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KOK Alice 郭恬熙

KOK Alice郭恬熙

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Born in Macau in 1978, Alice Kok left to France in 1998. She has graduated with the National Master Degree of Fine Arts (DNSEP) in Ecole Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Toulouse in France in 2004. After her graduation she has lived and worked in Paris where she has obtained “La Bourse Individuelle à la Creation” granted by La DRAC Ile-deFrance and has created the video work “Karabic OK” (2006). After travelling in India and Tibet in 2007 where she has finished the project “Yet in Exile – Family Script”, the film was selected in the “Ten Finalists for Asian Award” at the Hong Kong Independent Film and Video Award in 2009. The film was screened at the Cultural Centre of Hong Kong. “Family Script” was then selected in the Gwangju Biennale in Korea in 2010. In 2011, her work “Passing Green Island” has been selected to represent the Macau Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale of Art in Italy.

Her works are based on the idea of Multiculturalism at the post-colonial époque. In recent years, after her travel in India and Tibet, she started to incorporate Buddhist Philosophy and meditation practices into her artistic expressions. She uses media such as video, photography, writings, drawings and installations.

Living between Macau and Tibet (Lhasa) since more than 10 years, she has worked as the editor of the bilingual (English & Chinese) magazine Macau CLOSER, visiting professor at the University of Science and Technology, University of St. Joseph and the Institute of Tourism in Macau. Working as an artist and filmmaker, she is also a curator, art teacher and writer. Since 2014, she has been elected as the President of the artists association Macau Art For All Society. She is currently working as the Executive Director of The Script Road – Macau Literary Festival since 2019. In 2020, she is invited to be one of the curators at the ARTFEM, International Women Biennial of Art of Macau SAR.

1978生於澳門1998年前往法國留學2004年於法國土魯茲高等藝術學校Ecole Supérieur des Beaux Art de Toulouse獲得法國國立藝術碩士學位。其後在巴黎生活及工作。2005年獲法國巴黎文化事務部(LA DRAC)頒發「個人創作獎金」(La Bourse Individuelle a la Création),並完成錄像作品《卡拉伯OK》。200607年於印度與西藏拍攝《家書》。該片曾獲2009年香港獨立錄像比賽之亞洲區競賽最後十名,於香港藝術中心公開放映;該作品2010年被選參「韓國光洲藝術雙年展」。於2011年,她的作品「過路青洲」代表澳門參加第五十四屆意大利威尼斯藝術雙年展。

她的藝術創作理念圍繞多元文化主義 ; 在後殖民地時代的影響與重要性。2007年回澳居住後,由於受到印度與西藏之行的深刻影響,在作品中開始展現出佛學的思想元素,並將冥想修行融會到作品中。她的創作媒體有錄像、攝影、寫作和裝置等。

近年於澳門與西藏拉薩兩地生活與工作,郭恬熙曾任中英雙語雜誌Macau CLOSER編輯;於澳門科技大學、澳門聖若瑟大學和澳門旅遊學院任教。現為全職藝術家、藝術老師、作家、策展人與自由工作者。自2014年至今,她曾次被選為澳門全藝社Macau Art For All Society之會長。2019年開始出任「文不朽 澳門文學節之執行總監2020年被邀出任ARTFEM國際女藝術家澳門雙年展之展策人之一