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The Foundation aims to raise awareness of the issues of cultural heritage and the understanding of local history in Hong Kong. We initiate and support programmes that educate young people and the public about the importance of heritage.

Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents

The Foundation sponsors Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents, a publication edited by Professor Wu Hung, Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia at the University of Chicago.

As part of a series of documentary anthologies initiated by the Museum of Modern Art in New York to introduce English-speaking readers to landmarks texts by artists, architects, designers, and critics from around the world, Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents seeks to research, translate, compile, and publish a selection of principal documents into a sourcebook that will chronicle important events in contemporary Chinese art since the late 1970s. The book will be published in the autumn of 2010.

Materials of the Future: Documenting Contemporary Chinese Art from 1980-1990

To facilitate documentation and research of contemporary Chinese art, the Foundation supports the building of a comprehensive bi-lingual website by the Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong that features primary materials from the period and excerpts of interviews with over 70 key Chinese artists, curators, and art critics who were active in the 1980s. The website will also include chronologies, bibliographies and links to important resources in the field making it the most important publicly accessible resource for this crucial period in the development of Chinese art history. The website will be launched in September 2010.

Wanchai In A Different Light Projection Installation

Wanchai In A Different Light was conceived, designed and curated by the Foundation. The idea for the project was born and inspired by the photography works and writings of Through Our Eyes student participants. In December 2006, the Foundation organized a two-week projection installation set along the length of Lee Tung Street (commonly called “wedding invitations street” by locals) in Wanchai district, which the government had planned to redevelop at the time. Images and text exploring issues of local community, personal history and heritage were projected on the buildings and the ground along the street. The project aims to share students’ creativity and to celebrate the street’s history with the public, to raise awareness of the preservation of heritage, and to promote creative arts education. The event attracted more than 46,000 visitors and was well received by the general public, local media and various government departments.

District Focus Photography Workshops

To raise awareness and enhance understanding of local history and heritage among youth, the Foundation organized in summer 2008 a series of photography workshops that explored different aspects of nine districts in Hong Kong, focusing on history, geography, commercial activities, residents and more. Led by Through Our Eyes teaching artists, 17 Through Our Eyes students recorded and responded to what they discovered in each area by means of photography and text. Their works were published in the “Young Post” supplement of the South China Morning Post for nine consecutive weeks during July and August 2008.