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South China Morning Post
10-06-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
As 2 Hong Kong art spaces seek new leaders, experts weigh in on the impact
Para Site and Asia Art Archive (AAA), two long-standing independent cultural institutions in Hong Kong, are simultaneously seeking new executive directors at a pivotal moment for the city's cultural scene. On June 2, Para Site in Quarry Bay announced that Billy Tang had stepped down as executive director and curator after concluding his three-year contract. The British-born former senior curator of Shanghai's Rockbund Art Museum took over from Cosmin Costinas – who had run Para Site for 11 years – in May 2022, just as Hong Kong lifted its Covid-19 pandemic ban on non-residents entering the city. Since then, the non-profit art space founded in 1996 has undergone major changes, such as embracing more environmentally friendly and longer-running exhibitions, and opening an additional exhibition space on the 10th floor of the building where it is based which has given emerging artists the chance to undertake more site-specific and interactive projects. Billy Tang stepped down as Para Site's director and curator on June 2, 2025. Meanwhile, AAA in Sheung Wan , which maintains an extensive art archive and runs regular public programmes and a well-used library, put up a job posting for a successor to Christopher K. Ho , who joined AAA as executive director in 2021.
South China Morning Post
26-03-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Catch ghosts and cyborgs at this year's Art Basel Hong Kong screenings
Art Basel showcases art in many forms, from sculpture, painting, mixed media and photography, to performance, video and installation. And while many of these art forms have existed for centuries, film and video are still relatively new. Advertisement Korean-American artist Nam June Paik is credited with producing the world's first video artwork in 1965, the year he used a Sony Portapak (a portable, videotape analogue recorder) to film Pope Paul VI processing through New York. The footage was later shown at a cafe in Greenwich Village. 'I want to shape the TV screen canvas as precisely as Leonardo, as freely as Picasso , as colourfully as Renoir, as profoundly as Mondrian, as violently as Pollock, and as lyrically as Jasper Johns,' Paik wrote. Today, filmmaking artists are doing just that as digital innovations and technology push the genre even further. Art Basel Hong Kong's Film sector continues to be a highlight of the fair, especially since it is freely accessible to the public and curated for the first time by local independent art institution Para Site. 'It's been remarkable to see how Art Basel has evolved almost symbiotically with Hong Kong to develop and innovate new formats to support and showcase different types of art,' says Billy Tang, executive director and curator of Para Site. 'What's unique about moving image is its power to instantaneously connect various communities, geographies and languages through its ubiquitous nature and versatility as a medium.' Billy Tang. Photo: Para Site Titled 'In Space, It's Always Night', the Film programme features seven screenings and the works of 30 artists. The series was partly inspired by themes in Isadora Neves Marques' Vampires in Space (2022), which follows a family of vampires as they travel to an Earthlike exoplanet.
