After several successful study collaborations between NZU and Bauhaus-University Weimar (=my previous institution), winter 2008 saw the first of such exchange exhibitions between NZU and my new institution, the Academy of Visual Arts in Hong Kong.
In opposite to many other student exchange exhibitions, in which the works from the participating schools are merely exhibited together, but don’t necessarily correspond, in Transit 2008 the pieces did enter into a conversation, correlating and balancing each other. On a personal level, this was matched by the seemingly instant connection made between Japanese and Chinese students despite the expectable language-problems, cultural differences and differing personal backgrounds.
Catalogue:
Toshinao Yoshioka (ed.). Transit 2008~2010: International Exchange Exhibition for Contemporary Art. Nagoya: Nagoya Zokei University, 2011.
Impressions from ‘Transit 2008’ at Yada-Gallery, Nagoya:
Yada-Gallery in Nagoya 
‘Transit 2008’ opening ceremony (December 2008) 
‘Transit 2008’ exhibiton view (December 2008) 
‘Transit 2008’ exhibiton view (December 2008) 
‘Show Time’ by Luk Chung-Wing, Jarvis (December 2008) 
‘Poetry in Banality’ by Lai Long-Sang, Sunday (December 2008) 
‘Chinese Vest’ by Fine Hang-Mei, Natalie (December 2008) 
‘Reading Japanese Newspaper’ by Law Wai-Shan, Susi (December 2008) 
‘Clipformers’ by Cheung King-Wai, Reds (December 2008) 
‘Hangers’ by Kong Wai-Shan, Kelly (December 2008) 
‘Passion’ by Lau On-Yi, Bernice (December 2008) 
‘Painting’ by Cheung Tin-Yau (December 2008)
