Join us for a conversation about the immeasurability of time with Lee Weng Choy, Simon Leung, Gala Porras-Kim, and Merve Ünsal—four artists and writers who have created new work for AAA’s upcoming exhibition, Countering Time.
How does time resist precise measurement? How does it counter and elude while remaining numbered at the same time? This conversation invites the participating artists and writers to discuss ideas of archival time, impermanence, ghosts, and artistic speculation. They speak about their own artworks as well as personal and shared references, including films and poems.
This event marks the opening of Countering Time, an exhibition featuring new works by Lee Weng Choy, Simon Leung, Gala Porras-Kim, and Merve Ünsal. Ünsal uses her body to record a centuries-old sinkhole where human and geological time collapse. Leung bends and folds the afterlives of a moment captured in a 1967 photograph from Hong Kong. Porras-Kim traces recollections of lost works and archives. Lee uses personal annotations to mark time. Together, they tune in, refract, exhume, and annotate artworks, archival records, and past events, demonstrating how archives are sites of imagination instead of final resting places of historical records.
Venue address: CCG Library, Asia Art Archive