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vA! is a hub for sharing of knowledge. In this series of talk, we invite local veteran artists and scholars to stimulate your thoughts on certain topics and pursue the profound knowledge of the art world together.
【Art Talk】
Topic: Everyday Art on Air
Speaker: Amber AU
Date: 20.7.2024 (Saturday)
Time: 5pm — 6pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre, 4/F, Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre (vA!)
Language: Cantonese
Free admission
Quota: 70 (Quotas tags will be distributed on-site starting from 4:30 pm, first come, first served)
The talk will be broadcasted online on the Facebook page (click here) of vA!.
For those who are into arts and culture, even if they don't tune into the radio, they would have known the multi-talented radio DJ Amber AU through her curated exhibitions, books, etc. Amber AU has been hosting the radio programme Zine since 2013. Like a lifestyle magazine, it covers various topics, including food culture, movies, music, design, visual arts and reading. She has interviewed artists of different backgrounds every week to discover the details behind their art practices. It was also in 2013 that she completed her Master of Arts in Fine Arts in her spare time and started to participate in and organise various arts activities actively. Last summer, she brought together artists she had interviewed in recent years to organise an exhibition encompassing different media with Hong Kong as its theme. One may have thought she turned to arts during her postgraduate studies in Fine Arts. Still, the seed of her interest in arts was sown earlier when she minored in Fine Arts in her undergraduate studies. In this talk, she will begin with her first encounter with arts when she was minoring in Fine Arts and share with us how she gradually put her passion for arts to work in her career as a radio DJ, bringing to the audience arts and culture, which are highly dependent on visual communication, through a uniquely auditory media. She will also recount her works beyond the radio, calling our attention to all the simple but beautiful things she cherishes through various media such as the Internet, exhibitions, summer camps and publications.
Amber AU graduated from the School of Journalism and Communication of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and received her Master of Arts Degree from the Fine Arts Department of CUHK in 2013. She is currently the Programme Host/DJ of Commercial Radio 2, where she hosts two art and cultural programmes, Urban Touch and Zine. She also participated in Hong Kong International Photo Festival – "300 Families Photography Exhibition" (2013), Hong Kong Book Art Festival (2015), Sham Shui Po Pang Zai Art Exhibition (2015) and Poetics of Dwelling (2016). She was also the curator of the exhibitions “Northeastern New Territories: Our Land Roving Exhibition” (2014) and “THIS THIS”(2023) . Books she has written include Hey, Learners!, Urban Touch 30 Stories, Stories of Our North-eastern New Territories and Twinkle Twinkle Little Guys Diary.
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