“we work, similiar to an amateur archaeological adventure, to uncover within these abandoned spaces, a ‘being’ of its own, of little visibility, seeping light faint upon the quiet inside. These obscure spaces are the sub-conscious faculty of our spatial environment; they exist, implicitly, they harbour ‘things’, sometimes intentionally, other times, misplaced and falling from the cracks and gaps, certain memories, not precious but perhaps a vivid picture of our live in its perpetual state. We are not trying to assign functions within these spaces, nor crack open the light of day upon these quiet retreats, we merely wish to give these spaces a place of their own, a space weaved and given its ‘being’ through stories and imagination, we remain, looking…”

*This is an ongoing project exploring the consequences of passive arrangement within an architectural space. This series of photographs are impromptu captures of unremarkable spaces left behind by our logical plans and intervention of interior arrangement. 

video

5 min 29 secs

soundtrack adopted from Fourcolor, Letters of Sound of 12k music label.

video

1 min 24 secs

black and white

no audio

tonight, i found an old flower in a book. i remember the plant that holds it is no longer alive…

H O K O will be screening a video for the temporary museum shop at the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam. The temporary museum shop will stay throughout the summer of 2008. The video is a record of the moving process that happened within the museum,

This project is done in collaboration with Sophie Krier(Netherlands).

click here to watch video.

H O K O will be screening the video : ‘a man about’ at Smalle Haven Gallery, Eindhoven, for the collective exhibition ‘Mental Illustratie.’ 

participating artists:

Lennard Schuurmans

Seton J. Beggs.

H O K O

Venue : Smalle Haven street 2-14, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

Date: 28 march- 27 april, 2008

opening hours: 12:00-22:00 ( wednesday-sunday )

closed from 16-20 April.

for more info, visit : www.designspecies.org

‘a man about’

video installation for the IM Masters Graduation Show 2007- Design Academy Eindhoven, Netherlands.

view video here

H O K O has been invited to exhibit at the Design Parassita- Fuori Salone di Naba’Salone De Mobile Satelite, Milano.

We will be presenting a series of hook design and a video installation.

for more info, click here.

‘Design Parassita’

date : 18-23 april 2007

venue: Via Darwin, 20 - 20143, Milano

For the Dutch Design Week 2006, H O K O is collaborating with Jonathon Ben-Tovim (Australia), Clo’e Floirat (France) and Ivana Borovnjak (Croatia) to present BLA(bla). We will be exhibiting a series of installations and objects based on our observations of boredom at the Nova Gallery, Eindhoven. 

“BLA(bla) celebrates boredom!” 

Date: 21-29 October 2006. 

Venue: Nova Gallery, Eindhoven, Netherlands.

H O K O has been invited to participate in the group exhibition, ‘Kuo Chuan Lifestyles’.

The exhibiton features work by artists and designers all of whom were living and working on the same street ‘Kuo Chuan Avenue’, Singapore.

participating artists: 

B. Jane Cowie - glass
Chris Yap - photography
Nathaniel Walters - mixed media
Lim Meng Kuang - ceramics
James Speck - 3D animation
Mark Kaufmann - mixed media
H O K O - photography
Song Yue - photography, painting
Bryan Smith - photography
Nick Charnley - mixed media

Date : 14th-30th july 2006

venue: ShowHaus Gallery, 10 Kuo Chuan Avenue, Singapore. 

for more info : http://www.little-red-dots.com/kclife.html

H O K O has been invited to participate in a group art show, whistlebristle, - a manifestation of the essence of found objects. 

This show features the works of established singaporean artist from the fields of painting, performance art, installation art, and literature.

featuring artist: 

Sia Joo Hiang ( literature, painting ) 

Jeremy Sharma ( painting )

Rizman Putra ( performance, installation )

Rossalyn Tan ( painting )

Cheong Kha Kit ( installation )

H O K O ( installation )

Date: 11th march- 4th april 2004 

Venue: studio 106 , joo chiat , singapore.