Andy Li San-kit

Photography installation, slide film and slide projector

In a society filled with constant visual stimulation that urges us to capture countless images, how many moments do you truly remember that exist only in the realm of memory?

In Those Moments I Regret About Not Pressing the Shutter (2018), artist Li San-kit upends the idea of image-making by exploring the haunting nature of uncaptured moments. This ongoing work features a vintage slide projector from the 1990s that displays handwritten texts such as ‘12.6.2019 The moment I cannot see anything’. These phrases serve as ghosts of regret that trail after the artist. Displayed in a continuous loop, this carousel of evocative texts transcends nostalgia and ignites participants’ imagination of unknowable, invisible moments.

Andy Li San-kit (b. 1994, Hong Kong) is an experimental filmmaker and photo-based artist who weaves the machine into the image, treating the medium as the message. His practice emphasises the relationship between the photographed subject and the documentation process, with works spanning 16mm film, photography, video, installation, and photo objects. A member of the Floating Projects Collective and cofounder of Negative Space (2019–2022), Li continues to explore the intersection of film as moving image and as object.

Henry Chu

Screen-based live interactive programme in the Lounge’s Interactive Media Room at the M+ Mediatheque

Have some free time before your next screening? Head to the Mediatheque’s Interactive Media Room for a spontaneous karaoke session!

Mix a Cantopop cocktail using Henry Chu’s special recipe. Canto Cocktail is a karaoke generator that uses computational algorithms to compose new medleys based on excerpts of 120 Cantopop songs. Drawing on shared cultural memories, it offers an affectionate commentary on this popular genre. The project also reflects the increased use of machines for music-making. You can even experience Canto Cocktail at home via https://cantococktail.com/.

Henry Chu (b. 1976, Hong Kong) is a designer, programmer, and media artist. He graduated from the Electrical and Computer Engineering programme at the University of Auckland and founded pill & pillow in 2004. His work harnesses data, music, and body movements, and has been exhibited in museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, M+ in Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong Museum of Art.

Henry Chu
Digital-clock video operating in real time

From sunlight and shadows to the sounds around us, there are more ways to tell time than by using a clock. To Henry Chu, television serves as a unique timekeeper. Back in 2005, while working on his art after his day job, he always left his TV on. Chu realised that he could tell the time based on the TV shows playing, even without actively watching them. This revelation led him to experiment with combining real-time television with a twenty-four hour digital clock. Using multiple TV channels, this clock operates in real time, changing according to what is playing on TV. As a result, every second is a unique work of art.

Tehching Hsieh

Vinyl sticker on wall

Museum visitors should not miss Hsieh’s poetic artist statement, presented in the Festival Lounge beside the M+ Grand Stair. Reflecting on human existence, creativity, and the passage of time, Hsieh’s text blurs the lines between art and everyday life.

Tehching Hsieh (b. 1950, Taiwan) is one of the world’s most respected performance artists. Hsieh carried out demanding performances with extreme rigour by establishing rules and conditions and then adhering to them for extended periods of time. Each of his first five performances lasted for one year, and the sixth lasted for thirteen years. Hsieh adopted the aesthetics of administrative function, often incorporating elements like legal documents into his works to emphasise the constraints he placed on his art and his life.

Location: Festival Lounge
Registration required

An extension of Ali Wong Kit-yi’s Timebombs! lecture performance, Wong invites all audience members to join her for private and personalised one-on-one sessions with One Hour Contract. This offers a safe space for creative exchange, allowing for diverse activities such as reviewing portfolios, musing on video art, or simply sharing silence. By joining Wong, each participant enters into a contract in which they owe Wong one hour of time, which may have to be repaid in the future, terms and conditions to be determined between the participant and artist.

Ali Wong Kit-yi (b. 1983, Hong Kong) works at the intersection of research and imagination. Merging video with performance and the everyday, she crafts participatory experiences that raise questions regarding identity, the parameters of time, and alternate realms. In her relational karaoke performances and lectures, she moves fluidly between academia, memoir, philosophy, and song, incorporating content from her research.

Date and time:

Friday, 30 May 2025 14:00–15:00

Friday, 30 May 2025 15:30–16:30

Friday, 30 May 2025 17:00–18:00

Saturday, 31 May 2025 11:30–12:30

Saturday, 31 May 2025 13:00–14:00

Sunday, 1 June 2025 12:30–13:30

Sunday, 1 June 2025 14:00–15:00

Sunday, 1 June 2025 15:30–16:30

Sunday, 1 June 2025 17:00–18:00

Registration required

In our Calendar-Making Workshop, you can redefine what a year means to you while experiencing the tactile art of letterpress and creating a timeline that you can keep in the palm of your hand.

Hong Kong-based artist and bookbinder Tiana Wong is the founder of Tiana CloudLand Book Art Studio, where she teaches bookbinding and zine-making.  Wong also established a popular small press named ‘Mini Press’, which promotes independent publishing by emerging authors. Tiana is the president of the Hong Kong Mini Book Association and often organises book festivals.

Date and time:

Saturday, 31 May 2025 16:00–20:30 (fifteen participants maximum)

Location: Festival Lounge

Registration required

Tick-tock! Learn bookbinding basics and craft a unique time-inspired book in which the pages are the hands of the clock. This special book is both a playful object and a useful little notebook.

Tiana CloudLand Book Art Studio was founded by Tiana Wong in 2010. As a Hong Kong-based artist and bookbinder, Tiana established a popular small press named “Mini Press,” which promotes independent publishing and mini-book culture through her seasonal zine, “Eggwich.” In 2012, Tiana became president of the Hong Kong Mini Book Association and organised the first three Hong Kong Book Festivals in 2014, 2015, and 2017. Tiana has trained with renowned Japanese bookbinders and has pursued learning in Taiwan and Beijing, including traditional handmade paper-making and Chinese framing techniques.

Date and time:

Sunday, 1 June 2025 16:00–18:00 (fifteen participants maximum)

Location: Grand Stairs

Registration required

If each person has a ‘body clock’, how do they differ? This workshop led by c.95d8 invites participants to reflect on and expand the concept of ‘crip time’ through a creative and collaborative exploration of disability art practices. Formed in 2022 by Hong Kong friends Yeung Siu-fong, Thisby Cheng, and Bomb Lam, c.95d8 is a collective that focuses on the experiences of artists with disabilities.  Reclaiming the word ‘crip’, short for ‘cripple’, as a term of empowerment, their work challenges conventional perceptions of time and ability.

In this workshop, c.95d8 will demonstrate the concept of crip time as a way to resist the pressures of rigid, ableist notions of time, especially in the fast-paced context of Hong Kong, and will invite participants to rethink their relationships with time and each other. Drawing from Professor Ellen Samuels’ essay Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time, c.95d8 will also explore how this concept can be contextualised and expanded within an Asian cultural framework.

Date and time:

Sunday, 1 June 2025 14:00–17:00 (fifteen participants maximum)

Drop-In

Building on the popularity of last year's screen-printing workshop, join us for a hands-on experience that promises to be equally creatively fulfilling! In these free drop-in sessions, participants can select their favorite Festival graphic designed by Studio Hik to craft their colourful combinations. Bring your own T-shirts, bags, or materials to print, and enjoy expert guidance from screen-printing guru Kinchoi Lam.

Kinchoi Lam (b. 1988, Hong Kong) is an artist and picture-book maker. He obtained a master’s degree in children’s book illustration at Anglia Ruskin University in England. For his first picture book, Little Big Tram (2017), he won the First Prize in the Creative Writing in Chinese Award in 2016 and the Hong Kong Publishing Biennial Award in 2019. Lam’s recent picture-book publications include Journey to Mars (2021), The Unexpected Journey of Little Star (2022), and Nomads: Life on the Move (2022).

Date and time:
Friday, 30 May 2025 15:00–19:00

Saturday, 31 May 2025 16:00–20:30

Sunday, 1 June 2025 15:00–19:00

Drop-In

The Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival may only take place over three days, but it requires an entire year and a big team to make it happen. Hear about the behind-the-scenes processes at the 'Creative Team Pop-Up Talk' in the AAGFF Festival Lounge, featuring the talented minds that make this festival possible. Develop insights into this massive collaborative effort as the team describes their graphic design philosophy, the creation of mood boards, merchandise design, conceptual trailers, and the intricacies of video shooting. The talk will be led by Heesun Seo of Studio Hik (graphic design), Benny Woo (creative trailers), Ollie Rodgers and Gemma Harrad of Likewise (creative videography), and Jimmy Lam of Studio Earth (website design).

Date and time:

Saturday, 31 May 2025 12:00–13:30

Drop–In

Join us for a daily curator's tour to explore the Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival’s Festival Lounge, featuring thematic art installations by artists that challenge perceptions and interpretations of time. Also, don’t forget to check out the M+ Mediatheque—a true hidden gem in the museum. Designed as a gallery, library, and lounge, the Mediatheque is a sanctuary for moving images. Explore this unique collection with the M+ Moving Image team as they guide you through this space for research, education, and entertainment, where you can view more than 250 artists’ videos on demand.

Please gather inside the Festival Lounge entrance on the Ground Floor, underneath the neon ‘M+ Cinema’ sign.

Date and time:

Friday, 30 May 2025 18:30–19:00

Saturday, 31 May 2025 11:30–12:00, 15:30–16:00

Sunday, 1 June 2025 12:00–12:30