CAST OUT LOUD : Jaffa Lam
Date And Time
Wed, 18 November 2020
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM HKT
Location
Online Event
Presented by Contemporary Art and Social Transformation Research Group and Hong Kong Arts Centre and RMIT University
About this Event
Join us for an exciting presentation of Jaffa Lam's artistic practice. With introductions from Dr Tammy Wong Hulbert, Lecturer, Masters of Arts (Arts Management) specialising in curating at RMIT University and moderated by Dr Drew Pettifer, Program Lead of the Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) in Hong Kong, this event will see Jaffa will focus on three key projects including SINGING UNDER THE MOON FOR TODAY AND TOMORROW (pictured). We invite participants to engage with Jaffa and their presentation in the Q+A, scheduled for the latter half of the event.
ABOUT Jaffa Lam:
Lam Laam, Jaffa received her BFA, MFA and Postgraduate Diploma in Education at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is now the Academic Head at the Hong Kong Art School and is also a senior lecturer and Sculpture Subject Coordinator, as well as the Project director of Jockey Club ICH (Intangible Cultural Heritage)+ Innovative Heritage Education Program.
She is a sculptor specializing in large-scale site-specific works of mixed-media sculptures and installations, which are primarily made with recycled materials such as crate wood, old furniture and umbrella fabric. In recent years, she has been involved in many public art and community projects in Hong Kong and overseas. Her works often explore issues related to local culture, history, society and current affairs.
Apart from solo exhibitions, Lam has been invited to take part in many local and international exhibitions, as well as artist residency programmes in Kenya, Taiwan, Bangladesh, China, United States and Canada, etc. In 2006, she was awarded the Asian Cultural Council’s Desiree and Hans Michael Jebsen Fellowship.
In 2009, she started a community project in Hong Kong titled “Micro Economy”. At the invitation of Hong Kong Arts Centre Jaffa staged the exhibiton: Jaffa Lam Laam Collaborative: Weaver, to highlight this project which was also shown in Japan’s Setouchi Triennale 2013 representing Hong Kong.
Image courtesy of Jaffa Lam.