the City: “Dawn”

"Project DAWN"— A CITY-BASED ARTISTIC RESEARCH

Dawn is an ongoing research exploring one’s identity through the sense of locations and time between cities.

Anchored in my hometown of Hong Kong, this project establishes a prototype for conducting artistic research by exploring multiple connections between different cities, which reveals the diverse dimensions of understanding a place. The project questions the displacement, and hybridity between cultures and site over time. The ultimate goal is to give voice to the outsiders and create a space for mutual connection.

Timeline

Aug 2022, Vienna, Austria

Oct 2022, Taiwan/ Hong Kong

May 2023, Kortrijk, Belgium

Oct 2023, Itoshima, Japan

DAWN 1.0, is a quest to the word “home” through the personal relations between travelling and home cities.

Dawn 2.0 together with a local artist as a doppelganger, is an exploration to a shared question between Hong Kong young generation: “What if I stay/ move?”

Dawn 3.0 is an artistic research residency in Arts centre BUDA. With the deep-mapping method, the research further draws a parallel relationship between motherhood and cities. The presentation is named: "a City, a Girl, a House"

Dawn 4.0, is a site-specific performance happening in Itoshima (JP). It cooperates with the power of myth, history and gender through a post-human ritual, tributing to the unspoken ocean legends.