Kingsley Ng: Listen to the Sound of the Earth Spinning

CHAT, The MILLS 45 Pak Tin Par Street, Tsuen Wan, Tsuen Wan

Media artist Kingsley Ng interprets the history and characteristics of his exhibition sites, creating contemplative, meditative experiences through poetic and minimalist interventions that involve sound, light, image and kinetic installations. Theatrical or ephemeral in nature, his works are completed through the audience’s interactions, such as touching and even meditating within the artwork’s space while recalling […]

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Seed to Textile 2024: BOLOHO Open Studio

CHAT, The MILLS 45 Pak Tin Par Street, Tsuen Wan, Tsuen Wan

To explore the intrinsic relationship between textiles and the environment, CHAT launched the community programme Seed to Textile in 2019, which has since been tracing textile manufacturing to its origin through planting and art making. In this year’s programme, Guangzhou-based artist collective BOLOHO leads a six-month participatory art project that delves into the interactions between […]

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Artefacts of Machinery

CHAT, The MILLS 45 Pak Tin Par Street, Tsuen Wan, Tsuen Wan

Textile technology has long been central to the activities of industrialists, engineers, activists, politicians and artists. Silk workers of Shandong, China, arguably created the first spinning wheel as early as the 5th century BCE. In early 20th-century India, Mahatma Gandhi popularised the collapsible charkha spinning wheel that prized human labour over industrialisation. In 1970s Hong […]

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CHAT Accessibility Tour

CHAT, The MILLS 45 Pak Tin Par Street, Tsuen Wan, Tsuen Wan

Committed to being a ‘textile heritage museum for all’, CHAT (Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile) has come to its fifth year. This month, CHAT is thrilled to announce the launch of its ‘Accessibility Tour’, Hong Kong’s first museum guided tour led by both deaf and hearing docents using spoken and sign languages, offering a […]

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