Dates:

29 / 9 - 21 / 10 / 2018 1:00pm - 7:00pm Exhibition

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Venue:
Unit 12 Cattle Depot Artist Village
Cattle Depot Theatre
（Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Road, Kln ）

Buried as we are beneath a thousand strata of discourse about nations and ethnic groups, we have never been able to imagine the ‘common’ of the ‘community’ as something beyond national borders. In reality, there has never been such a thing as natural Hong Kong-ers, Chinese, mainlanders, Taiwanese. Continued emphasis on borders leaves both the establishment and its opposition stuck in traps of identification and recognition, and those who live within borders are continually subject to categorization and division. Across history, politics, geography and culture, in the subjective consciousness and popular imagination, the ‘border’ does not have a determinate explanation, but yet it invisibly shapes the meaning of both “I” and “we”. The border, in instituting a boundary between us, obscures the other’s face, as well as the fate that we suffer in common.

This art project, based on research about the complicated contexts of national borders, is a comprehensive response to the social situation under the shadow of nationalism, as well as a reflection on the insidious and insistent influence of nationalism on policy, our social condition, political identity, social media, education, all the way up to the way we name ourselves, the language we speak and other features of our daily lives, so as to trace the trajectories of life in-between political borders. How does a life experience, cope with and confront the notion of being within national borders? Is it possible for a life to pursue its own path and assume an identity of its own, shaping something new from the complexity and diversity of social life? Can art practice aid us in re-evaluating the ways in which borders, nations, identities and individuals are thought and spoken about? Is it at all possible to re-think indigeneity and the bonds that root ‘us’ to national territory?

This project does not attempt to offer a conclusive answer to these questions, nor does it treat the exhibition as a definitive display of results. Rather, through a series of experimental endeavors- art practices, web publications, forums, workshops, screenings and exhibitions, this project will make a beginning of discussing the relationship between political borders and individual lives, so as to uncover possibilities of connection between lives divided by social structures. In this project, we will focus on microscopic narratives that offer a means to deconstruct grand political discourses, revealing the potentiality of life between their fractures. We are inviting artists, researchers, scholars and every person who bears a name for dialogue, reflection and re-connection.

Participating Artists
Balint Szombathy（Serbia / Hungary）
Chan Hau Chun （Hong Kong）
Chui Chi Yin （Hong Kong）
Clara Cheung（Hong Kong）
Gum Cheng（Hong Kong）
Delphine Richer （France）
Mok Chiu Yu（Hong Kong）
Meg Ho （Hong Kong）
Paola Paz Yee （Mexico）
Rokko Juhasz（Slovakia / Hungary）
Wang Chu Yu（Beijing）
Wang Mo Lin （Taiwan）
Xu Tan（Guangzhou / Shenzhen）
Yau Ching （Hong Kong）

Guest Speakers
Minnie Li （Hong Kong）
Man Yu （Guangzhou）

Producer
Mok Chiu Yu

Academic Advisor
Man Yu

Curator
Nanxi Liu

Assistant Curator
Vivian Cheng

Publicity Design
Small Tune Press

Website Design

Eric Ng

Video Documentation
Oneness Zeng
Shing Lee

Translation & Proofreading
Chan Nin
Mok Chiu Yu
Vivian Cheng
Liu Nanxi

Presented by
Asian People's Theatre Festival Society

Supported by

Hong Kong Arts Development Council

Special Thanks to
On & On Theatre Workshop

Enquires
Tel: 2891 8482 / 9714 0935
Email: drifting.border@gmail.com

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