Methods of Art – Archive of Artists Interviews

I think art is not something very high or you have to go to art schools or you learn what is art. I
taught children some time. I think even small children ‒ 4 or 5 years old ‒ they are very good at
expressing themselves, they are very creative. And we meet a lot of neighbourhood around in this
Yaumatei community. Some old people, they are so energetic – they never know art in a school or
even in the media. They don’t have this concept but they do it in this way.
It is simple. It is very simple. If you think of something and you want to express it and you want to
communicate with others in whatever way ‒ it is already art. I don’t put the definition so hard. Art is –
maybe to me – just free expression. It is already important. But of course, apart from free expression,
we can have more and more meaning. Maybe we can talk more about deeper content, different
strategies, in different ways. But basically, the most important thing is, if people think of something
and they want to communicate with others. Because I look at art in a more general sense like …
human ability.

Lee Chun Fung / Art

Bio

* 1984, Lee Chun Fung is an artist and independent curator based in Hong Kong. He graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Fine Arts Department in 2007. In his art practice, he addresses the aesthetics of linking strangers together. He is now the Director of the community art space Woofer Ten. Woofer Ten is a nonprofit art organization funded by the Hong Kong Art Development Council. It is based at Shanghai Street Artspace in Yaumatei, an aging grassroots community and neighbourhood. Woofer Ten aims to introduce a lively conception of contemporary art engaging the community. Therefore, instead of attempting an out-of-place, arty white-cube gallery, Woofer Ten molds itself more like a community centre, a platform for art projects to explore new approaches in bridging the community and art making.
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Credits

The interview was conducted November 27, 2014 at the art space Woofer Ten in Yaumatei Hong Kong.

Interviewed by: Johannes M. Hedinger

Filmed and recorded by: Banny Ng

Edited by: Paul Barsch

Transcript by: Yvonne Mattern

Produced by: Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), Connecting Spaces Documents #5

Special thanks to: Woofer Ten