Slippery When Wet [electronic resource].

Artists Space 2021

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The works on view usurp fraught channels to make the shortest distance between two places: Between New York and Hong Kong. Between Artists Space and Speculative Place. An obsessive material accumulation of intimacy between geographies emerges about wormholes; about cunts; observing the affective space between antipodes. How can I dig your way to Hong Kong? This is a show that proposes a wet ontology of Hong Kong—a city in ongoing transfiguration shifting into an uncanny vision of itself. Hong Kong secretes, leaving a trail of ink, tears, humidity, logistic flows and leaks. “Social theory has failed also to account for time as lived,” Achille Mbembe challenges, “not synchronically or diachronically, but in its multiplicity and simultaneities, its presence and absences, beyond the lazy categories of permanence and change beloved of so many historians. Illuminating the durations of lived time versus what we know and understand to be History: How is the passing of time in crisis felt? A wet finger in the air trying to grasp the cusp of change is unable to locate its dimensions. The air is as immaterial and unseeable as this moment…
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Imperialism
Art--Exhibitions
Culture and globalization

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Tiffany Sia