Saturday, December 3, 2011

HK art festival, DETOUR 2011

There's a HK art event going on from November 25-December 11 at Aberdeen Street / Hollywood Road. It's a rare moment to see HK's artistic crowd gather, and I was really happy to see lots of art students from this city that I never easily see (where are they hiding!).

There were 40 or 50 different rooms, each with different installations. The first photo is the first that you see when you enter. It's called the Weaving Forest, done by a Shanghainese design studio. Visitors were weaving the wooden dears as they like, to create a "forest."

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I believe the general theme of this event was recycling and making use of garbage. The top of the taxi, apparently is a product of 170 years of technology (!) from a small town in China, and it is hard to find usage after they finish their life on top of a taxi. But I personally think there has to be better usage than being turned into a lamp?

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My favorite were these old post boxes. But then I realized they were not part of the show but just adding color. This event is held at an abandoned police building, and they have everything left behind, which is very lovely.

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