The latest Tai Kwun conversation will feature the artist Sarah Morris and curator at large Tobias Berger. They will be discussing her solo exhibition Who is Who, which presents a series of newly commissioned artworks, including her latest feature-length film ETC, a large site-specific wall drawing called Lippo [Paul Rudolph], and her billboard work TXJSQE, designed with Scott King, for the 55 Squared public art project on the Parade Ground at Tai Kwun.  

In the talk, Sarah Morris and Tobias Berger will discuss her new work for Tai Kwun, her artistic approach, and the relationship between her global production of paintings and films.

The title of Morris’s latest film ETC recalls the Electronic Teller Card, a predecessor of today’s ATM card. The “ETC” graphic was designed in 1979 by Henry Steiner, who also did the title credit of Morris’s film. The card alludes to the history of Hong Kong as a global economic centre while forming a shorthand for Morris’s newest film. In an era marked by rapid change, the film layers daily life and complex histories. ETC includes main iconic and lesser known Hong Kong locations, simultaneously portraying the electronic and analogue life of the city. 

The exhibition’s title, Who is Who, is a nod to Theodor Adorno’s Minima Moralia, a book of 20^th century reflections on life in a modern industrial society. 

This talk will be followed by a screening of Morris’s film Finite and Infinite Game (2017). The film focuses on Alexander Kluge and Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, a concert hall designed by Herzog and de Meuron, Swiss architects who also worked on the conservation and revitalisation project of Tai Kwun.

Finite and Infinite Game

Director: Sarah Morris

US | 2017 | 40:16 min | HD Digital | in German and English with English and Chinese Subtitles

Speaker:

Sarah Morris

Moderator:

Tobias Berger, Curator of Who is Who

This event will be conducted in English, with English to Cantonese simultaneous interpretation. Afterwards, the audience will have the chance to ask the artist and the curator questions in a live Q&A session.

On the day of the event, JC Contemporary will be open from 11am to 7pm, participants are welcome to visit the exhibition before attending the conversation.

Tai Kwun Conversations is a monthly event that brings together brilliant minds from the fields of contemporary art, architecture, heritage, among many others.
 

* This will be an open seating event. The films have not been classified yet. If they are subsequently classified as Category III films, audience members must be aged 18 or above.