Plastic Bags Performance

'Hark Bun Lum' (客賓臨/Happening), at the opening of the 'Contemporary Hong Kong Art 1979' at City Hall Low Block, 19 October 1979. Frog King presented on his own body the experimental 'air sculptures'. A few students from the Hong Kong Polytechnic helped typing up the air-filled plastic bags to the strings on the artist, while he distributed card designed by himself and printed by Li Kikwok to the audience. It was an uninvited occurrence.

The exhibition was part of the 2nd Asian Arts Festival; the award ceremony of the Urban Council Fine Arts Award and the Arts Award for Creative Writing in Chinese also took place. Frog King, being one of the invited artists, shown his 3 sets of works at the exhibition.

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1979

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Hong Kong

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Performance

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artwork documentation, 

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Plastic Bags Performance