Please Enter more than 1 characters

Please Enter more than 1 characters

Sign up to CHAT newsletter

Loading Events
  • This event has passed.

Chapter I – Everything about Cotton is about Cotton, Kang Ya-Chu, 2018

Open Studio: Cotton Dreams

1970-80s was the golden era of Hong Kong’s textile industry. Not long after, factories gradually moved to cities in China such as Shenzhen, Guangdong, or further south in Vietnam. Much of the mill workers were forced to be relegated to low-skill-intensive jobs such as janitors in hospitals or commercial offices. Taiwan encountered a similar situation at around the same time, and the history of cotton-spinning gradually faded out. Nevertheless, cotton-spinning has remained an indispensable link in the construction of life and culture.

During the two months of her residency in Hong Kong, Kang will meet and conduct interviews with former woman textile workers. Bridging their personal stories with their subconscious, she will record and examine their dream patterns in relations to their social reality. They may have woken up from the dream brought to them by the cotton industry, yet personal memories and experience remain. Towards the end of the Artist-in-Residence programme, Kang will present the documentations and works generated from the project ‘Cotton Dreams’.

Artist(s):

Kang Ya-Chu

Date:

24.11-15.12.2019

Time:
11:00am-7:00pm Except Tuesday

Venue:

CHAT Lab
Go to Press
shortlink

About Artist

Kang Ya-Chu

Co-hosted with

Founding Donor 

Main Donor

Supported by

 
X

Special Arrangement during Art Week

CHAT and CHAT Shop Special Open Hours during Art Week

Date: 26-30.03.2024
Special Opening Hours : 10:30am-7:30pm

Resume to normal open hours on 31.03.2024 and after