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Title:
Building the Design and Architecture Collection at Hong Kong’s M+ Museum
Speaker:
Ms. Shirley Surya (Associate Curator, Design and Architecture, M+)
Date:
November 14, 2017
Time:
12:00 nn – 1:00 pm
Venue:
Room 201, 2/F, May Hall, The University of Hong Kong (Map)
Language:
English
Enquiry:
(Tel) (852) 3917-5772
(Email) ihss@hku.hk
As a museum for visual culture — encompassing visual art, design and architecture, and moving image — M+ has placed collection-building as a priority before the completion of its main building at the end of 2019. This talk presents the larger curatorial framework that has guided the building of the Design and Architecture collection since 2013, that reflects the institution’s priorities, values and methodology, informed by its global remit as a museum rooted in Hong Kong, with Asia at its core.
Shirley Surya is Associate Curator, Design and Architecture, at M+ — Hong Kong’s new museum for visual culture. As part of building the museum’s permanent collection, Shirley has researched and acquired works representing post-war developments in design and architecture in greater China and Southeast Asia. She co-curated M+’s first collection show “Building M+: The Museum & Architecture Collection” (2014) and online exhibition “Mobile M+: NEONSIGNS.HK” (2014), and now leads the M+-Docomomo Hong Kong Architecture Oral History Project.
Outside M+, she made curatorial contributions to exhibitions such as “Incomplete Urbanism: Attempts of Critical Spatial Practice” (NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore, 2016) on the practice of William S. W. Lim, and “Yung Ho Chang & FCJZ: Material-ism” (Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2012), a retrospective of China’s earliest independent architectural practice. She has contributed writings on the mediation of graphic design and architecture to Yung Ho Chang Draws (Joint Publishing, 2015), Design and Culture, Singapore Architect, and The Design Society Journal.
Shirley received her BA in Media Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and MA in History of Design from the Royal College of Art in London.
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