What is jazz to you? In the winter of 2021, four secondary schools participated in West Kowloon’s four-month educational programme “Jazz Inside Out” with the aim of appreciating the diversity of jazz beyond conventional music learning. Led by rising musicians Bowen Li and Daniel Chu, students explored basic jazz concepts and techniques through music appreciation classes and performance critique. With hands-on improvisation, students experienced the unique flexibility of the genre.

In this video, participating students and mentors share their experience of learning and co-creating unforgettable performances.

 

Participating Schools:
Pope Paul VI College
Salesian English School
NLSI Lui Kwok Pat Fong College
SKH Li Fook Hing Secondary School

“What makes Hong Kong visual culture unique? Its towering skyscrapers, dense neighbourhoods, traditional artforms, glittering movie stars and pop idols?”

Over the past sixty years, Hong Kong has been a vibrant meeting place of people, ideas, and cultures. Hong Kong: Here and Beyond—one of M+’s inaugural exhibitions—reflects on the city’s historically open and dynamic visual culture, responses to singular challenges, and visions for the future.

Join Tina Pang (Curator, Hong Kong Visual Culture), Shirley Surya (Curator, Design and Architecture), and Chanel Kong (Associate Curator, Moving Image) as they lead a virtual tour of the exhibition’s four chapters: Here, Identities, Places, and Beyond. Along the way, uncover how artists, designers, architects, and filmmakers have defined the city’s global image from the post-war decades to present.

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Video Transcript : Inside ‘Hong Kong: Here and Beyond’

“When people start paying attention to real individuals and real emotions, art begins to change. This marked another start of modernism for all of China.”
Pi Li


Following the upheavals of the Cultural Revolution, China's open-door policy of 1978 ignited an era of profound social and economic change. Cities across the country grew into global commercial centres, and many artists sought to stage their own exhibitions, experiment with unconventional styles and mediums, and engage in international conversations about art.

M+ Sigg Collection: From Revolution to Globalisation surveys this cultural dynamism, capturing the bold generation of artists who defined the contemporary Chinese experience and examining how international audiences have come to understand Chinese art today.

Join Pi Li (Sigg Senior Curator and Head of Curatorial Affairs), Wu Mo (De Ying Associate Curator, Visual Art), and Isabella Tam (Associate Curator, Visual Art) as they lead a virtual tour of the exhibition, reflecting along the way on some of its major trends: underground art, ’85 New Wave, cynical realism, political pop, and urbanisation in visual culture.

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Video Transcript : Inside ‘M+ Sigg Collection: From Revolution to Globalisation’

Come explore M+, Hong Kong’s new museum of contemporary visual culture. We are delighted to share this tour of the opening exhibitions and the many sprawling spaces of the museum’s Herzog & de Meuron-designed building. Join Suhanya Raffel (Museum Director) and Doryun Chong (Deputy Director, Curatorial and Chief Curator) as they walk through the galleries, halls, and moving image venues, introducing along the way some of the iconic works and new commissions to be found inside.

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Video Transcript : Inside M+