Journalist and filmmaker Joanne Shen was first inspired by Tsang Tsou-choi and his calligraphy to co-direct and co-produce her first documentary, King of Kowloon. She is the co-executive producer for City of Ghosts (2021), an animated docu-style series on Netflix. Shen has also worked with PBS, National Geographic, and Al Jazeera America, among others.

Martin Egan is the co-director and co-producer of King of Kowloon.

In the warehouse of Hong Kong artist Leung Mee-ping, you’ll find no shortage of discarded objects: boxes of sun-dried teabags and human hair, piles of stuffed animals, suitcases stuffed with sickness bags. Over the course of her career, Leung has collected thousands of these byproducts of human existence and repurposed them into artworks, finding meaning in the sheer scale of things that the world produces.

Leung takes M+ on a tour of her practice, from her warehouse space to community collection centres and landfills, reflecting along the way on the lifecycle of materials and the beauty that comes from sorting and understanding the things that we abandon.

Join us inside the studio of graphic designer Henry Steiner, whose work has shaped the identities of some of Hong Kong’s most influential organisations.

In this video, M+ curators Tina Pang and Shirley Surya explore three Steiner projects from the 1960s, ‘70s, and ‘80s, respectively: the pioneering The Asia Magazine, his inventive HSBC annual reports and magazines, and the branding of the exclusive The I Club.

When James Kinoshita (born 1933, Canada) arrived in Hong Kong in 1960, he inadvertently found himself at the forefront of the city’s construction boom. During his twenty-eight years at Palmer & Turner, one of Hong Kong’s oldest architectural and engineering firms, Kinoshita designed some of the city’s most enduring architectural landmarks.

Rirkrit Tiravanija is one of the most well-known practitioners in the field of relational art, in which artists construct social environments for visitors, who help ‘create’ the work through their social activities. His artworks are often presented as rooms or spaces for socialising, such as sharing meals, cooking, reading, or playing music.

In this video, Tiravanija discusses some of the ideas behind his works, including Untitled 2001 (the magnificent seven, spaghetti western), in which he cooks a Thai soup for visitors. The actual physical materials of the work consist of propane cookers, steel pots, plates, forks, trays, cutting boards, and a Thai soup recipe.