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Oysterscape 蠔塚
2001
MAP Office is a research think tank based in Hong Kong, led by Laurent Gutierrez and Valérie Portefaix. For over a decade, the architect/artist duo has explored the rapid changes taking place in the Pearl River Delta (PRD), a region of intense development and industrialisation. MAP Office critically approaches the PRD as an interface of local and global forces such as cultural identity and massive urbanisation, documenting how these transformations affect people and space. They use multiple methods, including maps, drawings, photographs, videos, writings, and performances, to record and communicate information. My PRD Stories gathers a number of projects MAP Office undertook between 2001 and 2005. The works demonstrate the office’s approach and recurring subjects of landscape, infrastructure, architecture, inhabitation, economics, and labour.
Oysterscape depicts Lau Fau Shan, an area in Hong Kong’s New Territories famous for its oyster harvesting. For MAP Office, oysters function as a metaphor for Hong Kong at multiple scales, since they are microhabitats themselves but join together to create larger landmasses from water. The video documents an oyster bed landscape and temporary structures like scaffolding, showing the relationship to, and appropriation of, the water and the natural environment.
Oysterscape depicts Lau Fau Shan, an area in Hong Kong’s New Territories famous for its oyster harvesting. For MAP Office, oysters function as a metaphor for Hong Kong at multiple scales, since they are microhabitats themselves but join together to create larger landmasses from water. The video documents an oyster bed landscape and temporary structures like scaffolding, showing the relationship to, and appropriation of, the water and the natural environment.
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