To show my solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement I create this poster. Please read the whole story here.

“Feeding of the 320 Millions, The Revolution Will Not Be Privatized”

This is my response to the Occupy Wall Street movement, support by the WhiteSpace Collection in Palm Beach, Florida. They are gonna print out 1000 Limited Editions of these posters in 18X24 and pass them out for free if you visit them in person.

More info here: http://whitespacecollection.com/specialprojects201112.html

Here’s the description of the piece:

“Feeding of the 320 Millions, The Revolution Will Not Be Privatized” explores the ideology of the term “Revolution” in modern days America. Through deconstructing Eugène Delacroix’s “Liberty Leading the People”, the artwork is meant to be a time capsule of this period in American history.

I have always admired the collage works of John Heartfield, Martha Rosler, Winston Smith and the Grapus collective. It is not easy to create art works that have social conscience and convey the messages successfully. In this piece, I apply various techniques including détournement, remixes and culture jamming to poise questions of our daily lives values- e.g. the shopping cart that contains genetically modified food like “Killer Strawberries” and BT Coin grenade; the “Foreclosure Next Exit” highway sign with “Stop War” graffiti in “Star War” typeface; the broken piggy bank underneath Lady Liberty’s Blackspot sneakers… etc.

The characters reflect different perceptions of the idea of “Revolution”. Uncle Sam tried his best to fight the unemployment and the economy in a peaceful manner. The Guy Fawkes masked protester believes in taking the issues in his own hand, in the name of “Dissent is Patriotic”. The American bald eagle as the majority consumers waiting for a Change to come while popping pills for a short-term fix for our problems. With the latest news about the rising unemployment and foreclosure rate, the Tea Party and taxation debate, Arab Spring and the Occupy Wall Street movement, I hope to promote a peaceful revolution through counter-balancing the different ideologies of creating a social change. We are the people we have been waiting for!

How’s your summer? For me, this is the first summer, since I was 14 years old, that I didn’t got the chance to go to the beach. I used to skipped classes during my “wonder years” in Hong Kong just to go suntan you have no idea how much I miss my tan lines ;-)

I have been very busy, working on several new art projects and opening our own wine store in our neighborhood (scroll down to the bottom). All in all, this is the shortest and the longest summer I have ever experienced.

Below are parts of what’s happening in the next several months. Hope you all have a great Fall season!

KENNETH TIN-KIN HUNG

ART PLATFORM- Los Angeles, U.S.A.

Thanks to curator Paul Young, my works will be shown in the special program “Artillery Magazine Video Lounge“ at ART PLATFORM Los Angeles this year. Plesae come and check out some of my videos at this Armory Show of the West coast;-)

Artillery: Killer Text on Art, is proud to present the Artillery Magazine Video Lounge curated by Paul Young. Young Projects was founded on the idea of changing the ways in which people think of moving imagery—offering a challenge to the traditional model defined by movies and television, and to see it instead as a concrete art form, much like painting, fine art photography and sculpture. The Artillery Magazine Video Lounge will offer a flexible venue for experimental film artists and contemporary artists alike to explore the medium and push it into new territories.

OVERVIEW:
Opening Preview: Friday, September 30, 2011
3PM – 5PM  Opening Preview
5PM – 9PM Vernissage Party benefitting the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of art and The Museum of Contemporary Art.

General Admission:
Saturday, Oct 1 • 11AM – 6PM
Sunday, Oct 2 • 11AM – 6PM
Monday, Oct 3 • 11AM – 4PM

L.A. Mart^®
1933 S. Broadway
Los Angeles, CA 90007

Purchase tickets here.

MOVING IMAGE London, U.K.

Thanks to my rep Postmasters Gallery, I am going to debut a new video at MOVING IMAGE LONDON. The video is part of the ongoing new series of works about over-consumption, insatiable desire of food, obesity, obsession of quantity vs quality and the guilt that comes with it after you eat a deep-fried donut bacon sandwich. You know there’s always a void in a donut, depends on how you view it philosophically.

Moving Image, an art fair of contemporary video art, will take place October 13-16, 2011, during Frieze Art Fair in London and within short walking distance of the Tate Modern. Located in the Bargehouse in the Oxo Tower Wharf on the South Bank, Moving Image will be free to the public and open Thursday – Saturday, October 13 – 16, 11 am – 8 pm, and on Sunday, October 16, 11 am – 6 pm. An opening reception for Moving Image will take place Thursday, October 13, 6 – 8 pm.

The Moving Image curatorial advisory committee has invited a selection of international commercial galleries and non-profit institutions to present single-channel videos, video sculptures, and other larger video installations. Moving Image has been conceived to offer viewers a unique viewing experience, providing a rich program of time-based work from around the globe by today’s most important and exciting new artists.

Moving Image
October 13-16, 2011

Bargehouse
Oxo Tower Wharf
Bargehouse Street
South Bank
London SE1 9PH, UK

Hours
Thursday – Saturday, October 13-15, 2011: 11 am – 8 pm
Sunday, October 16, 2011: 11 am – 6 pm

Opening reception: Thursday, October 13, 2011 6-8 pm

“YOUNG ARTISTS PROJECT 2011: FUTURE LAB” at Daegu, Korea

안녕하세요! A Big 감사합니다 to Hye Kyung (Hennah) Shin for curating this show! I wish I can be there for the opening and enjoy one of my favorite things to eat- Korean BBQ!

Organized by Daegu City, the Young Artists Project 2011: Future Lab is one of the big-scale shows for young artists under 40 years old in Korea. The exhibition also invites around 45 contemporary young artists from several countries.

The Young Artists Project 2011: Future Lab, through the artworks of young artists, aims to contemplate the visual language of contemporary artists from different countries and Korea and to contribute to promoting mutual understanding and fostering appreciation for diverse cultures.

Solo Exhibition at GIVON Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Shalom! Hats off to Mr. Doron Golan for inviting me for the exhibition. Next  year around February or March (more info later) I will have a solo exhibition showcasing most of my video works at Givon Art Gallery in Tel Aviv. I am flabbergasted that I got the opportunity to show at this veteran gallery- they have been around since 1974 and are one of the driving forces for the growth of the vibrant art scene.

The NetCinema Project Room at the Givon Art Gallery is a showcase for artists working with new media technologies, including – but not limited to – digital video, generative, interactive and networked art, computer animation and robotics.
A concern with medium is one key feature of much contemporary work, where form and content often fuse in addressing telecommunications, mass media, the network and digital modes of delivery as well as issues of authorship, copyright and originality.
Practices range from conceptualism through networked video, performance and installation and, often most excitingly, fascinating hybrids of these and more idiosyncratic approaches, including traditional practices placed in new contexts.

GIVON ART GALLERY
35 Gordon St.
Tel Aviv, Israel 63414

Founders: Sam (Shmuel) Givon, Noemi Givon
Directors: Noemi Givon, Nurit Wolf
Director of Media Arts: Doron Golan

More information later!

THE WINEY NEIGHBOR

OK, enough arts stuff, hold on, actually this can be a permanement art installation! My wife Young and myself are in the process of opening a boutique wine store in our neighborhood- Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. The process so far has been very fun and we are very happy to connect with all the folks who live in the hood. I really missed that small town feeling of walking down the street and greeting neighbors and through the wine store it all actualize. The store is not open yet, we are still in the construction and you can see the progress of our construction here. Also, if you are interested, please “LIKE” us on Facebook and/or follow us on Twitter ;-)

Alrighty! Have a beautiful Fall and Winter and i won’t bother you until it’s time to eat Chinese SzeChuan hot pot!

Love and Peace,
Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung
http://www.TINKIN.com

opening reception: Tues, July 19, 2011  6-8pm
July 19 – August 12, 2011

532 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011

“Glutton for Punishment” is an all video group show. I can’t tell you how excited I am to show with all the other artists in the show since I am a huge admirer of their works. I will debut my newest video work “The Fast Supper” in this group show! Please come and check it out! Thank You Nicholas Kilner for curating the show!!!

Artists:
Kate Gilmore
Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung
Marilyn Minter
Janosch Parker
Matthew Weinstein

German news magazine Der Spiegel did an interview with me and talk about my latest works about Chinese Internet Censorship. A BIG Danke Sehr to Konrad Lishka for writing the article!!! Full Article HERE!!!

My show is reviewed by The Economist. Thank You So Much for Lane Greene for writing such a well-explained article about the homophonic Chinese pun of my works and also BigUp for Cameron for introducing us ;-)

You can read the full article here.

I donate a print for this event to benefit Human Rights Watch. It is held at White Box gallery in NYC. Please come if you got a chance and support the good cause!

Special Exhibition + Screenings + Performances + Benefit Art Sale
June 7, 2011 | 6 – 9 PM

6 PM – Performances by Margaret Leng Tan and Lutz Rath

7 PM – Symposium

8 PM – Benefit Art Sale
Previews June 6-7, 11am – 6pm

6 – 9 PM
Screenings of videos works by Ai Weiwei and excerpt from Alison Klayman’s documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

Suggested Admission: $50

Donations (tax-deductible): http://whereisaiweiwei.eventbrite.com/

$100 Receive Limited Edition 3-D Ai Weiwei T-shirt by Ali Hossaini
$200 Receive Limited Edition Signed Photo by Christoph Draeger

Rsvp to: benefit@whiteboxny.org

Proceeds will equally benefit Human Rights Watch and the White Box Global Outreach Program

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Dara Birnbaum
Agnes Denes
Braco Dimitrijevic
Christophe Draeger
Cris Gianakos
Dan Graham
Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung
Alfredo Jaar
Anton S. Kandinsky
Kimsooja
Mary Mattingly
Ivan Navarro
Dennis Oppenheim
Ushio Shinohara
Nathalie Talec
The Alternative Museum Portfolio: Artist as Catalyst

In collaboration with Human Rights Watch, the international non-profit space White Box (whiteboxny.org) will be presenting Ai Weiwei with the first 2011 White Box Arts and Humanity Award for his distinguished contributions to world art and culture. Due to the urgency of Ai Weiwei’s continued detainment, White Box has decided to honor the artist on June 7, 2011 in conjunction with its Spring Benefit.

The award pays tribute to Ai Weiwei as an unparalleled defender of freedom of speech and recognizes his brilliant career as a Chinese patriot, an artist, architect, global citizen and activist.

At the June 7th 2011 Benefit, White Box together with Human Rights Watch will present WHERE IS AI WEIWEI? – a panel, exhibition and fundraiser event to benefit equally Human Rights Watch and White Box’s Global Outreach program.  There will be screenings of selected videos by Ai Weiwei as well as an excerpt from Alison Klayman’s documentary, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry.

The panel, video screenings and benefit exhibition and event will take place at White Box on 329 Broome Street in the Bowery/Lower East Side art district, New York City. A  select group of artists with social/political conscience will be invited to contribute works that in some measure may respond to Ai Weiwei’s incarceration.

White Box plans to also present a follow-up benefit event in October 2011, at which time we hope the artist will be present to accept the award in person.

Download invite postcard PDF HERE

See Jerome A. Cohen’s interview HERE

I have a piece in this amazing group show in Hong Kong, if you got a chance please check it out!

Opening: May/28/11 @ 10:00 pm – late (yes, 10pm at night)
Period: May/26 – June/26/2011
Hours: Thursday – Sunday 12pm – 6pm
Enquiries: 2810 0065
kacey_wong@hotmail.com
www.arteastisland.net

愛未來

一個人失踨了。這次，是一位藝術家。中國境內有人“被失踨”已是見怪不怪，我們抱著事不關己的態度漠視這情況。但，我們真的可以置身事外嗎？

「愛未來」是一個視覺藝術展覧。超個五十位香港藝術家及詩人，用作品表達對言論自由及藝術發表的關注。最重要的是，對內地政權拘禁艾未未作出回應。艾未未在他的著作曾說〝…我覺得每個人都應為其他人做些事，這是唯一可以令這世界改變的方法。〞這個展覧獻給所有〝為他人做些事〞的公民，也是為了持續爭取基本人權及公義。

策展人
藝術公民

Love the Future

A person went missing, this time an artist. It seems distant and is easy for us to just ignore it and accept it as another case of disappearance in China and move on…but can we?

Love the Future is an art and poetry exhibition consists of more than 50 artists and poets from Hong Kong expressing their concerns on freedom of speech and artistic expression in China. Most importantly, it is a reaction towards the unjust detention of artist Ai Weiwei by the Chinese authority. Ai Weiwei said in his book “…I think that every person must do something for others; that is the only way this world will see change.” This show is dedicated to the spirit of “Do something for others” and is an ongoing effort to fight for justice and defend basic human rights.

Curator
Art Citizens

Supported by:
H-KAGE, Outset, Videotage

Artists:

Ai Weiwei 艾未未
Almond Chu 朱德華
Anothermountainman 又一山人
Art Labour Solidarity 藝術業團結工會
Ah Cat 阿貓
Au Wah Yan 歐華欣
Beatrice Sam 余思穎
Birdy Chu 朱迅
Bobby Sham 沈家豪
Cheng Ka Yue 鄭家榆
Cheng Chi Kin 鄭志堅
Chung Wai Ian 鐘惠恩
Damon Tong 唐偉傑
Ducky Tse 謝志德
Emma Gutierrez
Hanison Lau 劉學成
Him Lo 盧樂謙
Juliet Lera Grey 何長心
Kacey Wong 黃國才
Karden Chan 花苑
Kenneth Hung 洪天健
Ko Siu Lan 高小蘭
Lee Kit 李傑
Lo Chi Kit 羅至傑
Luke Ching 程展偉
Man Chan 陳正文
Map Office
Miss Fat 廖家宜
Nadim Abbas 唐納天
Ng Ka Chun 吳家俊
Ocean Leung 梁御東
Otto Li 李天倫
Ricky Yeung 楊秀卓
Sara Wong 黄志恒
Stephanie Sin 冼朗兒
Suitman Kim Young
Susie Law 羅偉珊
Tangerine Chin
Tan Yuk King 陳玉瓊
Timothy Zauho 鄒昊
Tres Silencio
Vinci Mok 莫穎詩
Leung Chi Wo 梁志和
Wen Yau 魂游
Wong Hin Yan 黃衍仁
Wong Suk King 黄淑煢

Poets:

Cally Yu 俞若玫
Chan Fai Kin 陳暉健
Ken Chow 恒一
Kitty Hung 洪曉嫻
Liao Wei Tang 廖偉棠
Lok Leung 可洛
QuanNan 崑南
Tang Siu Wa 鄧小樺
wesleyman 文於天
Yuen Siu Cheong 袁兆昌
Damian Cheng 小西

Translator：

Law Lok Man 羅樂敏
Aurora Tsui 徐晞文
Chan Lai Kuen DeadCat 陳麗娟
Chan Nin 陳寧

Recordings：

Lam Sum 林森
Wong Hing Yan 黃衍仁

Finally it’s finish! Please come to the show and check it out!

May 26 – July 2, 2011
opening reception Thursday, May 26, 2011  6-8pm

POSTMASTERS GALLERY IS PLEASED TO PRESENT YOU WITH A TRIPLE TREAT OF TWO SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND AN OUTDOOR PROJECT ON THE FAÇADE OF OUR BUILDING:

Gallery 1:
KENNETH TIN-KIN HUNG
The Travelogue of Dr. Brain Damages

Gallery 2:
SALLY SMART
Flaubert’s Puppets

Façade:
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO
xCLINIC FARMACY

Gallery 1:
KENNETH TIN-KIN HUNG
The Travelogue of Dr. Brain Damages

In his new exhibition The Travelogue of Dr. Brain Damages Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung takes on the increasingly pervasive, draconian censorship of the Internet in China and Chinese government restrictions of freedom of expression.  Through a series of dense collages, a video animation, and a sculpture of a ping-pong table where the net is replaced by a model of The Great Wall of China, Hung delivers a visual battlefield of biting political satire.  Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung has been called “the John Heartfield of the digital era.” Like Hartfield, who developed photomontage technique and turned it into a form of social critique, Hung’s meticulously researched works, composed entirely of imagery appropriated from online sources, expose injustice, corruption and hypocrisy, reflect on a call for social change, and direct attention to issues of today, which are bound to have historical impact. Tin-Kin Hung was born in Hong Kong and now lives in New York.
More information: http://www.tinkin.com/arts/the-travelogue-of-dr-brain-damages/

Gallery 2:
SALLY SMART
Flaubert’s Puppets

Australian artist Sally Smart is known for her large-scale collage installations applied directly to the gallery wall. She works with a range of media, including painted canvas and felt cut-outs, photographic elements, and printed fabric. The pins and joins that connect her work remain exposed to the viewer, emphasizing the performative process Smart undergoes in the cutting, drawing, and assembly of her work. Flaubert’s Puppets (Femmage), Smart’s third solo exhibition at Postmasters, explores the ideas of the feminine identity, performance, and nature. The wall installation will be accompanied by a series of framed, collaged drawings. In Flaubert’s Puppets the cut-out, hybridized figures, legs, arms, and swishing skirts fall apart and come together to accentuate movement. The images, inscribed with marks and notations, reference choreographers’ drawings and reflect on the performative process of Smart’s static yet dynamic installation.

The word Femmage was used by the American feminist and theorist, Miriam Shapiro in 1976 to describe work traditionally made by women, and the multitude of techniques, including collage, photomontage and embroidery, that women have used; Femmage for Smart is a term used to describe the idea of women’s relationship (historical and contemporary) to the art making process and the connections to feminist politics (The use of materials –mostly fabric – is integral to the conceptual unfolding of Smart’s work, as is the act of cutting, pining, staining and stitching).

Façade:
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO
xCLINIC FARMACY

The artist/engineer/activist/experimenter extraordinaire, Natalie Jeremijenko, will turn Postmasters’ façade green. She will conduct a clinical trial of xClinic’s Farmacy, a distributed urban farm aimed at encouraging urban food production, diversifying food systems and improving environmental health. The vertical garden will be constructed with Jeremijenko-designed durable, efficient AgBags, in which edibles will be grown and then sold at the green market throughout the summer.

Postmasters Gallery located at 459 West 19th Street between 9 and 10 Avenues is open Tuesday through Saturday 11 – 6
Please contact Magdalena Sawon or Paulina Bebecka with questions and image requests postmasters@thing.net
www.postmastersart.com

I am gonna debut the first piece of my new series about the Chinese internet censorship in this group show, please come! Here THANK YOU SO MUCH for Matthew Weinstein for curating the show!

Ramis Barquet
532 West 24th Street New York, NY 10011

tel 212.675.3421 fax 212.675.3432
mail@ramisbarquet.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CABARET
Curated by Matthew Weinstein
February 17 – March 19, 2011

Reception: Thursday, February 17 from 6 –8 PM

Ramis Barquet Gallery is pleased to present Cabaret, a group show curated by Matthew Weinstein, including work by Laurie Simmons, Delia Brown, Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung, Kathe Burkhart, Aziz and Cucher, Dineo Bopape, Mika Rottenberg, Jose Posada, Jörg Immendorff, Simon Bedwell, Jose Clemente Orozco, Jack Smith, Hunter Reynolds, Arch Connelly, and Robert Mapplethorpe.

‘Leave your troubles outside. So life is disappointing? Forget it. In here, life is beautiful.’

In the opening sequence of the American movie version of ‘Cabaret,’ a distinction is made by the Emcee between the interior of culture and the exterior of everything outside culture. As the film progresses, the character of Sally Bowles is the medium through which the outside, the political, passes through the wall of day-to-day life into the nucleus of culture.

Sally Bowles never acknowledges herself as a political protagonist, but because of her outrageousness she is a magnet for issues of sexuality and gender. She also becomes a witness to the most important issue of that time and place; race.

The character of Sally Bowles in the movie is far more talented than she is in ‘Berlin Stories.’ The Hollywood magnification of her talent, as well as the perfection of the production numbers, was of course driven by the mandate of the American film industry that life on screen must be more fabulous than life outside the movie theater. In this way the film about politics becomes the cabaret, an escapist fantasy, a respite from the year of 1972; the suspension of peace talks in Vietnam, The Munich Massacre, and a Time Magazine cover that read, ‘Is The U.S. Going Broke?’

This mixture of entertainment and politics, embodied by artists whose work can’t help but be political due to a certain social outrageousness, is what structures the choices of artists for this exhibition. Their work is a nucleus of permission, which is neither outside nor inside the arena of the political. Whether through seductive performances, Grand Guignol spectacles, or silent solo songs sung to evoke a sad and seductive past, each of these artists performs to draw us closer and closer to the dangerous and beautiful flashing lights.

For more information or images contact Fabiana Faria at fabiana@ramisbarquet.com
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10-6 PM.