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TSANG Tak-ping
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| Tsang Tak-ping has been creating design, installation, performance, photography, publication and art criticism in Hong Kong for over 15 years. Tsang is currently Associate Professor in the School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. In addition to teaching, Tsang exhibits widely including Gwangju Biennale and Venice Biennale.
His site-specific installations focusing on and incorporating the relics of Hong Kong's past have appeared in unexpected sites throughout the territory of Hong Kong, including the residential area of Kennedy Town, an abandoned schoolyard in Rennie's Mill (the Little Taiwan), the notoriously contaminated Shing Mun River and the historic district of Sheung Wan. He is the co-founder of Para/Site Art Space, an alternative space for the promotion of contemporary art through exhibition, publication, research and open forum. In 2002, Tsang established Habitus design space with friends to promote contemporary design. Since 1996, Tsang has curated exhibitions to explore issues concerning cultural identities and femininity in art. Since 1999 he uses a womanís name Chun Hau-ching to exhibit a series of feminine works to explore gender issue in art. |
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