Empty Gallery – 20191005- Still House Plants


2024-09-27	James T. Hong at Argo Factory, Tehran
	I Am Standing in the Middle of the Information Highway and Laughing is a new exhibition curated by Raha Raissnia and Martin Germann, opening August 16 through October 18 at the Argo Factory in Tehran. Taking its title from late artist Jonas Mekas’ Manifesto Anti-100 years of Cinema, a performative exhibition in Tehran will unfold over two different episodes. Its main aim is to celebrate the unbound energy of collaborative work and friendship on the one hand and moments of reflection and stillness on the other. Its point of departure is the Manichean binary between darkness and light, as sine qua non condition for the existence of technologically mediated images. The second chapter of the exhibition, curated by Martin Germann, opens on Friday, September 27, with Marco Fusinato, James T. Hong, Tiffany Sia and Sam Lewitt. Read more …
2024-09-22	Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork in Slipper, Personal Space, Vallejo, California
	Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork is participting in the group exhibition Slipper at Personal Space, Vallejo, California. Featuring works by: David Bayus, Lemia Monet Bodden, Kari Cholnoky, Ximaps Dong, Erik Frydenborg, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, Albert Herter, Catalina Ouyang, and Elina Vainio. “Slipping between registers, like prophesy, some excessive field leaves deposits in our shared existence. It takes form, in the shape of slips of the tongue, or a slipped disc, articulated and yet still monstrous. The environment is overpopulated by tools and weapons that encode our lust or aggression into metal, plastic, or paper, infused with the unspeakable. Here is a collection of objects, of various media, that cannot be fully accounted for, that leave a remainder or lapsus, that aren’t completely discrete, and sit like cairns on a landscape, death’s representatives, recording trajectories between past and future. Marking the differences that matter, that can be utilized to situate oneself and guide a famished party. Small signs, like fragments of fossils, can refer to immensity.” – Albert Herter Read more …
2024-09-20	Vunkwan Tam in Improvisation at Inside Out Museum, Beijing, curated by Carol Yinghua Lu
	Improvisation is on view through January 19th, 2025 at the Inside Out Museum in Beijing. It was curated by Carol Yinghua Lu with Na Rongkun, Sining Zhu, Cao Liyao, Li Huiyi and Sun Yuhan. Participating artists and collectives include Cang Xin, Chen Liang, Chen Zhou, Ergao (He Qiwo), Gao Fu, He Liping, He Ruijun, Hu Yiyao, Liu Zhan, Luo Lin, M Art Group, Ma Liuming, Pak Sheung Chuen, Peng Xueying, Rong Rong, The Cement Park, Song Xiaohong, Song Dong, Vunkwan Tam, Tong Tianqing, Wang Shihua, Wang Sishun, Yorkson, Zhang Huan, Zhang Wei, Zhang Zhihui, Zhong Yunshu, Zhou Bin, Zhu Fadong, Zuoxiao Zuzhou. Improvisation is one of the characteristics of art, as well as a method of creative practice. It highlights an artistic process where the artist finishes their work immediately and swiftly, using everything at hand, when the inspiration, provoked by an external stimulus or an internal impulse, hits unpreparedly and uncontrollably. In the context of traditional Chinese music culture, due to its unique system of notation and inheritance, improvisation was once a ubiquitous technique in musical practice. Improvisation is a cross-cultural phenomenon that is probably as old as the human race. This is the reason why we encounter improvisation frequently throughout different historical moments and creative activities in the long history of art. From the Dada’s rejection of logic and introduction of chaos and irrationality into their creative practice, to the Situationists who, out of an ideal to fight against Capitalism’s alienation of the individual, advocated the pursuit of genuine desires, the experience of life, and the sense of adventure. People can see that improvisation is the method, the idea, the principle, and the real life itself. Read more …
2024-09-19	Empty Gallery Staff Announcement
	Empty Gallery is pleased to announce the appointment of Alexander Lau as senior director, and Kaitlin Chan as director. Lau has served as director of the gallery, and its associated label Empty Editions, for over nine years, and been foundational in the development of our exhibition program and artist roster. Based in New York and Hong Kong, Lau also sits on the board of Primary Information (NYC). Chan joined the gallery in 2020 as associate, and has since contributed to over ten exhibitions as an artist liaison, as well as through public programming, communications, art fairs and sales. Chan is also a cultural worker who creates comics and lectures on self-publishing amongst other topics.
2024-09-19	Henry Shum in Bodily Powers at Crèvecœur, Paris
	Bodily Powers is now on view at Galerie Crevecouer (9 rue des Cascades, Paris) through November 2, 2024. Participating artists include Koichi Enomoto, Ester Knapová, Stanislava Kovalcikova, Autumn Ramsey, Emma Reyes, Margaret Salmon and Henry Shum. Read more …
2024-09-17	Taro Masushio in formazione di forme.. curated by Matilde Guidelli-Guidi at Felix Gaudlitz, Vienna
	formazione di forme.. curated by Matilde Guidelli-Guidi at Felix Gaudlitz, Vienna, as part of curated by 2024, is on view from 17 September through October 19, 2024. The exhibition features works by Alighiero Boetti, Aria Dean, Taro Masushio, and Samson Young, chosen for their distinct approach to form-making. Masushio took the Untitled (Youth) pictures in San Francisco in the early aughts, at a time of youthful infatuation with the aesthetics and techniques of formalist photography. He shot the SoMa scene through that lens: analog camera and the zone system, the body flattened and closely cropped in black-and-white symmetries. Finding those negatives in his archive last summer arose feelings of embarrassment toward his puppy love days. An embarrassment that he worked through, coming face to face with that innocent attraction to formalism, and by extension to a younger self, that is akin to kink. So that in the printing process, he treated the negatives to further heighten the compositional elements in ways that replay the darkroom devotion of his youth. Masushio said: “Vis-à-vis my personal history, I want to propose a provocation of (modernist?) aesthetics and the taboo of being a formalist, which I thought was kind of kinky. (A kind of parallel between concept/ form vs norm/ taboo). But there is always a bit of embarrassment about making these kinds of (po-mo) gestures, too.” The form/ affect dyad shifts valence from attraction to embarrassment to kink in the reception of these works. Which is real? This fractal approach to the archive is typical of his overall method. An earlier body of work emerged from fortuitously finding, in a temporary lodging, a box of prints and recognizing them as the work of the late Jun’icha En’ya—an elusive figure and one of the earliest Japanese photographers of homoerotica. A visit to En’ya’s environs in Osaka generated Masushio’s works: photographs of pencil-traced snapshots that he furtively took in En’ya’s archives, and still-life pictures of the objects that En’ya owned or that he might have. Between Masushio and the En’ya “idea” there is no articulated relationship of influence. Form escapes filiation there: the pressure of the archival materials and the pencil pressing against paper. Read more …
2024-09-07	Tishan Hsu in Interface Remix, MoCA Toronto
	Tishan Hsu’s solo exhibition Interface Remix at MOCA Toronto opens to the public on Sunday, September 8.  “Interface Remix” showcases key works from the past five decades of Hsu’s career alongside never-before-seen creations that explore themes of transformation and alienation. In his first ever Canadian solo exhibition, Hsu’s groundbreaking work navigates the intersection of technology and the human body through his multidisciplinary practice spanning painting, sculpture, and installation. Hsu will also be in conversation with Alex Da Corte on September 8th at 2PM in an accompanying program. Read more …
2024-09-04	Works by Mickael Marman, Emmanuel Louisnord Desir, & Cici Wu at 47 Canal
	Cici Wu’s Lovers Revolt, Lovers Resolve (Reincarnations of Lantern), 2020, is now on view at 47 Canal through September 14 in a group presentation with Mickael Marman and Emmanuel Louisnord Desir. Read more …
2024-08-23	Jes Fan in Dream States, Groundspace of The Metropolitan Museum of Manila
	Jes Fan’s Bivalve II is now on view at Dream States, Groundspace of The Metropolitan Museum of Manila, through January 2025. Artists: Jes Fan, Katharina Grosse, Michael Ho, and Olafur Eliasson. Special thanks to Tim Tan.
2024-08-15	Raha Raissnia at Argo Factory, Pejman Foundation
	I Am Standing in the Middle of the Information Highway and Laughing is a new exhibition curated by Raha Raissnia and Martin Germann, opening August 16 through October 18 at the Argo Factory in Tehran. Taking its title from late artist Jonas Mekas’ Manifesto Anti-100 years of Cinema, a performative exhibition in Tehran will unfold over two different episodes. Its main aim is to celebrate the unbound energy of collaborative work and friendship on the one hand and moments of reflection and stillness on the other. Its point of departure is the Manichean binary between darkness and light, as sine qua non condition for the existence of technologically mediated images. For the first chapter of the exhibition, a number of artists have been carefully selected by Raha Raissnia to accompany two of her own works. In the spirit of Mekas’s Manifesto, they are all friends whom she has known personally from many years of living and working in New York City. Artists: Jonas Mekas, Raha Raissnia, Andrew Chalk, Pip Chodorov, Martha Colburn, Milton Cruz, Albert Herter, Andrew Lampert, Jeanne Liotta, Timo Van Luijk, Panagiotis Mavridis, Jordan Mintzer, Jason Babak Mohaghegh, Stom Sogo and Justina Zukauskaite Read more …

Archive


	current
•	2024-09-21 . . . 2024-11-30	Pass	Taro Masushio current
past
	2024
•	2024-06-08 . . . 2024-08-17	Apologies and Other Regrets	James T. Hong past
•	2024-03-24 . . . 2024-05-25	Le Contre-Ciel	Yuji Agematsu, Francis Alÿs, Paul Chan, Mel Chin, Magalie Comeau, Bruce Conner, Liz Deschenes, Trisha Donnelly, Agustín Fernández, Guo Fengyi, Richard Hawkins, Kong Chun Hei, Leung Kui Ting, Mathieu Malouf, Kazuo Ohno, R.H. Quaytman, Julia Scher, Michael E. Smith, Vunkwan Tam, Tang Kwok-hin, Tom Thayer, Stewart Uoo, Antek Walczak, Wucius Wong, Yu Ji past
•	2023-12-08 . . . 2024-02-17	Back	Doris Guo past
	2023
•	2023-09-03 . . . 2023-11-18	Belonging and Difference	Cici Wu past
•	2023-03-18 . . . 2023-06-24	screen-skins	Tishan Hsu past
•	2023-03-18 . . . 2023-06-24	Sites of Wounding: Chapter 1	Jes Fan past
•	2022-12-10 . . . 2023-02-18	نور	Raha Raissnia past
	2022
•	2022-08-27 . . . 2022-11-19	F	Vunkwan Tam past
•	2022-04-02 . . . 2022-06-18	Bad Timing	Xper. Xr past
•	2021-12-11 . . . 2022-02-19	Vanishing in the Wilderness	Yutaka Matsuzawa past
	2021
•	2021-09-11 . . . 2021-11-20	Olistostrome	Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork past
•	2021-04-17 . . . 2021-07-24	Tailwhip	Xper. Xr. past
•	2020-12-23 . . . 2021-03-20	Rumor Has It	Taro Masushio past
	2020
•	2020-09-26 . . . 2020-11-21	Vortices	Henry Shum past
•	2020-06-20 . . . 2020-09-05	Oax.D.F.L.A.N.O.H.K	ektor garcia past
•	2019-12-14 . . . 2020-02-01	Reoccurring Afterlife	Diane Severin Nguyen past
•	2019-12-14 . . . 2020-02-01	The Thing	James T. Hong past
	2019
•	2019-09-28 . . . 2019-11-23	The Bare Life	Philippe Grandrieux past
•	2019-06-22 . . . 2019-09-07	New Molecules & Stem Cell Retinoid Screen	Sean Raspet past
•	2019-03-26 . . . 2019-06-06	delete	Tishan Hsu past
•	2019-03-26 . . . 2019-06-06	Unfinished Return	Cici Wu past
•	2018-12-15 . . . 2019-01-26	Memento Stella	Takashi Makino past
•	2018-12-15 . . . 2019-01-26	The Pearl Of Tailorbird	Rei Hayama past
	2018
•	2018-09-22 . . . 2018-11-24	Gravitational Currents & The Life Magic	Susanne Winterling past
•	2018-06-30 . . . 2018-09-08	Thresholds of Perception	Catherine Christer Hennix past
•	2018-03-27 . . . 2018-06-02	Mother Is A Woman	Jes Fan past
•	2018-03-27 . . . 2018-06-02	Ruthless Logic	Xavier Cha past
•	2017-12-09 . . . 2018-02-03	Shocking Asia	C. Spencer Yeh past
	2017
•	2017-09-09 . . . 2017-11-18	Everything Visible Is Empty	Toshio Matsumoto past
•	2017-06-17 . . . 2017-08-26	Catchy	Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork past
•	2017-03-22 . . . 2017-05-27	Infinite Doors	Takeshi Murata past
•	2016-12-13 . . . 2017-02-17	CINÉMA CONCRET	Takashi Makino past
•	2016-12-13 . . . 2017-02-17	Kaya Cynara	Hans-Henning Korb past
	2016
•	2016-03-24 . . . 2016-05-20	Ancestor Bone Hug	Amit Desai past
•	2015-11-07 . . . 2016-02-06	The Man Who Sleeps On His Breath	Edward S. Curtis, Valerio Tricoli past
	2015
•	2015-09-11 . . . 2015-10-21	Sonorous Objects	Rolf Julius, Tomoko Sauvage, Rubén D’Hers and Marc Hurtado past
•	2015-03-05 . . . 2015-08-15	Transcendance	Amit Desai past


past
	2024
•	2024-05-26	Le Contre-Ciel: A Conversation	Brian Kuan Wood, Yang Yeung, Alexander Lau past
•	2024-03-29 . . . 2024-03-30	Empty Gallery Annual Rave	John T. Gast, Nick Klein, DJ Gonz, FIT Siegel and Conrad Pack past
•	2024-02-03	Uncanny Returns: The Discarnates	Özge Ersoy and Jean Ma past
	2023
•	2023-11-12	Migratory Positions: a discussion on Cici Wu's Belonging and Difference	Elaine W. Ho, Dr. Yeewan Koon, Dr. Linda Chiu-han Lai, Jaime Chu past
•	2023-06-15	Art Basel Rave past
•	2023-03-24 . . . 2023-03-25	Empty Gallery Annual Rave past
•	2023-02-18 . . . 2023-02-19	Nour Closing Program: Film-Performance	Raha Raissnia and Charles Curtis past
	2022
•	2022-11-12	F CLOSING PARTY	VUNKWAN TAM past
•	2022-04-22	Tishan Hsu and Jes Fan \| La Biennale di Venezia	Traxx, Ron Morelli, Scott Zacharias, Adrian Rew past
	2021
•	2021-07-24	Easy Listening for The Hard of Seeing	Xper.Xr past
•	2021-03-06	Webinar \| Taro Masushio and Taro Nettleton	Taro Masushio past
	2020
•	2020-10-03	Tours of Henry Shum 'Vortices'	Henry Shum past
•	2020-09-05	ektor garcia, Ruth Asawa and a brief history of crochet	ektor garcia, Ruth Asawa past
	2019
•	2019-12-15	Screening \| John Carpenter's The Thing	James T. Hong past
•	2019-11-30 . . . 2019-12-01	The Body Electric	Xper.Xr., Die Angel, Fiesta Brass past
•	2019-10-05		Still House Plants past
•	2019-06-23	Human Formats: Recent Developments in Stem Cell Science and the Plastic Arts	Dr. Robert Johnston past
•	2019-03-20	Opening Rave \| delete & Unfinished Return	O YAMA O, DJ PYTHON, CARLOS SOUFFRONT, BILL CONVERSE past
•	2019-01-26	Screening \| Experimental Films by Rei Hayama	Rei Hayama past
	2018
•	2018-12-16		Taku Sugimoto & Minami Saeki past
•	2018-10-27		Taibach, Billy Bao & NYPD past
•	2018-08-31 . . . 2018-09-02		Chora(s)san Time Court Mirage past
•	2018-06-30	Opening Reception \| Thresholds of Perception	Amir ElSaffar past
•	2018-03-31	Failed Celestial Creatures	David Grubbs & Taku Unami past
•	2018-03-30	Opening Rave \| Ruthless Logic & Mother Is A Woman	Ahmed, Cera Khin, Mumdance, Logos & Rob Hall past
	2017
•	2017-12-09	Opening Reception \| Shocking Asia	Violet past
•	2017-11-18	Screening + Closing Reception \| Funeral Parade Of Roses past
•	2017-10-21		Reizen / Morishige past
•	2017-09-09	Opening Reception \| EVERYTHING VISIBLE IS EMPTY	Aki Onda past
•	2017-08-26	Closing Reception \| CATCHY	Errorsmith past
•	2017-06-17	Opening Reception \| CATCHY	Thomas Brinkmann × Seijiro Murayama past
•	2017-05-27	Closing Reception \| Infinite Doors	C. SPENCER YEH past
•	2017-03-25	Green Hour, Grey Future	Reinier Van Houdt past
•	2017-03-23	Une Nuit Sans Sommeil	Lionel Estève, Jean-Michel Distexhe & Zoë-Louise Estève past
•	2017-03-22	Opening Party \| Infinite Doors	Sissy Spacek, Gabber Eleganza, Lorenzo Senni & Rian Treanor past
•	2017-02-18	Endless Cinema	Takashi Makino past
•	2017-01-21	Green Music	Tomoko Sauvage & Francesco Cavaliere past
	2016
•	2016-12-17		Eli Keszler, Rashad Becker & James Hoff past
•	2016-12-09	EG Reopening Party	Terre Thaemlitz, Mark Fell, Rian Treanor & Robert Lippok past
•	2016-05-21		Magda Mayas × Tony Buck, dj sniff & Shane Aspegren past
•	2016-04-23	Dialogues	Ko Ishikawa / Joel Ryan & Jean-Luc Guionnet / Daichi Yoshikawa past
•	2016-01-09		Keiji Haino × John Butcher past
	2015
•	2015-11-21		Masayoshi Urabe past
•	2015-10-24		Peter Brötzmann past
•	2015-09-25 . . . 2015-09-26	Editions Mego 20th Anniversary	Fennesz, Klara Lewis, Ilpo Vaisanen & KTL past
•	2015-08-15	LIVE@TEG	III人 past
•	2015-06-07	LIVE@TEG	Mark Fell × NHK’KOYXEN past
•	2015-05-09	LIVE@TEG	Suishou No Fune past
•	2015-03-14 . . . 2015-03-15	LIVE@TEG	Ninos Du Brasil, Eli Kezler, Rashad Becker, NHK’KOYXEN, Lorenzo Senni, Gábor Lázár & Mark Fell past


past
	2024
•	2024-06-11 . . . 2024-06-17	Art Basel	Jes Fan, Doris Guo, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, Tishan Hsu, Raha Raissnia, Henry Shum, Vunkwan Tam, Cici Wu past
•	2024-04-07 . . . 2024-04-21	ONSEN CONFIDENTIAL	James T. Hong past
•	2024-03-26 . . . 2024-03-30	Art Basel Hong Kong	Jes Fan, Taro Masushio, Henry Shum, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, Doris Guo, Tishan Hsu, and Raha Raissnia past
	2023
•	2023-10-18 . . . 2023-10-22	Paris Internationale	Vunkwan Tam, Taro Masushio past
•	2023-09-06 . . . 2023-09-09	Frieze Seoul	Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, James T. Hong, Raha Raissnia, Vunkwan Tam, Henry Shum, Xper.Xr past
•	2023-06-12 . . . 2023-06-18	Art Basel	Tishan Hsu, James T. Hong, Taro Masushio, Yutaka Matsuzawa, Henry Shum and Cici Wu past
•	2023-03-21 . . . 2023-03-25	Art Basel Hong Kong	Tishan Hsu, Jes Fan, Taro Masushio, Henry Shum, Vunkwan Tam and Raha Raissnia past
	2022
•	2022-09-02 . . . 2022-09-05	Frieze Seoul	Tishan Hsu, Taro Masushio, Vunkwan Tam, Cici Wu past
•	2022-06-13 . . . 2022-06-19	Liste Art Fair	Xper. Xr past
•	2022-05-25 . . . 2022-05-29	Art Basel Hong Kong	James T. Hong past
	2021
•	2021-10-13 . . . 2021-10-17	Frieze London	Jes Fan, Henry Shum past
•	2021-09-20 . . . 2021-09-26	Liste Art Fair Basel	Taro Masushio past
•	2021-05-19 . . . 2021-05-23	Art Basel Hong Kong	Tishan Hsu, Taro Masushio, Xper.Xr., Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, James T. Hong past
•	2021-02-24 . . . 2021-03-07	South South Veza	Rei Hayama past
	2020
•	2020-11-26 . . . 2020-11-30	Hong Kong Spotlight by Art Basel	Cici Wu & Xiaofei Mo, Henry Shum past
•	2020-11-11 . . . 2020-11-15	Art021 Shanghai	Tishan Hsu, Diane Severin Nguyen, John Wu past
•	2020-08-20 . . . 2020-08-31	June Art Fair	John Ziqiang Wu past
•	2020-02-13 . . . 2020-02-16	Felix Los Angeles	James T. Hong past
	2019
•	2019-11-07 . . . 2019-11-10	ART021 Shanghai	Elliott Jun Wright past
•	2019-03-29 . . . 2019-03-31	Art Basel Hong Kong	Tishan Hsu past
	2018
•	2018-05-03 . . . 2018-05-06	Frieze New York	Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon past
•	2018-03-07 . . . 2018-03-10	The Armory Show	Tishan Hsu and Takeshi Murata past

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2019-10-05 . . .

Still House Plants

Oct 5, 2019
Doors | 7PM

Empty Gallery is pleased to invite you to a live concert by art rock outfit Still House Plants (UK). Come join us for a night of tranquil improvisational jams!

Still House Plants are a Glasgow and South London-based three-piece collective made up of Finlay Clark, David Kennedy, and Jessica Hickie-Kallenbach. During the release of their acclaim ed 12” Long Play LP on bison records in October 2018, the group were concurrently undertaking an ambitious six-month residency at Cafe OTO as recipients of the OTO Projects UK Artists Residency Fund supported by Jerwood Arts.

Bodily Powers is now on view at Galerie Crevecouer (9 rue des Cascades, Paris) through November 2, 2024.