| Date: | 10.SEPT.22 - 26.NOV.22 |
| Time: | 11:00am - 8:00pm |
| Place: | North Point (East) Ferry Pier |
Dis-place took place at a public space between the sea and the end of Tin Chiu Street next to a massive new residential development.
The bamboo scaffold pavilion embodies the construction method of the Ghost Festival bamboo theater. Displacement seeks to engage in the tradition that used to occupy the very site at Tin Chiu Street temporarily every year. The festival went on and off since North Point Estate was demolished and dwindled to a pause due to political events and the pandemic. The site-specific framework holds and points to works outlining traces of displacement of 3 elements in the locale: the habitat, the altar and the spirit.
Dis-place is an installation that is built and dismantled within a day and the process video documentation is on display. The timber deckings used for the project were flattened and compressed into a table surface to showcase the series of drawings, model and a collection of artefacts.
Chan Wai Lok, a Hong Kong choreographer and performer, completed his studies in P.A.R.T.S. (Belgium) upon receiving scholarships from the [DNA] network supported by Creative Europe under the European Commission and the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund. He previously studied in SEAD (Austria) after graduating from Architectural Studies in the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His previous works includes {POV [TWINK / COUPLE (ASIAN) / EXPERIMENTAL]} and its video version POV demonstrating the texture and connection between live and video performance. In 2020, he, together with his fellows, established an independent art space ngau4 gat1 dei6, which is an art project exploring how to operate and sustain such art space in local art scene, and sharing spatial resources with fellow artists.
Siu Man was sponsored to read MPhil at University of Cambridge and is currently an architectural designer based in Hong Kong and London. Engaged in various cross-disciplinary projects, she is interested in themes of performativity and urban imagination. For her graduation work “Hetero-HK”, she collaborated with novelist and theatre director to set up an exhibition-stage set. The bamboo scaffold forms a framework for the exhibition exploring the fictional world and urban voids in the city. The work was awarded the Dalibor Vesely prize by the Cambridge University’s faculty of Architecture. She collaborated with Chan before on the site-specific work Avenue Van Volxem 175, Etg 3 (Narcissist’s Lake) offering an intimate but distant experience in watching a performance in public space.