GROUNDING

Date: 3 Dec 2022 - 2 Jan 2023  
Venue: Tomorrow Maybe  
Presenter: SAMPLE Magazine | Program Partner: Eaton HK

Participating artists:  Lazarus Chan Long Fung, Tang Kwong San, Winnie Yan Wai Yin, Wong Winsome Dumalagan 

“Thinking takes place in the relationship of territory and the earth.” The globe is now covered with grids and interpreted according to multiple regimes. Can we revisit how human beings come to understand and experience a new piece of land by means of imagining a landing on another planet? 

Based on the contents of SAMPLE’s ISSUE 27 “E pur si muove” and ISSUE 28 “Terra Forma”, we commissioned the artists Lazarus Chan Long Fung, Winnie Yan Wai Yin, Tang Kwong San, and Wong Winsome Dumalagan in this project to create new artworks under the theme of GROUNDING. We visited Hong Kong’s Port Island with a geologist during the research phase. Picking up sands and stones on the uninhabited island, we observed deep time through the warping and cracking of rock strata to imagine the generation and transformation of the land. 

「思想發生於疆域與土地的關係之間。」今日的地球已受網格覆蓋，由多重機制各自解讀，登陸異星，能 否為我們提供一個機會，重新探討人類如何從頭理解一片新的土地，細察當中牽涉的體驗過程？ 

是次計劃由《Sample 樣本》第二十七期〈星際旅行手冊〉及第二十八期〈異星生活指南〉出發，邀請陳朗丰、 忻慧妍、鄧廣燊、黃慧心四位藝術家進行創作。計劃進行期間，我們偕同地質學者到訪赤洲，於無人島上撿拾 沙石，從岩層的擠壓塌陷觀察深層歷史，想像陸地的生成與變異。