#Art Hong Kong

[thunderstruck9]

Stephen Wong Chun Hei (Hong Kong, 1986), The Study of the Sky, 2018. Acrylic on paper, 112.5 x 117 cm.

[miamaimania]

꩜ Sleeper Awake: Paik's iconoclastic TV Bed (1972-1991) ➤

[fartshitter9000]

yo yo yo mista kirkland

[ashyseapancake]

Hong Kong high schooler Miku 🇭🇰

[archiveofaffinities]

Hong Kong

[sorrysomethingwentwrong]

Kowloon City: An Illustrated Guide,

At its height in the 1990s, Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong housed about 50,000 people. Its population is unremarkable for small cities, but what set Kowloon apart from others of its size was its density. Spanning only 2.6 hectares, the tiny enclave contained 1,255,000 people per square kilometer, making it the densest city in the world.

Kowloon was built as a small military fort around the turn of the 20th century. When the Chinese and English governments abandoned it after World War II, the area attracted refugees and people in search of affordable housing. With no single architect, the urban center continued to grow as people stacked buildings on top of one another and tucked new structures in between existing ones to accommodate the growing population without expanding beyond the original fort’s border.

With only a small pocket of community space at the center, Kowloon quickly morphed into a labyrinth of shops, services, and apartments connected by narrow stairs and passageways through the buildings. Rather than navigate the city through alleys and streets, residents traversed the structures using slim corridors that always seemed to morph, an experience that caused many to refer to Kowloon as “a living organism.”

The city devolved into a slum with crime and poor living conditions and was razed in 1994. Before demolition, though, a team of Japanese researchers meticulously documented the architectural marvel, which had become a sort of cyberpunk icon that even inspired a gritty arcade as tribute.

Courtesy: Hitomi Terasawa

[mcpirita]

Mr. Vampire III [ Hong Kong ] • 1987

[sketchytea]

my piece for the @hws-anthology! it's the gang enjoying some spicy street hotpot on a humid summer's evening 🍲

thanks to the mods for their enduring patience, and for pulling this off. i'm happy to have participated in something like this with so many friends and creators i admire 🧡

[tidapencil]

When you close your eyes

Is it her that you see

Gallery

[arashixyarts]

Bro would have the time of his life with the food in hk

[wacca005]

Neon Streets 🌃🚕🌃

We crossed Paths after the rain.

[bixels]

The idea that uni protesters are "elitist ivy-league rich kids larping as revolutionaries" on Twitter and Reddit and even here is so fucking funny to me if you actually know anything about the student bodies at these unis. Take it from someone who's going to one of the biggest private unis in the US, 80% of the peers I know are either from the suburbs or an apartment somewhere in America, children of immigrants, or here on a student visa. I've heard about one-percenter students, but I've never met one in person. Like, don't get me wrong, the institution as a whole is still very privileged and white. I've talked with friends and classmates about feeling weird or dissonant being here and coming from such a different background. But in my art program, I see BIPOC, disabled, queer, lower-income students and faculty trying to deconstruct and tear that down and make space every day. So to take a cursory glance at a crowd of student protesters in coalitions that are led by BIPOC & 1st/2nd-gen immigrant students and HQ'd in ethnic housings and student organizations and say, "ah. children of the elite." Get real.

[oracleandbone]

Taking over in our heart The winter’s over  Just a blue summer sky

We wish everyone a happy new year!

[awakeningthevioletswithin]

White Lion

Watercolor On Black Cotton Paper

2024, 10"x 14"

White Bauhinia, Hong Kong Orchid Tree Blossoms

[thunderstruck9]

Carmen Ng (Hong Kong, 1988, Playground, 2020. Watercolour and coloured pencil on paper, 53 x 37 cm.

[archiveofaffinities]

Neon Signs, Hong Kong, 1968-1970, Photograph: Gunther W. Holtorf