<aside> 📄 A community installation + durational performance representing freedom of expression and celebrating happiness, sadness, hopes, dreams, and love.
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The project arises in the context of the 2019-20 social movements in our home city Hong Kong to reflect on how freedom of expression is still being oppressed nowadays in many corners of the world. As Hong Kong migrants living in the UK, we are always interested in investigating the city’s local history, especially the stories of resistance.
Drawing on the personal experiences of migrants and jailed activists worldwide, it shows our ongoing concerns with the human condition and psychological experiences that individuals have encountered amid socio-political instabilities.
Our work also calls for an examination of the oppressive narratives rooted in colonial practices, reclaims the voices and narratives of these oppressed peoples through the medium of art and culture, and drives new futures with justice and freedom.
We believe in the power of artistic collaboration and community building based on solidarity, to amplify realities and experiences of migrants and marginalised communities. We work collaboratively with like-minded organisations to reach out to the queer and/or working-class migrant communities in the UK and across the world and build transnational solidarity.
<aside> <img src="/icons/groups_orange.svg" alt="/icons/groups_orange.svg" width="40px" /> Artists: Ghost and John Curator: Sandra Lam
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The project was commissioned by organisations across the UK:
It was a featured exhibition at ‘Poplarism!’, an arts festival commemorating the centenary of the Poplar Rates Rebellion of 1921, highlighting its relevance and impact in discussing political and social issues through artistic expression.