YIP KAI CHUN

Yip Kai Chun’s interests encompass local culture, history, urban environment, society and politics, linking these themes to his personal experience. His curatorial practice is experimental and process-oriented and draws on theories and methodologies from diverse disciplines, aiming at unravelling the taken-for-granted and neglected, and re-imagining alternatives and possibilities. As an artist, he employs media that ‘extract reality’ – sound, video and photography.

Together with Chow Yik, Yip Kai Chun recently formed ‘case-open-close’, a curatorial initiative gathering emerging artists from Europe and Asia. Their first event ‘Level Note #one #two’ (June 2015) features a movable exhibition, performances and screenings on various rooftops.

About his curatorial approach, Yip Kai Chun says: ‘I am interested in mixing: between different art forms, between art-making and curation, between art and other domains and disciplines, between old and new, between established and emerging, between different spaces and times... I strongly believe in inter-disciplinarity in practice. I think blurring the conventional boundaries fosters dialogues and possibilities inside and outside art. While engaging in media art and public & community art for years, I have a personal interest in tradition – be it culture and art forms. I believe that the so-called tradition and the new are not exclusive; rather, they are always in negotiation and can yield unexpected result together.’

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