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Spring Workshop was founded in 2011 as a five-year experimental initiative.

History
Spring Workshop was founded in 2011 as a five-year experimental initiative.

Partnership Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, M+ Museum for Visual Culture, Para Site and Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art.

Founder and Director Brown said that after five years Spring will take a hiatus from its activities to re-examine the needs of the city. (CITE)

Total number of audience members: 15,461

Total number of artists and collaborators: 203

Total number of residents: 162

Total number of public programs and exhibitions: 137

Spring Workshop is an independent non-profit organization based in Hong Kong that provides a platform and laboratory for the arts via a program of residencies, exhibitions, public programs and exchange.

In 2016, Spring Workshop received the Prudential Eye Award for Best Asian Contemporary Art Organisation.

Spring is located in a converted book warehouse within the industrial neighborhood of Wong Chuk Hang, located directly across the street from the Wong Chuk Hang MTR station which is just two stops from Admiralty. There are also many buses from Central and Kowloon that serve Wong Chuk Hang, 15 minutes from Causeway Bay and 20 minutes from Central.

Projects
-      Adventures in Reality, Part II, Michael Friedman, 2017

-      Feminism and Sex in Hong Kong, Rashida Jones, 2017

-      An exposition, not an exhibition, Ari Benjamin Meyers, 2017

-      Winter Sublet, Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff, 2016

-      Without Trying, Wong Wai Yin, 2016

-      Duilian, Wu Tsang, 2016

-      Des hôtes: a foreigner, a human, an unexpected visitor, 2015

-      Days push off into nights, 2015

-      The Permeability of Certain Matters, Christodoulos Panayiotou and Philip Wiegard, 2014

-      The Social Contract, A Constructed World, 2013

-      The Universe of Naming, Qiu Zhijie, 2013

-      Adventures in Reality, Michael Friedman, 2012

-      Guilty Pleasures, Ang Song Ming, 2012

Projects in partnership
-      In Search of Miss Ruthless Performance Program, with Para Site, 2017

-      Kunsthalle for Music, with Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, 2017

-      The Modern Academy, with Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, 2017

-      Ha Bik Chuen Archive Pilot Project, with Asia Art Archive

-      Islands Off the Shores of Asia, with Para Site, 2014

-      Green takeover, HK Farm, 2014-2015

-      Singing Resistance, Sumangala Damodaran, with Asia Art Archive, 2014

-      Blast Off Into The Sinosphere, Ming Wong, with Para Site, 2014

-      Moderation(s), with Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, 2013-14

-      Performing the Archipelago, with Asia Art Archive, 2012

-      太平天国/Taiping Tianguo Performance Program, with Para Site, 2012

-      The Fifth Night, Yang Fudong, with Videotage, One World Exhibition, 2011

Education
Spring’s public programs present diverse entry points for the audience to encounter art and artists. (CITE) Wu, Ming In a related vein, several children’s educational programs based on the exhibitions have been conducted on topics such as rewriting history through book-making (Duilian), stop-motion animation (Islands Off the Shores of Asia), child labour and ownership of production (The Permeability of Certain Matters), beat-making from acoustic sources (An exposition, not an exhibition) and body-mapping (The Universe of Naming).

Publications
-      Industrial Forest, 2017

-      The ten seconds that determine whether A gets made into a work, Wong Wai Yin

-      Stationary, 2015 – 2017

-      The HK FARMers’ Almanac, 2015

-      Moderation(s) End Note(s), 2012 – 2014, with Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art

-      A Fictional Residency, 2013, with Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art

Wong Chuk Hang Map Competition

Welcome to the industrial neighborhood of Wong Chuk Hang, only a few minutes by MTR, minibus or taxi from Central. The spacious warehouse buildings here are home to many artists, architects, writers and art spaces. New cafes and shops are popping up like mushrooms. It is an ideal place to visit when you wish to get off the beaten track in Hong Kong.

Each year, Spring publishes an artist’s hand-made map of Wong Chuk Hang that is meant to guide culturally-hungry (and also calorically-hungry) visitors around the neighbourhood, while also chronicling the evolution of a place. We want you to be able to find the gems in this vibrant area, so our map shows artspaces, eateries and a few of our beloved WCH landmarks.

The 2016 map competition was won by Taylor Chan. You will find his map printed on the back of Spring’s brochure, and can also download a digital file here.

The maps of our previous winners, Lokz Phoenix (2015), Vanessa Ma (2014) and Carmen Ng (2013) are available for view and download by clicking their names.

Documentation of the evolution of the neighborhood.