The afternoon Salon program serves as an open platform for short presentations such as artist talks, panels, lectures, and performances – often informal – with a range of speakers including artists, academics, curators, collectors, architects, art lawyers, critics, and many other cultural players.
Programme:
Thursday, May 15, 2014
1pm | Focus Viet Nam | Monumental Bling and Other Things…
2pm | Collecting and Archiving | Art vs. Architecture
3pm | Artist Talk | Made in Hong Kong: On Collecting Milk Pudding and Table Cloths
4pm | Artist Talk | Violent Changes: Facts and Fictions
5pm | Film Talk | Activism Utopia
6pm | Art History | Simplicity is Complexity Resolved: Brancusi’s Art & Legacy
Friday, May 16, 2014
1pm | Artist Talk | Carsten Nicolai: α (alpha) pulse
2pm | Art History | Hans van Dijk: Dialogues in the Development of Contemporary Art in China
3pm | Setting up a System: Contemporary Art Ecologies in Dynamic Economies such as Brazil, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore
4pm | Talk | Cross Cultural Influences between France & China
5pm | Art and Language | The Gift of Tongues
6pm | Shifting Places: Exchanging Public Art Practice Between Mumbai and Hong Kong
Saturday, May 17, 2014
1pm | Beyond Space | Artist Networks in Hong Kong
2pm | Artist Talk | We Have Never Unknown Each Other
3pm | The 8th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale | We Have Never Participated
4pm | Artist Talk | Fiona Hall: Drowning Theory
- Open:
Friday, 16 May 2014 - Close:
Sunday, 18 May 2014 - Address:
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Auditorium, Entrance Hall 1A, 1 Harbour Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong - Mail:
press@artbasel.com - Phone:
+41 58 206 27 06 - Web:
Art Basel Salon - Photo credits:
Courtesy of Art Basel