Hong Kong Visual Arts Yearbook 2009/香港視覺藝術年鑑 2009

Hong Kong Visual Arts Yearbook has been published since 2000. It is composed of two sections: ‘Essays’ and ‘Chronicles’. The former is made up of essays written by academic experts who draw comprehensive commentaries while focusing on selective local visual arts events; while the latter gathers and catalogues all types of visual arts events of the year.

Essays included in this edition:

Jat See-yeu: A Trailblazer in Contemporary Chinese Calligraphy of Hong Kong – CHUI Puichee, 徐沛之

Ha Bik-chuen: A Self-made Artist – CHAN Yuk Keung Kurt, 陳育強

(Is There Such a Thing As) Sound Art and Its Development in Hong Kong? A Research Proposal – YEUNG Yang, 楊陽

Art on the Sunday Life Platform – Helen LAI, 黎佩芬

The West Kowloon Cultural District: The Eight Failures of a Ten-Year Plan – Ada WONG, 黃英琦

A Look Back at the Louis Vuitton Exhibition: A Debate of Preferential Values – FAN Wanjen Anthea, 樊婉貞

Hong Kong’s Participation in the Venice Biennale – Tobias BERGER

Chat Now, or Never: The Development and Prospects of October Contemporary – LAM Kaman Carmi, 林嘉敏