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NewPark "One Hit Wonder" series: Almost As If - Elvis Yip Kin Bon Between a loose entanglement of cellular tape and a mellow glowing light box, a repeated, violent, and tender transfer of headlines and sentiments seizes, and vibrates. About the Artist: Elvis Yip Kin Bon lives and works in Hong Kong. He collects, reads, sorts, and assembles. The different forms of collages he makes rearrange contexts of incidents, objects, and times to reflect and satirise the absurdity of this world.

Invited guest: Zoie Yung "One’s fortune is like jade, art is like metal, it may be gold to those who cherish it and scrap metal to those who don’t." New Park rehashes a Lunar New Year activity once held at 100ft Park and invites independent curator Zoie Yung, who is well versed in both astrology and numerology, to decipher your hand writing and fortune. For every word you write, Zoie will have a read, chat with you about it, and weigh your year ahead! About the Guest: Zoie Yung is a Hong Kong-based independent exhibition and art-marketing consultant, and formerly the exhibition manager of chi K11 art museum, Shanghai. She applies her knowledge in astrology and numerology into exhibition making and public programming in art. Recent exhibitions include Splendour of the Sun (Galerie du Monde, 2023), Wonder-verse (chi K11 art space, 2022), and Curve of Buoyancy (Duddell’s, 2021). Her public programme collaborators include Tai Kwun Cotemporary, Para Site, 1a Space, and Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre.

New Park Open Day I Hong Kong art week explosion is here again, as the edgier crew of the Hong Kong art world, we are of course already tired before it starts, and no one is dismantling old shows or putting up any new ones. In order to feign normality amidst the hustle bustle, we thought we’d just open our doors and welcome friends from near and afar! NewParkXABHK Special Activity: Before entering New Park, face the JCCAC atrium and scream, “I REALLY LOVE HONG KONG ART!” We may then be able to get you into ABHK (as a visitor, not an installer), space might be limited, show up and roar!

New Park Open Day II To be alive is to be like butterflies fluttering here and there, art week has come and is almost gone, it’s time to celebrate after a whole week of hard work. New Park will be open again this Saturday to welcome friends and all!

NewPark "One Hit Wonder" series: For So Many Years When I Close My Eyes - Billy H.C. Kwok A photograph, a moment captured. A pair of eyes opens and closes. A story of how a mother searches for a son who got lost, and another individual’s attempt to make sense of the worlds that are built and fabricated, how they collide and weave into each other. About The Artists: Billy H.C. Kwok lives and works in Hong Kong, and tells stories through photography. The images he makes reveal rapid shifts in the geopolitical relationships and various forms of power structures present in China and its neigbouring regions.

NewPark Special Event: A Conversation between Billy and Cici One story, two ways of extending it. One imagines the unfinished return of a young boy who got lost, the other clings on to the mother’s unyielding search for the boy who got lost. When two storytellers meet, how will they greet each other? About The Artists: Cici Wu lives and works in New York and Hong Kong. Her previous works have explored how light, as the foundation of cinema, can be used as a material to describe microhistory and absence of collective memory, and other less describable conditions. Her recent concern is how experimental forms restructure relationship to belonging and difference. Billy H.C. Kwok lives and works in Hong Kong, and tells stories through photography. The images he makes reveal rapid shifts in the geopolitical relationships and various forms of power structures present in China and its neigbouring regions.

Winter Residencies - Round 1 Artist: South Ho https://sixsixho.com/ After a long hot summer vacation, New Park returns for a season of Fall and Winter residencies, featuring two artists form Hong Kong and Taiwan. The first artist in residency is New Park’s own South Ho Siu Nam, who has named the residency “looking for the emergency switch in the lab.” For three weeks, South will share some of the experiments he has been tinkering with. This residency has begun last week, and will be regularly open for visits. Do come through for a chat, check out South’s works, or help look for the switch! The first phase of our residency season will end on 12 November, and we will be welcoming our second artist from Taiwan then!

Winter Residencies - Round 2 Artist: Peng YiHsuan https://pengyihsuan-copy.cargo.site/ "What are you up to here?" Artist Sharing About The Artists: Peng Yi-Hsuan, 1990 born in Taiwan Chungli, has regarded painting, video art, sculpting as the tone of speculative art proposition for a long time. Thus, daily objects could directly touch upon the artistic propositions, and further decontextualize them in a dialectical fashion. With an attempt to make the history of neutral objects in Taiwan possible, and to show a new perspective, use and practice system.

NewPark "One Hit Wonder" series: WAI TV Episode 1 - Lau Wai If one day you became an extra of a TV series, but were constantly forced to change roles involuntarily, what would you do? How would you interact with the other characters around you? Would you try to find out what role you actually play? About The Artists: Lau Wai lives and works in Hong Kong and New York. They investigate how history, fiction, personal memory, and virtuality collide in the process of identity formation by appropriating imagery across personal and historical archives, cinema, popular culture, and emerging technologies.

NewPark Exhibition: Artist: Sarah Lai & Sunday Lai Lucky Star “Lucky Star”, the first dual exhibition by two sister artists, Sarah Lai and Sunday Lai. The exhibition is also curated by Michelle. At this moment, having already entered adulthood, the Lais have become two artists who create through distinctly different practices. Through this exhibition, they harness the power of art to traverse time and space, returning to one evening in a room, to spark deeper or lighter exchanges, employing a relaxed yet rigorous creative approach to document this stage of our lives. About The Artists Sarah LAI is an artist engaged in visual language. In her early practice, she made oil paintings influenced by personal memory and Western art history. Recently, she displays these paintings with works of other mediums, including but not limited to mixed-media installations, video, and photography, integrating them within a scenographic exhibition space. With these compositions, she aims to explore the potentials of representational painting in contemporary art. Sunday LAI's concept-led works are made by diversified methods and presentations. The mediums involved include performing art, video art, installation art and painting. She is sensitive to the city's inconspicuous yet subtle order, venting her desire for control through art making, trying to dominate the realities in a variety of ways, and paying attention to this world that continues to manipulate us (un)intentionally.