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677 King’s Road
G/F & 22/F, Wing Wah Industrial Building
Hong Kong

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December 3, 2019

[1] Vaimaila Urale, Aniva, 2019. Black card and sand. Courtesy of Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland, Aotearoa/NZ. [2] Mixed design Tongan kupesi, prior to 1930s. Courtesy the Lady Dowager Fielakepa. [3] Ngatu with spitfire plane motifs, c. 1940s. Photo: Eddie Lam, 2019. [4] Tanya Edwards, Queen Salōte, 2018. Digital print. Courtesy of the artist. [5] Nikau Hindin, Te Tīpare o Hinetakurua, The Crown of the Winter Goddess. (Winter Solstice, 21.06.2020), 2019 (detail). Kōkōwai (red ochre), ngārahu (soot pigment) on aute (paper mulberry). Courtesy of the artist.

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Koloa: Women, Art, and Technology

October 3, 2019

Copper Eagle at New 1st Army Cemetery in Guangzhou, 1947.

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2019 Para Site International Conference

September 5, 2019

[1] Lo Lai Lai, Cold Fire, 2019. Video, vegetables and fruits, yeast, microbes, glass containers. Courtesy of the artist. [2] Installation shot from the exhibition Coffee Shop, 1998. Courtesy of Para Site. [3] Wong Ka Ying, Park, 2015-ongoing. Photographs courtesy of the artist. [4] Grass Stage, Wild Seed, 2018-ongoing. Discussion transcript and LED tickers. Courtesy of the artists. [5] Zi Jie, Street Sleepers Guide: How to Use Space, 2015. Publication. Courtesy of the artist.

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Café do Brasil

June 20, 2019

(1) Eason Tsang ka wai, Housework No.3 (detail), 2016. (2) Firenze Lai, Information Center, 2018. (3) Yao Qingmei, The Trial (still), 2013. (4) Display Distribute, "HQL-166", from LIGHT LOGISTICS, 2016-ongoing. Photo by ZHANG Jiajia. (5) Chang Yuchen, One Cooks, The Other Don’t (Apron 22), 2018. (6) Dark Fluid, BE A FREE RADICAL, 2019.

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Bicycle Thieves

March 7, 2019

Details from (1) Candice Lin, Metamorphosis in Space (Human sized cockroach), 2013. (2) Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, A Vertical Opera, 2001-2018. (3) Lok Chitrakar, Healing lions drawn onto a shingles sufferer. Photo: Sheelasha Rajbandhari. (4) Saodat Ismailova, The Haunted, 2017. (5) Yang Shen, Nocturnal Animals, 2012.

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An Opera for Animals

December 5, 2018

Ellen Pau, 2018. Courtesy of the artist.

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Ellen Pau
What about Home Affairs?

November 6, 2018

Pio Abad, design for ceramic plate depicting Imelda Marcos as Semiramis, mistakenly depicted as Nefertiti, 2012.

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What to let go?

September 20, 2018

Marge Monko, Dear D, 2015. Lau Wai, I'm just Wan Chai girl, 2018. Lee Kit, I think you're crazy, 2017. Dawn Kim, Worn Once, 2015-ongoing.

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Crush

June 11, 2018

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Kotodama

March 8, 2018

Raja Umbu, skirt with Kadu motif depicting the arrival of ancestors to the Island of Sumba, 2010. Textile.

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A beast, a god, and a line

January 16, 2018

Cover: Is the Living Body the Last Thing Left Alive? : The New Performance Turn, Its Histories and Its Institutions.

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Is the Living Body the Last Thing Left Alive?: The New Performance Turn, Its Histories and Its Institutions
Newest publication by Para Site and Sternberg Press

December 4, 2017

(1) The anti-express rail procession on 18 January 2010, Hong Kong. Photograph by Benson Tsang. (2) Elderly woman scavenging for recyclable materials on the street, Hong Kong, 2012. Photograph by Benson Tsang.

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Manuel Pelmuş
Movements at an Exhibition

October 10, 2017

"You all make me fearless", on a banner during a protest in Hong Kong. Image: In-media.

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2017 Para Site International Conference

September 16, 2017

(1) Chris Evans, Untitled, 2017. Airbrush painting on paper. Courtesy of the artist. (2) Pak Sheung Chuen, Found image on the ground in front of Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the HKSAR, 2017. Courtesy of the artist.

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Chris Evans, Pak Sheung Chuen
Two Exhibitions

July 11, 2017

Sutthirat Supaparinya, When Need Moves the Earth, 2014. Three-channel video installation. Courtesy of the artist and Earth Observatory NTU.

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Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs

June 22, 2017

Art direction: Eric Hu and Matthew Tsang.

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In Search of Miss Ruthless

April 18, 2017

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The Unappropriated Recipes

March 16, 2017

Li Binyuan, Freedom Farming, 2014. Single-channel video. Courtesy of the artist and KADIST, Paris & San Francisco.

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Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs

March 4, 2017

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Seeking Deputy Director

December 5, 2016

(1) Maayan Strauss, Curve, from the series "Freight," 2011. Color print. (2) Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen, A Pool of Experience (detail), 2016. Nickel, gold and tin on stainless steel. (3) Zheng Mahler, A Season in Shell (detail), 2013-16. Red sea abalone calcium carbonate glazed porcelain.

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Creative Operational Solutions

September 14, 2016

Apichatpong Weerasethakul, TEEM Nov 20, 1997. Video. Courtesy of Kick The Machine Films.

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Apichatpong Weerasethakul: The Serenity of Madness

September 3, 2016

Mariana Castillo Deball, Untitled, 2014. Laserchrome print mounted on dibond.

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Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs

June 6, 2016

(1) Jiang Zhi, Fly, Fly, 1997. (2) Ma Liuming, Dialogue with Gilbert and George, 1993. (3) Liu Chuang, Love Story No.8, 2006–14.*

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That Has Been, and May Be Again

May 26, 2016

Samson Young, Studies for Pastoral Music (M18 Claymore Antipersonnel Mine), 2015. Pencil, ink, watercolour, modeling paste on paper, 18.6 x 27.5 cm. Courtesy of Living Collection.

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Samson Young
Orchestrations

May 12, 2016

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20 years of Para Site: 2016 International Conference and Workshops for Emerging Professionals

March 14, 2016

(1) Santiago Sierra, La trampa (The Trap), Matucana 100, Santiago de Chile, 2007. (2) Sakarin Krue-On, Village and Harvest Time series #7, 2008. (3) Abdoulaye Konaté, L’intolerance, 1998. (4) Xyza Cruz Bacani, A Mother and a Child Holding Hands During Peak Hours in Central Hong Kong, 2013. (5) I GAK Murniasih, Mimpiku Makan Soto Tangan (My dream about drinking a soup made of hands), 1998. (6) Brian Gothong Tan, Imelda Goes to Singapore, 2006.*

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Afterwork

December 7, 2015

(1) Tomie Ohtake, Untitled, 1962. Courtesy estate of the artist. (2) Poster of the International Brigades, 1936–39. (3) Robert Motherwell, Two Figures No. 7, 1958. Courtesy Sidney Janis Gallery, New York; Mr. and Mrs. William M. Roth Collection, San Francisco. (4) Tang Chang, Kon Luk Rabert (Human Bomb), 1979 and (5) Tang Chang, United 4, 1965. Courtesy estate of the artist.

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The world is our home. A poem on abstraction

September 22, 2015

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2015 Para Site International Conference and workshops for emerging professionals

September 7, 2015

(1) Lim Yew Kuan, After the Fire (Bukit Ho Swee), circa 1966. Woodblock print on paper. Courtesy National University of Singapore Museum Collection, Singapore. (2) Heman Chong, THIS PAVILION IS STRICTLY FOR COMMUNITY BONDING ACTIVITIES ONLY, 2015. Mixed media. Courtesy the artist. (3) Nguan, Workers’ Party rally at open field near Ubi Ave 1, from the series “See Change,” 2011. Archival pigment print. Courtesy the artist.

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A Luxury We Cannot Afford

July 28, 2015

Elvis Yip Kin Bon, Hong Kong, excerpt from “Speech from Qiáo xiǎo yang on 24th March, 2013,” 2013–15. Cut newspaper.

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Imagine there’s no country, Above us only our cities

May 26, 2015

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Sheela Gowda

April 13, 2015

1. Taiping Tianguo: A History of Possible Encounters, 144 pages, paperback. 2. A Journal of the Plague Year, 196 pages, hardcover.*

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Two new major publications

March 4, 2015

In order of appearance: (1) Firenze Lai, “This is not yours.,” 2015. Oil on canvas. Courtesy the artist. (2) Zhang Peili, Last Words, 2003. Video. Courtesy the artist. (3) Friedrich Wilhelm Keyl, Looty, 1861. Oil on canvas. Courtesy Royal Collection Trust. © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2015/Bridgeman Images.

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Launches new space with A Hundred Years of Shame

October 20, 2014

Bhupen Khakhar, The celebration of Guru Jayanti, 1980. Oil on canvas. Courtesy of Gallery Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai.

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Eros

September 4, 2014

Wong Wai Yin, His Resting Place, 2006. Courtesy the artist.

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Kwan Sheung Chi

May 2, 2014

Irene Chou周綠雲, Impact with 3 holes,
circa 1980s. Chinese ink & colour on
paper. Courtesy of Hanart TZ Gallery.

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Ten Million Rooms of Yearning. Sex in Hong Kong

February 26, 2014

Sanja Iveković, The Right One: Pearls of Revolution, 2010. Series of 10 photographs, 30 x 30 cm.

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Golden Heights Estate

February 11, 2014

Alexandra Pirici and Manuel Pelmus, An Immaterial Retrospective of The Venice Biennale, 2013. Enactment of drawing depicting two tigers exhibited in the Japanese room at the 14th International Art Exhibition of the City of Venice, 1924. Performance view, 2013. Photo: Italo Rondinella. Courtesy la Biennale di Venezia.

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Is the Living Body the Last Thing Left Alive?

November 10, 2013

Minoru Hirata, Hi Red Center’s Dropping Event at Ikenobo Hall, Tokyo, October 10, 1964. Gelatin silver print. © Minoru Hirata, Courtesy of Taka Ishii Gallery.

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Great Crescent: Art and Agitation in the 1960s—Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan

September 19, 2013

BREAD Studio, The Floating Eternity, 2013. 3D model.

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The Floating Eternity Project

May 1, 2013

Lam Qua, Portrait no 48.Yang Kang, 1830–1850. Oil painting. Courtesy Yale University, Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library.

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A Journal of the Plague Year. Fear, ghosts, rebels. SARS, Leslie and the Hong Kong story

March 24, 2013

Erika Tan, Sensing Obscurity III: ‘After’ Chinoiserie, 2011. Still from single-channel HDV. A collaborative work with Neil Rose. Courtesy the artist.

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International Conference 2013, Hong Kong

March 4, 2013

Lü Yue, The Obscure, 1999–2006. Film still. Courtesy the artist.

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It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve

November 28, 2012

Sun Xun, Some Actions Which Haven’t Been Defined Yet in the Revolution, 2011. Video still.

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

September 12, 2012

Deimantas Narkevičius, The Role of a Lifetime, 2003. Video still.

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Deimantas Narkevičius. About Films

May 8, 2012

Martin Wong, “FDNY,” 1998. Acrylic on canvas.*

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Taiping Tianguo, A History of Possible Encounters

April 9, 2012

Handwritten fragment of Alfian bin Sa’at’s poem “Singapore You Are Not My Country.”

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rites, thoughts, notes, sparks, swings, strikes. a hong kong spring

December 12, 2011

Heman Chong, “Monument to the people we’ve conveniently forgotten (I hate you),” 2008.
One million business cards. Courtesy of Vitamin Creative Space, Motive Gallery and STPI.

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Two Thousand Eleven

June 24, 2011

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Appoints Cosmin Costinas

January 29, 2011

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Dan Perjovschi

December 23, 2010

Acconci Studio + Ai Weiwei: A Collaborative Project*

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seeks Executive Director/Curator

October 30, 2010

Zhang Dali, AK-47 (V.7).
Acrylic on Canvas, 102cm x 82cm.

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Fundraising Auction

May 9, 2010

Left: Acconci Studio (Vito Acconci, Adrien Allred)
PROJECT FOR A VOID OVER TRAIN-TRACKS (TANGIBLE AIR — WALKING THROUGH A VOLUME OF AIR)
The Gurtel, Vienna, 2009

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Acconci Studio and Ai Weiwei at Para/Site Art Space

April 24, 2010

Ai Weiwei
Beijing: The Second Ring, 2005
Video
January 14 – February 11, 2005
1 h 6 min

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In Sydney

December 1, 2009

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Joseph Kosuth and Tsang Kin-Wah

February 4, 2009

Cedric Maridet
Filipina Heterotopia
2008

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HK Sound Station

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