Para/Site organizes exhibition for local young artists every year. When considering the form of the exhibition, curators of the exhibition, decided to exchange roles between curators and artists and ask the artists to tell curators what to do. Hector, one of the curators was disappointed that the exhibition just repeats the traditional mode of art exhibition, very sterile and object-driven. Then the artists replaced their works by marks and photographs of the show on original spots after the exhibition opening. In response to Michael Cheng's work, a member of the audience, May Chan, created and presented her own work in the show. On the last day of the exhibition, the artists told audience that the exhibition start at the window. When audience entered the window space, they were locked for while and became performer as artists looked at them outside the window. Artists, curators, performers and audience became indistinguishable from each other and exchanged their roles naturally.

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Onsite

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EX.HGK.SDB (Hong Kong Room)
Language

Chinese - Traditional, 

English

Publication/Creation date

2003

No of pages

97

ISBN / ISSN

9628656880

No of copies

1

Content type

catalogue

Chapter headings

Are Art Exhibitions Possible? - Hector RODRIGUEZ, 羅海德

Someone's Done It Before. What is Creation? What For? - LAI Chiuhan Linda, 黎肖嫻

A Momentary Impression of the Event 'Someone's Done It Before' - CHUNG Bryan Waiching, 鍾緯正

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Someone's Done It Before, 有人做過