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Kacey Wong 黃國才
Drift City (In Search of the Dragon) 游離都市（尋龍）
2010/2019
The Hong Kong–based artist Kacey Wong created Drift City (In Search of the Dragon) in 2010. Wong studied architecture in the United States in the early 1990s. The Drift City series recalls a specific architectural event: the 1931 Beaux-Arts Ball in New York City, when architects of famous towers, including the Chrysler Building, wore costumes of their structures. In this work, Wong visits the Hong Kong Dragon Garden, a large private park, dressed as a solitary skyscraper.
Wong’s anthropomorphised building is made of white card stock patterned with a grid of black squares. A box around his legs forms the building’s base; a slightly narrower box, with holes for his arms, wraps his torso. The cylindrical tower framing his face comes to a point well above his head. Filmed in black and white from a range of distances, he engages with the garden intently and playfully. He walks, almost waddling, along its paths; he waters plants, trims a shrub, and feeds fish in a stream. The abstraction and strange humour of the performance object contrast with the garden’s stillness and rich details, both natural and decorative. This out-of-place quality is characteristic of the series overall.
Wong’s anthropomorphised building is made of white card stock patterned with a grid of black squares. A box around his legs forms the building’s base; a slightly narrower box, with holes for his arms, wraps his torso. The cylindrical tower framing his face comes to a point well above his head. Filmed in black and white from a range of distances, he engages with the garden intently and playfully. He walks, almost waddling, along its paths; he waters plants, trims a shrub, and feeds fish in a stream. The abstraction and strange humour of the performance object contrast with the garden’s stillness and rich details, both natural and decorative. This out-of-place quality is characteristic of the series overall.
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