BIOGRAPHY

A l i c e   K o k   郭 恬 熙

Born in Macau, Alice Kok left to France in 1998. She 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 a la Creation granted by La DRAC Ile-de-France 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, and it 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 ouvré 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. As her current project, she is also incorporating Tibetan painting and drawing techniques into her multimedia projects. She uses media such as video, photography, writings, drawings and installations.

 

生於一九七八年澳門, 於一九九八年前往法國留學, 二零零四年於法國土魯茲高等藝術學校(Ecole Superieur 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。二零零五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 Creation, 並完成錄像作品「卡拉伯OK」。二零零六至零七年於印度與西藏拍攝「仍在流亡 ﹣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;於2010年被選入參展「韓國光洲藝術雙年展」。她的藝術創作理念早期圍繞多元文化主義 ; 在後殖民地時代的影響與重要性。 零七年年尾回澳居住後,由於受到印度與西藏之行的深刻影響,在作品中也展現出佛學的思想元素。她的創作媒體有錄像、攝影、寫作和裝置等。回澳後的三年,任中英雙語雜誌Macau CLOSER之編輯;澳門科技大學之新聞傳播系與設計系攝影老師、澳門聖若瑟大學設計系生活掃瞄藝術老師。