The very first ‘Very HK‘ festival took place over the weekend with dozens of crowd-funded events and installations spread across the city. Although rain saw Sunday’s ‘Big Picnic’ called off, there were still stalls, music and art pieces on display around Wanchai as part of ‘Very Street’ and ‘Microgalleries’…
Irish photographer Grainne Quinlan debuted her stunning domestic helper portraits at the event on behalf of the new ‘HK Helpers Campaign‘, launching in January. Click here to see the full series.
Click here to see how you can support the campaign this month or here to view Quinlan’s portfolio.
- HK Maid Community Gather for Global Dance-Off.
- Indonesian Maids Rally in Support of Abused Domestic Helper.
- Domestic Maids Plant Toy Grenades for Art… But Were the Curators Ethical?
- Grainne Quinlan’s Stunning Portraits of HK’s Helper Community.
- Now Gov’t Rules Make it Near-Impossible for Domestic Maids to Quit or Escape Abuse.
- Photo Project: ‘Why Do You Do What You Do’.
- Dreamseekers: Photographer Reveals Maid’s Journeys from Indonesia to HK.
Click here for links to all of Hong Wrong’s art fair coverage. Full highlights listed below…
- Adrian Wong’s ‘Wun Dun’ Launch.
- Affordable Art Fair 2013.
- Ai Weiwei’s New ‘Baby Milk’ Sculpture, 2013.
- American Graffiti Artist SEEN in Hong Kong.
- Art Basel 2013: Part 1 of 2.
- Art Basel 2013: Part 2 of 2.
- Art HK 2012 Highlights: Hall 1.
- Art HK 2012 Moving Installations.
- Art Inspired by Kowloon Walled City.
- Asia Contemporary Art Show 2013.
- Asia Hotel Art Fair 2013.
- Chai Wan Mei 2012: Local Art Studios on an Old Industrial Estate.
- Clockenflap 2012. See also: Complete Clockenflap 2012 Guide.
- Comfort Women Exhibition, 2012.
- Cyrcle Abseil down Skyscrapper to Create Huge Mural in Sai Wan.
- Detour Festival 2012.
- Fine Art Asia 2012.
- Fotanian Open Studios 2013.
- Free Space Festival 2012.
- Full Lowdown & Map for Art Week 2013.
- Giant Dog Shit is Re-dedicated to Politician Chan Kam-Lam.
- Gigantic Yellow Rubber Bath Toy Visiting Harbour.
- HK Inspired Art Projects.
- HK’s First Tattoo Convention: In Pictures.
- HK’s Got Talent! Paul Lung’s Amazingly Realistic Pencil Drawings.
- Hong Kong Contemporary 2013.
- Hong Kong Eye 2013.
- Inflation Festival 2013 at West Kowloon.
- Julianne Yang’s Citylines – Sketches of Unseen Strangers in HK.
- King Kong in Hong Kong.
- Microwave Festival 2012.
- More ART HK 2012 Highlights: Hall 3.
- Rodentia in Absentia by Adrian Wong.
- Shots from HK’s Biggest Ever Street Art Exhibition in Tai Koo, 2013.
- Spoon Art Fair 2012.
- The HK Political Art of Winnie Davies.
- The Sum of All Evil: Shock Value or Art?.
- Videotage ‘Wikitopia’ 2012 at Microwave Festival Annex.
A beady eye on cultural events across the territory…
- To view all past events featured on Hong Wrong, click here.
- To view all past events related to HK’s Anthropology Society, click here.