Hong Kong Museum of Art (HKMoA)

Installation works often involve diverse types of media, materials and are large in scale. They are designed for a specific space to induce an immersive or conceptual experience among viewers. 

Introduction to installation art

Before making your own installation, let’s find out how Lam created her work: A Quarter of Pavilion. 

The Creative process of A Quarter of Pavilion

Your Art-making Activity: Installation art

Resource Kit Overview

Artist Introduction

Video Viewing and appreciation

Based on the HKMoA collection, this series, ‘In Touch with Hong Kong Artists’, provides education materials and activity sets designed with the aim to raise the interest in artists and art and culture in Hong Kong. In this resource kit, Jaffa Lam will be introduced.

In Touch with Hong Kong Artists: Jaffa Lam

Visual Arts

The Arts

Recyclable material, paperboard, toilet paper roll, plastic bottle, adhesive tape, hot glue gun, plastic stick, paint

1. Have you ever seen any installation art? Can you describe them? 

2. Now, go around the campus and explore some interesting and impressive events and objects on campus with reference to Lam’s works. What are they?

What are the main ideas of your installation work in accordance with the theme “Collective Memories on Campus”? Go interview teachers and students to get interesting stories. 

How does your installation work look like? What is the form? 

Sketch a design and decide the quantities of the recyclable materials required. 

Please also consider using appropriate recyclable materials and whether the materials match the campus environment or artistic purpose. 

Then, make a trial model with the collected recyclable materials.

Report on the progress and results of the trial installation work, evaluate the feasibility of completing the works, whether the works will express the main ideas behind it, and edit the sketch. It is also encouraged students to report the problems they encountered during the creative process and the corresponding solutions as well as share the feelings and what they have learnt from the collective creative activity.

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In Touch with Hong Kong Artists: Jaffa Lam

Your Art-making Activity: Installation art

Materials and tools