A multimedia presentation was mounted at the HKDI Gallery in Hong Kong from 18th March, 2016 to 30th May, 2016, presented by the Hong Kong Design Institute, with Fujifilm as Premium sponsor. Using video installation and photography, the concept of slow traveling, serendipitous connections and chance encounters were explored. The exhibition was divided into 3 parts:
“Over the Ocean”, which presented the 32 videos of the bottle launchings, simultaneously in juxtaposition — a demonstration of differences in time and space for similar actions, the time-lapse in a video screen, and photographs taken on board the container ship, shown in horizontal frames moving as waves. “On the Road”, where the photographs taken on land were presented in a “photo-maze on a plateau”. These two parts were connected by a “tunnel” showing the videos of Carla and Gaylord, the bottle retrievers. Read more
“Over the Ocean”, which presented the 32 videos of the bottle launchings, simultaneously in juxtaposition — a demonstration of differences in time and space for similar actions, the time-lapse in a video screen, and photographs taken on board the container ship, shown in horizontal frames moving as waves. “On the Road”, where the photographs taken on land were presented in a “photo-maze on a plateau”. These two parts were connected by a “tunnel” showing the videos of Carla and Gaylord, the bottle retrievers. Read more
A multimedia presentation was mounted at the HKDI Gallery in Hong Kong from 18th March, 2016 to 30th May, 2016, presented by the Hong Kong Design Institute, with Fujifilm as Premium sponsor. Using video installation and photography, the concept of slow traveling, serendipitous connections and chance encounters were explored. The exhibition was divided into 3 parts:
“Over the Ocean”, which presented the 32 videos of the bottle launchings, simultaneously in juxtaposition — a demonstration of differences in time and space for similar actions, the time-lapse in a video screen, and photographs taken on board the container ship, shown in horizontal frames moving as waves. “On the Road”, where the photographs taken on land were presented in a “photo-maze on a plateau”. These two parts were connected by a “tunnel” showing the videos of Carla and Gaylord, the bottle retrievers.
“The material constellations displayed in this exhibition should not be read merely as a linear travel log book, but as a product of interrelationships among various art media springing from Leong’s initial master plan. This exhibition reveals a ‘Kinaesthetics’ in which choreographies of movements and spaces among human, territories, exotic signs or symbols of selected seascapes and landscapes are smoothly interweaved; the three-staged exhibition works like a hyper-text, and invites viewers to a layered glimpse of Leong’s ‘cabinet of curiosities’ (Wunderkammer), a microcosm of the artist’s interiors which is far beyond a declaration of love between two lovers, as in Márquez's book, but a collective memory of the slow living and authenticity in traditional communication. Through multimedia expressions, he gives a positive account of the precious essence and surprises of slow living before the advent of globalisation. ‘Over the Ocean, On the Road: A Multimedia Exhibition by Leong Ka Tai’ provides a ‘total work of art’ (Gesamtkunstwerk) under exotic cultural settings, saturated with multiple media within a temporal interactive and educational environment.”
By Blues Wong, photography critic and independent curator
“Over the Ocean”, which presented the 32 videos of the bottle launchings, simultaneously in juxtaposition — a demonstration of differences in time and space for similar actions, the time-lapse in a video screen, and photographs taken on board the container ship, shown in horizontal frames moving as waves. “On the Road”, where the photographs taken on land were presented in a “photo-maze on a plateau”. These two parts were connected by a “tunnel” showing the videos of Carla and Gaylord, the bottle retrievers.
“The material constellations displayed in this exhibition should not be read merely as a linear travel log book, but as a product of interrelationships among various art media springing from Leong’s initial master plan. This exhibition reveals a ‘Kinaesthetics’ in which choreographies of movements and spaces among human, territories, exotic signs or symbols of selected seascapes and landscapes are smoothly interweaved; the three-staged exhibition works like a hyper-text, and invites viewers to a layered glimpse of Leong’s ‘cabinet of curiosities’ (Wunderkammer), a microcosm of the artist’s interiors which is far beyond a declaration of love between two lovers, as in Márquez's book, but a collective memory of the slow living and authenticity in traditional communication. Through multimedia expressions, he gives a positive account of the precious essence and surprises of slow living before the advent of globalisation. ‘Over the Ocean, On the Road: A Multimedia Exhibition by Leong Ka Tai’ provides a ‘total work of art’ (Gesamtkunstwerk) under exotic cultural settings, saturated with multiple media within a temporal interactive and educational environment.”
By Blues Wong, photography critic and independent curator
