Organised by ifva Hong Kong Arts Centre and Goethe-Institut Hong Kong, Artist Sharing! – Mark Chung's festival visit in transmediale 2024 aims to foster conversation between young artists by sharing their insights during the festival visit during transmediale 2024 and how the experience provides an aesthetic impact to their creations.

Artist Sharing! – Mark Chung's festival visit in transmediale 2024
Mark Chung, who won the Special Mention at the 28th ifva Awards - Media Art Category, was supported by the Goethe-Institut Hongkong to attend transmediale 2024 in February. He will share his experience towards the workshops, screenings and exhibitions of transmediale 2024, which examines how the logics of content production determine and frustrate our relations to technology. 

 

▎Biography of sharing artist:

Mark Chung was born in 1990, in Auckland, New Zealand. He was raised biracial (Chinese and Austrian) in Hong Kong and graduated with a B.F.A from Hong Kong Baptist University Academy of Visual Arts in 2014. He is currently living, working and studying between Hong Kong and Amsterdam. His practice uses video installation and spatial interventions to transform light and air, thereby creating confronting, immersive experiences that resemble the discomfort our bodies endure in an urban landscape. The interventionist approach of his work dismantles the façade, and liquidates the duality between frontstage and backstage. By drawing an analogy between the city and theater, and parallelism between bodily sickness and the dysfunctions of a network, he attempts to artistically navigate individual agency and feelings.

His solo exhibitions include Splinter (Rossi & Rossi Gallery, Hong Kong, 2023), Dead End (ACO, Hong Kong, 2022), Wheezing (de Sathe Gallery, Hong Kong, 2020). Notable group exhibitions includes Time Flies Over Us But Leaves Its Shadow Behind (TOKAS, Tokyo, 2023), Marginal Notes (Hong Kong Art Development Council Gallery, Hong Kong, 2023), A Perfect Flaw (Hauyu Art Center, Hainan, China, 2022), Æthereal (National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan, 2021), Very Natural Action (Taikwun Contemporary, Hong Kong, 2019), A Tree Fell in the Forest, and No One’s There (Power Station of Art, Shanghai, 2019), In the Open or in Stealth (Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, 2018), Wan Chai Grammatica: Past, Present, Future Tense (Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong, 2018), Ostrale 2015 (Dresden, 2015), Imagine There’s no Country, Above us only Cities (Parasite, Hong Kong, 2015).

▎Introduction of transmediale:
An annual festival and a platform for critical reflection on cultural transformation from a post-digital perspective. For over thirty years, it is one of the leading international events in the field of digital art and culture.