The Last Supper.


A weekly podcast with an Asian perspective on contemporary art, featuring emerging and established artists, curators, gallerists, and collectors in Asia. Available on Spotify, Apple, and Google podcasts.

Painter Jeremy Ip on imagination through emptiness, the challenge of owning a gallery space, and cultivating different perspectives.
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Painter Jeremy Ip on imagination through emptiness, the challenge of owning a gallery space, and cultivating different perspectives.

Ep.66 | I travelled to Kowloon Bay in Hong Kong where I met painter Jeremy Ip in his studio and gallery space. We talked about how emptiness evokes imagination, the challenge of owning a gallery space and why it is important to have different viewpoints and how he cultivates different perspectives through the activities at his art gallery.

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Artist May Yeung on her Quotation Mark, how cancer impacted her art practice, and her charity work.
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Artist May Yeung on her Quotation Mark, how cancer impacted her art practice, and her charity work.

Ep.63 | During this episode, I had the pleasure of meeting Jiyoung Park, who serves as the director of Whitestone Gallery in Seoul, Korea. Our conversation covered a range of topics, including political science, the difficulties posed by fake news, the impact of a new generation of art collectors on the art market, the Frieze art fair in Seoul, and the current state of art fairs in general.

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Whitestone Gallery Director Jiyoung Park on political science in Korea, fake news, a new generation of art buyers, and art fairs.
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Whitestone Gallery Director Jiyoung Park on political science in Korea, fake news, a new generation of art buyers, and art fairs.

Ep.62 | During this episode, I had the pleasure of meeting Jiyoung Park, who serves as the director of Whitestone Gallery in Seoul, Korea. Our conversation covered a range of topics, including political science, the difficulties posed by fake news, the impact of a new generation of art collectors on the art market, the Frieze art fair in Seoul, and the current state of art fairs in general.

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Artist Wong Pak Hang, Samson on mortality in the virtual world, crime scenes, life after death, and boredom.
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Artist Wong Pak Hang, Samson on mortality in the virtual world, crime scenes, life after death, and boredom.

Ep.61 | On this episode of The Last Supper, I travel to Fanling in Hong Kong to meet with the artist Wong Pak Hang, Samson. During our discussion, we explore three projects: Life Objects, Commuting Talking, and Screen Slavers. In addition, we delve into his intrigue with mortality in the virtual realm, his utilisation of photographic crime scenes, and his musings on boredom during commutes.

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Para Site Executive Director, Curator Billy Tang on art as a haven, the impact of racism, cross-cultural semiotics, and culture as a coat.
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Para Site Executive Director, Curator Billy Tang on art as a haven, the impact of racism, cross-cultural semiotics, and culture as a coat.

Ep.60 | I met Para Site’s Executive director and curator Billy Tang at their new space in Quarry Bay in Hong Kong. After he guided me through the current exhibition Signals we began our dialogue with why art is a safe haven, we talked about the relationship between language and identity, how racism has informed his viewpoint on the world and why he became a curator.

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Artist Mizuki Nishiyama on social and cultural dichotomies in Japan, mixed identities, Shintoism, and finding refuge in art.
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Artist Mizuki Nishiyama on social and cultural dichotomies in Japan, mixed identities, Shintoism, and finding refuge in art.

Ep.59 | Mizuki Nishiyama is a London based, mixed-Japanese artist; creating raw, vivid and multifaceted artworks that explore the fragile human condition. In this episode of The Last Supper, I spoke with artist Mizuki Nishiyama. Our wide-ranging conversation delved into social and cultural polarities in Japan, negotiating mixed identities, the impact of language, Shintoism and how art offers sanctuary.

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Artist Bobby Yu on psychological safety, grappling with family trauma, shifting viewpoints through critiquing, and her Daddy’s Dinner.
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Artist Bobby Yu on psychological safety, grappling with family trauma, shifting viewpoints through critiquing, and her Daddy’s Dinner.

Ep.58 | In this episode I caught up with artist Bobby Yu who returned from Oslo to Hong Kong. We discussed how her current project Daddy’s Dinner attempted to uncover her family’s history, how art critiquing helped to develop her confidence, and we talked about her role as an artist to address unspoken trauma.

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Artist Jaffa Lam on scent and memory, art in a fast-food Chinese in New York, and the Hong Kong Art School.
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Artist Jaffa Lam on scent and memory, art in a fast-food Chinese in New York, and the Hong Kong Art School.

Ep.57 | In this episode I travelled to the New Territories in Hong Kong where I met artist and art educator Jaffa Lam In her studio in Fo Tan. We spoke about her childhood memories of growing up in China, how a bet in a Chinese restaurant in New York enthused her to make art, grappling with imposter syndrome, determination, and her 500 rocks of the Monkey King.

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Curator Laure Raibaut on Picasso’s Paintings in Glass and the ecology of visual art in Hong Kong
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Curator Laure Raibaut on Picasso’s Paintings in Glass and the ecology of visual art in Hong Kong

Ep.56 | In this episode of The Last Supper I met curator and art historian Laure Raibaut in Cheung Chau in Hong Kong. We sat down and spoke about her upcoming Picasso exhibition of paintings in glass in The Landmark and HKU Museum and Art Gallery, we talked about the state of art in Hong Kong, and the challenges artists and art collectors are facing in Hong Kong.

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Art historian Dr Yeewan Koon on Hong Kong's art education, cultural appropriation, AI and intentionalism, and Nara Yoshitomo.
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Art historian Dr Yeewan Koon on Hong Kong's art education, cultural appropriation, AI and intentionalism, and Nara Yoshitomo.

Ep.53 | In this episode I travelled to the University of Hong Kong where I had the pleasure of meeting scholar Dr Yeewan Koon, the chair of the department of Art History of the University of Hong Kong. We addressed a broad range of topics that began with the exploration of what a Hong Kong’er and Hong Kong art is, her method behind the publication of Nara Yoshitomo’s work, why not everyone can be an artist, and her thoughts on NFT and AI.

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Art Collector Jacobo Garcia on singularity and creativity, his art assessment approach, and cultural revisionism.
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Art Collector Jacobo Garcia on singularity and creativity, his art assessment approach, and cultural revisionism.

Ep.52 | In this episode of The Last Supper I sat down with Jacobo Garcia who talked passionately about many areas of art. We began our conversation discussing the relationship between singularity and creativity, how he applies his financial risk modelling to assessing art, what he has learnt from living in Asia, and finally why he does not want to live forever.

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Ep.50 🎉 | ChatGPT on the critique of art criticism in Asia, Noel Carroll, what critics can learn from each other, and The Last Supper guest.
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Ep.50 🎉 | ChatGPT on the critique of art criticism in Asia, Noel Carroll, what critics can learn from each other, and The Last Supper guest.

Ep.50 🎉 | After explaining what ChatGPT is, we delve into a series of questions around art critiquing from what the critique is of art criticism to the differences of criticism in the west and Asia, and whether or not artist intent can be determined through critical analysis. We continued with Carroll’s art critiquing argument, the role of subjectivity in art criticism and discussed many more questions.

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