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During Art H.K. 2010, I did my debut group project with Wong Wai-Yin, called Everything Goes Wrong for the Poor Couple. This piece was inspired by Hong Kong movies from the 50s and 60s, which are about family ethics and morals. There are many dramatic and tragic scenes, which are so familiar to everyone, even to the ones who have never seen the movies. All the audience could see was a black-and-white projection. Because of our stillness, the audience might think it was a scene captured from the old movies or a slow-motion video. Actually we were in the next room doing a live performance, but the audience was not able to see us face-to-face. We adapted Realism from the old movies as a form, and it gave us a chance to meditate during the art fair. Generally the piece is thought of as a product born out of the artists’ thinking process. |
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Kwan Sheung-Chi
During Art H.K. 2010, I did my debut group project with Wong Wai-Yin, called Everything Goes Wrong for the Poor Couple. This piece was inspired by Hong Kong movies from the 50s and 60s, which are about family ethics and morals. There are many dramatic and tragic scenes, which are so familiar to everyone, even to the ones who have never seen the movies.
All the audience could see was a black-and-white projection. Because of our stillness, the audience might think it was a scene captured from the old movies or a slow-motion video. Actually we were in the next room doing a live performance, but the audience was not able to see us face-to-face.
We adapted Realism from the old movies as a form, and it gave us a chance to meditate during the art fair. Generally the piece is thought of as a product born out of the artists’ thinking process. But we made this piece an opportunity to think, to feel, to reveal our own sadness within the “art fair” environment. To the audience, however, with the context of the movie, the project, and the art fair, what kind of Realism did viewers really face? Perhaps the audience could never reach the real us.
