Para Site proudly presents A Journal of the Plague Year’s first stop on its international travelling schedule. This group exhibition, which originally took place a year ago at Para Site and adjacent locations, is now traveling in a slightly revised version to TheCube Project Space in Taipei, opening Saturday 28 June.
A Journal of the Plague Year, Fear, Ghosts, Rebel, SARS, Leslie and the Hong Kong Story starts from the events that affected Hong Kong in the spring of 2003: the most significant airborne epidemic in recent years – the SARS crisis, coupled with the tragic death of pop figure and icon Leslie Cheung. The unparalleled shutdown of the city and the atomization of society in quarantined segments led to an unexpected shift in the political awareness of the Hong Kong citizenry.
This exhibition navigates through disparate but interconnected narratives and contributes to a critical discussion about recent history whose implications extend beyond Hong Kong. The fear of contamination, physiological and cultural, the anxiety of societies encountering alterities and facing their own projections and prejudices are explored through the contribution of artists of various generations, shown together with historical artifacts and pop culture ephemera.
TheCube Project Space is delighted to host A Journal of the Plague Year’s first touring stop in Asia. Taiwan and Hong Kong share many chapters of their history. This exhibition wants to serve as a start for a reflection on this shared historical background and rhetoric narratives between the two regions facing a tumultuous present and an uncertain future under the same specter.
Featured artists:
Ai Weiwei, Bernd Behr, Moe Satt, Josef Ng, Pak Sheung Chuen, Para/Site Art Criticism Class 2003, Lygia Pape, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Adrian Wong, Ming Wong, Ricky Yeung Sau-churk, Samson Young, 胡恩威＋ 林奕華, Zuni Icosahedron, Natalia Sui-hung Chan, Oscar Chan Yik Long, Yin-Ju Chen, George Chinnery, Megan Cope, Dung Kai-Cheung, Larry Feign, James T. Hong, Irene Kopelman, Firenze Lai, Lam Qua, Lee Kit, Len Lye, Ma Liuming, Fionnuala McHugh
A Journal of the Plague Year is curated by Cosmin Costinas and Inti Guerrero.
Supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council (ADC).
The exhibition is supported by the Arts Development Fund of the Home Affairs Bureau, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Admnistrative Region.
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Hong Kong Arts Development Council fully supports freedom of artistic expression.
The views and opinions expressed in this project do not represent the stand of the Council.
