CONVERSATION WITH Yang Yeung

The ALT + SHIFT + COMM series continues on June 30 with Yang Yeung, who will discuss her curatorial work in relation to notions of sound and silence, curating as care, and the possibilities and challenges of independent art spaces in Hong Kong. 

Yang Yeung is a writer of art and an independent curator. She founded the Hong Kong non-profit organization soundpocket in 2008. She conducted the independent research project A Walk with A3 (2015-17) to support the right of art to be in the streets. Yeung is a member of the international research network Institute for Public Art, independent art critics collective Art Appraisal Club (HK), and the International Art Critics Association (HK). She was Asian Cultural Council Fellow in 2013-14. Recently, she participated in the UNESCO training workshop on the 2005 Convention on the Promotion and Protection of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, and was art writer in residence with Contemporary Art Stavanger. She currently teaches classics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. 

On Yang:
www.contemporaryartstavanger.no/how-does-freedom-sound/
http://aicahk.org/eng/author.asp
https://www.awalkwitha3.com
http://www.soundpocket.org.hk/v2/
http://www.thelibrarybysoundpocket.org.hk
https://artalkfiji.net/2020/05/06/issue-17/

On Hong Kong:
Hong Kong Free Press – https://hongkongfp.com
Amnesty International Hong Kong – https://www.amnesty.org.hk/en/
Hong Kong Civil Human Rights Front – https://www.civilhrfront.org; https://www.facebook.com/CivilHumanRightsFront/
Justice Centre Hong Kong – https://www.justicecentre.org.hk
Hong Kong Human Rights Watch – https://www.hrw.org/tag/hong-kong
https://www.zdf.de/kultur/kulturdoku/honkongs-freiheit-und-die-kunst-100.html