ART Power HK Online Talk Programme
Talk17: Non-Binary-Code: Utilising art to empower the LGBTQ+ community
Language: English
Moderator: Aaina Bhargava, Art Journalist
Speakers: Yarli Allison, Mixed-media artist (MFA Slade School of Fine Arts UCL), member of Asia-Art-Activism; Justin Chu Ho Ting, self-appointed sex educator, member of HKU’s Committee on Gender Equality and Diversity and Patrick Sun, Founder of Sunpride Foundation

How does art, and in particular digital art, is utilised by the LGBTQ+ community in Asia to challenge societal boundaries around identity and acceptance? The conversation will cover the role of institutional support, the art market and art education in shaping perception and reception of the LGTBQ+ community in Hong Kong.

Ming Wong, ‘Life and Death in Venice’, 2010. Image courtesy of the artist and Sunpride Foundation

Sunil Gupta, ‘The New Pre-Raphaelites #11’, 2008. Image courtesy of the artist and Sunpride Foundation

Justin Chu's recommendation on digital filters
Beeple: https://www.beeple-crap.com/
Zoom Background: https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/1/21243435/zoom-background-mike-winkelmann-beeples-ci-fi-ship-decimating-coronavirus-particles 

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