Breaching Sanctum (Publication)
Breaching Sanctum is a publication corresponding with an exhibition which took place 19-31 May 2022 in F Hall Studio at Tai Kwun centre for arts, culture, and heritage in Hong Kong, including existing and newly commissioned art and design works alongside related research and reference materials. The project, publication, and corresponding programmes all delve into the work of a generation of Chinese women artists, designers, and architects born in the 1980s – on the cusp of the 1990s – and the influence of that era, alongside current developments, innovations, and pressures connected to urbanism, sustainability, and the built environment, on their work. Altogether, Breaching Sanctum also serves as a means of breaking down barriers that have often been in the path of female practitioners’ research and achievements.
Breaching Sanctum is a publication corresponding with an exhibition which took place 19-31 May 2022 in F Hall Studio at Tai Kwun centre for arts, culture, and heritage in Hong Kong, including existing and newly commissioned art and design works alongside related research and reference materials. The project, publication, and corresponding programmes all delve into the work of a generation of Chinese women artists, designers, and architects born in the 1980s – on the cusp of the 1990s – and the influence of that era, alongside current developments, innovations, and pressures connected to urbanism, sustainability, and the built environment, on their work. Altogether, Breaching Sanctum also serves as a means of breaking down barriers that have often been in the path of female practitioners’ research and achievements.
- 2024
- Grantee: Ingrid Pui Yee Chu
Ingrid Pui Yee Chu is a Hong Kong born, dual Chinese and Canadian contemporary art curator and writer having over two decades of experience at international museums and non-profit art organisations, as well as founding several independent curatorial initiatives: RED-I Projects in 2004, and Forever & Today alongside fellow Co-Founder, Director & Curator Savannah Gorton in New York in 2008. Throughout, Chu has continued curating at the interstices, and more recently as a way of contextualising art in Hong Kong, its surrounding region, and evolving ecosystem. The resulting commissions, exhibitions, projects, and publications, as well as her ongoing writing published worldwide, all service a methodological approach which seeks to build platforms that meet the changing needs of artists, while bringing their work to increasingly diverse audiences. Chu received her MA in Curatorial Studies (Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, USA) and is currently an Associate Curator at Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong.