PRESS CLIPS KINGSLEY NG PUBLICATION La Voix du Nord TITLE Des enfants artistes au centre social Boilly DESCRIPTION Project progress review (La ville dans la baguette - Panorama 5) LANGUAGE French DATE 2004 LOCATION Tourcoing, France WEB n/a WRITER Christian Vincent PAGE 1/1 PRESS CLIPS KINGSLEY NG PUBLICATION La Voix du Nord TITLE Des oeuvres d’enfants pour emballer les baguettes DESCRIPTION Project progress review (La ville dans la baguette - Panorama 5) LANGUAGE French DATE 2004 LOCATION Tourcoing, France WEB n/a WRITER Christian Vincent PAGE 1/1 PRESS CLIPS KINGSLEY NG PUBLICATION Nord Eclair TITLE La baguette se fait <<emballer>> DESCRIPTION Project progress review (La ville dans la baguette - Panorama 5) LANGUAGE French DATE 2004 LOCATION Tourcoing, France WEB n/a WRITER Elizabeth da Costa PAGE 1/1 PRESS CLIPS KINGSLEY NG PUBLICATION Nord Eclair TITLE Quand la baguette revêt son plus bel habit DESCRIPTION Project progress review (La ville dans la baguette - Panorama 5) LANGUAGE French DATE 2004 LOCATION Tourcoing, France WEB n/a WRITER Elizabeth da Costa PAGE 1/1 PRESS CLIPS KINGSLEY NG PUBLICATION Nord Eclair TITLE L’art est aussi public DESCRIPTION Artist profil and Project review (Panorama 5) LANGUAGE French DATE July 2004 LOCATION Tourcoing, France WEB n/a WRITER Djamel Mezine PAGE 1/1 PRESS CLIPS KINGSLEY NG PUBLICATION Paroles TITLE Kingsley Ng et ses merveilleuses machines musicales DESCRIPTION Artist profile review (Musical Wheel) LANGUAGE Traditional Chinese / French DATE March 2008 LOCATION Hong Kong, China WEB http://www.alliancefrancaise.com.hk/paroles/numeros/212/04.html WRITER Gérard Henry PAGE 1/3 PRESS CLIPS KINGSLEY NG PUBLICATION Paroles TITLE Kingsley Ng et ses merveilleuses machines musicales DESCRIPTION Artist profile review (Musical Wheel) LANGUAGE Traditional Chinese / French DATE March 2008 LOCATION Hong Kong, China WEB http://www.alliancefrancaise.com.hk/paroles/numeros/212/04.html WRITER Gérard Henry PAGE 2/3 PRESS CLIPS KINGSLEY NG PUBLICATION Paroles TITLE Kingsley Ng et ses merveilleuses machines musicales DESCRIPTION Artist profile review (Musical Wheel) LANGUAGE Traditional Chinese / French DATE March 2008 LOCATION Hong Kong, China WEB http://www.alliancefrancaise.com.hk/paroles/numeros/212/04.html WRITER Gérard Henry PAGE 3/3 PRESS CLIPS KINGSLEY NG PUBLICATION Ming Pao Weekly 2048 TITLE Annual Rings of Kwun Tong / 觀塘的年輪 DESCRIPTION Project review (Osage Kwun Tong - Musical Wheel) LANGUAGE Traditional Chinese DATE Feb 2008 LOCATION Hong Kong, China WEB n/a WRITER Lam / 林衛 PAGE 1/1 Ming Pao Weekly 2048 PRESS CLIPS KINGSLEY NG PUBLICATION Milk Magazine Weekly TITLE Cross Currents DESCRIPTION Group Exhibition Review (Osage Kwun Tong - Musical Wheel) LANGUAGE Traditional Chinese DATE July 29, 2010 LOCATION Hong Kong, China WEB n/a WRITER Cyn@Milk PAGE 1/1 Milk Magazine Feb 4 2008 PRESS CLIPS KINGSLEY NG PUBLICATION South China Morning Post TITLE Wonder wheel DESCRIPTION Artist profile (Musical Wheel - Osage Kwun Tong) LANGUAGE English DATE Feb 5, 2008 LOCATION Hong Kong, China WEB n/a WRITER C6Jade Lee-DuffyLife TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2008 SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST PAGE 1/1 Edited by Kevin Kwong ARTS [email protected] Reviews HK Philharmonic Orchestra HK Cultural Centre Concert Hall Reviewed: Feb 1 Beethoven’s Symphony No 4 is the most neglected of the nine, so every opportunity to hear a conductor try to raise its standing is welcome. Edo de Waart’s reading was persuasive in binding the slow movement’s swings in mood and melodic character into a seamlessly paced statement. Similarly, the third movement tempered the contrast between the alternating sections to Based on principles of this sustain interest through sheer Neanderthal social behavioural momentum, while the spot-on model – that men are trained to finale crackled from start to finish, focus on one task at a time while riding impetuously on the string women can multitask at all times – section’s nimble work. the American stand-up comic The orchestra’s contribution in explains why the two often differ in Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez was their approach to life, from a model of balance and precision in shopping to sex. support of guitar soloist Yang Xuefei, This stage production has played who ran up and down the fretboard to enthusiastic crowds in the US with impressive agility. since 1991. But will it be equally as Her exploration of the slow popular here? Produced jointly by movement’s sultry colours and Spring-Time Stage Productions and crucial demand for rubato was less Theatre Mogul, Caveman is the impressive. But the audience felt Cantonese adaptation of Becker’s otherwise, demanding two encores solo show translated by Rupert and forming the longest autograph Chan, with actor Stephen Au Kam- queue I’ve ever seen. tong (above) in the title role. The You wouldn’t want to be stuck on performance opens at the point a desert island with Respighi’s Suite when the wife moves out after a for Organ and Strings. An exercise in blazing row. baroque pastiche, its sequential In the next 90 minutes, the passages and rhythmic motifs stray caveman explains that men and into monotony. The modest organ women are from two separate role (played by Vincent Dubois) cultures where each has their own wanders between soloist and language (and the women are very accompaniment. The string players good at theirs). He says men are only flattered it with total commitment capable of uttering about 2,000 and fulsome sonorities. words a day while women muster an ...................................................... impressive 7,000. So for a couple, Sam Olluver when a man reaches his quota, he will have to listen to another 5,000 Kingsley Ng’s carousel-like installation is an inspiring feast Caveman words from his partner in silence. Spring-Time Stage Productions Caveman was entertaining, but it Shouson Theatre, HK Arts Centre got quite repetitive after a while for the senses. Jade Lee-Duffy went along for a ride Reviewed: Feb 2 when the character kept playing to the same stereotypes. If it were cut Why do men hate household chores by 15 minutes, the performance and love reading the paper in the would have been more enjoyable. toilet? Why are women obsessed Au played his caveman character with details and unhappy when men too straight and lacks that charisma gloss over them? Rob Becker, writer and comic instinct that would have of the one-man show, Defending the helped him draw the audience Caveman, has a simple answer: closer to his primitive world. Wonder wheel because men are hunters and ...................................................... women are gatherers. Kevin Kwong Sketches wo young women and one metre-high wall and looks up to a He says his project should make As Osage Art Foundation is grey-haired man appear to round video screen on the pavilion’s For new media art, for “an interesting debate”. funded by the Osage Group, a be sleeping inside Kingsley ceiling. After growing up in Hong Kong business involved in the textile Ng Siu-king’s latest art Similar to the night sky, I think we should and Toronto, Ng graduated with a industry, Lin says Ng’s Musical Hirst (left with Bono) that are valued installation – and the 27- Ng leaves the screen mostly use something that degree in new media arts from Loom resonated with the company, at up to US$13.4 million. Tyear-old Hong Kong artist couldn’t black with intermittent beams Toronto’s Ryerson University as well as Kwun Tong’s garment Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way, be happier. of thin white curved lines criss- satisfies and inspires in 2003. factory past. one of Hirst’s signature pill cabinets His work, called Musical Wheel, is crossing the surface. At the same A year later, he moved to “It has a connection to the past. filled with HIV antiretroviral drugs, is an enormous 8-metre-wide, time, the disc-shaped floor rotates all the senses Roubaix, France, for two years It’s a total experience – a retreat with estimated to fetch as much as US$7 5-metre-tall carousel-like creation clockwise slowly. ...................................................... where he transformed a 250-year- a lot of different layers,” she says. million. that invites people to sit inside and The deep sounds of cello strings Kingsley Ng, new media artist old weaving loom into a musical “Through the rotational Artworks inspired by the colour contemplate. resonate from a raked wall. Ng organ-like instrument. movement, graphics, sound, sensors red were requested from participating As part of Osage Kwun Tong’s placed 400 rows of vertical cello movement, then you have Titled Musical Loom, the work is and a combination of digital and artists, who include Cecily Brown, Crosscurrents exhibition, Ng was strings on the outside of the something on another scale and I’m a collaboration with Le Fresnoy technical elements, [Ng] was able Takashi Murakami and Ed Ruscha – commissioned by the Osage Art installation, and each time one trying to put them together. National Studio of Contemporary to link the central energy of like Hirst, all represented by Gagosian. Foundation to create a piece string is plucked you can feel the “When you walk back out into Arts of France that focuses on the industrial Kwun Tong and connect The gallery’s artists have contributed a that recreates a neighbourhood vibrations down your spine. Kwun Tong and you see people northern French towns of Roubaix it to this work.” quarter of the lots. environment. He says the work aims to provide pushing trolleys and hear machines and Tourcoing, and their traditional Ng says making installations Richard Prince and British graffiti The result is a sculpture imbued people with an “experience”. and ventilation fans, you might textile history.