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Non-place, Other Space 隱城・懸浮半空
2009
Non-place, Other Space draws from Linda Chiu-han Lai’s personal moving image archive, assembled between 1991 and 2008 in Hong Kong and Macau. As a fervent walker of the city, Lai has documented Hong Kong’s sights and sounds obsessively for most of her adult life. The multilayered narrative in the video weaves together banal, everyday moments, including street-food stalls, random conversations, and media broadcasts, with imagery related to monumental events such as Chinese New Year, the millennium celebrations, and the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Lai pays great attention to demolished buildings—almost all the outdoor locations seen in this work have disappeared as a result of urban development. Through the reorganisation and reactivation of these fragmentary views of Hong Kong’s street life, the work shifts between nostalgic meditation on the past and critical analysis of the present.
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