Golden Heights Estate

Golden Heights Estate 1 March – 20 April 2014 2014年3月1日至4月20日

Meeting Points 7 Golden Heights Estate 1 March – 20 April 2014 Sven Augustijnen, Iman Issa, Sanja Iveković, Rajkamal Kahlon, Anton Kannemeyer, Kayfa ta & Haytham El-Wardany, Kwan Sheung Chi, Runo Lagomarsino, Maha Maamoun, Anson Mak, Jumana Manna, MAP Office, Mulugeta Kassa, Daniela Ortiz, Edgar Morin & Jean Rouch, and Wong Yee Ki. Golden Heights Estate is a fictional yet perfectly plausible place, an aspirational real estate project in Hong Kong complete with a prescribed and normative lifestyle. The exhibition using this title is a modest investigation into the new landscape of desires carved by the emerging global middle class. As one of the main consequences of globalization’s social restructuring of the world, the consuming middle class has embraced a homogenous culture of desires, fetishes, aspirations and values across different geographies within the ‘emerging’ world. As the narrator of this shared global lexicon of signs and goods, the middle class is a crucial keeper of the ideological backbone of the globalized economy. Contemporary art is itself

Meeting Points 7 金峰苑 2014年3月1日至4月20日 Sven Augustijnen、Iman Issa、Sanja Iveković、Rajkamal Kahlon、Anton Kannemeyer、Kayfa ta & Haytham El-Wardany、關尚智、Runo Lagomarsino、Maha Maamoun、 麥海珊、Jumana Manna、MAP Office、Mulugeta Kassa、Daniela Ortiz、Edgar Morin & Jean Rouch及 黃綺琪。 「金峰苑」（Golden Heights Estate） 並不存在，只是個虛構的地方，但卻 是個完全合理、真實感十足的住宅建 築項目，配合香港的典型生活方式。 是次展覽以此為題，嘗試以輕鬆的態 度探索全球新興中產階級所塑造的景 觀新慾望。隨著全球一體化的社會轉 型，其中一個主要現象就是，中產階 級不斷消費，而他們早已接受這個 「新興」世代裡不同地域的文化慢慢 變得一模一樣（即所謂「文化同質 化」），不同的慾望、戀物情結、願 望和價值觀最後都是大同小異。作為 這種全球標誌和商品共用詞匯的敘述 者，中產階級正是全球經濟一體化思

a key component of this system, making an investigation using art’s own means of reflection into the classes enabling our field, an urgent and important exercise.

The exhibition observes these realities and contemplates whether there is any class solidarity imaginable in this situation and if so, what could it lead to.

Golden Heights Estate is curated

by What, How & for Whom/WHW and Para Site and is part of Meeting Points 7.

The 7th edition of Meeting Points is a series of successive exhibitions taking place from September 2013 to July 2014. Meeting Points 7 was prompted by the unfinished social and political processes of the Arab revolutions and the reconfiguration of capitalism throughout the world. It evolves as a continual dialogue whose nonlinear chapters digress, take over, continue, complete and contradict each other, playing with possibilities and exploring the limits of what an exhibition can convey in testing political times across neighboring and divergent spaces.

Under the title Ten thousand wiles and a hundred thousand tricks, Meeting Points 7 took place in Zagreb (Gallery Nova), Antwerp

想骨幹的關鍵守護者。當代藝術是這 個系統的重要元素，以藝術本身作研 究，反映這些界別如何影響藝術界， 正是一件事不宜遲的重要工作。展覽 會觀察這些現實情況，想像一下有沒 有階級融和的可能，如果有，又會有 甚麼結果。 展覽由What, How & for Whom/

WHW及Para Site策展，是項目 「Meeting Points 7」一部份。 第七屆「Meeting Points」，是2013 年9月至2014年7月期間的多個展覽活 動，源起自亞拉伯地區一連串革命事 件後的社會和政治餘波，以及全球資 本主義的轉型。展覽是一個連續發展 的對話，當中的篇章不一定以線性發 展，有的離題、有的承接上文、有的 引申上文、有的作出結論，有的則互 相矛盾，把玩種種可能性，並探索一 個展覽在鄰近和不同的空間之間測試 不同政治時代時傳達訊息的限制。

Meeting Points 7 以「Ten thousand wiles and a hundred thousand tricks」 （一萬詭計十萬花招）為題，已於克 羅地亞薩格勒布Gallery Nova、比利 時安特衛普M HKA及埃及開羅CIC展

(M HKA), and Cairo (CIC). After Hong Kong (Para Site), further stations of Meeting Points 7 are Beirut (in partnership with Beirut Arts Center, opening 1st of April), Vienna (21er Haus, in partnership with Wiener Festwochen, opening 9th of May) and Moscow (in partnership with the V–A–C Foundation and the Institute for African Studies, July 2014).

Meeting Points 7 is organized by Young Arab Theatre Fund/YATF. WHW is a curatorial collective formed in 1999 and based in Zagreb and Berlin. WHW organizes production, exhibition and publishing projects and directs Gallery Nova in Zagreb. WHW is currently working on a long-term collaboration project, Beginning as well as we can (How do we talk about fascism?), and curating the exhibition Really Useful Knowledge, to open at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid in October 2014 Para Site is Hong Kong’s leading contemporary art space and one of the oldest and most active independent art centres in Asia.

It produces exhibitions, publications and discursive projects aimed at forging a critical understanding of local and international phenomena in art and society.

出。在香港Para Site展出後，將會在 以下地點及時間展出：黎巴嫩貝魯特 （與貝魯特藝術中心合辦，4月1日開 幕）、奧地利維也納（21er Haus當代 藝術館，與維也納藝術節合辦，5月 9日開幕）及俄羅斯莫斯科（與V– A–C基金會及非洲研究學院合辦， 2014年7月開幕）。Meeting Points 7 由亞拉伯青年劇場基金（Young Arab Theatre Fund，YATF）主辦。

WHW於1999年成立，是一個策展團 隊，主要於克羅地亞薩格勒布及德國 柏林工作，策劃展覽及出版項目， 並於薩格勒布主理畫廊Gallery Nova。 WHW現正專注於一個長期的協作項 目「Beginning as well as we can (How do we talk about fascism?)」，以及策 劃展覽「Really Useful Knowledge」， 將於2014年10月西班牙馬德里索菲亞 王后國家藝術中心博物館開幕。 Para Site藝術空間是香港首屈一指的 當代藝術空間，亦是亞洲其中一個 歷史最悠長、最活躍的獨立藝術中 心。Para Site藝術空間舉辦展覽、出 版刊物、舉行講座及研討會，務求鍛 練一個對本地及國際藝術現象和社會 現象的批判性理解

Wong Yee-Ki 黃綺琪 Statement from the North《北之所謂》 2013 Ink, gouache, silk, plastic Courtesy the artist

Anson Mak 麥海珊 One Way Street on a Turntable 《唱盤上的單行道》 2007 Courtesy the artist

Iman Issa The Revolutionary 2010 Audio track installation, 5′58″ Courtesy the artist and Rodeo Gallery

Rajkamal Kahlon You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby! (from the series Double Take) 2011 Poster Courtesy the artist

Daniela Ortiz Maids Rooms 2012

Runo Lagomarsino EntreMundos 2013 Wallpaper

Kayfa ta & Haytham El-Wardany How to Disappear 2013 Publication (English) Courtesy the artist

Runo Lagomarsino We have everything, but that’s all we have 2008 –2013 Digital photographic print, 22 × 22 cm All works courtesy the artist, Mendes Wood, São Paulo and Nils Stærk, Copenhagen

MAP Office Homes For China 《中國家庭》 2005/2013 Courtesy the artists

Anton Kannemeyer Super Rich Man 2011 Six colour lithograph, 50.5 × 50.5 cm

Kwan Sheung Chi 關尚智 Making an IED《製作IED》 2013 Single channel video 單頻錄像

Anton Kannemeyer Cry in Public 2011 Seven colour lithograph, 50.5 × 50.5 cm All works courtesy Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg

Edgar Morin & Jean Rouch Chronicle of a Summer 1961 35 mm film transferred to DVD, black-and-white, sound (French with English subtitles), 90′ Courtesy Argos Films

Sven Augustijnen Spectres 2011 Courtesy the artist

Mulugeta Kassa Our Planet I & II 2013 –14 Collage, objects Courtesy the artist

Sanja Iveković The Right One: Pearls of Revolution 2010 Series of 10 photographs, 30 × 30 cm Courtesy the artist

Jumana Manna A Sketch of Manners (Alfred Roch’s Last Masquerade) 2013 Video, colour, sound (English), 12′ Courtesy the artist

Maha Maamoun Shooting Stars Remind Me of Eavesdroppers 2013 Video, colour, sound, 10′ Courtesy the artist

Project Team 項目團隊 Cosmin Costinas 康喆明 Ivet Ćurlin Ethan Cheng 鄭懿行 Ana Dević Nataša Ilić Jims Lam 林志恒 Qinyi Lim 林沁怡 Sabina Sabolović Para Site Cosmin Costinas 康喆明 (Executive Director and Curator 執行總監 / 策展人) Qinyi Lim 林沁怡 (Curator 策展人) Frances Wu Giarratano 吳天如 (Senior Head of Development / Communications 拓展策劃總監 / 傳訊策劃總監) Lesley Ma 馬唯中 (Managing Editor 總編輯) Jims Lam 林志恒 (Project Manager / Assistant Curator 項目經理 / 副策展人) Ethan Cheng 鄭懿行 (Project Manager / Assistant Curator 項目經理 / 副策展人) Priscilla Jiang 蔣瑩 (Gallery Manager / Curatorial Assistant 畫廊經理 / 策展助理) Graphic Design 圖形設計: Studio Manuel Raeder, Berlin

Para Site and What, How & for Whom/WHW would like to extend our deep gratitude to the artists of the exhibition as well as to the following individuals and institutions:

Para Site藝術空間與What, How & for Whom/ WHW想向展覽中的藝術家及一下提供重要支持的人 士及機構致以特別鳴謝： YATF – Young Arab Theatre Fund 亞拉伯青年劇場基金: Tarek Abou El Fetouh (Director 總監) Roger Christmann (Financial advisor 財務顧問) Delphine Leccas (Meeting Points Coordinator 項目協調) Nicole Kayal, and Nasri N. Sayegh (Team 項目助理) Spring Workshop, Hong Kong