Hong Kong Palace Museum | “The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Dwelling in Tranquillity — Reinventing Traditional Gardens” Thematic Exhibition Talk — The Art and Philosophy of Garden Design

Grace Cheng

Curator

Grace Cheng, an independent curator and director of the Art in Hospital and Community Art Network, curates and presents exhibitions and art projects that embrace a wide range of media across many fields and disciplines, including international projects, artist-in-residence programmes, exhibitions, and cultural research projects.

Tim Chan

Artist

Tim Chan is a composer, percussionist, and media artist who graduated from Hong Kong Baptist University with a concentration in music and visual arts. His current interest lies in the multidisciplinary crossover of music and art. Various prestigious institutions, including the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Theatre Horizon, and Oil Street Art Space, have commissioned and performed his musical compositions. As a media artist, he has also been invited to participate in exhibitions organised by Lumenvisum, Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, and the Society of Rehabilitation and Crime Prevention. He is currently pursuing his Master of Philosophy in music composition at the University of Hong Kong.

Fung Wing Lam

Artist

Fung Wing Lam is a new media artist and interactive designer graduated from the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong. Most of her creations are inspired by daily life experiences, and use the environment, physicality, and space as vehicles to express her artistic vision. These ideas are delivered through electronic equipment, images, and programming devices. Fung received the Silver Award in the Interactive Media Category at the 19th ifva Festival in 2014. Her works have been exhibited at Art Basel Hong Kong, PMQ, Hong Kong City Hall, the Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, and the Hong Kong Arts Centre.

Keith Lam

Artist

Media artist Keith Lam is the co-founder and artistic director of the art and technology studio Dimension Plus. He has won awards at international art festivals such as Prix Ars Electronica in Austria and Japan Media Arts Festival, and his works have been exhibited globally at venues and events such as the Hong Kong Museum of Art, the National Art Center, Tokyo, the OK Center for Contemporary Art in Linz, the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, the New Technological Art Award Biennial in Belgium, the Electronic Language International Festival in Brazil, the International Symposium on Electronic Art, the Taichung Theater, and the Hong Kong Arts Festival.

Hanison Lau

Artist

Hanison Lau is an independent artist and a lecturer at Hong Kong Baptist University. He uses sculpture and installation in his creative practice, incorporating Chinese culture and literature in diverse ways. An avid collector of antiques and books, he manifests a naturalness in using Chinese elements in his practice and a humanistic concern for society at large. In recent years, he has exhibited extensively in the United States, France, Australia, the mainland China, and Hong Kong, and his works can be found in several local and overseas collections.

Kenny Wong

Artist

Kenny Wong is an artist, multimedia designer, mechanical engineer, and art researcher who has received numerous awards in media and digital arts. Wong’s work explores the relationship between everyday experiences and perceptual stimulations by hybridising analogue and digital representations through computational kinetic sculptures. He has exhibited at numerous events and venues around the world, including the FILE Festival in Brazil, the WRO Media Art Biennale in Poland, the Athens Video Art Festival, the NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery, the International Digital Art Biennial in Canada, and the Goethe-Institut in Hong Kong. Wong was named one of the Golden 15 at the third International Emerging Artist Award in the United Arab Emirates.

Enoch Lam

Design Advisor

Enoch Lam is a UK registered architect who has worked on a wide range of projects in the UK and Hong Kong. In his free time, he is keen on exploring different cities, capturing the essence of their architectural heritage and vibrant urban life. His recent contribution to the Hong Kong Palace Museum's thematic exhibition “The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Dwelling in Tranquillity — Reinventing Traditional Gardens” with his working partner Hong Wong, is an attempt to bridge the architecture with artworks through re-interpretating traditional Chinese landscape design, allowing the audience to immerse themselves in a garden-like exhibition space and enjoy the artworks.