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The Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.79 | Taiwanese artist Wu Chi-Yu on Han Chinese and their ambiguous role of settlers and occupiers, and the closing of the world.In today’s episode I talk with artist Chi Yu from his studio in Taiwan. Together we delved into several areas such as the ambiguous roles of the Han Chinese as settlers and occupiers in his work called “Settlers and the Unhomely”, we continued our discussion about his project "Atlas of the Closed Worlds", a work that illustrates the global development of the closing of nations, and we looked at society through an alien world.
Wu Chi-Yu is a multimedia artist whose works include photography, film, and video installation. He delves into the lost and un...2023-10-0751 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.78 | Cambodian artist Vuth Lyno on Spirit Houses, Sa Sa Art Projects, and on his rainbow machine maker.In today’s episode I have the pleasure of talking with Vuth Lyno, a Cambodian-based artist, curator, and educator. From his studio in Phnom Penh, we delved into his work Spirit Houses, spirituality in Cambodia, and his rainbow machine maker. Vuth Lyno also talked about his collective Sa Sa Art Projects and the role of placemaking in his work.
Vuth Lyno is an artist, curator, and educator interested in space, cultural history, and knowledge production. His artworks often engage with micro and overlooked histories, notions of community, place-making, and the production of social relations. He...2023-09-3044 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.77 | Artist Dr Sonia Wong on diglossic poetry, letters of universal emotions, and on sharing a bed with strangers.In today’s episode I had the pleasure of meeting Dr Sonia Wong, a performance artist and poet based in Hong Kong. We began our conversation about her role at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, how her diglossic poetry and writing has informed her body of work, we talked about embodied experiences, and lastly we discussed her latest 3-day performance work One Sheet of Warm Coexistence in which she invited people to share her bed with her.
Sonia Wong is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and researcher based in Hong Kong. Her work explores sexuality, identity, intimacy, an...2023-09-2353 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.76 | Artist Michelle Chan on going from computer science to art, uncovering of a family secret, and the surprising Citybus stories.Michelle chan is a photographer, artist and in today’s episode we talked about how she shifted her career from computer science to behavioural therapy to art, how she discovered the unexpected passion of her late uncle, and the different reasons why people take Citybusses in Hong Kong.
Michelle Chan Wan Chee is an artist who works primarily in photography. She uses the camera and manipulated images to generate connections and conversations with people, so as to discover, reflect and nurture our impressions of people, places and things. She is interested in systems, human behaviours and habits, th...2023-09-1653 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.75 | Myanmar's poet, artist Maung Day on social realities, reconstructing narratives, and the art of translation between languages and domains.Poet and artist Maung Day talked with me from his home in Yangon, Myanmar which is also formerly known as Burma. We began our conversation about what was driving him to draw, the ugly and the beautiful, how he reconstructives narratives through poetry and drawings, and the challenge of translation between languages and domains.
MAUNG DAY is an acclaimed poet and visual artist hailing from Myanmar. He has penned a number of poetry books in Burmese, and some of his English poems have appeared in journals such as Guernica, The Margins, The Awl, Shampoo...2023-09-0945 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.74 | Artist Mindy Lui on airing blankets, medicinal properties of tangerine peels, and how the value of objects change.In today’s episode I met Mindy Lui, a Hong Kong-based artist. From her studio we discussed her work and began our conversation with her airing blanket project, we discussed the background of her tangerine peel work, talked about how she collaborated with Hidden Space team and we delved into how the value of objects change over time.
Mindy LUI (b.1997, Hong Kong) obtained her BA in Fine Arts from the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University in 2020. She works primarily with drawing and painting, and increasingly experiments with adjacent video and fo...2023-09-0346 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.73 | Artist Yip Kai Chun on Hakka, the decline of the language, Hakka karaoke, and Hong Kong’s Inter-Island Festival.I’m back on the ferry to another island in Hong Kong. I travelled to meet artist Yip Kai Chun on Peng Chau where we talked about how he learnt to speak Hakka, the impact of its decline, how a new generation was exposed to Hakka through his community project and the upcoming Inter-Island Art Festival in Hong Kong.
Yip Kai Chun is an artist-curator born and based in Hong Kong. Neglected history, culture and language of the localities are at the core of his research-based creations. Exploring the Hakka root of his own an...2023-08-2648 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.72 | Video artist Wing Sze Lam on being a fisherman, ordinary life, the foundation of creativity, and the meaning of art.Wing Sze Lam is a Hong Kong-based video artist and she talked about her role at the M+ museum, why she identified herself with a fisherman, the foundation of creativity and we discussed the meaning of art.
Lam Wing Sze is a Hong Kong–based video artist. She received her BA from the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University, in 2015. Lam currently works in museum education. Participated exhibitions and projects include “Our Manifestos II: Videography, Documentary Impulses” (Floating Projects, Hong Kong, 2021), “Portals, Stories, and Other Journeys” (Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong, 2021), “Sightlines” (Hong Kong Art...2023-08-1950 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.71 | Aktin Drieglo aka Olgierd Nitka on his alter egos, socio-ecological issues, and his transformation from graffiti to painter.Artist Aktin Drieglo is my next guest on The Last Supper. From his Cheung Chau studio we spoke about the role of alter egos, how they function as a kind of escapism, social-ecological issues, and how his work has evolved from graffiti to paintings.
Olgierd is a professional visual artist, designer and architect. Born in 80s Poland, he practiced arts in Berlin, notably street art. He then moved to Hong Kong fourteen years ago, where he established a studio on Cheung Chau island. In his works, Olgierd explores the boundaries between abstract and figurative painting. He mixes d...2023-08-121h 04The Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.70 | Artist, illustrator Pearl Law on adapting to European sensibilities, Hong Kong - Japanese dog owner behaviour, and modernology.Artist and illustrator Pearl Law talked about adapting to European sensibilities, Hong Kong - Japanese dog owner behaviour, the notion of modernology or Kougengaku, and we spoke about her art residence in Japan.
Pearl Law is an illustrator, comic artist, and a zine publisher. She graduated from University of the West of England with a degree in Illustration. Much of her work takes inspiration from humour, literature, history, and behavioural observations. She loves to play around with visual wit and exploring the best narrative possible through problem-solving.
Website: https://pe...2023-08-0534 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.69 | Dr Caroline Ha Thuc on her residency programme Walden, the ecology of cocao, and on getting rid of discourses.Dr Caroline Ha Thuc is a researcher, curator, writer and lecturer. I met her at Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong and together we talked about her residency programme Walden, her current project about the ecology of cacao in Asia, we delved into the challenges of today’s discourses, and her role as a lecturer.
Dr. Caroline Ha Thuc is a French Hong Kong based independent art writer and curator. She holds a PhD from the School of Creative Media, City University Hong Kong.
Specialised in Asian contemporary art, Ha Thuc contributes regularly to different ma...2023-07-2943 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.68 | Artists Shuyi Cao and Leelee Chan on materiality, objectification of materials, and the ecology of upcycling.Strange Strangers curated by Cusson Cheng is a duo-artist exhibition at Para Site in Hong Kong. I sat down with both artists, Shuyi Cao who is based in New York and Hong Kong-based Leelee Chan. I began the conversation asking about their working method, their relationship with materiality, their work at the current show at Para Site, and what art is for in relation to climate change.
Leelee Chan (b. 1984, Hong Kong; lives and works in Hong Kong) makes enigmatic sculptures that incorporate urban debris, ancient artefacts, natural materials, and industrial products, generating visual...2023-07-2245 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.67 | Olivia Wang on the tribulations of writing, what makes a great scholar's rocks, and Unsung Heroes of Ink.This episode addresses viewer stones or scholar’s rocks. These are naturally occurring or shaped rocks that are cherished by scholars. Together with curator and writer Olivia Wang we explored the tribulations of writing, what makes a stone a scholar’s rock and we discussed her project Unsung Heroes of Ink that she directed and produced.
Olivia Wang is an independent curator and writer based in Hong Kong. Her writing on contemporary Chinese ink art has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, ArtAsiaPacific, Orientations, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, among others. She is the Dire...2023-07-1530 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.66 | Painter Jeremy Ip on imagination through emptiness, the challenge of owning a gallery space and cultivating different perspectives.In this episode I travelled to Kowloon Bay in Hong Kong where I met painter Jeremy Ip in his studio and gallery space. We talked about how emptiness evokes imagination, the challenge of owning a gallery space, why it is important to have different viewpoints, and how Jeremy cultivates different perspectives through the activities at his art gallery.
Jeremy Ip is a painter based in Hong Kong, a busy city shaped with rational rules. Through painting, a temporary suicide, he strives for humility and stillness. Creating an ambiguous purity and immersive flatness using thinly layered oils reflects...2023-07-0830 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.65 | Artist Winsome Wong on textural imagery, keeping memories, karaoke, and her family project Lorna’s Party.I sat down with Winsome Wong in Hong Kong. We talked about what she meant by textures and layering in her video work, what she finds so fascinating about imperfections and we delved into her family’s project Lorna’s Party that features her mother and family from the Philippines.
Winsome Wong mainly works on videography and the sculpting of images. Through moving along with her camera, composing and sculpting the texture and rhythm of the images, she believes that art helps guiding her to comprehend and step into daily life. Therefore, most of her works are about...2023-07-0142 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.64 | Artist Reo Ma on the university of YouTube, the value of creation, addressing depression, and Form n Void.In this episode I sat down with artist Reo Ma in his studio in Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong. We touched on multiple aspects of his work including how he has learnt to make garments, the value of creation, how he dealt with depression and his latest project Form n Void.
Atelier Reo Ma represents a life philosophy aimed at inspiring people from different background and walks of life. Different mediums are used to present ideologies associated with the philosophy.
Living in a world filled with norms often makes oneself follow a path which is...2023-06-2448 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.63 | Artist May Yeung on her Quotation Mark, how cancer impacted her art practice, and her art charity Art of MY Family.In today's episode I sat down with Hong Kong based artist May Yeung. We talked about how she began as a sculptor and how she transitioned to a full-time mixed media artist, her motivation behind her charity Art of MY Family, the impact of cancer on her art practice , and how she engages the general audience through her art workshops.
May Yeung specialises in sculpture-making and public arts. Graduate of the University of Chicago in Visual Arts and Political Science, she was yet the one and only Asian to have had public exhibitions at Ch...2023-06-1744 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.62 | Whitestone Director Jiyoung Park on political science in Korea, fake news, a new generation of art buyers, and sustainability of art fairs.During this episode, I had the pleasure of meeting Jiyoung Park, who serves as the director of Whitestone Gallery in Seoul, Korea. Our conversation covered a range of topics, including political science, the difficulties posed by fake news, the impact of a new generation of art collectors on the art market, the Frieze art fair in Seoul, and the current state of art fairs in Asia.
Jiyoung Park is Director of Whitestone Gallery Seoul. She started working at Whitestone Gallery Tokyo in 2011 and then moved to Whitestone Gallery Hong Kong branch as a gallery...2023-06-1034 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.61 | Artist Wong Pak Hang, Samson on mortality in the virtual world, crime scenes, life after death, and boredom.On this episode of The Last Supper, I travel to Fanling in Hong Kong to meet with the artist Wong Pak Hang, Samson. During our discussion, we explore three projects: Life Objects, Commuting Talking, and Screen Slavers. In addition, we delve into his intrigue with mortality in the virtual realm, his utilisation of photographic crime scenes, and his musings on boredom during commutes.
Wong Pak Hang, Samson (b. 1995) lives and works in Hong Kong.. He obtains his Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Wong expresses himself through di...2023-06-0347 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.60 | Para Site Executive Director, Curator Billy Tang on art as a haven, the impact of racism, and culture as a coat.In this episode of The Last Supper I had the pleasure of meeting executive director and curator Billy Tang at their new space in Quarry Bay in Hong Kong. After Billy guided me through the current exhibition Signals we began our dialogue with why art is a safe haven, we talked about the relationship between language and identity, how racism has informed his viewpoint on the world, and why he became a curator.
Billy Tang is Executive Director & Curator at Para Site, Hong Kong. He was previously the Senior Curator at Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, and Curatorial...2023-05-2752 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.59 | Artist Mizuki Nishiyama on social and cultural dichotomies in Japan, mixed identities, Shintoism, and finding refuge in art.In this episode of The Last Supper, I spoke with artist Mizuki Nishiyama. Our wide-ranging conversation delved into social and cultural polarities in Japan, negotiating mixed identities, the impact of language, Shintoism and how art offers sanctuary.
Mizuki Nishiyama is a London based, mixed-Japanese artist; creating raw, vivid and multifaceted artworks that explore the fragile human condition. As a mixed-Japanese artist, Nishiyama draws inspiration from the East and West. Bridging her Hong Kong, Japanese and Italian cultural heritages. Embracing deeply personal experiences to craft each artwork: the artist’s ongoing relationship with anxiety and tr...2023-05-201h 00The Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.58 | Artist Bobby Yu on psychological safety, grappling with family trauma, shifting viewpoints through critiquing, and her Daddy’s Dinner.In this episode I caught up with artist Bobby Yu who returned from Oslo to Hong Kong. We discussed how her current collaborative project Daddy dinner with two migrated artists Jacky Jana-Yuan Kuo and Jinbin Chen attempts to uncover her family’s history, how art critiquing helped her confidence, and we talked about her role as an artist to address unspoken trauma.
Yu Shuk Pui Bobby is a visual artist who now based in Hong Kong and Oslo. Bobby’s practice is focused on building intimate relationships and collaborations, where physical, tangible and affective phenomena associated with biot...2023-05-1356 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.57 | Artist Jaffa Lam on scent and memory, art in a fast-food Chinese in New York, and the Hong Kong Art SchoolIn this episode I travelled to the New Territories in Hong Kong where I met artist and art educator Jaffa Lam In her studio in Fo Tan. We spoke about her childhood memories of growing up in China, how a bet in a Chinese restaurant in New York enthused her to make art, grappling with imposter syndrome, determination, and her 500 rocks of the Monkey King.
Jaffa Lam is a Hong Kong-based artist specializing in large-scale, site-specific and mixed-media works, often making use of recycled materials, such as crate wood, old furniture, abandoned metal and umbrella fabric. Since 1999...2023-05-061h 10The Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.56 | Curator Laure Raibaut on Picasso's Paintings in Glass and on the ecology of visual art in Hong Kong.In this episode of The Last Supper I met curator and art historian Laure Raibaut in Cheung Chau, Hong Kong. We sat down and spoke about her upcoming Picasso exhibition of paintings in glass in The Landmark and HKU Museum and Art Gallery, we talked about the state of art in Hong Kong, and the challenges artists and art collectors are facing in Hong Kong.
Laure Raibaut is a curator and art historian with expertise in Asian and European art. Laure founded her own company Nissa Bella Art Management in 2018. She was trained as an archaeologist and...2023-04-2949 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.55 | Asia Art Archive Senior Curator Özge Ersoy on her role in the library, interpreting what Asia is, and the preservation of art.In this episode I sat down with senior curator Özge Ersoy of the Asia Art Archive (AAA) in Hong Kong. We discussed the transformation of Asia Art Archive, how they changed their research approach, the research areas that they are looking into, how they think about preservation of art and the relationship between curating and writing.
Özge Ersoy is Senior Curator at Asia Art Archive. She has worked in the curatorial teams of various nonprofit arts organisations in Hong Kong, Istanbul, New York, and Cairo for the past fifteen years, researching artists’ archives, contemporary art collections, and inde...2023-04-2256 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.54 | Artist Wang Jiajia on directness, growing up with artist parents, Chinese landscapes, and his A/S/L show.I went back to De Sarthe gallery in Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong and caught up with Beijing-based artist Jiajia. He shared his thoughts on being direct, growing up in an art studio, and his Age/Sex/Location or ASL show in Hong Kong.
Wang Jiajia was born in 1985 in Beijing, China, where he currently lives and works. He attended Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, graduating with a BA Honours degree in 2008. Born to a generation eclipsed by the popularisation of television, advent of the Internet, and ubiquity of pop culture, motifs extracted from video2023-04-1548 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.53 | Art historian Dr Yeewan Koon on Hong Kong's art education, cultural appropriation, AI and intentionalism, and Nara Yoshitomo.In this episode I travelled to the University of Hong Kong where I had the pleasure of meeting Dr Yeewan Koon, the chair of the department of Art History of the University of Hong Kong. We addressed a broad range of topics that began with the exploration of what a Hong Kong’er and Hong Kong art is, her method behind the publication of Nara Yoshitomo’s work, why not everyone can be an artist, and her thoughts on NFT and Artificial Intelligence.
Yeewan Koon is associate professor and Chair of the Department of Art History at the...2023-04-081h 11The Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.52 | Art Collector Jacobo Garcia on singularity and creativity, his art assessment approach, and cultural revisionism.In this episode of The Last Supper I sat down with Jacobo Garcia who talked passionately about many areas of art. We began our conversation discussing the relationship between singularity and creativity, how he applies his financial risk modelling to assessing art, what he has learnt from living in Asia, and finally why he does not want to live forever.
Jacobo Garcia Gil is an experienced investment banker with over 20 years of expertise in the field. In addition to his professional career, Mr. Garcia has also established a contemporary art collection, Divide By Zero, which features works...2023-04-011h 41The Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.51 | Artist Hou Lam Tsui on the politics of love, creating new societal narratives, sexual ambiguity, finding love and unloving.In this episode I travelled back to Fo Tan where I sat down with artist Hou Lam Tsui. We talked about the politics of love, how the media in Hong Kong drives the heteronormative narrative, her passion for Japanese anime, finding love and the role of unloving.
Hou Lam Tsui (b. 1997) lives and works in Hong Kong. Tsui received a BA in Fine Art and History of Art from the University of Leeds in 2018. Her practice centres around personal experience, gender politics, boundaries, and peripheral storytelling. Her recent exhibitions include Blind Curve (RNH Space, 2022), Noble Rot (Para...2023-03-2541 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.50 🎉 | ChatGPT on the complexities of art criticism, Noel Carroll, what art critics can learn from each other, and The Last Supper guest.In this 50th episode special 🎉, I had a conversation with OpenAi ChatGPT to address art criticism in Asia. To give ChatGPT a voice, I used a separate text-to-speech software. All answers of ChatGPT are unedited and are a direct reflection of ChatGPT’s response. The purpose for producing this episode was not to find weaknesses or failures in its response, but to demonstrate that we have reached a point that it’s possible to have a basic dialogue with AI. Whether ChatGPT is truthful and accurate, this is something - just like everything else that you read, watch, hear and see...2023-03-1841 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.49 | HKWalls co-founder Jason Dembski on bombing, tagging, street art and persuading property owners in Hong Kong.In this episode of 'The Last Supper - Art in Asia' I met the cofounder of HKWalls. I have known Jason Dembski for over a decade, however it’s the very first time we sat down and talked about what drove him to host street art festivals, the state of graffiti in Hong Kong and the challenges he faces working with local land owners.
Jason is an American designer, maker and curator based in Hong Kong. Jason is one of the Co-founders of HKwalls, a non-profit arts organisation and annual street art festival in Hong Kong. With a...2023-03-1143 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.48 | Curator and artist Eunice Tsang on immersive experiences, revenge resting, and using humour to navigate Hong Kong’s ambiguous landscape.In this episode of 'The Last Supper - Art in Asia' I sat down with artist and curator Eunice Tsang in her studio space in Sham Shui Po. We spoke about how she began Current Plans, revenge resting, and using humour to navigate Hong Kong’s ambiguous landscape.
Eunice Tsang (she/her) is a curator and artist based in Hong Kong. She founded and curates Current Plans, an alternative art space in Sham Shui Po that encourages cross-disciplinary dialogues through exhibition-making. Previously, she set up the Asian Artist Book Library in Tai Kwun Contemporary, focussing her research on...2023-03-0447 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.47 | Art gallerist Shivang on commerce, F.Art Basel, artist intent, how comedy teaches us, and the art of critiquing.In this episode of 'The Last Supper - Art in Asia' I had a conversation with Shivang from Young Soy based in Hong Kong. Our discussion covered his journey in art, which began during the Covid-19 pandemic, the current state of art critique in Hong Kong, and the unique requirement of performing a stand-up comedy routine to join the Young Soy team.
Shivang Jhunjhnuwala grew up in Hong Kong and worked in video production after completing his university studies. Alongside his job, he dabbled in stand-up comedy before quitting in December 2019 with plans to travel the world...2023-02-251h 02The Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.46 | Neon artist Chankalun on the neon society's secret code, circular art, and her upcoming work for Art Basel 2023.In this episode 'The Last Supper - Art in Asia' I travel to Fo Tan in Hong Kong where I met Chankalun in her studio. We began our dialogue with a short quiz in which I attempted to see the difference between neon and LED. We continued the conversation covering a wide range of topics from how she learnt the craft of neon, Chankalun’s upcoming Art Basel work, and the history of the pawn shop neon sign. We also discussed the difference between American and Japanese Neon techniques and Chankalun talked about her project ‘The Neon Girl’.
The...2023-02-181h 09The Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.45 | Tatler Arts & Culture editor Aaina Bhargava on the hardship of writing and why you must procrastinate.In this episode of 'The Last Supper - Art in Asia' I visited Aaina, the Arts and Culture Editor of Tatler Asia. We talked about how her studies have informed her current work, her intent when writing, her assessment of private and public art and how Aaina’s writing style has evolved.
Aaina is the Arts and Culture Editor of Tatler Asia. A passion for history and all things visual led her in the pursuit of art history. With extensive experience in the art world working for a range of art institutions, she combined her passion and ex...2023-02-1258 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.44 | Artist Ice Wong on Hong Kong’s art education, glass blowing, jumping from a cabinet, and adopting sunflowers.In this episode of 'The Last Supper - Art in Asia' I sat down with mixed media and performance artist Ice Wong. We began our conversation talking about her experience of studying art in Hong Kong, how she began with performance art, discussed what’s behind her recent work for Post-Human Narratives and the rapport she developed with sunflowers. Ice completed the conversation by explaining why she was jumping off a wooden cabinet and what other work she had planned for this year.
Ice WONG Kei Suet (b.1995) lives and works in Hong Kong. She obtained her Bac...2023-02-051h 01The Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.43 | Art lawyer Laurens Kasteleijn on anti money laundering, NFT’s latest developments and the lost Van Gogh’s.In this last episode of 2022 of 'The Last Supper - Art in Asia' I had the pleasure to talk with Dutch art lawyer Laurens Kasteleijn. Laurens explained the implications of the anti money laundering regulations, the latest developments in crypto and NFT, and we talked about the apparent shift of art centres in London, Paris, Hong Kong and Seoul.
The Last Supper will continue on Saturday 5th February 2023.
Laurens holds a master’s degree in corporate law from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, studied in France and at the Tsinghua University in Beijing, Ch...2022-12-2450 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.42 | Artist Jade Ching-Yuk Ng on the impact of Russian mosaics, escapism, and character proximity.In this episode I met with London-based artist Jade who is in Hong Kong for her first show. Our conversation centred around her experience of being back in Hong Kong after 3 years, how her trip to Russia and the Eastern Bloc countries made a lasting impression on her work, we talked about what Jade meant by character proximity and ended our conversation with her current solo show GUSH.
Jade Ching-Yuk Ng obtained her BA at Slade School of Fine Art in 2016 and MA at Royal College of Art in 2018. She is a recipient of Cass Art Painting...2022-12-1739 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.41 | Artist, Curator Kobe Ko on gender fluidity, feminism, and Hong Kong's generation of displacement.In this episode I sat down with artist and curator Kobe Ko. We spoke about her experience in Taiwan, her perspective on the current state of Hong Kong, The Post Human Narrative project and what Kobe is planning for next year.
Kobe Ko (b. 1992 in Hong Kong) is a curator, artist and also one of the co-founders of nomad nomad. She has curated ‘Post-Human Narratives’ (2020–present), Mitsuru Nishimura’s solo exhibition ‘-Fade away-’ (2018), Mayumi Hosokura’s exhibition ‘Jubilee’ (2017), and ‘CHOW KAI CHIN Community Art Experimental Project’ (2013 & 2014), among others. ‘Before the last breath’ (2021) was selected for the Open Call of ‘Bouncing Art Show...2022-12-1044 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.40 | Gallery Director Charles Fong on what art is for, Tinder, and the dark side of art.In this episode I sat down with Charles Fong, the gallery director of Rossi & Rossi in Hong Kong. We began the conversation with his visit to the Art Collaboration Kyoto fair in Japan, we talked about what art is for, discussed what the value of art is, and ended our dialogue talking about the dark side of art.
Charles Fong - Gallery Director, Hong Kong. After graduating with a degree in Microbiology from the University of Hong Kong, Charles took a dive into the art world. While working, he completed his Masters in Sociology, specifically examining the...2022-12-0345 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.39 | Filmmaker Violet du Feng on Hidden Letters and Nushu, a language that men don’t understand.In this episode I spoke with filmmaker Violet Du Feng. Among the many topics we delved into we talked about the pressures of capitalism, her observations of living both in China and in the U.S., the challenges of today’s ambiguous world and what she hoped to achieve with her recent and multiple award-winning documentary Hidden Letters.
Hidden Letters follows two millennial Chinese women connected by their passion for Nushu, a secret female-only language that for centuries has allowed women to communicate privately without men understanding their correspondence.
While practices like foot-binding are long pa...2022-11-2651 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.38 | Artist Siu Ding on body autonomy, gender fluidity, and her recent shibari project ‘Ritsu Aomame’ in Hong Kong.In this week’s episode of The Last Supper I sat down with artist Siu Ding, founder of the Hong Kong Life Model Club for artists, musicians, painters, writers, photographers, and artmakers. We spoke about her passion to promote body autonomy, gender fluidity, and her recent show ‘Ritsu Aomame’ in Hong Kong.
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Siu Ding is an artist and book designer. Life is art, and the body is a personal temple. Known as the “exhibitionist”, she likes to break taboos and make the world her playground.
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Founder, Hon...2022-11-2054 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.37 | Art critic Chris Wan on anti-narrative, the real world, and the effects of displacement in Hong Kong.This week I caught up with art critic, writer, and curator Chris Wan. He talked about the role of narrative and anti-narrative in art, the multiplicity of perspectives of how we perceived the world and we also talked about his personal experience of displacement in Hong Kong.
Chris Wan Feng is a writer, critic and curator, currently works and lives in Hong Kong. His writing on contemporary art can be found on various media publications, e.g., Artforum. Chris’s recent research and curation focuses on new developments of local art system and creation of emerging artists in...2022-11-1349 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.36 | Meet Shen the T. rex with Georgina Hilton, Christie's Head of Classic Art, Asia.A 66 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex, also nicknamed Shen the T. rex, is the very first T. rex skeleton offered at a public auction in Asia. I sat down with Georgina Hilton and we talked about Christie’s upcoming auction on the 30th November in Hong Kong. We also talked about Paul Allan’s exceptional art collection at the Rockefeller Center galleries in New York.
As Head of Classic Art, Asia, Georgina is responsible for developing collectors in this field in Asia. Classic Art at Christie’s spans from antiquity to the nineteenth century, covering an array of highly collec...2022-11-0631 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.35 | Yi Gao on Christie's Education, how COVID transformed their art programmes, and advice for art collectors.In this episode I have the pleasure to meet Yi Gao, the programme lead at Christie’s Education in Hong Kong. Yi explains how she began her career in art, the many roles she fills at Christie’s Education and what makes learning at Christie’s unique and special.
Yi Gao 高伊, Programme Lead, Christie’s Education, Asia Pacific. - As Program Lead of Christie’s Education Asia, Yi is responsible for developing course curricula and programme content, maintaining and expanding a network of lecturers, as well as leading courses and lecturing on topics related to art business, art market and...2022-10-2954 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.34 | Curator Charlotte Lin on Millennials, Gen-Z art collectors, and her first group show Glimmer Shrine.In this podcast episode of The Last Supper I caught up with Charlotte Lin and discussed her experience working with a new generation of artists and collectors in Hong Kong. We also spoke about the background of Charlotte's upcoming group exhibition Glimmer Shrine at the Tang Contemporary art gallery in Central, Hong Kong.
Charlotte was born in Shenzhen, China. She currently lives and works in Hong Kong as the Sales and Marketing manager of Tang Contemporary Art in Hong Kong, serving as the bridge to build both gallery's artist and public relationship globally.
Charlotte graduated...2022-10-2247 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.33 | Artist Kay Mei Ling Beadman on expanding Hong Kong’s fixed boundaries, belonging and her invisibility cloaks.In this episode I travelled to Kwai Hing in Hong Kong's New Territories and visited artist and researcher Kay Mei Ling Beadman in her studio. Kay shared her experience of being an Eurasian in the U.K. and Hong Kong, why she co-founded artist-run Hidden Space and the role of critiquing in the emergence of art.
Kay Mei Ling Beadman is an artist, researcher and co-founder of Hong Kong artist-run initiative Hidden Space. She uses her Chinese and white English mixed ethnicity to explore aspects of complex dual identity formation, often focusing on embodied aspects of lived...2022-10-151h 02The Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.32 | Amanda Sun on Arts For Good, the impact of her art programmes and her mission for social change.Amanda Sun is the founder of the Arts For Good Foundation, a social enterprise that is dedicated to social inclusion for future generations through the soft power of art and culture in Hong Kong. We spoke about a range of subjects including what drove her to begin Arts For Good and we delved into the purpose and impact of the art making programmes.
Amanda grew up in Mainland China with rich experience in social science research, art research and project management with a record of working with education institutions, as well as creating educational art projects for...2022-10-0839 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.31 | Gallerist Rachel Lee on the role of Korean artisanship, grappling with ambiguity and The Paradox of Beauty.In this episode I sat down with gallerist Rachel Lee, owner of Soluna Fine Art in Hong Kong. Rachel began our conversation by sharing her story where her interest in art came from, her journey of becoming a gallery owner and we ended the conversation exploring the meaning of Jeong Myoung-Jo's first solo exhibition The Paradox of Beauty.
Seoul-born, Hong Kong-based gallery owner, painter and mother of three Rachel Lee, has always been passionate about art. Her formal training in fine arts (MFA) at the Hong Ik University in South Korea opened doors for Rachel to learn...2022-10-0250 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.30 | Artist Wai Pongyu on the art of the dialogue, honesty, trust and why he has confined himself in a gallery.In this episode I travelled back to Wong Chuk Hang in Hong Kong where I met artist Wai Pongyu in his studio. We talked about his working approach, the stories visitors tell him, revealing emotions through his line work and Pongyu explained why he has confined himself in a gallery for several months.
Wai Pong Yu is known for his complex and meticulous ballpoint-pen-on-paper drawings that stem from the rhythms and movements of lines, whereby each line follows the previous one, always moving forward without retracing itself or breaking. Delicate yet dynamic, precise yet sensuous, his inked...2022-09-2447 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.29 | Artist Joseph Chen on grappling with identity, the negative image of queer people, and Virtue Village.In this episode I sat down and met Joseph Chen at his workplace at Eaton in Hong Kong. We discussed his group exhibition at PHD Group, his collaboration with Cas Wong, his research, and we talked about his personal experience of being queer in Hong Kong.
Joseph Chen King Yuen is an artist and curator based in Hong Kong, currently the Director of Culture at Eaton HK. Joseph is the co-founder of Virtue Village, Aurora Trip Sitter, and the member of Video Cypher. His practice revolves around video art, also involving still images, installation, and performance. His a...2022-09-1756 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.28 | Book dealer Lorence Johnston on Fahrenheit 451, The Story of Ferdinand and the business of rare books.In this episode I met Lorence Johnston, a Hong Kong-based rare book dealer. We spoke about how Lorence began his business, discussed surprising facts of some of his current rare books including the jacket of Brad Bury’s Fahrenheit 451 and the amazing background of The Story of Ferdinand.
Lorence Johnston has been running Lok Man Rare Books in Central for 15 years, working with a dizzying range of valuable books, from the world’s first atlas and 18th century travel to first editions of James Bond and Hemingway. It has been his longest time in one company ever.
2022-09-1049 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.27 | Gallery owners Ysabelle & Willem on Hong Kong’s dichotomies; trauma-healing, fast-slow, sensory-paranormal.In this episode I sat down with Ysabelle Cheung and Willem Molesworth, co-founders and co-owners of gallery PDH in Hong Kong. We began the conversation talking about the background of their new gallery, their current exhibition at the Korean Cultural Centre in Hong Kong and they explained why they are committed to this city despite all the transformative changes in Hong Kong.
Property Holdings Development Group (PHD Group) is a contemporary art gallery with a focus on critical engagement, research, and collaborative practice. Founded in 2021 in Hong Kong, the gallery is situated in a 1970s rooftop clubhouse...2022-09-031h 07The Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.26 | Artist-farmer Lo Lai Lai Natalie on Human Library, Sangwoodgoon, surveillance, and living slowly.In this episode with Lo Lai Lai Natalie we spoke about her early life as a travel writer and how this has informed and influenced her current career as a farmer and artist. We discussed Natalie’s interests in Sangwoodgoon, meditation, surveillance, fermentation and lastly how her hyperthyroidism affected her outlook on life and work.
Lo Lai Lai Natalie is based in Hong Kong. She received her Bachelor of Art (Fine Arts) and Master of Fine Arts from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Lai Lai is a former travel journalist. She is interested in the development and...2022-08-2754 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.25 | Performance artist Florence Lam on magical thinking, panpsychism and vulnerability.In this episode I talked with performance artist Florence Lam who returned to Hong Kong two years. We delved into her concepts of magical thinking, anthropomorphism and what she meant by elastifying worldviews.
Florence Lam (b.1992 in Vancouver, Canada) lives and works in Hong Kong. She works with wonder and magical thinking to fuse together current moral issues with child-like world views through performance art, poetry, video, and sound. The aim is to explore the fertility and sterility of the mind manifested through the properties of the biological body, and language as a hint to the evolution...2022-08-2046 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.24 | Curator Juliana Chan on the taste of your mother’s hand, live art, and grappling with meaning.In this episode I sat down with curator Juliana Chan and talked about her current show ‘The World Is your Oyster’, a group exhibition of five Hong Kong artists at Ben Brown Fine Arts gallery in Wong Chuk Hang. We explored the Korean fermentation culture of son-mat, her new live art initiative Per.Platform, what a lecture performance is, and the benefits of journaling.
Juliana Chan is a curator, currently working and living in Hong Kong. She is the co-founder of Per.Platform, a Hong Kong-based not-for-profit art organisation dedicated to raising awareness and fostering development of live...2022-08-1345 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.23 | Art critic, writer, and cultural activist John Batten on honesty, politics, and the mundane.In this episode I had the pleasure to sit down with John Batten, a long-time Hong Kong resident, art critic, and a writer about everything. Among the many topics we delved into, John talked about how his background has informed his talent for writing, how he shifted from being a gallery owner to focusing on urban planning, why he avoids writing about bad exhibitions, and the impact of Hong Kong's security law. John shared his personal perspective on working with institutions on large scale public art projects as well and we talked about his deep admiration for the multiple...2022-08-061h 09The Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.22 | Private art collector Yuri van der Leest on collectorship, losing it and the value of art.In this episode art collector Yuri van der Leest talked about his group exhibition ‘A collection of two Acts’, an overview show of Yuri’s private art collection of 42 artists from around the world. He explained the exhibition’s concept of critical fabulation, we delved into collectorship, why he started collecting and how his acquisition has evolved over the years.
Group show A collection of Two Acts, curated by Chris Wan, from the collection of Yuri van der Leest. Jul 16 - Sep 16, 2022
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The Last Supper Instagram @thelasts...2022-07-3059 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.21 | Palimpsest, memorising and ancient Chinese mural methods with Hong Kong artist Wong Sze Wai.Wong Sze Wai, who is also known as Four, is a Hong Kong artist based in Fo Tan. From her studio she talked about her breakfast, rituals, the ancient Buddhist grotto murals in the Dunhuang caves in China, colour choice and her unique clay mixture in her paintings. She addressed the significance of memorising, forgetting and erasing. We discussed Palimpsest as well and the impact of eastern and western school of thought in her current body of work.
Wong Sze Wai graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong with a Master of Fine Arts in 2020, and...2022-07-2343 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.20 | Elaine Choi on UBS Art Collection, transcultural context, Uli Sigg and art acquisition.In today's episode I had the pleasure to meet and talk with Elaine Choi at UBS. We delved into her role at UBS, Elaine explained the meaning of managing, developing and displaying art, discussed the significance of transcultural context and the depth of research that is required before the UBS team acquires a new work of art.
Elaine Choi joined the UBS Art Collection in 2017, based in Hong Kong. Currently as UBS Art Collection Specialist (APAC), Elaine is responsible for Collection management and APAC branch display. Before joining UBS, she was an intern at the Peggy Guggenheim...2022-07-1638 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.19 | Cusson Cheng on queer narratives, the problem with labels and the challenge of curating art.Cusson Cheng, the curator of Retrograde, talked about his exhibition at Galerie du Monde in Hong Kong, how he developed this show, how he navigated the labyrinth of labels and we discussed the art works that are being shown. We also delve into the narratives behind some of the pieces and the questions that art curators need to address.
Cusson Cheng is a curator and art critic from Hong Kong. He has been Assistant Curator at Para Site since January 2021, where he has worked on exhibitions including Curtain (2021), Liquid Ground (2021), Noble Rot (2021–2022), and Minding the G(r)a...2022-07-0956 min
The Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.18 | Can A.I. create true art? Cross-media artist and inventor Victor Wong explains.Victor Wong is a rare individual who effortlessly incorporates a multiplex of historical domains, research and technological advancements into a seamless body of work. In this exclusive podcast, Victor shares his views on what art is before talking about the deeply symbiotic relationship between man and machine. We delve into whether the machine or Victor makes the decisions and the importance of pertinence in art. Victor ends the podcast touching on the next steps for project Gemini.
Victor Wong is renowned for his innovative treatment of media art and visual effects for movies. His work includes paintings...2022-07-0250 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.17 | The Next Frontier of Art - Exploring Blockchain, Crypto and Metaverse with curator Angel Leung.In this episode of The Last Supper I talk to Angel Leung, a Hong Kong-born but London-based digital art curator. I spoke to her to unpack buzzwords from web3 to blockchain and the pitfalls of NFT art. We continued the dialogue and talked about her recent art projects, how the next generation of art collectors see ownership, we explored the evolution of mobility and we investigated what the future of digital art may look like.
Angel Leung is a multidisciplinary art curator, programmer, and writer. Currently the Programmes Manager of Videotage, she has organised programmes include ‘Artificial Lan...2022-07-0256 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.16 | Understanding art and the role of education with Joyce Ng, Asia Society Hong Kong.Joyce Ng, the head of gallery and exhibitions at the Asia Society, talks about her previous experience at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, her position at Christie’s in London and her current role in Hong Kong. We explore the development of conceptual art in Asia and also discuss the role of education at the Asia Society Hong Kong Center.
Joyce Ng is a seasoned arts professional hailing from Hong Kong with a background in strategic partnerships, business development, and top client relationship management. An art historian by training, Joyce moved back to Asia in...2022-06-1855 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.15 | The angry Tibetan monk and the Hong Kong Art Gallery Association with Fabio Rossi.In this episode I visit Fabio Rossi in his gallery in Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong. We begin the conversation how Fabio was introduced to contemporary art in Asia, we discuss why the Hong Kong art market is so resilient and successful, the role of Hong Kong Art Gallery Association and the changing landscape for galleries in Hong Kong. We end the conversation with his thoughts on the NFT’s.
Fabio Rossi was born in 1963 in Turin, Italy. At the age of eleven, he accompanied his mother, Anna Maria, on a trip to Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. Th...2022-06-1255 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.14 | 'To the man with his wife in a car in Sheung Wan on a Sunday' with poet Frank Doogan.In this episode I have the pleasure of talking with Frank Doogan, a Hong Kong-based poet. Frank reads a selection of his poetry and we discuss how he develops his narratives. We also talk about getting lost, the relationship between culture and intelligence, argue what art is and the role of craft in contemporary art.
The poetry discussed in this episode can be found on http://www.oscarvenhuis.com/blog/to-the-man-with-his-wife-in-a-car-in-sheung-wan-on-a-sunday-with-poet-frank-doogan
Frank Doogan
Poetry has been part of my life since childhood. My mother gave us all poems to memorize...2022-06-041h 04The Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.13 | City hopping from Seoul to Tokyo, Paris, Hong Kong and New York with photomontage artist Wing Chan.In today’s episode I visit Wing Chan, a photomontage artist who works and lives in Hong Kong. After Wing talked about his background and how he began his art career we discuss his stories, inspiration and narratives behind Wing’s exhibition at the SHOUT gallery in Singapore.
Born in Hong Kong, Wing Chan left for the United States when he was 18 and had an award-winning career in commercial design in New York City. In 2011, Wing returned to his roots in Hong Kong to focus on his photography and photomontage. Chan uses photomontage for a wide range of a...2022-05-2847 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.12 | The metaphysical and the physical, peace and perfection with photographer and fine art printer Danny Chau.In this episode I sat down with Danny Chau, a Hong Kong born photographer and printer who spent his formative years in the U.K. I met Danny in his Hong Kong studio and we talked about how a chance meeting at his father’s Chinese takeaway was the beginning of Danny’s career in photography and fine art printing, We discuss his personal photography project to capture consciousness, we delve into his practice of perpetual contentment of life and Danny has an answer what art is for.
Realising the potential of digital technology, Danny Chau then deci...2022-05-2153 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.11 | Saving Hong Kong’s fading neon art with glass artist Robyn LeungIn this episode I talked with Robyn Leung who is part of a new generation of glass blowers and neon artists in Asia. I sat down with her to examine the science and art of neon.
Robyn talks about her work that explores the boundaries of the liminal space of her neon objects and we discuss the difference between working as a scientific glassblower and her personal neon art projects as well.
Robyn Leung (BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2018) is a sculptor and glass artist based in Hong Kong working in neon...2022-05-1449 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.10 | A Ferrari window that changed his perspective with psychotherapist, artist Lee du Ploy.In this episode I sit down with Lee du Ploy (PhD), a Hong Kong-based psychotherapist and artist.
From his art studio in Sheung Wan we delve into his life’s work and we talk about his early career working with the rich and famous, the trappings of owning a Ferrari and the complex challenge of measuring emotions in psychiatry.
Through his amusing, real-life, and at times ironic anecdotes, we analyse society’s obsession with the attachment of monetary success, why depression doesn’t exist in Zimbabwe, and a lady who suffers of face blindness. The latter...2022-05-071h 06The Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.9 | Sovereign Art Foundation: Rats and Pigs in the city with Tiffany PinkstoneOn 21st April 2022 the Sovereign Art Foundation announced their 30 finalists for this year’s art prize. I sat down and met with the executive director Tiffany Pinkstone at her office in Hong Kong. We talked about the background of the art prize, how this has evolved over the years, how they began in Hong Kong’s shopping centres and we addressed rats and pigs in the city as well.
Tiffany is a director for Sovereign’s Hong Kong office and also leads the marketing for the Group. She joined Sovereign in 2003 to launch The Sovereign Art Foundation which...2022-04-3048 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.8 | SHOUT: fun, easy and happy art for the Asian consumer with Christopher TangChristopher Tang is my next guest on The Last Supper. We talk through his personal perspectives of market demand and his preference for happy, entry-level and approachable works. Christopher explains his ideas behind his art supermarket idea, a hybrid between shop and gallery that he hopes will transform how people purchase art in Asia. Chris also speaks about how Hong Kong’s lockdown and living circumstances are informing the desire for art.
Christopher Tang started his career in professional services with Ernst & Young, and has over 20 years experience in the field of private banking spanning a number of...2022-04-2326 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.7 | Blue Lotus Effect: Shipping, Serendipity, Superstition with Sarah GreeneSarah Greene, also known as Sarah Van Ingelgom, explains how she went from an early shipping career in Belgium to becoming a successful gallerist in Hong Kong and how photography, and many artists, found her in Fo Tan.
She describes her experience of discovering Fan Ho’s work in the US and the commitment it requires to develop new emerging artists. We explore how the seemingly necessity of identity, the longing of belonging, and the multiple dimensions of identity have manifested over the years in Hong Kong as well.
Sarah graduated in 1998 with a Masters De...2022-04-1655 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.6 | Gillian Au Howard on how her failed art space was the beginning of her successful Digital Art FairIn this episode I talk with Gillian Au Howard. She tells her story of how she always wanted to be an artist but instead studied journalism. While Gillian was in New York she developed a passion for photography that started her career, not as a journalist but as a gallerist in Hong Kong.
During her time as a gallerist she met actress Carrie Fisher of Star Wars, who she didn’t immediately recognise, but this lucky encounter was the beginning of her long journey of organising the very first digital art fair during the global pandemic in 2021....2022-04-0941 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.5 | Blood Brothers, Cultural Appropriation and Full Circle Africa with Yves Sena AlavoYves Sena Alavo shares his passion for art. He talks about how his time in Africa, Europe and Asia have informed his deep appreciation for cross-cultural identity and how these experiences have developed his art collection. He discusses the significance of emerging narratives through the cultivation of meaningful relationships with artists Lee Du Ploy, Serge Mouangue and how he has been able to observe the progression of Elon Catilina’s work from Bénin.
We continue the conversation by exploring the role of faces in Hom Nguyen’s work, a Franco-Vietnamese artist who is residing in Paris. Yves a...2022-04-0945 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.4 | NFTs explained for artists and collectors with Nick Chan, co-founder RefinableI have the pleasure to talk with Nicholas (Nick) Chan, the cofounder of Refinable. During this episode we explore the process of creating or minting a NFT (Non-Fungible Token), address misconceptions of the blockchain and we discuss why the Bored Ape NFT is more than just a series of illustrated monkeys. We also talk about how the rise of the NFT has created a new market for art collectors and explain the difference between a conventional art provenance and the NFT on the blockchain.
Nick Chan is the co-founder of Refinable, a decentralised multi-chain NFT marketplace for...2022-03-2644 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaWelcome to The Last Supper, your weekly podcast about art in Asia.
In a world where the spotlight often shines on Western contemporary art and its historical narratives, it's important to remember that Asia is home to approximately 60% of the global population.
With this in mind, the purpose of hosting this podcast is to present alternative worldviews and foster a deeper appreciation for the richness and diversity of art across Asia.
Every weekend I release a new episode bringing interviews, new perspectives and engaging dialogues with emerging and established artists, curators, gallerists and collectors in Asia.
I am your host...2022-03-2000 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.3 | Exploring fine dying, ageing and dementia through action research with Dr Yanki LeeDr Yanki LEE is an architectural designer, social innovator, design activist and expert in design research for social inclusion and participation. She has extensive experience collaborating with designers and enabling them to engage users in the design process.
As an international speaker and writer, Dr Lee has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers and articles. In 2000 Yanki was awarded an MA degree in Architecture from the Royal College of Art (RCA), she went on to join the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design (HHCD) and became a UK resident. She was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of...2022-03-1957 minThe Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.2 | Capturing Hong Kong’s disappearing architecture with Stefan IrvineAfter graduating from the University of Edinburgh with a Master's Degree in Psychology, Stefan Irvine went on to receive a Post-Graduate Diploma in Photojournalism from the University of the Arts London (formerly "LCP"). Since moving to Hong Kong in 2002, Stefan has spent the last few years revealing the disappearing architecture of Hong Kong.
His work has been published in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, National Geographic and has been shown in New York, London and Hong Kong. Stefan is the winner of the Independent on Sunday/Oxfam Photojournalist Award and his series on Tong Lau...2022-03-1248 min
The Last Supper - Art in AsiaEp.1 | Copyrights, agreements, provenance, and other legal matters for artists, gallerists, and collectors with art lawyer Laurens KasteleijnIn this episode I talk with art lawyer Laurens Kasteleijn. He is the founder of Art Law Services, a Hong Kong and Amsterdam-based consultancy that is offering legal services to individuals and organisations in the international art world. As a former art gallery director and corporate mergers and acquisitions (M&A) lawyer, Laurens founded Art Law Services in 2013, combining his love for the arts with his legal training and his expertise of international business.
Laurens holds a master’s degree in corporate law from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, studied in France and at the Tsin...2022-03-051h 02
Candid CraicThe struggle of wellbeing in a senior leadership role with Brian HendersonIn this Candid Craic, we talk to Brian Henderson about his experience of struggling with his psychological and physiological wellbeing in a senior leadership role, and how he is using it to help inform current executives just how harmful at individual and organisational levels the experience can be.
Brian explains his reaction on realising he was experiencing all the signs of poor wellbeing, and why others in the same position might be equally likely to shrug it off just as he did; how he finally came to terms with what he was going through; the clues and...2022-02-1555 minCandid CraicDecrapifying work Colin NewlynIn this Candid Craic, we talk to Colin Newlyn about his mission to decrapify work.
Colin explains how, despite the rhetoric, we seem to be moving away from the trust and autonomy of the working conditions he experienced in his early career to a more command and control structure, often infected by bullying and toxicity, and replete with technologies, practices and processes that seem to hinder productivity and innovation.
He explains how he has begun to take the concept of self-organisation increasingly seriously, seeing it as a holistic toolkit that can create better organisations if...2022-02-0857 minCandid CraicAdaptive facilitation in practice with Dr. Gemma JiangIn this Candid Craic, Gemma Jiang talks about her role as a catalyzing and unifying presence in the massively transdisciplinary research on the circular economy; how she employs a range of facilitation techniques to hold transformational spaces in which pluralistic solutions get generated via civil dialogue between experts in different domains; and how she operates in the enabling spaces between adaptive entrepreneurs and administrative bureaucrats.
Gemma explains how adaptive facilitation works in practice, providing two concrete examples; talks about the struggles she has faced and still faces in getting traditional institutions to take seriously adaptive facilitation methodologies...2022-02-0155 min
Modern Mindset277 - Dr. Richard Claydon and Oscar Venhuis on New Work From Home ResearchAdam Cox is joined by Dr. Richard Claydon and Oscar Venhuis, co-founders of EQ Labs, to discuss brand new research which reveals the UK's attitude towards returning to the office. They look at why some employers need to change their mindset's about working from home, and how EQ Labs helps with the issue. https://www.eqlab.co/2022-01-2717 minCandid CraicDelivering conscious business philosophy in Singapore with Serene SengIn this Candid Craic, we talk to Serene Seng about how she is working with Singaporean companies towards the delivery of a conscious business philosophy in the city.
After Serene explains what she means by conscious business and why it isn't anti shareholder value, we find out the four ways in which conscious business practices positively impact organisational performance. Serene and Oscar then reflect on the level to which companies in Singapore and Hong Kong are (or are not) embracing the concept, and explore whether those failing to do so will struggle to attract or retain future...2022-01-251h 00Candid CraicThe Incessant Negative Imagery of Black Lives with Martha UnderwoodIn this Candid Craic, we talk to Martha Underwood about the experience of being a black, female leader in the Deep South of the USA.
Having been presented with a Leadership in Diversity award by Birmingham, Alabama, Martha explains the role she and others are playing in changing perceptions of the city, and the increasingly integrated plurality of the community.
She talks about the origins of narrow perceptions about black Americans, highlighting the incessant negative imagery that has characterised the presentation of black lives in US print and media, from stupid illiterates in the 1930s...2022-01-181h 01Candid CraicHow leaders ensure the best ideas are never missed with Dr. Richard ClaydonIn this Candid Craic, the tables get turned, and Richard Claydon gets grilled on his work by two previous interviewees, John Dobbin and Geoff Marlow.
We explore how Richard employs dramatic metaphors and insights to explain the conditions of contemporary knowledge work, why, thanks to neuroscientific findings, it is becoming an increasingly relevant way to sensemake organisations, and why it is more useful for delivering value-creating diversity than the mainstream D&I discourses.
John tests Richard on the relevance of the work, asking why the CEO should care about a dramatic interpretation of organisational life...2022-01-111h 06Candid CraicMaking HR practice more relevant to get work done with Meirion GravellIn this Candid Craic, we talk to Meirion Gravell about his experiences as a Chief People Officer and his mission to make HR practice more contextually relevant to the work being done.
Drawing from his experience running HR for the most hated workforce in the UK - Traffic Wardens! - Meirion explains how he adapted Dilts and Bateson's Logical Levels of Thinking into an impactful organisational form. He especially focuses on trying to strike the right balance between areas of convergence that glue the organisation together, and areas of divergence in which contested ideas and constructive disagreements...2022-01-041h 00Candid CraicEvolutionary psychiatry informing future organisations with Antony MalmoIn this Candid Craic, we talk to Antony Malmo about his mission to create proactive mental health practice in organizations and society, and his deep wish to design organizational and sociocultural practices informed by evolutionary psychiatry.
After discovering why Antony thinks mainstream mental health is so reactive, we hear how his team creates spaces between home and work in which mental challenges can be discussed and acted upon in a non-clinical, non-ego-threatening manner.
Moving on from Antony's business interests, we take a deep dive into evolutionary psychiatry, framed by questions asking how and why depression...2021-12-211h 07Candid CraicAssistive Intelligence And The Future of Medical with Nidhi GoelIn this Candid Craic, Nidhi Goel, a Medical Futurist and psychiatrist practicing in New York, looks at the rising levels of poor mental wellbeing across the globe, and discusses just what we might be able to do about it.
Initially, Nidhi tells us about the state of the mental health profession, outlining the already troubling shortages in psychiatric support globally; looking at why it is likely to get worse; and explaining why the rising reported instances of poor mental wellbeing are making her increasingly worried about the future.
We learn how Assistive Intelligence (AI) can...2021-12-1458 minCandid CraicHow Might We Create More Healthy And Fulfilling Futures with Neelam HarjaniIn this Candid Craic, we hear how Neelam Harjani emerged from the deeply ambivalent experience of working on the trading floor in the financial markets to craft out a career helping people to live more meaningful lives in the relentless hustle and bustle of today's action-based organizational world.
We hear how meditation can enable the dual states of self-awareness and high energy; why oscillations of fear and greed are leading to a state of existential emptiness in many of today's executives; and how rediscovering the spirit of being in a world of incessant busyness can lead to...2021-12-071h 03Candid CraicHow Explicit Awareness Can Positively Impact Leadership with Alexis NikiIn this Candid Craic, we talk to Alexis Niki to learn about the differences between narratives and storytelling, and how an explicit awareness of both can positively impact leadership and organisational performance.
We explore the many dimensions of narrative intelligence, in which Alexis draws from her colorful, multicultural upbringing to explain how story became so central to her work. In doing so, we discover how and why she employs archetypes to free people from self-limiting narratives; learn why mind/body integration is central to high performance; and take in a deep dive into the necessity of developing...2021-11-3057 minCandid CraicScaling Ego-Free Cultures Across Organisations with Geoff MarlowIn this Candid Craic, we learn how Geoff Marlow has combined an engineering background with a deep interest in human behaviour and Eastern philosophies to craft out a career developing organisational cultures in which curiosity and cognitive diversity flourish in the pursuit of rapid-delivery innovation.
We hear how and why Geoff, almost accidentally, shaped his career this way; see just how a seemingly simple insight can result in rapid-moving cultural change (and how an equally simple-sounding good-intention can produce rapid-growing toxicity); and discover how hybridity, curiosity and cognitive diversity can liberate talent across the entire organisation.
2021-11-231h 05Candid CraicThe Baby-Faced Assassin a.k.a. Mark LeBusqueIn this Candid Craic, we find out how Mark LeBusque's exploration into his own dark and messy organisational existence - he was once known as the baby-faced assassin - led to a deep examination of self and a "spiritual" journey of self-awareness and high performance.
We look at how Mark provokes leaders and teams into examining the self they bring to work, and how an unexamined version of that self can stop things from flowing effectively. We look at how vulnerability, compassion, courage, kindness and self-forgiveness play vital roles in the development of good leadership, and how...2021-11-161h 06Candid CraicDemystifying the language of complex adaptive systems with John DobbinIn this Candid Craic, we talk to John Dobbin about his ongoing attempt to demystify the language of complex adaptive systems to help contemporary executives transform their organisations into agile powerhouses.
John helps us understand the difference of scale between agile and adaptive work, how bureaucratic structures can inhibit the success of agile practices, and the tactics he employs to help teams become more agile and organisations become more adaptive. We look at how middle-management might be re-imagined as core to good adaptive work, learn how Haier has become the great success story for the movement, and...2021-11-0459 min
Candid CraicDeveloping complexity of thinking in leaders with Becky AndreeIn this Candid Craic, we hear about Becky Andree's double-passion - developing the complexity of thinking in leaders and employees so they capable of the cognitive challenges related to the WEF's future of work skills lists, and creating environments in which regular high-quality connections energise people to successfully pursue and achieve this developmental goal.
After defining these two core aspects of her work and research, Becky takes us on a swirling journey of discovery, examining whether we are creating or destroying workspaces which support these practices; exploring the difference between Eastern and Western patterns of connection; explaining...2021-11-0454 min
The Business Wellness PodcastNathan's Career Journey with Oscar VenhuisIn the 13th episode, we do something a bit different. We reverse the roles and have Oscar interview ME! My current podcasting style has somehow quickly evolved into a series of interviews, fireside chats, and featured guests. Where I often time took the role of the moderator and inquisitive questioner. I never planned to do this, but I believe my natural curiosity and instinct for digging deep into the lives of others took the reigns. I was taken a back slightly when my Drinking Dialogue buddy, Oscar Venhuis had asked whether I would be cool to reverse the roles and ha...2021-06-081h 18
The Business Wellness PodcastA Drinking Dialogue Part 2 with Oscar VenhuisBack by popular demand - Oscar Venhuis and another Drinking Dialogue. This time, we mixed our drinks up with a low calorie Japanese vodka soda (similar to Seltzer). One was lime flavoured and the other grapefruit - crisp and refreshing. We followed them up by cracking open a couple tall boys of beer. As usual with Oscar, the conversation flowed effortlessly, from strong topics such as neuroplasticity, to design and art, to multi-generational leadership. We naturally create good laughs together and appreciate the in the moment nuances of the present time. We can also dig in...2021-05-291h 24
The Business Wellness PodcastA Drinking Dialogue with Oscar VenhuisIn this episode, I am so happy to feature my first guest ever!!! I couldn't be more grateful to have the ever so creative, deep-thinking, problem solver extraordinaire: Mr. Oscar Venhuis. We were fortunate to have recorded this using his professional setup - hence why the sound was so crisp. Oscar and I chatted on all things, 'Drinking Dialogue' - his virtual meetup discussion deep dive with fascinating friends around the world who gather weekly to talk about meaningful topics on human development, social interaction and world problems that need solving. We then moved to sp...2021-03-201h 08
Timbo TalksTimbo Talks to Oscar Venhuis About Creativity“When you have a creative mind, you are never bored.” My podcast guest, Oscar Venhuis dropped that gem in our conversation. Oscar is the CEO of EQ Lab in Hong Kong and he is deeply interested in “extending the intelligence” of organizations. Oscar and I talk about the great mystery that is creativity. We also discuss how organizations fool themselves when they claim to build diversity while pursuing consensus above all else. Show Notes – Arne Dietrich, the Professor of Psychology at the American University of Beirut (referenced by Oscar during our discussion) – Oscar V...2020-11-231h 08