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Attention Arts and Features Editors

Osage Kwun Tong
5/F, Kian Dai Industrial Building
73-75 Hung To RoadKwun Tong, Kowloon,Hong Kong
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9 August 2012
For immediate release

Market Forces: Response – Summer Pop-up Art Market
Date: 18.08.2012 & 19.08.2012
Time: 5-10 pm
Venue: Osage Kwun Tong
Address: 5/F, Kian Dai Industrial Building, 73-75 Hung To Road, Kwun Tong,Kowloon, Hong Kong
Summer Pop-up Art Market at Osage Kwun Tong marks the closing of the exhibition 'Market
Force: Whither Contemporary Art?', a Sigma Project presented by the Osage ArtFoundation.
The two-evening night-market is a response to the exhibition and will happen within theexhibition space of ‘Market Force: Whither Contemporary Art?'. The night market combines
examinations of the cultural institutions and their typical relations in the society, forms oforganisation and self organization, and ruminations on the mechanics and operation of theeconomic cycle of production, distribution, consumption and exchange.
We have invited art students, graduates and young artists to participate in the art market.
There will be thirty pop-up booths and participating artists can freely define, experiment,exchange, trade, perform, giveaway and communicate with the audiences. The price of each
artwork has to be below HK$3,000 but all participants have the freedom to express theirideas as well as to decide on the most suitable strategy to run the booth.
These booths are situated in the exhibition space of ‘Market Force: Whither Contemporary
Art?', alongside with the artworks by the 13 artists from Hong Kong, Japan, Indonesia and thePhilippines.
Participants have raised many questions in their proposals – What is the value of art? Can
we quantify the value of an artist? Has the so-called authoritative recommendation orauthorization certificate in the art world affected our personal judgment of art? Some argues
that the core value of art is to help us find a way of seeing the truth while others satirize theelitism exists in the art market and the ecology of local art scene.

Apart from the direct responses to the exhibition, the night market will also feature ten special
stalls which will bring performance, music and food to create a playful atmosphere. Hong
Kong artists, including Wilson Shieh, Kacey Wong, Hanison, Lau Hok Shing, will transformthemselves into characters such as fortune teller, hawker and craftsman to address political,
social and environmental issues through the medium of art and interactions with visitors.
Each booth is a mini, ephemeral, temporary and opened space for creativity. The market
provides an opportunity for interactions and a face-to-face experience for participants andvisitors. It is a market-within-a-market and an exhibition-within-an-exhibition! Don't miss yourchance for the fun-filled experience at Osage Kwun Tong!

ABOUT MARKET FORCES: RESPONSE – SUMMER POP-UP ART MARKET

Summer Pop-up Art Market Booths

Participant(s)Dirty Paper’s Art RoomYau Kwok Keung, Chan Wai Lap

Found and Lost

Ho Lok Chung

The Imbalance Ouroboros

Rik Yu, Wing Kei

Cosmetics Artist Presents: Artist’s Cosmetic
ArtSolomon Yu

I paint therefore you play-act

Christy Tam, Lee Tat

Local Mold

Cassandra Lau, Po YanLau Yin Kan

Lau Yin Kan

Luxury sea views showroom

Yiu Miu LaiUndefined Functional Objects

Cheung Wai Lok, Chow Siumou, Lam Lui Kong,
Lee Suet Ying, Yiu Kwan HoDreams

Horus LiEmotion Icon

Li Hong Ping, Wong Ngan Tung

Happiness Kee

Leung Po Yu

Pandora Cube

Poon Kan Chi

Flowing Data

So Wing Po

O! Cert!

Thomas Yuen, Wing Yin

A Form of Poetry

Lai Ming Chu, Wong Sze Mei

Selling Arts

Chiu Tsz Ting

One Booth Four Units

Chan Chi Hau, Chung Yan Wing, Chow Hoi Lam, Yau Ngai Lam

Heart Flower Angry Open

Chan Oi Yan, Chan Oi Ying

Variation

Bobby Chan

Flying Machine

Chan Suet YiUseless and Valuable

Fung Ka Fai

The Insiders’ Game

Leo Wong, Alice Lau, Brit Li

What Makes You Qualified

Wong Kwan Ho

Special Programmes

Transformer BarA juice bar filled with adjustable planters growing wheat grass, artist Kacey Wong will prepare healthy drink byblending wheat grass juice and green apple for the public to enjoy.

Wilson Shieh Studio
Artist Wilson Shieh will give away his limited edition poster for free.

Lucky Draw Funny Draw
Artist Hanison, Lau Hok Shing will exhibit his handmade stall that features lucky draw. The prizes include smallwooden sculpture and other 100 art prizes.

Share Your Heart
Designer Chan Ka Hing created a lightweight stall with PVC pipes and nylon fabric which provides a resting areafor visitors to sit down and chat.

Mobile Photography Studio
Artist Chan Ching Man re-created a 1960s’ photo studio where he will make photos of the visitors.

Stall Stores Stalls X Market Forces
Designer Alex Tang, Ho Pan, Chan Wing Yi will show the visitors the model of local stalls cultures and its
ecology through paper folding workshop.

Suitman
Artist Suitman, Young Kim will be the DJ of the event.

Fanzines
Designer Michael Leung, together with artist Glenn Eugen Ellingsen and archivist Mattew Edmondson, will beexhibiting, swapping and selling some fanzines related to their projects and parts of Kwun Tong that theywould like to share with the public.

Easy Extraction
Designer Simon Wong and Jessica Yau created a stall by using the Roll Up Stand Banner which explores thecity’s space and survival strategy of the hawkers.

Easy Extraction – Mobile Art
Designer Beni Li, Kwong Yuen and Wong Wai Fu using the Roll Up Stand Banner to exhibit the stalls value andexperience the trading process between hawkers and citizens.

Compressive Organic Stall
Sum Wing Man, Vangi Fong and Kiki Ho will prepare delicious Vegetarian food onsite for visitors topurchase.

Lawnmap
Lawnmap will offer limited edition souvenirs for visitors to purchase.

Artist and artworks of Market Forces: Whither Contemporary Art?

Something About you, Here and Now
Au Hoi Lam

CY Leung, “June 4 Incident for sure was a tragedy for Chinese”
Chow Chun Fai

Original Faces
David Clarke

Kluedo for Artist
Ho Sin Tung

Transformer BarKacey Wong

“My work is rubbish”
Kentaro Hiroki

Currencies
Leung Mee-ping

Vending Machine / Pay Phone
Luke ChingOIKOS – Reflections on ecologies
Map Office

Without With
Poklong Anading

In ZEN/ INFINITE PROSPECT
anothermountainman

The Most International Artist in the Universe 2011
Tintin Wulia

Workshop of China Trade Painting
Wilson ShiehPress images:

Lucky Draw Funny Draw
Hanison, Lau Hok ShingFanzines
Michael Leung, Glenn Eugen Ellingsen, Mattew Edmondson

Luxury sea views showroom
Yiu Miu Lai
2010
Photography
12.7cm x 17.78 cm

Wilson Shieh Studio
Wilson ShiehABOUT OSAGE ART FOUNDATIONThe Osage Art Foundation (OAF), established in 2004, works in the areas of culturalexchange, educational outreach and the building of knowledge. And since 2005, OAF has
been promoting cross cultural understanding through art exhibitions between Hong Kong,China, Japan, Singapore, the Philippines, Myanmar and Thailand. OAF exhibitions develop
from substantial research, aim to make strong statements about significant as well asemerging artists, and to provide regional platforms for innovative curatorial perspectives.
While the arts from Asia have become increasingly visible both within this part of the world,and globally, OAF recognises that more needs to be done to develop the culturalconversations happening within Asia. Even today, the exchanges between artists in Asia aretoo often mediated by global centres in Europe and North America.
Osage Art Foundation is part of the Osage Group encompassing the Osage Gallery, OsageArt Consultancy and Osage Design.
Please visit www.oaf.cc for more information.

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