In fall 2022, Michelle Fung (https://www.michelleksfung.com/) went to the world’s northernmost town, Longyearbyen, to participate in the Arctic Circle, a 17-day residency program where international artists, filmmakers and musicians lived and worked on-board a ship. For fourteen days, the group sailed off the uninhabited international territory of Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago just 10 degrees latitude from the North Pole. They made daily landings to work on their projects. They rode inflatable boats called zodiaces, watched icebergs, hiked, and thus observed and researched the Arctic land as well as the sea.
During her residency, Michelle created woodcuts for Northlandia, one of the five imaginary countries in her ongoing 2084 world-building project. She then an extra ten days in Longyearbyen, for more inspiration and artistic work.
In this talk, she will share on her personal Arctic journey and on the Northlandia Arctic Woodcuts she created there. She will also share her scholarly and journalistic insights on climate change and the delicate Arctic landscape.
Registration link: https://lbcube.hkust.edu.hk/ce/index.php/event/9676/
About the Speaker Michelle Fung (馮捲雪):
An interdisciplinary artist, Michelle Fung’s lifelong oeuvre revolves around a grand dystopian world-building narrative set in year 2084. Her works have been presented extensively in international museums, galleries and university exhibitions and film festivals. A friend of HKUST, her solo exhibition
Plastic, Plastic, Every Where was held at HKUST in 2019 (
https://www.michelleksfung.com/hkust-2019).
She holds a BFA, The University of British Columbia, Canada and MVA, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong.
