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Para Site Para Site is Hong Kong's leading contemporary art centre and one of the oldest and most active indepe

Please note: Para Site is open this week Wed–Fri (18–20 Jan), and will be closed 21–25 Jan. We wish you a Happy Year of the Rabbit!

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Para Site藝術空間將於本週三至週五（1月18至20日）開放，並將於年三十至年初四（1月21至25日）期間休息。我們恭祝大家兔年吉祥！

08/09/2026

Tong Wenmin (童文敏): ‘Towards Solace’
Second newly commissioned performance in the live art series ‘Elsewhere in Me’

🗓️Sat 19 Sep 2026
🕒3pm: Performance (session 1)
🕓4pm: Post-performance Artist Sharing
🕗8pm: Performance (session 2)
🕘Post-performance Artist Sharing
📍The Room, Freespace, WestK

🪾Limited seats for each session, register via link in bio!

Inspired by the grinding density of metropolitan life and the drifting states of inner unrest in modern living, Tong perceives the body as a medium for channeling the planetary existence into inner realms, carving out a time and place that runs parallel to the city. Within a hybrid landscape of mist, plants, and scaffolding, the performers hum in solitude, attuning our senses to return to our deeper selves.

Join and be a companion on the journey of seeking Solace.

🌫️Voice Coach and Performer: HakGwai aka Lau Chun Ho (HakGwai Lau)
🌫️Performers: Lenyx Choi (҉L҉e҉n҉y҉x҉ ҉C҉h҉o҉i҉), Ching Chu (CHING CHU 仟青), Maia Mah (MAIA 馬賢), and Woo Yat Hei (Woo Yat Hei)
🌫️Set Design: Lau Tsz Long Yanki (劉址朗 TSZ-LONG, YANKI LAU)

‘Elsewhere in Me’ is curated by Celia Ho (Esther Celia) and Jessie Kwok (Jessie Kwok).

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童文敏：《何以慰藉》
流動行為現場系列《此身彼岸》第二場全新委約展演

🗓️2026年9月19日（星期六）
🕒下午3時：第一場行為展演
🕓下午4時：藝術家演後談
🕗下午8時：第二場行為展演
🕘下午9時：藝術家演後談
📍西九文化區自由空間細盒

🪾各場次座位有限，報名連結置於bio！

童文敏從城市稠密集的生活空間，以及現代人於日常中無所依歸、不安的內在惶惑中汲取靈感。她將身體化作媒介，把天地萬象的意境連結人的內在世界，開闢一個都市環境以外的平行時空。在霧氣、植物與金屬支架混合的景觀中，表演者各自低吟着，喚醒觀眾的感官並引渡我們回歸內心深處。

與我們同行，一起探尋——何以慰藉。

🌫️聲音導師及表演者：亞黑劉俊豪
🌫️表演者：Lenyx Choi、朱仟青、馬賢、胡日禧
🌫️舞台設計：劉址朗

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We are seeking an Operations Coordinator!The Operations Coordinator supports Para Site’s day-to-day fundraising administ...
01/09/2026

We are seeking an Operations Coordinator!

The Operations Coordinator supports Para Site’s day-to-day fundraising administration, donor and patron relations, events, and organisational operations. The role provides accurate and responsive administrative support across individual giving, grants, corporate sponsorship, patron programmes and major fundraising events. It also contributes to the effective running of Para Site’s office, public-facing activities, and internal administrative systems.

This is a hands-on role requiring strong organisation, and the ability to coordinate multiple tasks and deadlines as part of a collaborative team structure.

🔗Learn more & apply via the link in bio.
🗓️ Deadline: Fri 25 Sep 2026, 7pm

🚀KICKING OFF: Harbour Exchange Fellowship ProgrammeWe are absolutely thrilled to announce that our new reciprocal reside...
27/08/2026

🚀KICKING OFF: Harbour Exchange Fellowship Programme

We are absolutely thrilled to announce that our new reciprocal residency is officially underway!

This collaboration between Cheng‑Lan Foundation (Cheng-Lan Foundation 承蘭藝術文化機構), Delfina Foundation (Delfina Foundation), and Para Site marks a milestone as part of our ‘Para Site: 30 Years’ anniversary programmes. It connects artists from the UK and Hong Kong through a two-month exchange, fostering critical dialogues and new opportunities for future shared projects across the two art communities.

We are proud to introduce the two incredible artists leading this exchange:

Currently in Hong Kong🇭🇰, Shiraz Bayjoo () works across film, painting, photography, and installation to explore cultural memory and postcolonial nationhood. His research interrogates memorialisation: what the city chooses to preserve, how it builds new monuments today, and what is allowed to drift or remain unresolved.

Now in London 🇬🇧, Vvzela Kook (❀Vvzela KOOK) works across moving images, drawing, performance, and theatre. Her transmedia practice investigates the transoceanic movement of ‘exotic animals’ during European expansion, and how the display of these animals in royal menagerie was intertwined with the emergence of panopticon and architecture of violence.

Both have already begun their research trips. Swipe left 👉🏻to see what they’ve been capturing through their lenses so far!

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🚀駐泊交流計劃現已展開

我們很高興宣佈，連結英國香港兩地藝術家的全新交換駐留項目現已展開！

本計劃由承蘭藝術文化機構、Delfina基金會與Para Site聯合主辦，也是「Para Site：三十年」慶祝項目之一。計劃連結英國與香港的藝術家，以為期兩個月的交流促進深度對話，並為兩地藝術社群未來的合作項目開拓更多契機。

我們欣然介紹兩位出色的藝術家：

現駐香港🇭🇰，Shiraz Bayjoo的創作涵蓋電影、繪畫、攝影與裝置，探討文化記憶與後殖民國族認同。他的研究聚焦於紀念：城市選擇保存甚麼、如何在當下建成新的紀念物，以及甚麼是可以游移、不被定論的。

現駐倫敦🇬🇧，曲淵澈的創作跨越流動影像、繪畫、行為與劇場。她的跨媒體實踐探討歐洲擴張時期「珍奇動物」的越洋流動、這些動物在皇家動物園中的展示，以及與全景監控和暴力建築的交錯關係。

兩位藝術家均已展開研究之旅。向左滑動 👉🏻 看看他們的鏡頭捕捉了甚麼吧！

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Images courtesy of the artists. | 圖片由藝術家提供。



👁️Under Shiraz’s Lens | Shiraz 視角
🦩Flamingoes at the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens | 香港動植物公園裡的紅鶴

👁️Under Shiraz’s Lens | Shiraz 視角
🌱Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens | 香港動植物公園

👁️Under Shiraz’s Lens | Shiraz 視角

Para Site is Live! 📡29.08.2026, 3pm–7pmListen in to the radio show in person at Para Site, or tune in via HKCR at hkcr.l...
26/08/2026

Para Site is Live! 📡
29.08.2026, 3pm–7pm
Listen in to the radio show in person at Para Site, or tune in via HKCR at hkcr.live!

What does an institution carry as it changes? Tune into a flowing series of conversations as Para Site morphs into our next chapter! Taking place during Para Site’s 30th Anniversary year, ‘Para Site is Live’ is a public rehearsal for futures in the making.

Taking time to reflect and reposition is a powerful form of agency. Since its founding in 1996, Para Site has advocated for contemporary culture’s capacity to reshape our understanding of society – and ourselves. Looking ahead, we are evermore open to flux, to experimentality, and to nurturing the conditions for surprising alliances and unlikely solidarities. ‘Para Site is Live’ is a community-driven collective score for where we go next.

The broadcast brings together members of our community—spanning three decades and all around the globe—to contribute casually, softly, and intuitively. Broadcast live from our current space in Quarry Bay and a nomadic radio studio designed by HONMI (HONMI), the radio show follows four prompts:

🌱 GOOD THINGS TAKE TIME (3pm-4pm)
A primer: considering custodianship and transition as meaningful work in the arts ecosystem. Co-hosted by James Taylor-Foster (jtf ◕‿◕) and Kaitlin Chan (Kaitlin) alongside unexpected guests…

💭 MEMORY IS A METHOD (4pm-5pm)
What has Para Site meant to Hong Kong – or to you personally? Co-hosted by James Taylor-Foster (jtf ◕‿◕) and Celia Ho (Esther Celia) alongside unexpected guests…

🤳 CULTURE OR CONTEXT? (5pm-6pm)
In a moment in which culture is more monolithic than before, what’s the role of a cultural institution? Co-hosted by James Taylor-Foster (jtf ◕‿◕) and Eunice Tsang (eunice) alongside unexpected guests…

🪱 PARA SITE IS A PARASITE! (6pm-7pm)
Experimental, parasitical practice is part and parcel of Para Site’s DNA. What’s in a name, and what might this mean? Co-hosted by the Para Site team.

👾‘Unsubscribe All!’ Para Site International Conference—a massive thank you to all the speakers, thinkers, creatives, and...
24/08/2026

👾‘Unsubscribe All!’ Para Site International Conference—a massive thank you to all the speakers, thinkers, creatives, and everyone being part of the insightful conversation!

Came back for the first time since 2019—it was a day of deep conversation and big ideas—rethinking tech, unsubscribe from future assumptions, and reimagining the technologies that shape our world.

🧑🏻‍🎤Convened by Yuanyu Li (Yuan Yuan Song) and Stefan Luk (Stefan Luk), with our incredible speakers:
Stanley Qiufan Chen
Iris Long (Iris Long)
Bahar Noorizadeh ()
Clara Che Wei Peh (Clara Che Wei Peh)
Sophie Penkethman-Young (Sophie P-Y)
Charis P**n (c h a r i s)
Winnie Soon ()
Ziyang Wu (Ziyang Wu 武子杨)
Günseli Yalcinkaya (Günseli)
Liam Young (liam young)

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👾「更新預設」Para Site國際研討會——衷心感謝所有講者、學者、創意工作者，以及每一位參與這場對話的朋友！

自 2019 年以來首次回歸——這是充滿思辨與深度對談的一天，我們重新思考與科技的關係，打破對未來的既有預設，重新想像那些圍繞並塑造我們生活的科技。

🧑🏻‍🎤 研討會由李沅鈺與陸其叡共同策劃策劃，並感謝一眾優秀的講者：
陳楸帆
龍星如
Bahar Noorizadeh
白其薇
Sophie Penkethman-Young
潘雋希
孫詠怡
武子楊
Günseli Yalcinkaya
Liam Young

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Images: ©️2026 by Ray Leung. CC BY-ND 4.0. | 攝影：Ray Leung。CC BY-ND 4.0。

‘Unsubscribe All!’ International Conference🗓️Sun 23 Aug 2026, 10:30am–6pm📍Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall, Graduate House, The ...
19/08/2026

‘Unsubscribe All!’ International Conference
🗓️Sun 23 Aug 2026, 10:30am–6pm
📍Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall, Graduate House, The University of Hong Kong
✴️Limited seats available!✴️
Free and open to the public, register via link in bio

Our afternoon session kicks off at 3pm, bringing together four speakers to explore infrastructures, digital praxis, and the critical frameworks of our technological systems.

💾Iris Long (Iris Long) – ‘Speaking Nearby Infrastructures: Curatorial Methods for Technoscientific Research’
Drawing on ’Under the Cloud‘, Iris examines how artistic research engages with massive infrastructures, as networks entangled with geology, weather, electricity, labour, scientific practice, state planning, environmental transformation, and collective imagination.

💾Winnie Soon () – ‘^(Coding|Publishing)( Otherwise)$’
Using a regular expression as a title, Winnie explores how ’coding otherwise‘ and ’publishing otherwise‘ challenge normative tech biases, grounded in feminist servers and open-source ethos, this talk is an invitation to re-envision our relationship with machines.

💾Sophie Penkethman-Young (Sophie P-Y) – ‘A personal take on a digital praxis’
In a half-hour ’exorcism‘ of past works, Sophie traces a journey from supermarket flowers to TikTok psychics, exploring how technological systems collapse into dark magic and reveal secret worlds.

💾Clara Che Wei Pei (Clara Che Wei Peh) – Moderator for the ‘Sunday Chatroom’, alongside all afternoon speakers
Founder of Common Protocol for Southeast Asian digital art, and initiator of the itinerant art‑tech discussion series Monday Chatroom.

🧑🏻‍🚀Register via the link in bio, see you all this Sunday!

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‘Unsubscribe All!’ International Conference🗓️Sun 23 Aug 2026, 10:30am–6pm📍Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall, Graduate House, The ...
18/08/2026

‘Unsubscribe All!’ International Conference
🗓️Sun 23 Aug 2026, 10:30am–6pm
📍Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall, Graduate House, The University of Hong Kong
🧠Free and open to the public, register via link in bio!

Kicking off at 10:30am, our morning session brings together six voices on technology, myth, and planetary futures.

👾 Bahar Noorizadeh () – ‘Technofictions, or Future as Mode Collapse’
Examining the prevalence of the fictions against a background of disinformation, gamified conspiracism, and ‘technological realism’.

👾 Günseli Yalcinkaya (Günseli) – ‘Myth as Medium’
Tracing mythotechnic currents that shape technology imaginaries, and developing a speculative framework that imagines an alternative to the utopian and doomer narratives dominating tech discourse today.

👾 Ziyang Wu (Ziyang Wu 武子杨) – ‘From Systemic Contingencies to New Silk Frequencies: Pre-enactment and Planetary Computation’
Exploring the ontological crises birthed by planetary-scale computation, the artist examines the contemporary subject trapped between bodily vulnerability and algorithmic omnipotence, proposing ‘Pre-enactment’.

👾 Stanley Qiufan Chen – ‘The Making of Myths Yet Unborn’
Departing from the ‘upward impulse’ of technology and the ‘downward gaze’ of art to discuss how images might regain their autonomy, and how machines can evolve from submissive mirrors into genuine ‘others’.

👾 Liam Young (liam young) – ‘New Planetary Imaginaries’
A sci-fi safari between fiction and documentary, the journey is both an extraordinary image of tomorrow and an urgent illumination of the environmental questions facing us today.

👾 Charis P**n (c h a r i s) – Respondent
As an artist and educator, her practice considers poetics in communication, learning through making, slow growth, and collective endeavours.

Swipe to the second slide 👉🏻 for full timetable, check out the registration link in bio for more details.

See you this Sun!

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06/08/2026

2026 Para Site Workshops for Arts Professionals
📅24–30 August 2026
📍Hong Kong

The 9th edition of our Workshops for Arts Professionals runs alongside the International Conference, ‘Unsubscribe All!’. This year, we’re diving into where contemporary art meets technology – beyond inevitability narratives, towards alternative methodologies for artistic production, collaboration, and knowledge exchange.

🌐Rather than treating tech as a ‘black box’, we approach it as socially embedded infrastructure shaping our environments, languages, and communities. With a regional focus on Asia-Pacific, the programme tackles resource sharing, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and equitable access.

🧠Over 7 intensive days of workshops, site visits, lectures, and discussions, participants will engage with an incredible lineup of facilitators:
🎙️Winnie Soon () & Mara Karagianni – collaborative publishing + q***r coding
🎙️Clara Che Wei Peh () – emerging tech in Southeast Asian art ecosystems
🎙️Sophie Penkethman-Young () – digital museum culture
🎙️Ashley Lee Wong (.lee.wong) – cultural economies of art and tech
🎙️Ziyang Wu () – AI and worlding strategies
🎙️Günseli Yalcinkaya () – online culture and digital myth-making

✨ Congratulations to the 2026 participant cohort:
Franco Brobio (), Jeremy Chen (), John Chow Ho Fung (), Guo Cheng (.guo), Erfan Ghiasi, Danny Hartanto Kristiawan (.nn), Ana Marinkovic, Iacopo Prinetti (), Crassula Shang (.shang), Lua Vollaard (), canvaswan (), Ailsa Wong (.ww), and Hui Ye ().

This workshop is a closed‑door gathering for intensive collaboration – stay tuned to our social media for insights and highlights!

🔗 Link in bio for full details

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04/08/2026

‘Unsubscribe All!’
Para Site’s 8th International Conference
🗓️Sun 23 Aug 2026, 10:30am–6pm
📍Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall, Graduate House, The University of Hong Kong
🧠Free and open to the public, register via link in bio!

If the future feels unchangeable, how can alternate worlds open up to other possibilities?

🚀Over one full day, join 10 international artists, thinkers, and creatives as they unpack how speculative practices are reshaping our technologically mediated present. Together, we’ll question the promises of digital systems—unsubscribe from any and all versions of the future and reimagine our relationships to the technologies that surround and shape us.

🧑🏻‍🎤Featuring conversations with:
Stanley Qiufan Chen
Iris Long ()
Bahar Noorizadeh ()
Clara Che Wei Peh ()
Sophie Penkethman-Young ()
Charis P**n ()
Winnie Soon ()
Ziyang Wu ()
Günseli Yalcinkaya ()
Liam Young ()

The conference is structured in two parts:
💡The morning session explores how practitioners and digital subcultures actively intervene in and reshape cultural realities woven into technological advancement.
💡The afternoon session turns to questions of access, agency, and collective action across the Asia-Pacific, highlighting open-source cultures and collaborative networks that cultivate more equitable ecosystems.

A day of friction, absurdity, and radical reimagination, where dominant narratives are dislodged, and a multitude of ways to inhabit the present unfold—for all who imagine living with—and through—technology.

We look forward to having you with us!

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