Programme

Day 1

10.00 – 10.30: introduction by organizers and of HaB programme 10.30 – 11.30: introduction of participants (chair: Jeroen de Kloet) 11:30 – 13:00: 5 x 15 minutes talks sharing (chair: Yiu Fai Chow) - Elaine W. Ho: Notes on the Open Platform: Failure as Anti- Gentrifiying Discourse - Pak Sheung Chuen: Failure and Artistic Intervention in Hong Kong - Wu Mali: Failure, Feminism and Artistic intervention in Taiwan - Giselinde Kuipers: Failure, aspiration and resignation in the peripheral cultural fields - Chen Yun: Failure and Urban Intervention in Shanghai13.00 – 14.30: lunch 14.30 – 16.00: Tsinghua students’ presentation (chair: Feng Fan) 16.00 – 16.30: tea break 16.30 – 18.00: workshop in 6 groups (including coffee and tea, introduction: Yiu Fai Chow and Jeroen de Kloet) 18.00 – 19.00: plenary roundtable + wrap up (chair: Yiu Fai Chow) 19:30: Dinner Yunnan Restaurant

Day 2

Field visits to two migrant villages around Beijing (Song Yi and Zoénie Deng Liwen)

Day 3

10.00 – 11.30: 5 x 15 min talks (chair: Zoénie Deng Liwen) - Kingsley Ng: Failure and Artistic Intervention in Hong Kong - Alena Alexandrova: Failure and Anarchic Infrastructures - Chuong-Dai Vo: Failure and Archiving - Alice Ko Nien-pu: Failure and Spaces - Li Bowen: Failure and Artistic Intervention in Beijing 11.30 – 13.00: Book of failure preparation session - individual or in groups, entirely up to participants, to contribute one item to the multimedia book. 13:00 – 14:30: lunch 14:30 –16:00: Open stage to present contributions to the book of failure (all formats are possible, including dance, video, photography, etcetera) (chair: Jeroen de Kloet) 16:00 – 16:30: tea break 2 16.30 – 17.30: Wrap up and future plans, collectively rethinking the pedagogical projects as developed on day 1 (chair: Yiu Fai Chow and Jeroen de Kloet) 17:30 – 19:30: Film screening Hills and Mountains by Zhao Xu + q&a (chair: Hu Wei) 20:00: Dinner Sichuan restaurant