CONVERSATION FOR TOMORROW Sharing Talk 2025
Continuing CREATORS FOR TOMORROW’s aim to support young artists, CONVERSATION FOR TOMORROW provide an exchange platform for artists from different professions to gather, and confront the pressing issues they are facing: from creativity and technology, to career sustainability and social resources. This sharing talk series connects the viewpoint of different generations through multi-perspective exchanges, ultimately outlining a direction to the future.
Session 1
How is an artist built?
An artist’s routine is packed: conceiving ideas, trial and error, researching, scouting venues, pursuing collaboration opportunities, drafting proposals… Beyond the challenges of creation itself, the task of balancing everything around it is just as crucial. While there are many local artist support platforms, how can one choose resources that truly fit their needs? How do different support packages shape the growth and development of young artists? How can young artists equip themselves to seize unexpected opportunities?
In this session, renowned curator Janet Fong will lead three young artists in an in-depth discussion of these questions, drawing on their first-hand experience to picture the latest challenges young artists meet. Whether you are pursuing the creative path, or a newcomer about to set out, you will find inspiration and direction in this conversation.
Moderator: Janet Fong
Speaking guest: Vangi Fong, Lai Sin Wah, Avery Lau
Date: 13/9/2025 (Sat)
Time: 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Venue: McAulay Studio, LB/F, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Language: Cantonese
Free admission, please register online in advance.
Session 2
Soundwave: Travelling among air and codes
Sound is a common element in contemporary art. Sometimes it serves as the voice of subject that doesn’t share the same language, sometimes it depicts a virtual landscape, sometimes it passes on historical legacy through systematic tonic notes.
The potential of sound art expands as generative technology kicks in. What is the view of young artists on the latest trend of sound art? How does the involvement of generative technology open up new possibilities? Is generative technology affecting sound art in the same way as other media of art? Prof. Isaac Leung from CUHK will lead the conversation with 3 young artists will distinctive approach to utilise sound. Let’s look forward to how their different approach to sound art would stir up a meaningful conversation!
Moderator: Prof. Isaac Leung
Speaking guest: Lazarus Chan, Heyse Ip, Guyshawn Wong
Date: 13/9/2025 (Sat)
Time: 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Venue: McAulay Studio, LB/F, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Language: Cantonese
Free admission, please register online in advance.
About Artist (In alphabetical order)
Vangi Fong was the first graduate of the School of Visual Arts at Baptist University, minoring in humanities. Engaged in community art education and public participation projects, and is skilled at planning community art experiences and community participation projects. In 2012, she established The Hill Workshop to use various media to plan community art projects for schools and organizations. It is committed to exploring different methods of artistic intervention and is committed to promoting participants to understand their personal positioning, see others, and see possibilities from the creative experience.
Instagram: the_hill_workshop
Ip holds an MA from the Royal College of Arts, UK, 2022 and a BA from Chelsea College of Arts, UK, 2018. His work has been exhibited internationally including a solo exhibition: [2019] “Capturing an Image” (Lumenvisum, Hong Kong), and group exhibitions such as: [2024] “Dystopia Sound Art Biennial”(Berlin), “Untitled (Pipe Dream)”(UK), “Medienfrische” (Austria), [2023] Fishy Business (UK), [2022] GRUND1535 (UK), and [2020] D2.02 (Plicnik Space Initiative in space). As a member of the Five Years artist collective, he also co-curates a non-profit space in London.
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Sin Wah Lai is an interdisciplinary artist. Lai’s practice is a hybrid of happening, site-specific and participatory relational aesthetics as a research method. Her work traces the belonging in community through narrative, and investigates the ephemeral existence in time and transformation of preserved objects, in response to the living spaces where beings co-exist. The displays often combine organic elements, found objects, body/action, images, illustrations and texts in collage. By poetically looking into minute moments in life and exploring ways of thinking beyond the human and non-human divide, Lai reveals the intimate connection between one’s inner perception and the external world.
Her works have been presented in institutions, art spaces, and large-scale public projects internationally, including “Unknown Recipes of Everyday Ingredients” (NL & HK, 2019); “Freezing the Vanishing” (HK, 2021); “Presentscape” (PT & ES, 2022); “Healing Hours” (GR & HK, 2023) and “Baa4 Baa1” (HK, 2023). “Shadows In My House” (HK, 2024) is a cross-domain curatorial project that combines exhibition, performance, criticism and publication.
Guyshawn Wong is a sound artist/ composer/ researcher from Hong Kong, currently based in the Netherlands to pursue his Master's Degree at the Institute of Sonology, Royal Conservatoire The Hague. After graduating from the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong, his work has been featured in numerous productions, including films, theatre, live music, and art installations. He has also been invited to teach Sound Design at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His current artistic interests lie in Computer Music and Noise, focusing on algorithmic composition, live-coding, and sound installation, exploring musicality in noise within the concepts of music, information, and structures.
Instagram: wongguyshawn | Personal website: wongguyshawn
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About Moderator (In alphabetical order)
Prof. Isaac Leung is a practicing artist, curator, and scholar in art and culture. In 2003, Leung received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Over the last few decades, he has initiated and participated in various projects, including exhibitions, workshops, lectures, publications, online projects, and symposia. Some of these projects include ’40 Years of Video Art’ (Hong Kong, China; and Germany), ‘The 12th Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition’ (Venice, Italy), ‘Time Test – International Video Art Research Exhibition’ (Beijing, China), ‘ISEA Festival’ (Hong Kong, China), ‘Both Sides Now’ (Hong Kong, China; the UK; and various countries), ‘Loop Barcelona’ (Barcelona, Spain), ‘One World Exposition’ (Hong Kong, China), ‘China Remixed’ (Indiana, USA), ‘Clockenflap’ (Hong Kong, China), ‘Art Basel Crowdfunding Initiative’ (Hong Kong, China), and ‘Beyond the Singularity’ (Hong Kong, China). Leung is currently an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Financial Support
Hong Kong Arts Centre is financially supported by the Art Development Matching Grants Scheme of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
The content of this activity does not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
