ARCHIVE

[under construction]

2009

Nonspace screening @ Asian Cultural Council, New York
Nonspace screening @ Urban Nomad Film Festival, Taipei
Seth Cluett, Benedict Drew, Rhodri Davies @ Cafe Oto, London

2008

DEC 7/8/9: NØNSPACE: preview exhibition
OCT 1: NOTCH HK
JULY 26/27: FOLKTALES FROM MANY LAND : exhibition
MAY 30: SHANSHUI RECORDS CHINA TOUR
APR 25: ANIMA FEMININE UNDERGROUND
APR 13: FOLKTALES FROM MANY LANDS : journey
APR 11: KAPITAL BAND 1
JAN 25: RUNAR MAGNUSSON & DICKSON DEE

2007

AUG-DEC : CATARACTNIGHTOFNEWNOISE @ various locations
NOV : SOUNDFROMTAIWANEVENT @ KLUUBB
OCT : LO<>NOTECHEXHIBITION @ Videotage
MAY : NOUFAUX RICHEVIDEOARTEVENT @ Baby Bar
FEB : SERIPOP DIY OR DIE EXHIBITION @ KAPOK

2006

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UPCOMING

LAUNCHING SOON..
SOUND IN CONTEXT: Perspectives on Sound in the Art Milieu

Sound in Context is a short 4-part web documentary exploring the unique practice of sound within the visually dominated art world. Through interviews with a number of art institutions/galleries, artists and curators in the UK, Sound in Context navigates some of the issues of exhibiting sound in the gallery and contemporary art world.

Featuring interviews with: Seth Cluett (artist), Benedict Drew (artist), Barry Esson (director, Arika), Anne Hilde Neset (deputy editor, the Wire), Hans Ulrich Obrist (co-director, Serpentine Gallery), Mike Stubbs (director, FACT Liverpool), David Toop (writer/curator), Richard Whitelaw (programme director, Sonic Arts Network)

SUMMER 2009
THE END OF SOMETHING..

The End of Something is a critical archival project that aims to bring together collections of personal and creative reflections, stories and experiences on the global crisis. During Summer 2009, LOUDSPKR in collaboration with Volume will work to gather local level articulations, opinions and responses. Located in the former ‘archive room’ of a police station, Volume will become once again a bureau and repository for information. Interviews, articles/texts, images, videos will be collected through an on-going process of accumulation, which will be available in the space and online in a digital archive.

As an ‘open archive’, visitors of the space are invited to ‘dig in’, excavate and explore as well as contribute their own reflections and input. Open to varied contributions and perspectives, the archive invites visitors to produce their own arrangements and understandings of a rather complex time. As a provisional space, the archive is perpetually incomplete and flawed. It however, offers a space for dialogue, and the fostering of a common understanding of the changes. The End of Something encourages critical reflection on the past for a collective understanding of the present to approach ideas of new possibile futures.

July / August 2009 (details TBA)
theendofsomething.wordpress.com

A collaboration w/ Volume
www.volumeprojects.com

FOLKTALES FROM MANY LANDS | Publication

Following the journey + exhibition .. there comes the book. Retelling the story of an artistic journey around Hong Kong.

FOLKTALES FROM MANY LANDS is a project of art creation and exhibition that encourages imagination and exploration in a city that never seems to stop, think and ponder beyond. It seeks to incite magic in the everyday and encourages the sharing of stories, experiences and memory. Folktales embraces elements of fantasy vs reality, nature vs city, drifting and traveling, collective experience and memory, and injecting deflated territorial spaces with alter meaning and histories. FFML is a project that disrupts lines of narrative and transgresses concepts of artistic production and practice.

coming.. www.folktellers.tk

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ABOUT

LOUDSPKR is a test-grounds and platform for experimental music/sound, media art, film/video, performance and multi-disciplinary arts. Through events, exhibitions, and artistic and curatorial projects, LOUDSPKR explores possibilities within collaboration, cultural production and critical arts practice.

Started in 2006, LOUDSPKR has produced events/exhibitions and projects in Canada, Hong Kong and London UK, engaging artists from Canada, US, UK, France, Germany, Taiwan, Japan, Australia, Iceland and Austria.

> Promoting experimentation, collaboration and play
> Exploring the ephemeral and temporal moments of community and shared experience
> Navigating between cultural industries of contemporary art, music/sound, film/video,and publishing
> Facilitating artistic projects within a stratified social/cultural and political domain
> Negotiating across geo-territories and intervening within diverse technological and transnational spaces


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LOUDSPKR is founded by cultural facilitator Ashley L. Wong. Born and raised in Canada, she earned a degree in Digital Image/Sound and the Fine Arts from Concordia University in Montreal. She has lived and worked in Hong Kong where she was former project manager of Videotage - Media Art Institution. She is completing an MA in Culture Industry at Goldsmiths' University of London. Her work has been presented in Toronto, Montreal, Hong Kong, Taipei, New York and London.

contact: ashley(a)loudspkr.org

 


 

 

 

 

LINKS

PEOPLE

RHODRI DAVIES
SETH CLUETT
BENDICT DREW
DAWN SCARFE

BEATRIX PANG
SAMANTHA CULP
ROBIN FOX
HUI-SHENG CHANG

DISCRIMINATING GENTALMEN'S CLUB

SERIPOP
MONSTRE
DISHWASHER
VIENNAPITTS
FYNAL GLAYSE

LUCKY DRAGONS
WIND-UP BIRD
WYRD VISIONS
NOCARSGO

ORGANIZATIONS

UK

VOLUME PROJECTS

SOUND AND MUSIC
CAFE OTO
SOUND PRACTICE RESEARCH
CCS GOLDSMITHS

HK

WHITENOISE RECORDS

KLUUBB
SOUNDPOCKET
ACO
URBAN NOMAD (TW)
MAPOFFICE
VIDEOTAGE
PARA/SITE ARTSPACE
KAPOK
IDN
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PROJECTS

[under construction]

THE END OF SOMETHING.. / 2009

SOUND IN CONTEXT / 2009

NØNSPACE / 2009

FOLKTALES FROM MANY LANDS / 2008

NOUFAUX RICHE / 2007


PAST ACTIVITIES

LOUDSPKR has produced, curated and supported numerous events, and artistic and curatorial projects in Canada, Hong Kong and London. LOUDSPKR works across genre engaging experimental music, media art, contemporary art, and video/film. LOUDSPKR mediates between roles of artist, curator, producer, facilitator and general consultant within art and creative communities.

Exhibitions / Events Curated

2009 The End of Something, Volume, London
2008 Folktales From Many Lands | exhibition, KLUUBB, Hong Kong
2008 Folktales From Many Lands | journey, 1a Space, Hong Kong
2007 Lo<->No Tech exhibition, for October Contemporary, Hong Kong
co-curated w/ Vanessa McRae (Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane)
2007 Noufaux Riche – video art event, Baby Bar, Hong Kong
2007 Seripop: Poster Art Extraordinaire, Kapok, Hong Kong
2006 Indian Summer, Blizzarts, Montreal

Events (produced and assisted)

2009 Seth Cluett, Benedict Drew + others, Café Oto, London
2008 NOTCH Festival, Hi-Tech, Hong Kong
2008 10, Videotage, Hong Kong
2008 Shanshui China Tour, Videotage, Hong Kong
2008 Kapital Band 1, Videotage, Hong Kong
2008 Anima: The Feminine Underground, Videotage, Hong Kong
2008 Runar Magnusson and Dickson Dee, Videotage, Hong Kong
2007 Sound from Taiwan, KLUUBB, Hong Kong
2007 Cataract monthly night of new noise (5-months), various venues,
Hong Kong
2006 Sand Festival, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong
2006 Lucky Dragons + Windup Bird mini-tour, Toronto and Montreal

Video/Film Works (directed and produced)

2009 Sound in Context: Perspectives on Sound in the Art Milieu, Documentary on Sonic Arts within the Contemporary Art World in London and the UK, 30min
2009 Nønspace, two-channel installation/filmic artwork on the notion of
'space' in Hong Kong, 23min

Screenings

2009 Nønspace screening, Asian Cultural Council, New York
2009 Nønspace screening at Urban Nomad Film Festival, Taipei
2008 Nønspace preview exhibition, Goldsmiths', London

Film Festivals

2008 Urban Nomad Film Festival, various venues, Hong Kong, producer
2007 Sonatrope Film Festival, KLUUBB, Hong Kong, consultant