Portable Mutations: Shadow Puppetry Workshop with Min-Jia
Shadow puppetry has long evolved through travelling, across dynasties and centuries, regions and continents, masters and generations. Resonantly, artist Min-Jia carries and develops their practice along journeys, transiting from Berlin and Shaanxi to a recent residency in Hong Kong. Over a weekend in early September, their tool cabinet sprawled open upon a communal table, inviting a collective remaking of puppets from the classic Chinese folklore “Legend of the White Snake”. These two days of tangible learning went beyond an exercise of inheritance; it questioned how a rich cultural heritage could translate into radical artistic language, and reenchant the present alongside contingent forces of myth, monstrosity, and folkness.
The Making of Household Gods
Created and presented during a time of change, Household Gods is HART’s first exhibition originated from its Social Studio program. It rethinks how art and creativity empower each of us, and attempts to offer new insights into our complicated and currently uncertain world, addressing questions about the relationships between mankind in a household setting, as well as natural and supernatural phenomenon.