Re-making Hong Kong

Response Exhibition of the 11th International Architecture Exhibition of Venice Biennale Hong Kong Exhibition - Fabrica Cultura

Date: 28 February - 29 April 2009
Venue: Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Centre

As introduced by Desmond Hui and Leo Ou-Fan Lee, the curators, “Fabrica Cultura literally means a cultural ‘workshop’ /‘factory’ or atelier that serves our creative imagination. The title Fabrica Cultura refers to the manifestation of architecture in a much broader spectrum of cultural aspects and practices." The exhibition venue is divided into six zones with different themes such as object, building, landscape, city, media, and text. Twelve teams of creative professionals, including architects, desingers, photographers, performers, and writer / critics, "urges people to re-examine the meaning of the city in terms of both its hard- and soft-ware in the challenges of creating and re-creating itself as a great metropolis."

While the exhibition of "Art and History" features drawings of the Old Hong Kong - our past, this exhibition represents a possibility of remaking Hong Kong - our future. People show their anxiety about the disapperance of the city in different ways. What can the governemnt help in the present then?

Object:

1 & 2. Wandering Home & Tin Man No. 11, Kacey Wong

3 & 4. Control Tower, Jason Carlow + Jonathan D Solomon + John Lin with Stefan Krakhofer + Ricci Wong + Eric Chiu

Building:

5. Tracing / Sichuan Intermediate Relief Housing, Gravity Partnership Ltd.: Frank Yu

6. Urban Courtyardism: Re-fabricating City, Wang Weijen Architecture: Wang Weijen + Anthony Fong + Huang Lifei + Xie Jing + Wang Yuhui

Landscape:

7 & 8. Accidental Urbanism, RAD limited - Aaron Tan + Paolo Dalla Tor + Alberto Cipriani + Ewelina Tereszczenko + Catty Chan + Kenneth Wong

City:

9. A Pandora's Box of Density, Edward Ng

10. Utopia Now: Opening the Closed Area, Joshua Bolchover + Peter Hasdell + Esther Lorenz + Pokit Poon

Media:

11. City Recognition, Juan Du + Nicola Borg Pisani

12. Hong Kong Odyssey, Mathias Woo

Text:

13 & 14. Textualizing Hong Kong, Leo Lee + Charmaine Hui

15 & 16. Contextualizing Remaking of Hong Kong, Desmond Hui + Hong Kong Cultural Imaging Workshop