Catalogue of joint exhibition 'Chinese Whispers' held at Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong in 2007. The title of the exhibition comes from the children's game in which a message is passed from one person to another and in doing so almost always ends up getting garbled. The fun for the participants comes from seeing just how badly the message gets distorted between start and finish. The game of Chinese Whispers demonstrates how easily information and meaning can become corrupted or distorted. It is also an apt metaphor for the difficulties inherent in assigning meaning to works of art and how those difficulties are multiplied whenever the work is taken out of its cultural context. Artist biographies are included in the catalgoue.
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Onsite
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EX.HGK.CHW
Language
Chinese - Traditional,
English
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Publication/Creation date
2007
No of pages
92
ISBN / ISSN
9889838885
No of copies
2
Content type
catalogue
Chapter headings
Chinese Whispers: Chinese Progress - YANG Li, 楊荔
Chinese Whispers: Meaning and Metaphor - Jonathan THOMSON
Chinese Whispers: Eavesdropping - Alice G. GUILLERMO
Chinese Whispers, 中國細語
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