FINALE & FUTURE
FINALE & FUTURE
FINALE AND FUTURE Fund Raising
Artist Discovery Experiments had launched many careers, Rachel Mason in New York and Nadim Abbas in Hong Kong had their first major shows with the financial support from Experimenta. More importantly it was Experimenta that helped them to form the idea for their shows. Kate March started her now international career in art performance in Experimenta; she had only arrived in Hong Kong for a few months when she walked in our doors. Chris Hom Him Cheung used Experimenta as a testing place for his multi media performances. He had since then started his own company and sound group XCEED and had performed as far as Argentina. Experimenta first discovered the unusual and shy Lam Hoi Sin from her online blog. We took immediate
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notice of the quirkiness and the anger in this young woman. In fact we do not think she wanted us to label her as a woman. Her defiance against the male dominated world is exactly what Experimenta was looking for. Lam has since shown her work in major shows in Hong Kong including the ArtisTree. Ann Wu L. had since started her own feminist bookstore Consider the Trouble. Her curation is Hong Kong’s first independent
All these would not be possible without the exhausting and most of the time disheartening work of fund raising. The Experimenta Foundation had raised over HK$2million in the past 5 years for the support of its exhibitions. It had existed without any assistant from the government giving it complete freedom for its art projects.
Philanthropy Experimenta is a pioneer in philanthropy - most philanthropic endeavours in HK are placing your name on a block of building. Experimenta supports artists, not just giving money but to create a space, and to curate their arts to ta ke their careers to another level.
Collaboration Experimenta also has one of Hong Kong's first video art collection and that comes with it a responsibility to showcase their work. Experimenta acts as a go-between for these filmmakers for their future film projects. In our library, we have contacts of over 250 film crews located around the world. Experimenta is in a position to connect filmmakers with their collaborators in over 20 countries ; we have a good knowledge of the style, level of experience and the genres that they specialise in.
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