Hong kong + Japan crossing partnership in creativity 香港デザイナーズウィーク

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2012.05.15 "Hong Kong ＋ Japan : Crossing Partnership in Creativity" project launched
2012.04.24 Workshop was held by HK artist, Mr. Danny Yung, at Takata School in Rikuzentakata
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2012.04.16"Hong Kong ＋ Japan : Crossing Partnership in Creativity" site open!
2012.04.12"Hong Kong ＋ Japan : Crossing Partnership in Creativity" project announced.

The Chinese phrase "天天向上-Tian Tiang Xiang Shang" means making progress every day. In the 1950s, when Yung was a primary school student, he would scribble little boy caricatures on his textbooks and all around his place when he felt bored and lonely. Throughout the years the scribbling gradually evolved into a series of conceptual comics, and the caricature has taken a minimalistic form of looking up with a finger pointing up. In the 70s, he returned to China. He was surprised to find the phrase "Tian Tian Xiang Shang" written on the wall of every primary school, in bold and outrageous form. He was so intrigued by the expression, ironic, at the same time intellectually stimulating, that he borrowed it as the title for his carton drawings. And the boy character naturally took the name Tian Tian.

Born in Shanghai 1943 Danny Yung grew up in Hong Kong. At the age of seventeen, he moved to America to study architecture at Berkeley in California and computer science, city-architecture and -planning at Columbia University in New York. In 1979, he returned to Hong Kong and showed his one-man-cartoon-exhibition at Hong Kong Art Centre. Here he also presented his first structuralist theatre play "Broken Record #1". In 1982, Yung founded the art association "Zuni Icosahedron", which works with performing art, press events, art education and youth festivals nationally and internationally. Yung also became a founding member responsible for the establishment of art policies in Hong Kong and chaired the Arts Education team. Yung is also paying close attention to the local education. He is currently the member of the board of the HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity. The Hong Kong based multi-artist Danny Yung is one of the most dynamic cultural figures in Hong Kong.

Proceeds from the charity auction of the 63 "Tian Tian Xiang Shang" statues improvised by Japanese creators, which amounts to JPY648,614, were donated to two NPOs - ビヨンドトゥモロー and みちのく未来基金- for their educational programmes for the kids and youths in disaster-affected Tohoku areas by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (Tokyo).

■ Venue ：　Maru Cube in Marubiru (1F 2-4-1 Marunouchi Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)
■ Period ：　May 15th (Tue) - May 20th (Sun), 2012
■ Opening Time ：　11：00 - 21：00　* Admission free

■ Outline ：　
・A five-metre tall "Tian Tian Xiang Shang" statue by Mr. Danny Yung, a leading artist from Hong Kong
・Artworks of blank Tian Tian statues customized by 128 designers and artists from Hong Kong and Japan
・Artworks created by children at a workshop in Rikuzentakata and the artworks by the children of Hong Kong

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■ Hall composition ：　

Kimi graduated from Kuwasawa Design School. After working for a construction company and a design firm, she established "VELVETA DESIGN OFFICE TOKYO" in 2004.
Kimi works in various fields designing the "atmosphere" which is her main theme.
One of her latest work is the "Omotesando illumination" that reappeared after an interval of 11 years. She also was one of the three leading female designers/artists of the next generation at Mazda Demio New Target EXPO. Kimi has received Display Design Awards and many others.

[ Event Outline ]

■ Venue　：　Marubiru Hall (7F 2-4-1, Marunouchi Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)
■ Time & Date　：　14:00-18:00 May 15 (Tue), 2012
■ Outline　:　14:00 Opening Speech : Principal Hong Kong Economic and Trade Representative (Tokyo), Ms. Sally Wong

Keynote Speech : Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development, HKSARG, Mr. Gregory So (Full Text of Speech)

Vice Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Mr. Keiro Kitagami

14:30～18:00 Forum

[ Forum Theme ]

On 3Ps (PEOPLE, PLACE, POLICY) to achieve the infrastructure for Asian creative cities network.

[ Speakers ]

From Hong Kong :
Danny Yung (Co-Artistic Director, Zuni Icosahedron), Freeman Lau (Vice Chairman, Hong Kong Design Centre), Chan Pik Yu (Program Leader and Vice-Department Head of Design Department Cheung Kong School of Art and Design, Shantou University), Mathias Woo (Co-Artistic Director and Executive Director, Zuni Icosahedron), Patrick Mok (Research Director, Hong Kong Institute of Contemporary Culture)

From Tokyo :
Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto (Director, Arts and Cultural Projects, NLI Research Institute), Yusaku Imamura (Director, Tokyo Wonder Site), Kayoko Iemura (Director of Arts Program and Residency Division, Tokyo Wonder Site), Katsunori Tanaka (Deputy General Manager, Area Brand Management Department, Mitsubishi Estate)

Observer (Hong Kong) :
Edmund Lee (Executive Director, Hong Kong Design Centre)

Forum rundown

※Video by Zuni Icosahedron　Chinese・Japanese Translation by Hiroyoshi Fukamachi

■ Venue　：　Takata Elementary School at Rikuzentakata-shi, Iwate Prefecture
■ Date　：　April 24th (Tue), 2012
■ Outline　: 　Tian Tian Xiang Shang workshop by Mr. Danny Yung.　Children castomize the 12cm miniature Tian Tian figures made by Danny, based on a story created through dialogues with school teachers, Danny and coordinators from Hong Kong.
■ Aim　：　We would like the children to experience the international cultural exchange initiated by the artworks produced by Mr. Danny Yung. We would like to communicate how children's free creativity will form the foundation of Japan and international community's future. We hope to establish a new partnership between Hong Kong and Japan through the creativity of children of Hong Kong and Japan.