This catalogue is published in conjunction with the solo exhibition of Hong Kong outsider artist Tsang Tsou Choi held at Saamlung, Hong Kong. Tsang, who passed away in 2007, was notorious for the calligraphic graffiti he left on lamp posts, electric utility boxes, walls and other publicly accessible surfaces across the city, detailing his genealogy and claiming ownership of the land that constitutes the area of Kowloon. 'As the first exhibition of work from Tsang Tsou Choi in the commercial gallery context, this project positions him as the historical precedent for an alternative future; that is to say, we trace back to his position a certain rupture within Hong Kong art history by which we might locate in his stance the first properly contemporary artist in a region still haunted by the ideological specters of modernism. By offering certain possibilities for public intervention alongside a concerted disavowal of social responsibility, Tsang becomes, in retrospect, a key figure for cultural production today.' —Robin Peckham

Works featured in this volume include ink on board and cloth, pen on paper, calligraphic-cum-sculptural interventions on objects, and vintage photographic documentation of Tsang Tsou Choi's works in situ, taken by Lau Kin Wai.

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Onsite

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MON.TTC
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2012

ISBN / ISSN

Nil

No of copies

2

Content type

artist monograph, 

catalogue

Chapter headings

Introduction - Robin PECKHAM, 岳鴻飛

Notes on Tsang Tsou Choi: Imperatives for Future Research - Abby CHEN, 陳暢

King Of Kowloon | Tsang Tsou Choi
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