Visual Studies

"Visual Studies Matters: Theory, History, Practice" features podcasts/videos in which scholars and artists who have visited the Department respond to questions about their scholarly and/or artistic work.

Featured here are also short films focusing on our graduates. These works provide insight into the value of a Visual Studies degree and shed light on the career paths that it facilitates.
Film Makers' interview

Elkana Ong’esa
Elkana Ong’esa, born in Kenya in 1944, is a freelance painter and sculptor practicing in Kenya. Elkana was born in a family and community of traditional crafts producers in Kisii community. He did his undergraduate education in 1967-71 at Makere University in Uganda and his M. Ed in the teaching of Art at McGill University in Canada (1987). Elkana has many important works in stone sculpture all over the world – USA, France, China, Africa, etc. In spring 2011, he was the Artist-in-Residence of Lingnan University.


Claudio Pazienza
is one of Belgium's most established documentary filmmakers. He has taught at such film schools as FEMIS in Paris. His documentaries focus, among other things, on a range of questions having to do with perception.


Elias Grootaers
is a documentary filmmaker and a teacher of documentary filmmaking practices at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University College Ghent. He is particularly interested in exploring the phenomenology of time through his films.



Interviews with VS graduates
Givy Lee mp4 file ( right click to save)
Henry Chiu mp4 file ( right click to save)
Fiona Lau mp4 file ( right click to save)
Esther Chu mp4 file ( right click to save)
Karen Ma mp4 file ( right click to save)
Queenie Liu mp4 file ( right click to save)
Ron Chiu mp4 file ( right click to save)
Tit Cheung mp4 file ( right click to save)
Virginia Pang mp4 file ( right click to save)
Zoe Hong mp4 file ( right click to save)