Harry Leung & Gabriel Flückiger Street posts / booklet 2014 / stickers and booklet edition of 10, 2 AP In Hong Kong it is common for services, products and shops to advertise on the streets with flyers, stickers, banners or salesmen. Sometimes these ads can be very informal and obscure, only with a phone number…
Hong Kong Strollology: from day to dusk trough dawn; or: to walk in cities A 43 km walk on 1st and 2nd of April 2014 / HD-Video 7:04min I like to walk in cities. Citywalker, flaneur, stroller, observer, designer, planner, geographer, sociologue, researcher; dedicated urbanists everywhere. A variety of interesting things to see where I…
Jyoti Kapur Inside / Outside 2014 / 1-channel-video, sound The inside is outside or the outside is inside this idea could change immediately when we think in context of living environments in different cities of the world. «Space» in its sense of physical area or a perception of a surrounding, is of interest to me.…
Patricia Nocon Do what you see – Fake the city 2014 / video installation Patricia Nocon: Gesture HK 1 from Connecting Spaces Hong Kong on Vimeo. Patricia Nocon: Gesture HK 2 from Connecting Spaces Hong Kong on Vimeo. My work revolves around the study of urban life through bodily experience. For this project, I have therefore adopteda research method where I attempt to…
Cherry Cheng Mei Lun Impressions 2014 / 8 phtographes / inkjet prints 18 x 20 cm My project consists of several trips within Hong Kong that are meant to train my sensitivity of everyday life, as well as enable me to explore the city in which I live. Through photographs and artworks at the end…
Mahroo Movahedi Being without Attendance 2014 / photographs Photographs in collaboration with fellow students from Masters in Transdisciplinary Studies, by: Brandon Farnsworth, Denis Handschin, Marc Latzel My goal is to create new sorts of presence. Due to the difficulties in obtaining a visa, I could not join the rest of the group in Hong Kong. I…
Anna Rubi The past we didn‘t know we had 2014/ HDV/ color/ sound/ variable loop Sound: Simon Grab – excerpt from performance at Connecting Spaces in Hong Kong (2014) Performance: Magnhild Fossum, Patricia Nocon «What he sought was always something lying ahead, and even if it was a matter of the past it was a past that…
Frank Tang Kai Yiu X:Y 2014 / 5-channel HDV / colour / no sound / variable loop Due to its unique geographical context, every country and city possesses its own distinct cultural features. These features are easy to find in such visual elements as architecture styles, arts, and physical human activities on the ground. As…
Shiyu Gao Market Place Electro 2014 / 1-channel video, sound In transforming daily images of a meat market into some hyper-techno digitized visual stimulus, the video explores the possibilities of image, and puts the discourse of daily life into the contemporary context. The violence of a meat market somehow matches the ear-punching electronic music, which…