The art world is changing and we are changing with it”
with fine art insurance specialists, Siaci Saint Honoré
1-2pm
Karaoke Lecture Performance: “Hong Kong Weather Modification Office (Square Cloud)”
by Wong Kit Yi, artist, followed by Q&A with X Zhu-Nowell, guest curator of ASIA NOW 2019
2.15-3.30pm
“Dreamy, Grotesque and Surreal: Into the Deep Subconscious of Min Jung-Yeon” (in French)
with Sophie Makariou, Director of the musée national des arts asiatiques - Guimet, Min Jung-Yeon, artist, and Maria Lund, gallerist. Moderated by Olivia Sand, journalist for the Asian Art Newspaper and author of the book “Contemporary Voices from the Asian and Islamic Art Worlds”
Followed by a book signing of “Contemporary Voices from the Asian and Islamic Art Worlds” - on sale at the ASIA NOW ticket office - with Olivia Sand at the entrance to the Chat Room
3.45-5pm
"Living in Interesting Times: The State of the Asian Art Market Today"
with Fang Fang, Founder of Star Gallery Beijing, Serge Tiroche, Co-founder of the Tiroche DeLeon Collection, Thomas Eller, Founder of Gallery Weekend Beijing and Artistic Director of “China Arts & Sciences” in Jingdezhen and Arianne Piper, art advisor
Moderated by Melanie Gerlis, art market columnist for the Financial Times and Editor at Large for The Art Newspaper
5.15-6pm
“Revealing The Stars”: Discussion & Book Signing
with Huang Rui, artist and Co-founder of the Stars group, and Holly Roussell, Museologist and Art Historian
Saturday 19 October
4.30-5.30pm
“China VPN: a Glimpse into Chinese Subcultures”
with Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou, a duo of independent curators, Asian Eyez (aka Lhaga Koondhor), Co-founder of the all-female music collective Nüshu and Cheng Ran, artist and Founder of Martin Goya Business
6-6.30pm
“China VPN #2: Conversation and screening of JOSS"
with Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou, a duo of independent curators, Cheng Ran, artist and Item Idem, artist
Sunday 20 October
12.30-1.30pm
“KIRTI: Expanding the Frame of Southeast Asian Art” Discussion & Publication Soft Launch
with Hunter Panther Deerfield, independent researcher and Khairuddin Hori, Curatorial Director at Chan + Hori Contemporary and former curator at the Palais de Tokyo and Singapore Art Museum
2-3pm
“Independent Publishing from Asia”
with Simon Baker, Director of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie and Zhen Shi, Founder of publishing house Maison de Z and photographer
Moderated by Victoria Jonathan, Co-Director of the Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival