“Organisation for Cultural Exchange and Mishap”
Janina Green, Raafat Ishak, Patrick Pound, Law Man Lok, Leung Chin Fung, Leung Mee Ping, So Yan Kei and Brett Jones
4 July → 26 July 2003

Para/Site Art Space Hong Kong 27 June – 27 July 2003

This project is based on the imagining of a cultural exchange organisation. Organisation is not an organisation in the sense of having an administrative infrastructure or a defined institutional voice but rather is a fluid composite of practice as enacted by artwork, documents and dialogue developed over an indeterminable period of time.

OCEM involved three Australian and three Hong Kong artists in a cross-cultural dialogue. It attempted to reframe some of the issues surrounding trans/cultural practices, epitomised in the booming international exhibition circuit, international biennales and artist residency programs. In this sense, it aimed to consider just why cultural exchange projects are regarded as important and how they affect and engage with participants in different cultural contexts.

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Janina Green

Raafat Ishak was born in Egypt and lives and works in Melbourne. He has an undergraduate degree in fine arts from the Victorian College of the Arts, a post-graduate degree in architecture history and conservation practice from the University of Melbourne, and a PhD from Monash University.

Patrick Pound challenges notions of singular authorship by creating works using found material from his personal archives, which have been amassed from years of obsessive and meticulous searching.

Patrick Pound challenges notions of singular authorship by creating works using found material from his personal archives, which have been amassed from years of obsessive and meticulous searching.

Law Man Lok

Leung Chin Fung

Leung Mee Ping

So Yan Kei

Brett Jones