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[Chinese version only] 「微語場場」是一個鼓勵創作人深度交流的平台，對談者會藉此機會深入討論作品、媒介、創作背後的思考脈絡、對彼此作品的看法等話題。一共五場對談，分別在6月20日、6月27日及7月5日舉行。你會來發掘藝術品背後隱而未見的東西嗎？ 參與創作人／藝術家：伍韶勁、張康生、周耀輝、蔡仞姿、劉清平、吳家俊、張景威、尹麗娟、林東鵬、俞若玫、黎子元、查映嵐 ----------------------------------------- 第一場： 主題：新媒體跟環境詩化對話的可能? 時間: 6月20日（周四）6:30pm-8pm 地點：九龍土瓜灣馬頭角道63號牛棚藝術村14號1a空間 對談藝術家：伍韶勁及張康生 主持: 張景威 回應：黎子元 ----------------------------------------- 第二場： 主題：藝術家再現的時間觀及文字在作品中的特殊意義 時間: 6月20日（周四） 8:15pm- 9:30pm 地點：九龍土瓜灣馬頭角道63號牛棚藝術村14號1a空間 對談藝術家：周耀輝及蔡仞姿 主持: 黎子元 回應：俞若玫

I THINK IT RAINS Burger Collection is pleased to announce the launch of a three-year exhibition and research project developed and realized with 1a space, an independent artist-run organization. The project represents a further installment of theQuadrilogy by Burger Collection. The project will open in May 2013 with the multi-disciplinary exhibition I Think It Rains at the heritage site of the Cattle Depot Artist Village in Hong Kong. It will feature some 20 artists and writers from Hong Kong and abroad. PROJECT DESCRIPTION I Think It Rains brings together artists, writers, and critics invited by Burger Collection and 1a space in a tentative of creating a cross-disciplinary collaborative model. The collaboration began to coalesce in November 2012 when the core-groups of 1a space and Burger Collection, consisting of the artists Enoch Cheung and Choi Yan-chi, curator Daniel Kurjaković and writer Cally Yu, embarked on more formal conversations. Early gatherings addressed the question of how to create a meaningful context of presentation, at this juncture in time, for diverse artistic approaches of a more experimental nature. The core-groups’ dialogs revolved around the issue of how to construct a platform allowing participants to progressively develop, re-examine, and transform their contributions. Plotted as a platform for sustainable activities, an overall time frame of three years was set. Within this frame, the project aims at developing one possible mode of collaboration, connecting a local and an international organization, which are both mindful of the cultural specificity of Hong Kong and of transnational currents of contemporary artistic practice. According to artist Choi Yan-chi, the project proposes to “set up parameters to activate loose teams of art practitioners for on-going dialogs and discussions about various models of cultural production.” In its first year of activities under the roof of Burger Collection’s Quadrilogy, the project will, according to curator Daniel Kurjaković, look at “how artists have developed succinct ways to question the relationships between history and histories, cognitive patterns and social behavior in the present and impulses for the future. Artists have been keen on underlining the artistic process by using various sorts of research that seamlessly link or interestingly contrast different temporal levels.” The first exhibition, I Think It Rains, will emphasize the multi-faceted practices of the participating artists and writers ranging from mixed-media work to installations, pseudo-writing, or radio-programs, and the like. I Think It Rains will take place on the premises of the Cattle Depot Artist Village, a heritage site located in the raw and unpolished environment of the old town center of Kowloon, providing a unique venue for alternative works to happen. It will consist of new and existing works by artists from Hong Kong and abroad, spreading out in the various spaces of the Cattle Depot as well as in the public area. Performances and multi-functional project rooms will supplement the exhibition. A full day of performances and happenings, both inside the Cattle Depot and in the adjacent urban area of Mong Kok, will enable visitors to experience the exhibition on the backdrop of various real-time events. The launch will also see the presentation of the first issue of the magazineTorrent (due out in April 2013), introduced by Burger Collection last year, and will include, amongst others, various artists’ contributions, and an in-depth conversation about art production in Hong Kong. The first phase of the project, unfolding from May to December 2013, will be rounded off with a second edition of the exhibition, which will start in autumn. Its major components will consist in artist residencies, panels and workshops, as well as the production of ephemera and a catalog documenting the yearlong productions. The title I Think It Rains is borrowed from the homonymic poem by Nigerian poet Wole Soyinka. Rather than circumscribing a topic or theme, the title points to some of the motifs of the project: a sense of physical actuality and sensuality, of details and multiplicity, of a continuous present, of a porous quality of space as well as of the relations between the imaginary and the material. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS (as of February 2013) Artists and Writers: Bani Abidi, Fiona Banner, Pierre Bismuth, Muhanned Cader, Filipa César, Alejandro Cesarco, Enoch Cheung, Pak Sheung Chuen, Choi Yan-chi, Ng Ka Chun, Chow Yiu Fai, Ryan Gander, Florian Germann, Gao Weigang, Jon Kessler, Kingsley Ng, Lam Tung Pang, Lau Ching Ping, Vittorio Santoro, Fiete Stolte, Annie Lai-kuen Wan, and Cally Yu. Core team members of Burger Collection and 1a space: Choi Yan-chi, Enoch Cheung, Linda Jensen, Daniel Kurjaković, and Cally Yu. A final list of participants and contributing artists exhibited will be published by April 2013. SAVE THE DATE Launch exhibition May 16: Opening of the exhibition I Think It Rains (May 17 – June 30, 2013) May 24: Performance Day Follow-up exhibition October 17: Opening of the second exhibition (October 18 – December 15, 2013) Details available upon request.The program will be updated on www.quadrilogy.org . SITE The Cattle Depot Artist Village, located in To Kwa Wan, Hong Kong, is the main site for the project and a fixture in the Hong Kong art world. Cattle Depot is a heritage site amidst the old town center of Kowloon. Since years, it houses various artist run organizations and cultural producers, such as Videotage, Zuni, Artist Commune, and On-and-On Theatre. 1a space has been on site since 2001. More here: www.oneaspace.org.hk QUADRILOGY The Hong Kong project, jointly conceived and realized by Burger Collection and 1a space, is the second installment of the Quadrilogy, the on-going exhibition and research program by the Burger Collection. It initially started in Berlin in 2009 with an exhibition and public programs entitledConflicting Tales. More here: www.quadrilogy.org and www.burgercollection.org PRESS ENQUIRIES can be addressed by email to info@oneaspace.org.hk

1a space is proud to present the solo exhibition of renowned local artist Annie Wan Lai-kuen. For Annie Wan, molding is not only an important process in her art but also a key concept. It stems from her sensitivity to everyday life and keen observation of mundane objects, which means that molding is her chosen method for examining and depicting reality. The copy mimics the appearance of the original. While it brings to mind the existence of the original object, it would never contain the substance of the latter. But it is precisely this gap between the copy and the original that leaves space for imagination and interpretation. Opening reception: 12th April, 2013 6:30pm Exhibition dates: 13th April – 5th May, 2013 Artist Sharing Session: 27th April, 2013 (Saturday) 3:00pm Venue : Unit 14, Cattle Depot Artist village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Wong Wai Yim , lives & works in Hong Kong & Paris. Master Degree of Art & Post Master in National Art School in France. In 2005, she came back to Hong Kong & is working between HK & Paris until now. Exhibited in Hong Kong, China, Europe, South Korea, etc. She works with many different media for her art: Video Art, Installation, Performance Art, Photography, Documentation film, Writing and Glass Art. After the previous art events: “A story for a story”, “Murmur”, Artist WONG Wai Yim would like to create a continuous project in the idea of exchanging stories. It is about the "sex toy story”. In conversation with friends in Hong Kong, artist found that many people never went to sex shop and never bought sex toy. Some of them don’t have idea to buy, or don’t know where to buy, or never masturbated. Artist wonders for this “hypothesis”. So, let’s share all those stories in a party and let’s re-acknowledge our body! Workshop 1: Sharing Party Date and Time: 22 March 2013, 7-10p.m. Number of Participant: Max. 25 persons (Men and Women. Participant must be aged 18 or above.) Venue: 1a space, Unit 14, Cattle Depot Artist village 63 Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong Invite participants to share their experience of sex toys: 1. Where to buy? How to choose? How to use? Why to use it? What’s the 1st time? How and why? 2. No experience in sex toy? Never use? Never use sex toys with partners? Never masturbate? How and why? They can bring their sex toys to tell their sex “toy story”. Workshop 2: Outing - Visit the sex shops in Hong Kong Date and Time: 28 March 2013, 7-8pm. Number of Participant: Max. 5 persons. (Men and Women. Participant must be aged 18 or above.) Share experience after the outing. Participants please kindly complete and return the authorization form on or before 19th March, 2013 (Monday) to anki@oneaspace.org.hk. The participants will be confirmed on a first-come-first-served basis. Please click here to download the authorization form. Walk-in registration will not be accepted. R.S.V.P. 1a space Unit 14, Cattle Depot Artist village 63 Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong Tel: 852-25290087 Website: www.oneaspace.org.hk Artist Website: http://www.presentinart.com/ Sex toys sponsorship: King Cyber Limited

While 1a space is known for our commitment to work with young and emerging artists, we also see the need to provide continuous support to mid-career artists as they often lack sustained exposure. 1a space therefore aims to provide a decent space and professional curatorial support to these artists who persevere in producing high-quality works. The upcoming solo exhibition of Hong Kong artist Chris Chan Kam-shing demonstrates our commitment to this belief. ‘Know Thyself’ suggests a possible way to see and interpret the world. Chan uses fragile and volatile materials to reveal the uncertainty and malleability of the physical world. In this way Chan constructs an unstable and dynamic field, in which one can embark on a journey of self-discovery and exploration. Opening reception: 15th March, 2013 (Friday), 7pm Artist sharing : 23rd March, 2013 (Saturday) Exhibition dates: 16th March – 7th April, 2013 Venue: Unit 14, Cattle Depot Artist village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong

'Critics as… and ​vice versa' hosted by wen yau, includes two sessions of guest talk. These sessions will explore how art criticism responds to the ever-changing ecology of the art world, as well as the impact that arises when art critics shift between different roles and positions. Register within Individual registration for these specific sessions is now open! Register within the promotion period to enjoy the flash offer*! If you wish to engage in exchanges with experienced art practitioners, remember to sign up before 14 January! ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿ 【Workshop 4】Critic as an Archivist/Documenter? Speaker｜Phoebe Wong Date｜17 January 2026 (Saturday) Time｜3:00pm–5:00pm Venue｜1a space (Unit 14, Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan) How does criticism function as a historical footnote by documenting and preserving contemporary art? 【Workshop 11】Critic as a Curator?｜Critique Before Exhibition: A Curatorial Conversation with Artists Speaker｜Chloe Chow @chloechowcls Date｜21 March 2026 (Saturday) Time｜3:00pm–5:00pm Venue｜WYNG Space (Sheung Wan) In the dual role of critic/curator, how do they navigate the intricate relationships within the art world? In this talk, Chloe Chow reflects on what it means to “critic as a curator” when critique is directed first and foremost towards artists rather than audiences. She will share how curatorial work can become an ongoing, conversational form of criticism embedded in the creative process, rather than a verdict on the final exhibition. The session will explore how dialogue, trust, and tension between curator and artist can open up new possibilities for making, reframing critique as a relational and generative practice. ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿ Language｜Cantonese Fee｜HK$380 per session (Flash offer*: HK$300 per session) Application deadline｜11am on Monday, 14 January 2026 How to apply | Complete the registration form ( https://forms.gle/oXZKybu3dAP8jJso9 ) *Flash offer available only during the specified period (today until 11:59 pm on 4 January 2026) For full programme details, see the website page .   Follow   @1a_artcritic and share with friends who interested in art, criticism, or writing.

Since the late 80s after martial law, Taiwan has focused on the development of its economy. Under the cultural policy, which encourages the art industry, collaboration with the private sector has become a trend. A proliferation of private foundations and museums has been founded to provide various platforms for the exchange and practice of art and discussion. These private initiatives function to fill the gap left by bureaucracy and scarce resources from the government, serving as a parallel force in cultivating the field. This talk will introduce the background and discuss how these private initiatives interact with the art infrastructure in Taiwan. The talk is co-presented by Asia Art Archive and 1a space. About the Speaker: Lai Hsiangling is an independent curator based in Taiwan. She received her Master’s degree in art history from the University of Kansas and studied at the Museum Studies Program at George Washington University. Formerly a curator at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, she has more than 20 years of experience in curatorial practice and management in Taiwan. In addition, she served as Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, Executive Director of the Dimension Endowment of Art, and Head of the Grant Department of the National Culture and Arts Foundation in Taiwan. She was also the Founding Director of Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai. In 2001, she was the recipient of a joint fellowship from the National Culture and Arts Foundation and the Fulbright Commission for travel and research in the US. Ms. Lai currently serves on the Boards of the Dimension Endowment of Art and the Spring Foundation in Taiwan. Date: 7th March, 2013 (Thursday) Time: 6:30-8pm Venue: A Space, 10/F, 233 Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong *The talk will be conducted in Mandarin.

1a space is currently undergoing renovation in an effort to adapt the interior for future programmes and development. The work will allow more effective use of space in exhibitions and events, as well as improve viewing experience. 1a space will re-open to the public in mid-March with an exhibition.

Taiwan-Hong Kong Curator Exchange Programme Official Partner 1a space Presents: A Talk by Wu Mali ‘Art as Social Engagement: Working in Community’ Date & Time: 19 January 2013 (Saturday), 3-5pm Venue: 1a space (Unit 14, Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan, Hong Kong) The talk is conducted in Mandarin and Cantonese. Background 1a space is proud to present a talk by renowned Taiwanese curator and multi-disciplinary artist Wu Mali, titled ‘Art as Social Engagement: Working in Community’ on 19th January. The talk is the first in a series of eventsdesigned for the inaugural ‘Taiwan-Hong Kong Curator Exchange Programme’ in 2012-13. The exchange programme is organized by the National Culture and Arts Foundation (NCAF) in Taiwan. Theme In recent years, there has been a number of attempts to bring art into communities in Hong Kong, while social engagement has become something of a hot topic in art. Wu Mali will explore the topic of community art in her talk based on her experience in organizing art projects for various Taiwanese local groups, and discuss the different facets of socially engaging art with the audience in Hong Kong. Contact local artists The exchange programme will culminate in an exhibition curated by Wu Mali on community art in Taiwan and Hong Kong. As preparation for the exhibition, she is keen to get in touch with community art practitioners in Hong Kong, in order to gain a better understanding of the current condition in which this type of art operates. Artists and all those who are interested in this kind of projects are welcome to contact her during her stay in Hong Kong. Wu Mali’s Bio Wu Mali is currently Assistant Professor and Head of Graduate Institute of Interdisciplinary Art in the National Kaohsiung Normal University. After graduating from the National Art Academy, Dusseldorf, Germany, Wu returned to Taiwan in 1985 and focused on creating critical artworks that respond to the political and social reality at the time. In recent years she has devoted much of her energy to organizing community art activities, with the aim of going beyond criticism and use creative thinking to push for real changes. Her community art projects include ‘Awakening from Your Skin’ (2000-2004), which encouraged local women to explore and reconsider their own bodies and minds through playing with textiles; ‘Tracing Danshui River’ (2006), ‘A Cultural Action on Tropic of Cancer’ (2006-7), and more recently ‘A Cultural Action on Plum Tree Creek’ (2011). Upcoming Events Celebrated local writer and critic Mr. Ma Kwok Ming will give a talk on 26th January (3-5pm) at 1a Space, where he will discuss art’s intervention in the public sphere from the perspective of Walter Benjamin’s seminal essay ‘The Author as Producer’. The in-depth discussion may inspire practitioners to think about community art from an unusual point of view. Ms. Lai Hsiang-ling, the director of Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Taipei, will give a talk on 7th March (time to be confirmed) in Hong Kong upon the invitation of 1a Space and Asia Art Archive. She will speak about the development of curating as a practice in Taiwan. The talk will take place at Asia Art Archive.

Do come to 1a space gallery to visit "Destination Berlin" exhibition if you haven't! Last day of the exhibition will be on 23 Dec 2012, there's only one week left, Don't miss it! 1a space gallery will close at 4pm for the Midwinter Festival on 21 Dec 2012. Thank you for your attention.

Due to special program arrangement, 1a space gallery will close at 2pm on Thursday, 29/11/2012. Normal opening hours will resume on Friday, 30/11/2012. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

DESTINATION BERLIN: the search of identity. In November 2009, when the city of Berlin was celebrating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a twist of the fate brought together six international artists: Jacqueline Kooter (Amsterdam), Shirley Wiebe (Canada), Susana López F. (Spain), Thea Jentjens (Amsterdam), Wai Kit Lam (Hong Kong), Wai Yi Lai (Hong Kong). 1a Space presents Destination Berlin, a group exhibition about the search for individual and collective identity through the work that was created during their shared art residency in the city of Berlin. We start a journey through their different views and we explore different art techniques from graphite to paint to multimedia art, and we travel to investigate the different faces and interpretations of identity. Jacqueline, Shirley, Susana, Thea, Kit and Yi investigate concepts such as communication and integration in a city where the unfamiliar language of German made them vulnerable. At the same time, these circumstances help them to go within in order to express and respond to new complexities. The concept of identity has been an ongoing discussion between artists and philosophers from the early centuries to the present. We define identity as “the state or fact of remaining the same one or ones under varying aspects or conditions”. This exhibition reveals six individual glances and expressions on the theme of identity, through a common platform: the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of the German city. The nomadic and fluctuating qualities that define contemporary life often require us to relocate to another city, a different country, with a new language and cultural background that are different from our own. Connections between environment, memory and identity form a continuous thread of questioning in Shirley´s work. Much of it is transient and migratory, reflecting our ability to move and relocate, to shift our lives into new settings. In Destination Berlin, Shirley exhibits two large-scale drawings, the first one created in Berlin, and second, upon returning to Vancouver. The works vividly reflect the experience of being immersed in a new environment and culture through fragmentary elements that appear to float and drift across a surface. Susana López F. shows in her work a reflection of many hours spent at airports waiting for flights. She explores how airports are places where identity is scrutinized and we become anonymous, but at the same time is the centre of contemporary culture. In Destination Berlin, Susana show us Letzter Aufruf. This project is a convergence of both topics from the show: Identity and the reunification of Berlin. In November 2011, Susana travelled to Berlin to give graphic testimony of two airports: Tegel and Schönefeld, which are still memory of that Wall that some day ago divided the city and also the whole world into two: West and East. And perhaps Identity, that we consider so valuable nowadays, was something people from East Berlin wanted to lose in order to have an anonymous life that let them be free. Jacqueline Kooter reflects on the lack of freedom to move around using three videos: “Walled in”, “Blocked off” and “Trapped in the city”. These videos are based on her stay in Berlin during the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 2009. Thea, shows us a series of drawings mostly with architectural elements, a reflection of her long walking tours in the formerly divided city. A reflection about how absurd history can be in a city where most of the official buildings are duplicated because of its old leaders´ search of identity. As a result of her constant international trips Wai Kit Lam thinks about who She is very often. she feels as Chinese when she is abroad and when she comes home she feels closer to Western culture than Chinese Traditions. During her stay in Berlin in 2009, Wai Kit continues to examinate her identity in this foreign city through a language she does not speak and is not able to understand. We are going to conclude with Wai Yi Lai´s work. She is a Chinese artist, which work is about the relationship between the environment and people. She looks for her identity through the sorrounding environment, but for her sorrounding environment refers to the correlation between humans and the entities embracing us. In Destination Berlin she shows us a tribute to Mr. and Mrs. Gu . . . and all who have lost their home in China. Curator Susana Lopez Fernandez Participating artists Jacqueline Kooter (Amsterdam) Shirley Wiebe (Canada) Susana López F. (Spain) Thea Jentjens (Amsterdam) Wai Kit Lam (Hong Kong) Wai Yi Lai (Hong Kong) Opening Cocktail Reception Date: 21September 2012 (Friday) Time: 7:00pm Artist Talk Date: 22September 2012 (Saturday) Time: 2:30 - 4:00pm Exhibition Period Date: 21 September to 23 December 2012 Time: 11:00am -7:00pm (Tuesday-Sunday) 1a Space Unit 14, Cattle Depot Artist village 63 Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong Tel: 852-25290087, Email: info@oneaspace.org.hk Fax:852-25290072, Website: www.oneaspace.org.hk Artist Dossier: http://issuu.com/susanalopezfernandez/docs/destinationberlin To Know More: http://destinationberlin2012.blogspot.com.es/