2020-21 Art Workshop- Cross media:literature mix fine art

Cross media:literature mix fine art 

Date：26-1-2021(Tue)

Time：7:00pm-9:00pm

Speaker：Dr. Kacey Wong, Dung Kai-cheung

About Speaker
Dr. Kacey Wong
Hong Kong artist
Kacey  was born in Hong Kong in 1970, He studied architecture in Cornell University and received his Master of Fine Arts degree from Chelsea School of Art and Design and Doctor of Fine Arts Degree from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He is the founding member of Art Citizens and Street Design Union which investigates artist’s and designer’s role in social political causes, also a former member of Para/Site Art Space. He was an Assistant Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, School of Design’s Environment and Interior Design Discipline.
Wong’s experimental art project investigates the space between men and their living environment with a social intention. He thinks being an artist is similar to being a detective, the case on hand is to investigate the self. His mobile tricycle project “Wandering Homes'' was featured at the 2008 Venice Architectural Biennale in Italy. His floating house “Paddling Home” was performed on Hong Kong Victoria Harbour and his mobile bulk bed “Sleepwalker” was the star features during the 2010 and 2012’s Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture exhibition.
 He received Rising Artist Award and Outstanding Arts Education Award given by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council in 2003, Best Artist Award in 2010 and was the winner of 2012 HK Contemporary Arts Award given by Hong Kong Museum of Art.

Dung Kai Cheung
Author, playwright and essayist
A Chinese-language fiction writer born in Hong Kong in 1967. He received his B.A. and M. Phil. in comparative literature from the University of Hong Kong. He is an author, playwright and essayist. He works at a part-time lecturer at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and mainly teaches Chinese writing. His most important novels include "Atlas", "Histories of Time", “The History of The Adventures of Vivo and Vera” and other award-winning books. Dung is the winner of the 2007/2008 Award for Best Artist (Literary Arts) by Hong Kong Art development council. Unlike other local Chinese writers, Dung translates his own work into English versions. Dung is devoted to the education of young writers. He writes prefaces and prologues for young Hong Kong writers, some of whom are his students in the Chinese department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.