or clar
Hi there, I am clar (pronounced claire), a cultural worker based in Hong Kong *via Kuala Lumpur & Penang* working in the interstices between visual culture, art and architecture.
I produce, curate and navigate the internet to manage art and cultural projects.
I am currently a researcher of Urban Politics, exploring the impact of Art and Cultural Institutions at the School Architecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong with Prof. Inge Goudsmit.
I am 2022-2023 Emerging Curator at the Canadian Centre of Architecture
I (used to) project coordinate at the Public Arts team at the Hong Kong Arts Centre.
I am also the inaugural China Residencies (now Yao Collaborative) Researcher-in-Residence, reporting from front lines of the art and cultural scene of Hong Kong.
I am also one half of Inven_tory projects. We recently completed ‘A Good(s) Log’ funded by Design Trust . I am a partner of BAO (*Beyond Architecture Outlet)* and DoubleHolz.
I taught the first cohort of Design+ and History and Theory II at the Department of Architecture, HKU.
I previously was a scholar from the Hubs for Good program and a lecturer of Interior Architecture at Malaysia Institute of Art.
clar by Jason Li
I usually am a freelance arts writer for BASKL.
Most recently, I just finished editing the latest volume by Suburbia Projects.
I edited for the exhibition catalog for May We, curated by Rebecca Yeoh
I also published on Lanaizine, a Malaysian based architecture publication
Sometimes I am thinking about the ecology, hypnotherapy and relaxation on Lensa Seni, 2020
or else I am also presenting a Hong Kong Studies Symposium titled ‘Hong Kong and Elsewhere’ on A Good(s) Log 2020
or declaring that Twenty-Three By-Laws and Multicoloured banners for Paprika!, 2020
also always asking Where has the common world gone? BLANK II, Crisis 2020
Deconstructing the discourse of Buying in Hong Kong: A case study of Home as Space & Hung Kee Goods, Non-Architecture, 2019
Re- BLANK, 2018
Producer of Kombucha-cha, Seoul Architecture and Urbanism Biennale, Seoul, South Korea, 2021 with Kevin Xi Lin & Timothy Ng
Co-curator of Constructing Worlds, online exhibition, 2021, with Rebecca Yeoh
Designer of The Impossible Order: Europe, Power and the Search for a New Migration Regime, Berlin, Germany, 2017 (exhibited at BOX Freiraum)
Designer of Living on the Water & Youth Square, 2017, Living on the Water & Very Aberdeen, 2016, and Living on the Water Stanley Community Centre, 2016
R+ talked to me about Creative Hubs, Gary Yeow interviewed me with Edwin Seng on xyzpodcast. I was also on a Happy Accidents! by Howay Hose.
I also was a podcast host for Cultural Masseur Talking Heads Podcast Series (in Cantonese!!)
I designed with BAO the visual identity for ...Or Silence and the exhibition spaces.
I was also an architectural assistant designing the TheBookshop at the Hong Kong Museum of Art.
I am currently streaming my rural living on twitch to encourage all to drink tea together.
to pair with the tea is my cooking with leftovers and what we grow in the garden
📧 clarissa.kl.lim [at] gmail.com