Day 2 Schedule

Day Two

Time

Activity

1300hr

Registration and Reception

1330hr

Panel 3: Care Practices in Cultural Management

Moderated by Benny LIM

The Quest to Build Solidarity Amidst Precarity: Nudging Towards More Caring Conditions for Arts Workers

HOE Su Fern, Assistant Professor of Arts and Culture Management Programme, School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University (Singapore)

HOE Su-Fern is an arts researcher, educator and manager based in Singapore. She is currently Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Arts and Culture Management Programme at Singapore Management University. She is also lecturer for the MA in Arts and Cultural Management, with Leuphana University of Luneburg. She has spoken, researched and published on cultural policy, arts management, urban cultural economies, creative placemaking and the conditions of artistic production. She has a wealth of experience in developing, managing and/or coordinating local, regional and global projects in varying formats; all of which advocate for the value of the arts and culture in urban environments.

Arts in Health in Hong Kong

Augustine MOK, Founder & Chief Executive, Centre for Community Cultural Development (Hong Kong)

Mok Chiu Yu Augustine is the founder/Chief Executive of the Centre for Community Cultural Development.

He has been a promoter in the application of the arts for different purposes in Hong Kong – arts for education, empowerment and independent living, arts for inclusion and solidarity, arts for preservation of heritage and social change, arts for therapy and health, etc.

He is an internationally known people’s theatre artist as was the first awardee of the ADC Theatre Artist of the Year award.

He himself is a theatre/performance artist having performed in New York, Great Britain, and many Asian countries and he was the Congress co-director of IDEA (International Drama/Theatre and Education Association) in 2007.

His writings particularly those in theatre have appeared in scholarly books and journals.

He was an adjunct professor of the Lingnan University and taught the Master in Cultural Studies programme there on Community Cultural Development and Performance Studies for some years

Ephemeral Dance Career: Cultural Governance and Challenges for Dance Troupes

Patrick MOK, Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Design, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)

Dr. MOK Kin Wai Patrick is Assistant Professor of the Cultural and Creative Industries Programme at the Art and Design Department, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. Interested in the subjects of history, heritage, cultural policies and cultural-creative economy, he is currently doing research on the topics social and cultural impact of the arts, Chinese martial arts and dance and dancers’ career planning and development. He was commissioned to do the Arts Accessibility Research Project by the Arts with the Disabled Association Hong Kong (ADAHK); co-authored the books Cheng Yu Tung: A Lifetime of Diligence, Integrity and Dedication (2020) and The Roadmap of Design Strategy for Hong Kong Manufacturing SMEs (2019 and 2020).

Before joining Hang Seng University, he served as consultant and manager in the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HKU) for the “Hong Kong Memory Project”, a digital and research project for the preservation of Hong Kong’s historical and cultural heritage. He also serves the art sector as board member of the Hong Kong Arts Administrators Association, International Association of Theatre Critics (Hong Kong).

Heritage art conservation without knowledge and myth: Hong Kong’s sterilized development of Cantonese Opera between 2002 and 2023

Isabella YUN, Lecturer, Division of Social Science, HKUSpace (Hong Kong)

I developed my career in three academic fields of study; arts administration, cultural management and sociology. My research focuses on cultural institutions studies with two major phenomena: (1) creative industries in modern societies, and (2) power amongst apparatus for cultural democracy. My research in these areas contributes to literatures on cultural policies, cultural economics, organizational structures, cultural identity, and institutional theory. I seek dialogues within the cultural sector and cultural organizations to yield better understandings of Chinese cultural development in the context of global culture.

I am a lecturer at The Community College of The University of Hong Kong (HKUSpace).

1510hr

Tea Break

1530hr

Panel 4: Practices in Art, Media, and Technologies

Moderated by Elizabeth DE ROZA

Elizabeth de Roza (www.elizabethderoza.com) is an Artist-Scholar and Academic, Interdisciplinary Performance-Maker, Theatre Director, and Actor-movement trainer. She has been making theatre/performances and teaching in higher education for over two decades. Her artistic works range from site-specific social engagement to cross-cultural | disciplinary performances to intense black-box physical and online/digital performances. In 2021, she initiated and co-curated the first Magdalena online festival, Bodies:On:Live
(https://onlinefestival.themagdalenaproject.org/), for women in contemporary theatre and performance. Elizabeth also collaborated with fellow artist Laurie Young and created an intimate-immersive movement audio guide (https://soundcloud.com/nationalgallerysg/sets/closer-audio-guide) for Antony Gormley’s sculptures at the National Gallery of Singapore. Apart from her artistic and teaching roles, Elizabeth is also an active researcher and has published her research in various theatre and performance journals.

Smart Jewelry: The Fusion of Science and Art

AN Shucheng, PhD Student, Taylor’s University (Malaysia)

AN Shucheng An is pursuing his PhD from Taylor’s University in Malaysia, one of the world’s leading universities. His research is supervised by Dr. Pouline Koh and Professor Benny Lim. He has published several articles and a monograph on various topics related to Chinese art, including Chinese contemporary painting, large-scale sculpture, and Chinese religious art. His recent research focuses on the health-related functional design of smart jewelry in the world’s post-pandemic era.

Analysing the Multiple Cover Design in Print Magazines during the New Media Age: A Case Study of Art and Piece in Hong Kong

Cheuk Wing LEUNG and Pei-Hsuan SU, National Taiwan University of Arts (Taiwan)

Leung Cheuk Wing, currently in her second year of pursuing a Master’s degree in Visual Communication Design at the National Taiwan University of Arts, hails from Hong Kong. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in Cultural Studies and minoring in Journalism and Communication, from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her prior experience in both printed and digital media ignited a profound interest in exploring the design features and future development of printed magazines. Her research now centers on the evolution of printed media and its potential for visual storytelling.

Pei-Hsuan Su, Professor of the Department of Visual Communication Design in the National Taiwan University of Arts; Ph. D. of the School of Visual Arts, the Pennsylvania State University, in 2003. She was honoured in the field of Higher Education and Arts by 2017 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, U. S. A.. Her specialty is to integrate visual arts and culture in associated with innovative technology and design. Written in Latticework of Arts and Its Cultural Representation (2017 ), she served as the author who seeks to be original by managing diverse innovative media and materials, and formulating critiques in contemporary.

Cinema at Stake: Impacts from Platforms, Short Videos, and Beyond

MA Ruiqing (Alex), Associate Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Mainland China) | Visiting scholar, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong)

Ruiqing (Alex) MA is an Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, a Visiting Scholar at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and a cross-media creative producer with over a decade of experience in film and media. His cinematic works have been screened at prestigious international film festivals, including Shanghai, Tokyo, and Busan. As a scholar-practitioner, MA has led various ministry-level research projects and published in leading academic journals. He is a member of the China Film Association and the China Television Artists Association, and serves as the International Collaboration Committee Secretary General at China Cinema Editors Association.

The phenomenon of Marginality: How screendance is situated within the dance ecosystem of Hong Kong?

WONG So Kwan, MACM Graduate, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)

June Wong received her undergraduate degree in Chinese Literature. Instead of being a teacher or writer as people expected, she has been focusing on developing project management competencies, particularly in the environmental industry. Along with the “save-the-world” journey, she finds that art and culture are as essential as nature to human beings as well as humanity. Following this belief, she started pursuing postgraduate study 2 years ago with a master’s degree in Cultural Management from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and freshly graduated this year.

Theatre Arts and Technology Infusion: An empirical study on ‘Hè Rite of Spring’, Contemporary Chinese Dance for French May

Rochelle YANG, Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Design, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)

Award winning visual artist, choreographer and curator, Dr. Rochelle Yang is currently Assistant Professor and Associate Program Director of Department of Art and Design at The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. Her research interests focus on visual culture, digital communication, performance studies, branding and creative methods. She served as chair for Art Gallery of SIGGRAPH ASIA Conference, director of ArtMap Media & Art Plus Magazine, regional organizer of World Dance Teleconference CID UNESCO, and curated numerous art exhibitions and charity events. Dr. Yang received her BFA in Film & TV, MA in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University, PhD in Creative Media from City University of Hong Kong.

1730hr

Closing Remarks / Sharing

1745hr

End of Day Two (end of conference)