活現昇平－村校‧藝術‧大笪地 Walking in Sing Ping
活現昇平－村校‧藝術‧大笪地
Walking in Sing Ping
Community Involvement, Dimension Variable
Sing Ping Village, Hong Kong
2015
Hong Kong is one of the most rapid cities along with countless social conflicts. In 2012, before the Umbrella Movement, a group of volunteers who included artists, educators, and fresh graduates were seeking an alternative starting point of intervention, to make an impact on society. We all agreed that countryside and historic culture are vital to our city but people seem as tending to ignore its disappearing. Therefore, we decided to focus on and combine agriculture, local history with art; to rebuild a bridge between nature, the public, and the local culture. Walking in Sing Ping was one of the examples of our large-scale community art program.
We led around 40 teenagers and teachers to work on field research in an old remote village Sing Ping for a year. During the stage, we met regularly per week, interviewed the local residents, collected historic stories, photographed, experienced art-making, as well as worked on paper or news research.
The festival included a large site-specific exhibition that featured six different sections, mediums including documentary, photography, online QR code, audio recording, land art, on-site installation, and action interacting.
It showcased more than 60 pieces of final works and stories made or collected by the research team, students, and volunteers. Other activities during the event such as HK’s traditional food workshop, vintage toys craftwork, a local band show, farm-art public tour. etc.
Who
My roles are exhibition coordinator, illustrator, and designer in charge.
Other participants included but not limited to the SOIL team, linked up with around 40 students and teachers from both Secondary Schools, Sing Pong village’s local residents, and the former rural school’s interviewees, funder (The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation), a lot of professionals, also the public who joined the event.
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