The "performingART" project series organised by Oi! is now in progress, inviting artists to use ordinary things to explore the delicate relationship between the real and unreal.
 
     The "performingART" series comprises exhibitions and engagement projects, featuring artists including Wong Wai Yin, Xu Bing, Annie Wan and Luke Ching. The artists are invited to present ways of seeing and describing through artistic practices. They use ordinary items to ponder the authenticity and performativity of artistic creations, explore the boundaries of the role and discourse of art in the contemporary setting, and seek to contemplate the essence of art and its unrevealed nature.
 
     Wong Wai Yin's "A place never been seen is not a place" is being staged from today (March 3) to April 23. The installation reproduces recurring dream-like images and turns them into a real-life setting. Visitors can enter the dream-like setting, pick up the phone and listen to a voice reading a paragraph of text. The space between reality and imitation is where ambiguous daily objects signify a well of hidden meanings.
    
     Xu Bing's work "Dragonfly Eyes", which will be displayed from March 6 to June 4, is a narrative feature film made up of numerous surveillance video recordings. The exhibited trailer invites the audience to re-interpret these moving images, challenging the conventional understanding of films and reality.
 
     Annie Wan's "Collecting Moonlight" and Luke Ching's "Allegory Practice of Personification" will be featured from March 20 to August 31. Annie Wan brings art further into the living realm by creating ceramics moulded from retrieved objects and placed at Oi!, as well as placing them next to real products in the stores of neighbouring merchants. In this way reality of everyday life is juxtaposed with artistic creation. A map will also be provided to encourage visitors to search for the artworks at Oi! and in the community.
 
     Luke Ching questions and responds to social issues through his art. In this project, he will apply methods of personification and community intervention to the practise of his art, leading to the writing of allegories. Through the communication of delicate sentimentality in the form of allegory, visitors will be able to broaden their perceptions and imagination, while reflecting on public issues.
 
     The "performingART" project is organised by Oi! and presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department. Oi! is located at 12 Oil Street, North Point. For details of the project, please call 2512 3000 for enquiries.

Ends/Friday, March 3, 2017
Issued at HKT 17:54

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