Amoy Gardens
Installation view, Bernd Behr, Amoy Gardens, 2003/07, 35mm slide projection with audio, 34 slides, dimensions variable.
Amoy Gardens (2003/2007) consists of an analogue slide projection depicting 34 scenarios in and around the eponymous building complex in Hong Kong which became an epicentre of the region’s 2003 SARS crisis involving its ventilation and plumbing systems perpetually circulating the virus throughout its interior. Accompanying the looped projection cycle is an audio recording of a young citizen of Hong Kong reading extracts from Exact Air, Le Corbusier’s treatise on hermetically sealed architecture (The Radiant City, 1933), playfully re-inventing the manifesto toward a contingent space between crisis and proposal.
Exhibitions: Titos Bunker, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, 2017, Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, 2015, Arko Art Center, Seoul, 2014, The Cube Space, Taipei, 2014, Para-Site, Hong Kong, 2013, , Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, 2010, Alexia Goethe Gallery, London, 2008.
Images and transcript.
Bailey, S. (2013) 'A Journal of the Plague Year', Artforum, June 2013.
Exhibitions: Titos Bunker, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, 2017, Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, 2015, Arko Art Center, Seoul, 2014, The Cube Space, Taipei, 2014, Para-Site, Hong Kong, 2013, , Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, 2010, Alexia Goethe Gallery, London, 2008.
Images and transcript.
Bailey, S. (2013) 'A Journal of the Plague Year', Artforum, June 2013.