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Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art presents Moderation(s) by Heman Chong

Witte de With | Center for Contemporary Art presents Moderation(s) by Heman Chong, an exhibition on view 10 January 2013–9 March 2014 at Witte de With, Rotterdam and Spring, Hong Kong.

Moderation(s) brings together an international group of artists, curators, and writers including A Constructed World, Nadim Abbas, Michael Lee, Christina Li, Eszter Salamon, and Koki Tanaka, who will participate in a year-long program of contemporary discourse and production between Witte de With and Spring, a recently established non-profit art initiative and residency in Hong Kong. Within this framework, Witte de With invited Heman Chong, a Singaporean artist, curator, and writer, to steer the program, which will involve more than fifty artists and engender a conference, three exhibitions, three residencies, and a book of short stories.

The first project to surface is Bibliotheek (Library), a list of books identified to function both as a bibliography for Moderation(s), as well as an ever-expanding common library that can be replicated easily by any individual, community, or institution. The first version of Bibliotheek (Library) can be downloaded here.

As part of Moderation(s), curatorial duo Latitudes—no strangers to Rotterdam, having curated Portscapes in collaboration with the Port of Rotterdam and SKOR in 2009—will station in Hong Kong during the month of January and produce Incidents of Travel, for which they invited artists Nadim Abbas, Ho Sin Tung, Yuk King Tan, and Samson Young, to develop day-long tours that articulate the city and their artistic practice through routes and waypoints. Initiated by Witte de With’s Director Defne Ayas in collaboration with Mimi Brown, founder of Spring, the program kicked off in August 2012 with a performative teaser entitled Guilty Pleasures by artist Ang Song Ming, who engaged the assembled audience as participants in the setting of a listening part at Spring, Hong Kong. For more information about the upcoming program, please click here.

Witte de With | Center for Contemporary Art
Witte de Withstraat 50
3012 BR Rotterdam
The Netherlands
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