Civil Left/Right.3
a media+live performance @ Hong Kong On the Move Performance Art Project
-- DaDao Live Art Event 2007, Hong Kong, 13-14/10/2007
also @ Professional Commons' opening party, 13/12/2007
Part 1
was presented at a balcony space, Osage Open. Just like other work in
the series, a pre-edited video mixing the government's celebration of
the 10th anniversary of Handover to mainland China and people"s protest
to achieve universal suffrage in 2012 and to the demolishing of colonial
architecture in Hong Kong such as Star Ferry Clock Tower and the Queen's
Pier was presented together with live performance. After my ritual singing
of the National Anthem in Cantonese, members of audience were invited
to create an accurately-measured flag of People's Republic of China with
their thumbprints on my 
T-shirt
in a festive mood. After all, the "HK" typeface was covered
by lots of red thumbprints with 4 yellow stars marked – where is Hong
Kong when we blindly celebrating the Handover?
T-shirt on, I interacted with the public art sculpture in the Place with
reference to the current issues on demolishing colonial architecture, universal
suffrage, etc. For example, audience were invited to lift the sculptural
suitcase with my chalk writing “1997” and “2012” on it, to have a toast
with the sculpture celebrating the 10th anniversary of Handover, etc.
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In Part
3, I turned myself into a "wish tree" and
invited some Legislative Councillors and memebers of a political
concern groups to write their wishes for Hong Kong on a part of
my body selected by them. In return, I put the stamp
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on the same part of their body and let them fill in the blank themselves.
The urge for "universal suffrage" was shown on most of
their writings while other wishes for a better Hong Kong were marked
adjacent to the 
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My Heart, My Comrades, My Country
熱烈慶祝 • 心繫祖國 (@Chengdu, 26/5/2007) -
De...nization
去你的 (@Taipei, 24-30/8/2007) -
Here I am
香港始終有你 (@Hong Kong, 13-14/10/2007) -
Beat or Bet
有倒未為輸 (@Macau, 20/10/2007) -
We Are Ready
起來……的人們 (@Xi'an, 13/11/2007)
