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M+, Hong Kong, © Wu Shanzhuan and Inga-Svala Thorsdottir
Inga-Svala Thorsdottir and Wu Shanzhuan 英格．斯瓦拉．托斯朵蒂爾與吳山專
Pouring Bottled Water into the Victoria Harbour 1993 將瓶裝水倒進維多利亞港一九九三年
1993/1999
Wu Shanzhuan and Inga Svala Þórsdóttir began their artistic partnership after meeting in Iceland in the early 1990s. Pouring Bottled Water...arose from their personal manifesto and ongoing series of works titled ‘Thing’s Right(s)’ (1994–), a revision and interrogation of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights that probes the relationship between art and human rights. The work documents a ferry ride from Kowloon to Hong Kong Island, during which Inga Svala pours bottles of water over the ship’s edge. Wu’s camera follows her onto the ferry, where she finds a spot to stand and begins emptying one bottle after another into the waves. She works methodically, replacing the cap of each bottle and returning it to its plastic packaging. Inga Svala quickens her pace, to two bottles at once, as the ferry nears the shore. In the terminal, Wu focuses on a sign warning that littering in the harbour will result in a fine and imprisonment, emphasising the bottled water’s status as a simultaneously natural and commercial material.
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