Post-Human Narratives—In the Name of Scientific Witchery

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Para Site is proud to present a unique off-site exhibition ‘Post-Human Narratives—In the Name of Scientific Witchery’ at the Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences featuring all-new commissions by Betty Apple, Ho Sin Tung, Mayumi Hosokura, Hui Serene Sze Lok, Florence Lam, Liv Tsim, Hou Lam Tsui, Ice Wong Kei Suet, and Bobby Yu Shuk Pui, curated by Kobe Ko.

The exhibition features nine women artists from Hong Kong, Japan, and Taiwan, whose all-new commissions engage with practices considered controversial or unorthodox by the medical scientific establishment—from genetic engineering to xenotransplantation, dream analysis, sound healing, and ritualistic performance. Taking place outside of Para Site’s space, ‘Post-Human Narratives—In the Name of Scientific Witchery’ unfolds in the Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences, in Sheung Wan, a unique and historically charged setting where the exhibition seeks to reconfigure new speculative narratives around science, magic, and ‘witchcraft’.

Part of an ongoing project titled ‘Post-Human Narratives’, the exhibition marks the third iteration of a collective series of onsite and online initiatives using posthumanist thinking as a departure point. Focusing on the porous boundary between dichotomies such as nature/human, human/machine, the empirical world and the supernatural, the exhibition aims at centering peripheral histories of the mythical and magical as a way to challenge prevailing narratives centered on scientific rationality.