Abstract
Artists: Tadeas Podracky, Ekkehard ALTENBURGER, Sara Tse, Dai Yun
This exhibition examines precedent artistic collaborative models and their evolution, and how curator-facilitated collaborative processes that showcase human interaction and improvisation offer a vital counterpoint to product-oriented exhibitions by emphasizing the irreplaceable aspects of artistic creation.
The AVA Gallery at Kai Tak Campus functioned as a creative platform fostering collaborative artistic dialogues among international artists from Hong Kong, Prague, Berlin and Shenzhen. Centered on collective artistic practices, these dialogues sought to advance critical understandings of creativity during Tadeas Podracky’s academic residency. The discourse engaged with three core thematic frameworks: Concept, Objects, and Meaning, with each session emphasizing one or two primary artistic mediums—such as painting, sculpture, or installation art—or interdisciplinary combinations thereof.
A post-event exhibition served as a visual archive of these collaborative exchanges between artists Tadeas Podracky, Ekkehard Altenburger, Sara Tse, and Dai Yun. Documentary photography and video interviews, captured during and after the dialogues, formed the exhibition’s core, offering the public a rare glimpse into the artists’ creative processes. This initiative underscored both the material and theoretical dimensions of art-making while illuminating the intellectual synergies forged through cross-cultural collaboration.
共作 (Gòngzuò) – Collaborative Creation
The term gòngzuò (共作), translating to “co-creation” or “collaborative creation,” denoted artistic practices where multiple contributors jointly produced a single work. Historically, within Chinese literati traditions, such collaborations might have involved artists collectively painting distinct sections of a landscape or inscribing a shared calligraphic scroll, merging individual expertise into a unified aesthetic expression.
In an age now dominated by artificial intelligence and digital automation, this long-developing emphasis on artistic process takes on renewed urgency and meaning. As technological developments continue to democratize art-making tools and algorithmic creativity becomes commonplace, what remains distinctively human about art creation demands critical reexamination, contributing to the ongoing discourse on the relationship between art and technology.
This exhibition examines precedent artistic collaborative models and their evolution, and how curator-facilitated collaborative processes that showcase human interaction and improvisation offer a vital counterpoint to product-oriented exhibitions by emphasizing the irreplaceable aspects of artistic creation.
The AVA Gallery at Kai Tak Campus functioned as a creative platform fostering collaborative artistic dialogues among international artists from Hong Kong, Prague, Berlin and Shenzhen. Centered on collective artistic practices, these dialogues sought to advance critical understandings of creativity during Tadeas Podracky’s academic residency. The discourse engaged with three core thematic frameworks: Concept, Objects, and Meaning, with each session emphasizing one or two primary artistic mediums—such as painting, sculpture, or installation art—or interdisciplinary combinations thereof.
A post-event exhibition served as a visual archive of these collaborative exchanges between artists Tadeas Podracky, Ekkehard Altenburger, Sara Tse, and Dai Yun. Documentary photography and video interviews, captured during and after the dialogues, formed the exhibition’s core, offering the public a rare glimpse into the artists’ creative processes. This initiative underscored both the material and theoretical dimensions of art-making while illuminating the intellectual synergies forged through cross-cultural collaboration.
共作 (Gòngzuò) – Collaborative Creation
The term gòngzuò (共作), translating to “co-creation” or “collaborative creation,” denoted artistic practices where multiple contributors jointly produced a single work. Historically, within Chinese literati traditions, such collaborations might have involved artists collectively painting distinct sections of a landscape or inscribing a shared calligraphic scroll, merging individual expertise into a unified aesthetic expression.
In an age now dominated by artificial intelligence and digital automation, this long-developing emphasis on artistic process takes on renewed urgency and meaning. As technological developments continue to democratize art-making tools and algorithmic creativity becomes commonplace, what remains distinctively human about art creation demands critical reexamination, contributing to the ongoing discourse on the relationship between art and technology.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | Hong Kong |
| Publisher | Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University |
| Edition | 1 |
| Media of output | Other |
| Publication status | Published - 24 Jan 2025 |
| Event | CCL Talk "The Sculptural Objects — Concept, Materials, Meanings" by Tadeas Podracky: CCL Talk "The Sculptural Objects — Concept, Materials, Meanings" - CVA building, AVA, HKBU, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Duration: 17 Jan 2025 → 17 Jan 2025 https://ava.hkbu.edu.hk/en/events/the_sculptural_objects_concept_materials_meanings |
User-Defined Keywords
- concept
- Sculpture
- objects
- Collaboration tools
- Dialogue
- curatorial strategies
- new curatorial strategies
- art exhibition
- exhibition making
