100 Drawings on Community
009Oil Street Art Space, Hong Kong
Our process is initiated from the anatomy of Hong Kong’s mundane environment where urban voids are only treated as vessels for direction, it deviates from imagining inventive ways to live with the situation. Urban spaces are composed of undesigned infrastructures with limited utilities provision, they act purely as a safety agent for citizens.
‘100 Drawings on Community’ examines drawing as a methodological instrument for architects and artists to understand and to critically reinterpret, uncovering the hidden identities of our city. A mobile drawing station acts as a catalyst to breed drawings and urban sketches of different authors assembled into one documentation.
Context:
Part of a successive series of exhibitions themed “Play to Change” by the Hong Kong Architecture Centre to curate and exhibit architects' works at the Oi! Street Art Space. The exhibition is designed to involve participation from the North Point community to record participant’s observations of the neighbourhood to raise awareness of the place they reside and the importance of observing their community.
Concept:
The project starts with the question of how the exhibition can involve participants' collaboration with the tiny room space given. The room is imagined as an in progress exhibition, through the two workshops and the exhibition periods the room will be filled with drawings of observations of the North Point neighbourhood.
Process:
The exhibition space is conceived as empty white walls covered in small A6 sized workshop drawing sheets, starting off as blank sheets to be filled during the community workshops and autonomously by visitors to the exhibition. Three mobile drawing carts are placed at the centre of the exhibition to show the progressive action of the project, and serve as the central point during workshops.
Production:
Two community workshops are organised in the form of an urban sketching and guided tour. From the exhibition space at Oil Street to the final stop at the North Point Pier, workshop participants are given hand sized drawing boards and paper to sketch a few observations in each stop during the journey. The drawing papers are laid out with random key words to stimulate participants' correlation of such words with what they see and therefore the sketches. These sketches infill the emptiness of the white space in the exhibition room as one filled with participants’ observation of the community.
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Client:
Oil Street Art Space, Hong Kong Architecture Centre
Occasion:
Play to Change
Typology:
Curation, Exhibition, Community, Workshop
Status:
Completion
Location:
Oi!, Hong Kong
Year:
2018
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Project Team:
Anthony Ko
Collaborators:
Aron Tsang (Napp Studio)
Rosalia Leung
Fabrication:
ummm Design Studio
Photography:
Tai Ngai Lung
Anthony Ko
Aron Tsang (Napp Studio)
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