OUAT, Hong Kong Comics Touring Exhibition @Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Arts Centre would like to make a postponement of the Opening Date for the OUAT, Hong Kong Comics Touring Exhibition @ Hong Kong Arts Centre, from the original schedule of August 7, 2019 (Wednesday) to August 9, 2019 (Friday). This special arrangement may allow more time for the curatorial team to work on the exhibition preparation and artwork installment. Please save the new date and stay tuned to www.hkac.org.hk or #HongKongArtsCentre for more details.
Organiser: Hong Kong Arts Centre, Comix Home Base
Sponsor: Create Hong Kong of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Supporters: Alliance Française Hong Kong, Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Brussels
In Association with: Hong Kong Comics & Animation Federation, Hong Kong Digital Entertainment Association, Angoulême International Comics Festival
Participating Hong Kong Comics Artists:
- Samson CHU
- Dolly LEE
- Kin-leung LEE
- Siu-fung MAK
- YANAI
Participating Hong Kong Comics Professionals:
- Henry PANG (Comics editor)
- zbfghk (Comics publisher and promotion platform)
Participating Overseas Comics Artists:
- Stéphane LEVALLOIS (France)
- Claire MALARY (France)
Participating Overseas Comics Professionals:
- Thomas GABISON (Director of Collection Actes Sud BD, France）
- Sébastien GNAEDIG (Editor-in-Chief of Futuropolis, France)
- Stéphane BEAUJEAN (Artistic Director of Angoulême International Comics Festival, France)
Exhibition
Date: 09-23.08.2019 Time: 1000-2000
Date: 24.08.2019 Time: 1000-1600
Venue: Pao Galleries, 4/F, Hong Kong Arts Centre (2 Harbour Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong)
Date: 09.08-03.09.2019
Time: 1000-1800*
Venue: Experimental Gallery, 3/F, Hong Kong Arts Centre
*Opening hours may change if Shouson Theatre has day-time performance.
Free Admission
Enquiry
852-2582 0200
“Once upon a time, once upon a comics!”
Once upon a time, under a banyan tree, story tellers talked about everything between earth and heaven, with kids and grown-ups alike mesmerised by them. Now, as we live in an information age, with mobile phones clutching in our hands, we can hardly spare a second to blink. Despite so, there are nevertheless comics artists who still focus on visualising fantasies by turning dramas into realities. So why not take a break and indulge in these fantasy comics worlds – they are definitely “full of dramas”!
Hong Kong comics turn a new page in the 2010s, with short comics stories relating to our everyday life or social issues gaining more and more public attention. There are, however, still some independent comics artists or groups who are devoted to creating drama comics. By hook or by crook, they have been building imaginary worlds with different themes as the backdrop through conducting in-depth researches, developing sophisticated characters, writing up cinematic storyboards, and setting up cadence which is sometimes relaxed, sometimes intense, etc. Readers, as a result, have been enjoying an unlimited space for imagination.
The first phase of the OUAT, Hong Kong Comics Touring Exhibition (OUAT) was held successfully in the 46th Angoulême International Comics Festival in France in January this year. In August, the second phase will return to HKAC, showcasing the drama comics creations of the five Hong Kong comics artists and two groups of comics professionals who participated in the first phase. Two overseas comics artists and three comics professionals are also invited to come to Hong Kong for exchange activities. Among other activities, there is a special session for the overseas comics professionals to comment on the proposals of drama comics called from the public. Public talks on copyright law and rights licensing will also be held, helping local talent to better equip themselves with the knowledge for their “story-telling journey” ahead!
Last but not least, the participating Hong Kong comics artists and comics professionals will jointly create a comics piece as a response to their journey in Angoulême and present it to the audience in Hong Kong!
Let’s grab our seats and see how our local comics artists tell the stories of Hong Kong!
Exhibition Booklet: https://issuu.com/hongkongartscentre/docs/ouat_booklet_spread
Cocktail Reception
Date: 17.08.2019 (SAT)
Venue: Pao Galleries, 4/F, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Time: 1600-1730
Intellectually Yours
Talk on Rights and Licensing #1
Get prepared and suited up for the great opportunity that presents itself at any time now! Come and sign up for Intellectually Yours!
Details,press here.
Intellectually Yours
Talk on Rights and Licensing #2
Our Angoulême Saga!
Talk by Participating Hong Kong Comics Artists and Professionals
Comics from the Future
Talk by Overseas Comics Professional #1
If you are interested in whether comics will continue to thrive in Europe, please come and join us for Sébastien Gnaedig’s forecast of comic’s future!
Editor's Choice
Talk by Overseas Comics Professional #2
Talk by Overseas Comics Professional #3
Draw the Drama Out
Live Drawing Demonstration by Overseas Comics Artist #1
Artist: Stéphane LEVALLOIS (France)
Two overseas comics artists will bring all one’s skills into play in the live drawing demonstrations at HKAC!
Draw the Drama Out
Live Drawing Demonstration by Overseas Comics Artist #2
Artist: Claire MALARY (France)
Two overseas comics artists will bring all one’s skills into play in the live drawing demonstrations at HKAC!
The Master’s Touch!
Open-call for Drama Comics Proposal and Comics Critique
Not knowing whether readers would understand all the drawn up and deliberated stories at hand? Why not show them to the masters!
Details, press here
Be a Comic Flâneur! Comics Workshop
Public Tours
Date & Time:
09.08.2019 (FRI) 1400-1445 and 1600-1645
10.08.2019 (SAT) 1300-1345, 1400-14:45, 1500-1545
11.08.2019 (SUN) 1300-1345
13.08.2019 (TUE) 1400-1445, 1600-1645
15.08.2019 (THU) 1400-1445, 1600-1645
17.08.2019 (SAT) 1400-1445
18.08.2019 (SUN) 1200-1245
20.08.2019 (TUE) 1400-1445, 1600-1645
22.08.2019 (THU) 1400-1445, 1600-1645
24.08.2019 (SAT) 1400-1445
Conducted in Cantonese
Gathering Point: Pao Galleries, 4/F, HKAC
Free of Charge
No registration is required. First-come, first-served.
Quota: 20
About the Organiser
Hong Kong Arts Centre
Hong Kong Arts Centre (HKAC) is a multi-arts centre that fosters artistic exchanges locally and internationally, bringing the most forward creations to Hong Kong and showcasing homegrown talents abroad. HKAC stimulates innovation and promotes creativity. Being Hong Kong’s only independent non-profit multi-arts institution, HKAC offers exhibitions, screenings and performances, connecting the arts of Hong Kong to the rest of the world through programmes and collaborations.
Official website: hkac.org.hk | Facebook: Hong Kong Arts Centre | Instagram: @hongkongartscentre
Comix Home Base
Comix Home Base returned to the Hong Kong Arts Centre from Mallory Street in Wan Chai in August 2018 to extend the range of local comics and animation art project that the Centre has presented since 2006. Apart from providing an important exchange platform for local and overseas comics and animation lovers, industry players, and artists, Comix Home Base presents comics- and animation-related programmes, such as exhibitions, talks and performances, to promote local and international comics and animation to everyone in Hong Kong and other parts of the world.
About the Sponsor
Create Hong Kong
Create Hong Kong (CreateHK) is a dedicated agency set up by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR Government) in June 2009. It is under the Communications and Creative Industries Branch of the Commerce and Economic Development Bureau and dedicated to spearheading the development of creative industries in Hong Kong. Its strategic foci are nurturing talent and facilitating start-ups, exploring markets, and promoting Hong Kong as Asia’s creative capital and fostering a creative atmosphere in the community. CreateHK sponsored the Hong Kong Arts Centre to organise exchange activities under different themes at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2019 to promote Hong Kong’s comics and the comics artists.
www.createhk.gov.hk
Disclaimer: Create Hong Kong of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project only, and does not otherwise take part in the project. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in these materials/events (or by members of the project team) are those of the project organizers only and do not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Communications and Creative Industries Branch of the Commerce and Economic Development Bureau, Create Hong Kong, the CreateSmart Initiative Secretariat or the CreateSmart Initiative Vetting Committee.
