Spatial Temporal

EVENT DESCRIPTION

TimeStamp Hub, a local art community that explores the unique intersection between art and technology by presenting influential contemporary creators to co-create cultural assets with interdisciplinary practices and various artistic approaches, announces the launch of Spatial Temporal as the community’s first experimental project. As the first major project curated by TimeStamp Hub, 5 artists from disciplinaries of architecture, art documentation, biocosmology, neuroscience and photography are presented in celebrating the decentralising world to secure cultural assets with digital ID minted on the Ethereum Blockchain.

Additionally, Timestamp Hub will also launch the artwork showcase at Yrellag Gallery. It runs from 11 to 26 November 2022, to accompany the launch in giving new perspectives for visitors of all ages to dive deeper into the multidisciplinary art practice and works.

Spatial refers to space, whereas temporal is a representation of time. These 5 artists consider themselves as a unique spatial part that is in conversation with different moments of Hong Kong.

Maggie Chu: By archiving postcards of Hong Kong’s iconic sceneries, Chu removes key elements from the postcards and turns the fragments into insect-like creatures that are hovering across the metamorphosis of Hong Kong from an international metropolis retrograding to 1840 when it was “a barren rock with nary a house upon it”.

Ray LC: He continues his machine-learning practice to explore the past, present, and future of Hong Kong through trajectory videos.

Ng Kai Fung: People often consider photography as the capture of a moment which is of single dimension. Ng is making a revolutionary move in turning single moments into 4-dimensional serial visions of Hong Kong.

Kiesly Tsang: Tsang elaborates on her experience in specific space-time in Hong Kong. Instead of attempting to find evidence in the unknown, Tsang legitimises her intuition and reification with a series of video collages for personal judgement.

Manfred Yuen: “Space” should never be confined or defined by the physical world solely. In his artwork, Yuen brings architectural projects that might experience miscarriages in the real world due to their flamboyancies or egoisms before, but they met their resurrections in the virtual world. This virtual world is a representation of Hong Kong at a specific point of time across the whole spectrum, somewhat beyond the present.