Sparkle! Show Art’s Hand: An Investigation on Art Labour (Part 2)
Visual Arts
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Working in the arts is a precarious journey that varies widely: resolve and diligence do not warrant payment; while incompetents land on prestigious jobs with established names in the industry. Despite the obvious, budding talents in Hong Kong seem undeterred from entering art schools as a path to be artists or art administrators. Is art a ‘labour of love’ or a ‘game of chance’? Are the chances only reserved for the prepared ones? Why do people still submit to this impossible process of cobbling together an income that bears no resemblance to the actual value of their labour?
Leung Po-shan, Anthony sees this exhibition as both an action research and an experiment with resource distribution. The exhibition first opens the dialogues with Justin Wong, Wilson Shieh and Jaye Rhee’s works. In the first phase of the exhibition, four fine art fresh graduates are invited to present proposals for their solo exhibitions at four identical booths under the guidance of independent curators Ying Kwok and Suzanna Chung. They will then play Mahjong and the winner of the game will execute his/her exhibition proposal in the second phase of the exhibition, constituting the whole process of art labour through this mini-art fair. To coincide with the exhibition, Oi! partners with orleanlaiproject and invited Vee Leong and four performers of Performosa Theatre to present their durational work, ‘On A New Day — A sleep-over party at Oil street, stories filled. The city never sleeps’, which explores the contemporary notion of fatigue in relation to labour.
Reconciling the dichotomies of work and play, praxis and theory, openness and self-reflection, ‘Show Art’s Hand: An Investigation on Art Labour’ will peel the intricate layers that comprise the structure of ‘art as labour’ for interstices and openings to a possible emancipation.
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Visual Arts Yearbook 2018" published by Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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