On Kawara: Rules of Freedom, Freedom of Rules

General

Join our art professionals and educators for a unique guided tour of the upcoming exhibition at Rule of Freedom, Freedom of Rules Guided Tour: Who's Next? in Tai Kwun Contemporary. Discover On Kawara’s works through our tour guide's eyes as the tour unfolds. Whether you're an art enthusiast or a first-time visitor, this tour offers thoughtfully guided perspectives on the artist’s creative process, techniques, and sources of inspiration.

This series of tours is presented by Tai Kwun Contemporary in collaboration with the biomedical researcher Dr Rosa Chan, architect and educator Su Chang, curator and artist Kobe Ko, artist and educator Morgan Wong, artist Nicole Wong, and curator and writer Nick Yu.


Cantonese or Putonghua Sessions: 2pm - 3 pm
English Sessions: 4pm - 5 pm

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Tour Guides

DR. ROSA CHAN
SU CHANG
KOBE KO
MORGAN WONG
NICOLE WONG
Nick Yu

Dr. Rosa Chan is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong and Vice President for the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, the world's largest international society of biomedical engineers. She holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Automation and Computer-Aided Engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering and PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Southern California.  She was awarded the Croucher Scholarship and Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowship for Overseas Studies in 2004.

Her research focuses on computational neuroscience and human-computer interaction. She studies how the brain processes experience through neural signals while investigating human movement patterns. This interdisciplinary approach allows her team to develop more intuitive technological interfaces that bridge neuroscience with daily applications.

Tour dates (all in Cantonese and English): 9/8, 10/8, 16/8, 17/8

Su Chang is an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong and principal of Su Chang Design Research Office. He was educated at the University of Hong Kong and Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His current research explores a water-centric perspective for understanding architecture, development, and conservation in Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area, and Asia context. Navigating the shifting dynamics between inland and coastal areas, he has developed design experiments with a material-based approach to rejuvenate spaces and regenerate social fabrics for communities undergoing transformation.

Chang’s writing and translation work similarly connect architecture’s physical presence to its participation in a more extensive geography of ideas, most recently in the Chinese edition of Iñaki Ábalos’s The Good Life: A Guided Visit to the Houses of Modernity and Valerio Olgiati’s Non-Referential Architecture. Additional essays, interviews, commentaries, and projects have appeared on Landscape Architecture Frontier, Built Heritage, Urban Environment DesignTaiwan Architecture, HKIA Journal, OculaWallpaper, and the Harvard GSD Platform. Chang has served as a founding member of Tangent Essays, an online and paper-based publishing platform that periodically features writings about architecture.

Tour dates: 31/5 (CN&EN), 1/6 (PTH&EN), 21/6 (CN&EN)

Kobe Ko is an independent curator and artist. She graduated from the Department of Cultural and Creative Arts of The Education University of Hong Kong, and received an MA in Gender Studies from Shih Hsin University in Taiwan, formerly worked as Assistant Curator at Para Site (2021–2023) and Art Education and Gallery Coordinator at Tai Kwun Contemporary (2019–2021). She has curated 'Cantando Bajito: Incantations' (Ford Foundation Gallery, New York, 2024), ‘Everyday life in Hong Kong and Fukuoka: The study of Contemporary Arts and Kougengaku’ (art space tetra, Fukuoka, 2023), ‘Post-Human Narratives’ series (Cattle Depot Artist Village and Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences, Hong Kong, 2020–2022) among others.

Ko’s artworks depart from her intimate relationship and personal sensation and mainly focus on the re-imagination of distance and boundaries, she has participated in joint exhibition ‘roundabout’ (Zit-Dim Art Space, Tainan, 2024), ‘The Tailed Scar’ (Tiger Arm Strong Biennale, Hong Kong, 2023), duo exhibition ‘Over the ocean, over the sea’ (Current Plans, Hong Kong, 2022) and more.

Image credit: Jane Kratochvil

Tour dates (all in Cantonese and English): 7/6, 8/6, 14/6, 15/6

Morgan Wong is an artist and educator. He currently teaches at the Department of Creative Arts, Hong Kong Metropolitan University. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. His research and practice focus on temporality through performance and visual arts. Wong's selected solo exhibitions include: “Time Isn’t Our Border” (Goethe Institute Hong Kong), “Our Feet Are Always Younger than Our Heads” (Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre), “The Dashes; the Laughter; the Reservoirs” (Asia Art Center, Taipei), and “Filing Down a Steel Bar until a Needle Is Made” (Tintype Gallery, London). Wong’s work has also been shown at Media Museum ZKM, Karlsruhe; Tate Modern, London; Seoul Museum of Art; ArtScience Museum, Singapore; and the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei. He was awarded the Asian Cultural Council New York Fellowship in 2019 and the Award for Young Artist (Media Arts) at the 15th Hong Kong Arts Development Awards in 2021. His works are included in the collections of M+ and MILL6 CHAT.

Tour dates (all in Cantonese and English): 6/7, 12/7, 2/8, 3/8

Nicole Wong is an artist based in Hong Kong. She earns her BA and MFA in fine art from Nottingham Trent University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Working beyond the bounds of any single medium, Wong adopts a process-driven approach to investigate philosophical questions associated with time, the tenuous connections between words and objects, and the limits of communication. Wong has presented in her latest solo exhibition Once It Sets (2024) curated by Chris Wan in Rossi & Rossi, Hong Kong and group exhibitions including the Biennale of Sydney, SUPERPOSITION: Equilibrium & Engagement, curated by Mami Kataoka, Sydney, Australia (2018); A Tree Fell in the Forest, and No One’s There, curated by Andre Chan, Power Station Of Art, Shanghai, China (2018–19); KOTODAMA, Para Site, Hong Kong (2018).

Tour dates (all in Cantonese and English): 13/7, 19/7, 20/7, 26/7

Nick Yu is an independent curator and writer based between Hong Kong and London, who previously worked as Curatorial Associate at the Lahore Biennale, Public Programme Curator at Asymmetry Art Foundation, and Associate Director at Blindspot Gallery. Together with Junko Asano, Yu is part of the research and curatorial duo who is the recipient of the CHAT 2025 Research Grant, researching on Sindhi tailor's contribution to the textile history of Hong Kong from 1950s to now.

Tour dates: 22/6 (CN&EN), 28/6 (CN&EN), 29/6 (PTH&EN). 5/7 (PTH&EN)

Notes on Guided Tour: Who’s Next

  • Guided tours are subject to change without prior notice. Tai Kwun reserves the right to make the final decision regarding the arrangements.
  • If Typhoon Signal No. 8 or above, or Black Rainstorm Signal is hoisted on the day of the guided tour, all guided tours of the day will be cancelled.
  • According to the Bye-laws, all persons who enter Tai Kwun will be deemed to have granted its approval to Tai Kwun undertaking the following activities without making any payment or notification to any such persons:

    a) taking photographs, making a video or cinematograph recording and/or using any sound or image recording equipment at any place within Tai Kwun; and
    b) reproducing the image and/or voice of any person who enters Tai Kwun and using the same for any purposes as Tai Kwun shall think fit.