What We See & Make Seen

An Exhibition about Visualization Strategies & Public Spheres
Public Interventions, Sounds, and Images in Hong Kong and Zurich
whatweseee_flyer_small_00
Thursday, May 1, to Wednesday, May 7, 5 to 7 pm
Opening: Wednesday, April 30, 6 pm
Gasthaus zum Bären / Museum Bärengasse
Bärengasse 22, Zürich

Works by
Bleta Jahaj, Vera Buck, Sandra Bühler, Cherry CHENG Mei Lun, Felicia Eisenring, Rahel Erny, Brandon Farnsworth, Gabriel Flückiger, Magnhild Fossum, Katja Gläss, Simon Grab, Denis Handschin, Jyoti Kapur, Marc Latzel, Harry LEUNG Ho Yin, Mahroo Movahedi, Patricia Nocon, Katherine Patiño Miranda, Anna Rubi, Lukka SHIYU Gao, Ami TSANG Tsz Hei, Alfred Vorster, André Willimann

From
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Fine Arts, and
Zurich University of the Arts, Master Fine Arts and Master Transdisciplinary Studies

With Contributions by
Frank TANG Kai Yiu, the Talking Sites Workshop at Srishti, School of Art, Design and Technology Bangalore, with Choki Traditional Art School (Bhutan) and Zurich University of the Arts, Master Fine Arts

Organized by
Annemarie Bucher, Katja Gläss, Nuria Krämer, Dominique Lämmli, and Patrick Müller

Performances at the opening
6.30 pm Simon Grab, “What you hear is [not] [t]here“ (music performance, basement)
7.00 to 8.00 pm Patricia Nocon, „Do What You See – Fake the City” (performance, whole building)
Every 15 minutes: Katherine Patiño Miranda, “To Push or not to Push? (workshop, ground floor)

Works
Frank TANG Kai Yiu
X:Y (2014)
5-channel HDV/ color/ no sound

Brandon Farnsworth, Bleta Jahaj & Félicia Eisenring
“Imperfect Exchange” (2014)
Multi-Channel video / colour / sound

Gabriel Flückiger
Four sketches (2014)
HD-Video, loop, no sound

Untitled (2014)
Digital c-print

Gabriel Flückiger & Harry Leung Ho Yin
Climbing up the Social Ladders
Jump out of Hong Kong
To Welcome and Refuse
Street posts (2014)

a conversation (2014)
Booklet, edition of 10, 2 AP

Magnhild Fossum
«Wild is the wind» (2014)
Mixed media

Lukka Shiyu Gao
Market Place Electro (2014)
1-channel video, sound

Public Common – 公共 (2014)
Plotted characters

Katja Gläss
Fish (2014)
3-channel video

Simon Grab
What you hear is [not] [t]here (2014)
Audio Fieldrecordings from Hong Kong

Denis Handschin
Doing Nothing – voiceless with snow (2014)
Mixed media (loop projection, digital print)

Jyoti Kapur
Inside / Outside (2014)
1-channel-video, sound

Marc Latzel
“Hong Kong Strollology: from day to dusk trough dawn”
or: to walk in cities
A 43 km walk on 1st and 2nd of April 2014
HD-Video

Marc Latzel
“Please hold the handrail”
Installation with HD-Video, sound recording, a block of wood, stool, and headphones
In collaboration with:
Alfred Voster (Notation)
Jacqueline Ott (Marimba)
Brandon Farnsworth (Horn)

Katherine Patiño Miranda
To Push or not to Push?
Combat Lessons (2014)
Performance

Mahroo Movahedi
Being without Attendance (2014)
Photographs in collaboration with fellow students from Masters in Transdisciplinary Studies.

Patricia Nocon
Do What You See – Fake the City (2014)
Performance, video, no sound, loop

Anna Rubi
The past that we didn’t know we had (2014)
HDV/ color/ sound
Sound: Simon Grab, excerpts from performance in the Connecting Space Hong Kong 2014

Ami TSANG Tsz Hei & Magnhild Fossum
McStudios—The ideology of the role of studio (2014)
Concept by Ami Tsang, performance by Magnhild Fossum
1- channel video / colour / no sound

Alfred Vorster
Documentations, Movements and Time
Trio for prepared piano, violin and violoncello (2014)
Score (12 sheets on music stands)

André Willimann
Hong Kong: The Blue Lotus (2014)
15 Photographs and collages (Title Unknown)