About this Event Abridge began with a series of interviews with migrants to Hong Kong from southern China, which led Wei Leng Tay to revisit a body of photographs she made while living and working in Hong Kong from 1999 to 2015. In this conversation, Australian-Hong Kong artist John Young AM joins Wei Leng to discuss how their practices confront history, memory, identity and displacement. John Young’s series 1967Dispersion (2008), based on the circumstances prompting the artist’s migration from Hong Kong to Australia in 1967, marked the first of Young’s History Projects (2007-2019), which have explored the imaging of historical trauma and transcultural solidarity as a form of ethical and social practice. For both artists, Hong Kong has been a site of personal experience yet also a catalyst for exploring such complex issues more globally, and from the present.
How Phunk pioneered a riotous clash of art and design in Singapore
New book Control Chaos looks back on 25 years of Phunk – the Singapore design collective that mashed creative disciplines together with its eye-popping work 14/01/2021 8:55 am
The monograph – named after a 2003 artwork – looks back on the early days of the studio, which was launched around the same time that the Apple Macintosh and software such as Adobe Illustrator were beginning to be widely used.
Phunk began life in 1994 as a streetwear label selling T-shirts covered with digitally illustrated imagery, but soon also made a name for themselves via their Guerrilla Fonts foundry. Later Phunk launched magazines and websites, landed work doing moving graphics for MTV, and other multimedia commissions for brands such as Levi’s and Casio – often mixing disparate styles and influences in joyous fashion.