Minja Gu @ PERFORMANCE X 4A

Performance x 4A at Art Central Hong Kong

Bettina Fung | 馮允珊 , Brian Fuata (Australia/Samoa), Minja Gu (Korea) and Ko Siu Lan (Hong Kong). 
Programmed and produced by 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Australia.

ART CENTRAL HONG KONG
9 LUNG WO RD, CENTRAL, HONG KONG.
27 – 31 March 2019

Entering the fifth year of partnership with Art Central, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (Sydney) returns in 2019 with a curated performance programme featuring four interactive and live works by leading contemporary artists from across the Asia-Pacific region.

Ideas of time and duration, questioning the futility and fruits of human endeavour are all addressed by leading contemporary artists through a series of daily on-site performances, interrupting the hum of the fair, with challenging examination of the exhaustive state of perpetual busy-ness and the act of counting down.

The Authentic Quality: HK

https://www.instagram.com/p/BvqW452F7qw/

Expanding on a previous project, Korean artist Minja Gu has been commissioned to set up a restaurant-cum-exhibition-cum-relational aesthetics project in an art fair setting, where she adopts the persona of a cooking infomercial personality, using the ubiquitous two-minute noodle packet as a tool to prompt conversational exchange about food culture and societal pressure to conform. Through the performance, the artist seeks to mimic contorted media and commercial imagery in a pursuit of perfection – an act that takes much longer than the prescribed two minutes. Having never travelled to Hong Kong, Gu will use this cooking platform to understand the unfamiliar ingredients, politics and processes of the city – something which she hopes fellow sympathisers at the fair will help her navigate.

26th Mar. 2019. 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Central Habourfront Event Space

http://www.4a.com.au/performance-x-4a-2019/ http://artcentralhongkong.com/programme/
http://artcentralhongkong.com/events/performance-x-4a-minja-gu/
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