Salon: Fundraising group exhibition
To mark its fourth anniversary, Mur Nomade presents “Salon: Fundraising group exhibition” featuring paintings, drawings and photographs by artists that have collaborated with the curatorial platform since its creation. Mur Nomade will be open exceptionally on the Public Holiday of Saturday, 1st October.
Operating on a non-profit-making basis, Mur Nomade will concentrate on curatorial programs and site-specific interventions after the fundraising exhibition. Artists partner with Mur Nomade in this exhibition to support its future development. The proceeds of the sale will be entirely allocated to the funding of the Mur Nomade’s future projects: open call for young curators, commissioning of performances, site-specific interventions, and programs of cultural and artistic exchanges.
Mur Nomade will welcome Olivia Chow to present a new intervention and performance entitled “Thanksgiving in Tin Wan“, on Saturday, 8th October at 7pm. Canada-born Hong Kong artist and curator Olivia Chow will invite guests to the home of Mur Nomade in Tin Wan neighbourhood, on the South side of Hong Kong island, to this dinner event coinciding with Canadian Thanksgiving Day. Through cooking, waiting, watching, sharing and dining, the performance will be a sensory and social experience offering a reflection on hybrid cultures. In her practice, Chow draws inspiration from her relationship with the everyday domestic activities and social encounters in the culturally complex contemporary world we live in.
The artist will attempt to prepare and recreate a home cooked meal for twenty guests. Please arrive on time with an empty stomach. In honour of the labour and hard work we embody and put ourselves through to get by everyday, this western inspired thanksgiving dinner, for no religious reasons, is merely a celebration of ourselves, one another and the other living crops around the region including chestnut, sweet potato, lotus root, all roasted with garlic and some spices. It will also serve other homemade Chinese dishes that the artist’s grandparents made, turkey from the North American culture, as well as pumpkin pie for dessert.
Through the performance of putting together this culturally mashed meal, the aroma of the fusion food triggers sensory relations and plays on anticipation, memory and expectation. It is the artist’s hope to bring attention to the subtle host / guest relationship and invisible domestic labour that goes into production.
