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Teaching, Learning, Creating: Art School Is Just the BeginningArtists and art educators Kurt Chan Yuk Keung, Linda Lai Chiu-han, Leung Mee Ping, and Siu King Chung reflect on their extensive teaching careers and offer alternative perspectives on the development of art history in Hong Kong.
For Asia Art Archive’s twenty-fifth anniversary, this year’s Teaching Labs features four artists and art workers whose pivotal roles in Hong Kong’s art institutions over the past two decades have influenced a new generation of artists. In this series of conversations, AAA invites Kurt Chan Yuk Keung, Linda Lai Chiu-han, Leung Mee Ping, and Siu King Chung to discuss their long-standing teaching careers, and explore their innovative ideas, teaching methods, and how they balanced teaching and their own creative careers. Conversations with these four seasoned educators will trace the development of art history in Hong Kong through the lens of art education, hoping to inspire the next generation of art educators.
Additionally, Siu King Chung leads a workshop for teachers on education design. He works with participants to tackle current challenges in their teaching with existing resources, and to develop a feasible pedagogical approach using creative ideas.
A certificate will be given to teachers as proof of Continuing Professional Development of Teachers (CPD).
Talk｜Kurt Chan and Linda Lai
Sat, 5 Apr 2025, 10:30am–1pm
Is the core aim of art education to nurture artists? How can art courses be designed to provide a comprehensive learning experience for students? Should artists assume a different role when they are teaching—one that is separate from how they create art?
AAA invites Kurt Chan and Linda Lai to explore the relationship between art education and creative practice. Chan has taught media art courses for many years, integrating processes of contemporary art creation into his theoretical frameworks, while Lai has established a number of cross-disciplinary courses with a focus on the dialogue and interaction between new media art and other fields. The pair draws on their extensive teaching experience to explore how teaching art impacts the way they approach their creative practice, and how they balance theory and praxis. They also discuss the importance of inspiring creative ideas and perspectives through art education.
Respondents
Hung Keung, artist and educator
Moderator
Susanna Chung, AAA
Open to the public with registration.
Image: Surprise party for Kurt Chan on his last day teaching before retirement. Courtesy of the artist.
Image: Surprise party for Kurt Chan on his last day teaching before retirement. Courtesy of the artist.
Image: Images and postcards pasted by students on Linda Lai’s office doors, (left) School of Creative Media, 2010; (right) Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, 2023. Courtesy of Linda Lai.
Image: Images and postcards pasted by students on Linda Lai’s office doors, (left) School of Creative Media, 2010; (right) Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, 2023. Courtesy of Linda Lai.
Talk｜Leung Mee Ping and Siu King Chung
Sat, 10 May 2025, 10:30am–1pm
How do we measure, understand, and close the distance between art and reality? How can art education venture outside the bounds of the classroom and truly be in dialogue with its society and community?
In this conversation, Leung Mee Ping and Siu King Chung discuss their teaching practices, and how “visual art” education can be extended to include “visual culture,” which is more commonly used in the context of Hong Kong. Students learn how art education isn’t merely about developing technical skills, but also about honing their senses in relation to observing and thinking more broadly about culture and society.
Respondents
Pat Wong Wing Shan (Flyingpig), artist and educator
Moderator
Susanna Chung, AAA
Open to the public with registration.
Number of attendees (for events)
70| Period | 10 May 2025 |
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| Held at | Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong, China |