{"id":44,"date":"2016-04-22T18:42:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T18:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tintinwulia.com\/tradetracetransit\/?post_type=jetpack-portfolio&p=44"},"modified":"2016-11-08T05:22:47","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T05:22:47","slug":"five-tonnes-of-homes-and-other-understories","status":"publish","type":"jetpack-portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.tintinwulia.com\/tradetracetransit\/?portfolio=five-tonnes-of-homes-and-other-understories","title":{"rendered":"Five Tonnes of Homes and Other Understories"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five Tonnes of Homes and Other Understories<\/em><\/strong> (2016), fresh from the streets of Central, is in turn a re-intervention to the art world.<\/p>\n

Like thick books with drawn covers, the massive bales of cardboard waste in Five Tonnes of Homes and Other Understories<\/em> are physical digests of their route. They contain physical traces of people, stakeholders that make up the nodes of the route, attaching diverse values to the cardboard waste along the way.<\/p>\n

In my intervention, I became one of these people. My\u00a0traces are carried on the structural outer layers of the bales. They are \u201cmurals\u201d \u2013 part of\u00a0Wall Drawings<\/a><\/strong><\/em> \u2013 that I\u00a0began drawing in early 2015,\u00a0while spending time in the Filipino domestic workers\u2019 temporary cardboard shelters in Central.\u00a0The murals then became markers as the cardboard waste changes form along the route. They enabled me to trace the route and build\u00a0relationships with\u00a0the stakeholders. These\u00a0made it possible for me to\u00a0re-collect\u00a0the waste cardboard at Hong Kong transit points before the bales are shipped to China.<\/p>\n

At a recycling collection point in Sheung Wan, the daily harvest of waste from Central\u00a0are compressed into bales, sometimes with the murals replacing their usual structural outer layer. Every day, the recycling collection’s\u00a0truck would transport\u00a0these bales to the transit port at Heng Fa Chuen\/Wan Chai in several trips. On each trip, the truck\u00a0passes near the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, the venue of the annual Art Basel Hong Kong, but never stopped there.<\/p>\n

These two worlds met\u00a0as\u00a0I diverted the route to\u00a0Art Basel Hong Kong 2016. This diversion\u00a0made\u00a0waves<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Title b<\/small>ackground image courtesy of Nora Tam\/South China Morning Post.<\/small><\/em>
\n<\/small><\/strong>Presentation at <\/small>Encounter<\/small> section (curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor) at Art Basel Hong Kong 2016 is co-supported by Osage Gallery<\/strong>.<\/small><\/em>
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[click on image for slideshow]<\/small><\/p>\n