The show title is inspired by “A Clockwork Orange”. By replacing the fruit into Lychee, “Lai Chi” conjured us up a stereotypical Chinese name of a factory worker in the old days. The exhibition depicts an experimental stage under surveillance, and a new ecosystem with precarious balance seesawing within the eclipsed rules and regulations. The show is a story of abandonment, confinement, and recurrence – an epic of manufacturers and the products coming apart under the dominance of authority and obscure forces. However, art production has never stopped in the shadow of buildout, alternative methods emerge like mushrooms after rain.
In JCCAC, process of exhibition will be showcased in Museum of Site (MOST), which is located on L7. Participatory installations are placed in the common area on L5. Apart from sculptures and installations, performances will occur from time to time in the Green Space on L7.
Artists will appear randomly and be scheduled for solo and collective performances. Please stay tuned to our weekly schedules, which will be updated on social media and our official website.
Working time sheet is provided for audience so you may clock in and out. Work together with us, we are all Lai Chi.

deTour, Hong Kong’s largest design festival, returns to PMQ from 27 November to 12 December with a new level of design excitement. Working to the theme of “Use(fu)less”, Trilingua Design—deTour 2021’s curatorial team—explore the “useful” and the “useless”, the distinct functions and the intangible values of design. Interdisciplinary contributions from local and international design talents join with experts from outside design to fulfil deTour’s mission to bring mind-blowing creative works and experiences to the industry and public.

At the core of the effort is “International Collaboration”, a contemporary interpretation of an ancient mythology of love created by the internationally acclaimed Sputniko! and Napp Studio & Architects’ marrying of design and biotechnology. At “Feature Exhibition”, Match Chen and Au Chi Fung explore a confluence of design and sport; Chaklam Ng and Dr Jackie Lou delve into the power of design and sound; Mak Kai Hang, Keith Tam and Dr Cheung Sing Hang present a fusion of design and typography; and Renatus Wu Cheuk Pan and Li Hong Ting probe the chemistry between design and philosophy. “Selected Entries”, on the other hand, comprises 11 critically chosen showcases that express diverse readings of “Use(fu)less” by emerging local design groups.

Other highlights are 37 “Workshop” sessions and 12 “Design Dialogues” that promise fun, insightful topical experiences against the unique creative backdrop of PMQ. In a continuation of the last edition’s dual model, this year’s deTour presents a virtual festival alongside its physical programme, bringing cross-media interaction to a wider audience. Visit PMQ and the virtual festival website now and immerse yourself in a fascinating world of use(fu)less!

“Lamma Mia” Public Art Project aims to tell the story of Lamma Island, its people, scenery and its past with a focus on Sok Kwu Wan. The project consists of a series of programmes, including fieldwork and research, artists-in-residence, in-situ art exhibition, guided tours, community workshops and documentary screenings.

The project revolves around the living experience of the local residents in South Lamma, exploring the natural landscape, ecology, history and culture of the island. Participating artists also attempt to explore more about South Lamma through research and interview as well as public engagement in the artwork creation process.

I hope you are doing well is a simple and common email greeting. Since 2020, which has undergone tremendous changes and is full of crises and challenges, everything is no longer taken for granted. A greeting became precious, even touching and meaningful. Last year, emails from different corners of the distancing world inspired the artist to develop a project that starts from greetings and caring. This year, the artist met art and culture practitioners in different fields from Hong Kong and worldwide on online meeting platform, and chatted about their change and reflection in life, work, thoughts of art, and their re-imagination of future under the pandemic. Twenty interviews have been conducted. The selected quotes and content excerpts will be exhibited as outdoor installation art (L7 Green Space) and video (L7-12A MOST), presenting different perspectives and echoing one another. The artist hopes to archive and present the real living condition and thought of art and culture practitioners in this unique era, so that they can become individual stories and voices outside of the grand narrative, archiving part of the testimony to history, and hope to see how the future can be reconstructed. In addition to attempting to create a work that contain temperature in the distance, and to enlighten the audience through the reflection of the interviewees, the artist also wants to re-examine the role and meaning of art in the new normal, and explore the impact of technology such as online platforms on the connection between people.
“I Hope You Are Doing Well” is Monique Yim’s project conceived in 2020, organized and implemented in 2021. The work is constructed from issue-based interviews and research, focusing on process and participation. Yim sincerely thanks the following friends for their valuable sharing and trust. She would like to thank the practitioners of different professions and roles in the art and culture field for their efforts to face the crisis, challenges, and work in obscurity under the turmoil of the past two years.

If you talk about memory,
What will you think of?
Is it only the taste of impression staying at the corner of the mouth?
Or do you think of the unspeakable and tortuous figure?
Would you ask what the traces of history left on you have made you?
When you recall, the record is destined to passively become a mark. It seems that it may only be a profile, or a part of something inaccurate has been listened to. When you talk about it, you will always try to use appropriate words or methods, hoping to capture their symbols, but what is left is often only Can be fleeting.
Recording is often a process, like constantly superimposing and correcting photographic negatives, like restoring a blurry and difficult-to-recognize picture, like an unreachable end train, or it may be a structure that is unsatisfactory. It feels that when I describe it, it has created other meanings, and other different branches have been created in other chapters.
Talking about time in the little time left is a luxury;
It may also be superfluous to make records where there is nothing to do. But there are still people who leave those things minutely,
We must use memory as the basis for our actions, and let belief become a certain entity. That is the era I describe in this process today, and the story becomes another story with it.
This is an exhibition made from memory.
look forward to your visit.

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With Hong Kong’s spring season emerging, Inter-island Festival is launching soon from 26th to 28th March (Friday to Sunday). Design Trust Feature Grantee Yip Kai Chun and his team, Myriem Alnet and Chan Chun Kit, and initiators of ISLANDERS map-zine, have been unwaveringly curating and planning this upcoming 3-day weekend festival amongst the COVID-19 challenges last year. Public installations, walks, exhibition-pop-ups will connect Hong Kong’s rich island culture of Peng Chau, Cheung Chau and Mui Wo and Chi Ma Wan on Lantau Island to highlight the distinct environment, communities and history of these islands to promote and protect their shared value and culture through design and cultural works. Selected works from the DESIGN TRUST: Critically Homemade collection will be displayed at Islanders Space Hoi Sing on Peng Chau during the Festival. and available here: ePopUp

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A group of artists, architects and life walkers contemplate and study the possible dimensions of living. How art could intervene in this mundane issue of everyday life? Could art provide “solutions” or something beyond “solutions”? Through the abstract idea of “House”, artists, architects, life walkers and students open up dialogues on visual arts, architecture and the art of living, and propose 13 dimensions of living.
“The Dimensions of Living: A House is” will showcase 13 “houses”. Each of them an artistic exposition of mundane issues, which invites viewers to re-imagine the possibility of housing and living in the everyday life.