2³ or Not 2³: East Kowloon is on Minecraft

Kyle Chung

Curator

Chung is a Hong Kong-based curator and researcher whose recent exhibitions explore the dynamics between technologies, materiality and human agency. Selected exhibitions include Ellen Pau: Time After Time Will Tell at 1961, Singapore; #YOU #ME #ourSELFIES at Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre; One World Exposition 2.1: #like4like at chi K11 art space, Hong Kong; Carla Chan: To Outland at SMAC, Berlin, Germany; Conjunctions and Disjunctions: International Symposium on Electronic Art 2016, Hong Kong; Bright Shadow at The Morgue, London, UK. Currently Chung works as an independent curator; lecturer at School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong; and Curator at Videotage, Hong Kong.

Kyle Chung

Enoch Cheng

Multimedia Artist

An independent artist and curator whose practice spans moving image, installation, curating, dance, events, theatre, writing, and performance. Concerned with the everyday subtleties of contemporary urban lives, Cheng’s works explore recurrent themes of place, travel, fiction, memory, time, migration and extinction.

Cheng received his MA in Creative Writing from Goldsmiths, University of London, and BA in English Literature and Art History from the University of Hong Kong. He was a recipient of Hong Kong Arts Development Council’s Young Artist Award; a grantee of Asian Cultural Council Altius Fellowship; Laureate, Institut Francais, Paris, France; and artist fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany (2017–18). He was artist-in-residence at American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA (2020); Stiftung Insel Hombroich, Neuss, Germany, (2019); Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France (2018–19); and POGON – Zagreb Center for Independent Culture and Youth, Croatia (2018). 

His solo exhibitions and performances include: Unseen Seen, Morphing, Influenzers, Shuffle, Bon Voyage, Ask the Ark and Homesick.

Enoch Cheng

Lau Wai

Multimedia Artist

A Hong Kong-born, New York-based multimedia artist utilising photography, video, object and installation to explore the multilateral constructions of identities. Lau attempts to investigate how history, fiction, personal memory and virtuality collide in the process of identity formations. Her research and material sources range from personal and historical archives to cinematic imagery, popular culture and digital media. She received her BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London, and MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University, New York.

Her works are collected by M+ Museum (Hong Kong, China), The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (USA), and Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung Foundation (Germany), among others; and exhibited in Europe, Asia, and the USA, including Kunstmuseum Brandts, Power Station of Art, Para Site Art Space, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Kuandu Biennale, Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Yokohama Triennale.

Lau Wai