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09

Mar
2023
Call for Exhibitors for “Harmony in Diversity – Connecting the Metropolis by In-Betweens” Architecture Exhibition 2023, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia & Nanjing, China
Overseas

Call for

EXHIBITors

“Harmony in Diversity – 

Connecting the Metropolis by In-Betweens” Architecture Exhibition 2023,

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia & Nanjing, China 


 

Organized by The Hong Kong Institute of Architects Biennale Foundation Company Limited (“HKIABF”) and partnered with The Hong Kong Institute of Architects ("HKIA"), the HKIA Roving Architecture Exhibition would be showcased in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Nanjing, China (tentatively scheduled for July and Oct 2023 respectively), with a response exhibition in Hong Kong (tentatively in the first quarter of 2024).  The HKIABF invites interested Members to submit proposal by way of application for the “Harmony in Diversity – Connecting the Metropolis by In-Betweens” and thereof participate as Exhibitors.

 

Curatorial Statement

Over the last 25 years, the advancement of Hong Kong has been continuously supported by infrastructural expansion through innovations at the scale of ‘territorial, architectural and spatial’, as advocated in the theme of ‘HKIABF Venice Biennale 2023’. The resultant utopian-type of development model celebrates density, transience and transition, with one grand objective achieved- to get space and time connected.

 

The development model, on the other hand, has revealed connections at different scales to emerge. The ‘in-between’ conditions that exist between layers, scales and time, could be distinguished by the notion of authority (e.g. private/ public, top-down/ bottom-up initiatives), duality (nature/ man-made, love and hate, etc), physical construct (e.g. interventions at different sizes/ layers/ scales) or psychological interpretation (e.g. subjectivity/ objectivity, sensational/ functional). They facilitate spontaneous interactions and linkages, both physically and spiritually, that stitch space, time and people up and assemble fragments in the city.

 

The exhibition invites Members’ imagination and interpretation of ‘in-betweens’ in Hong Kong, and create exhibits for public exhibitions in Kuala Lumpur, Nanjing and Hong Kong. The exhibition also invites experts from the three cities to response to the topic in open forums to narrate an alternative realm to understand and project infrastructural expansion in these metropolises.

 

It is with a faith of extreme positivism that such perpetual flight of internal expansions is conceived wherein social bonds are created and cultures are bred.

 

 

ELIGIBILITY AND FORMAT OF EXHIBITS

Exhibitors can submit the proposal as individual or team. For the former, he/ she must be a HKIA Member*; for the latter, at least one member of the team must be a HKIA Member*;

 

*“Member” includes Fellow, Full Member, Associate Member, Affiliated Member, Graduate Member and Student Member.

 

Each Member, may he/ she be submitting the proposal as an individual or team, can submit one proposal only;

 

In case of team work, team members’ names of the corresponding exhibit should be appropriately indicated;

 

The proposed exhibit(s) could be representations by means of panels, models, artwork, video, etc.

 

 

SUBMISSION OF PROPOSAL

Exhibitors’ Proposals shall reach HKIA Secretariat by email with the subject name “Call for Exhibitor for the KL-NJ Exhibitions” to kentsang@hkia.org.hk on or before: 5:00pm 23 March 2023 (Hong Kong Time) (“Deadline”). HKIABF does not accept any supplementary information of the Proposal (except upon request by HKIABF) submitted after the submission deadline. Late submissions will not be considered.

 

The Proposal (PDF consisting maximum 8 slides, all in A3 landscape format) should be presented in English and includes the following:

  • Exhibition title and Exhibition statement (300 words max.)
  • Personal info/ Contact / Curriculum vitae of the Exhibitors (Table form)
  • Images of the Exhibits with captions, photography credit and copyright forms (300dpi)
  • Outline Budget (for reference only) (Table form)

 

For details of the brief, please click HERE.

 

 

REGISTRATION FOR CALL FOR EXHIBITOR BRIEFING SESSION

A briefing session for potential applicants will be held on 9 March 2023 at 7:00pm at HKIA Premises, 19/F, One Hysan Avenue, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong or on Zoom. Please email name(s) and contact number(s) and email address(es) with an email subject 'Registration for KL-NJ Call for Exhibitors Briefing Session' to kentsang@hkia.org.hk should you be interested in attending.

For general administrative enquiries, please contact:
HKIA Secretariat Ms. Elisa CHAN / Mr. Ken TSANG
Tel: 3155 0405 or 2511 6323

 

Organizer
The Hong Kong Institute of Architects Biennale Foundation
 

Partner
The Hong Kong Institute of Architects

 

Lead Sponsor
Create Hong Kong of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

 

 

Curatorial Team

Professor Paul CHU

Jacky CHEUNG

Kan CHAN

 

 

 

Disclaimer: Create Hong Kong of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project only, and does not otherwise take part in the project. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in these materials/events (or by members of the project team) are those of the project organisers only and do not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau, Create Hong Kong, the CreateSmart Initiative Secretariat or the CreateSmart Initiative Vetting Committee.

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