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Update:

Pink Dot – Hong Kong’s largest LGBTQ event – cancelled after organiser denied West Kowloon venue

This video represents my worries that rainbow flag is under attack from all sides and we are in a precarious situation.

Confession of a Flower Spirit

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📸by Alex Huda

Hello everyone, I am sorry to disappoint some of you, for you were expecting a political statement to be made by an activist. For I am no activist, not a politician and certainly not human.

I am a flower spirit who has cultivated for thousands of years. Like the Bauhinia in Hong Kong, I am a hybrid. My ancestors were a peony from Wu Zetian and a mimosa from Yang Guifei. If you revisit the *Shan Hai Jing* (Classic of Mountains and Seas), you will find many records of us. If you have read the *Chu Ci* (Songs of the South), there are many accounts of our ancestors, and even Qu Yuan is one of my ancestors; he was a fragrant herb.

I have existed here long before 1898, I witnessed the indigenous people passed along their patriarchal heritage through family clans, with women and gender minorities left out.

I witnessed the New Territories fall under colonial rule and land logs were measured redrawn by Indian surveyors. Brought along the moralist values of the west and criminalised same sex relationships, John MacLennan paid a fatal price.

I have seen the government redefine land boundaries in the New Territories, enclosing forests, lakes, and lands we live on as "virgin land," awaiting development under capitalist logic.

All of this has sparked a great interest in human society, and I wanted to be part of your world to see and to experience. But I also know that each time boundaries are redrawn, we spirits are excluded from human society. I am aware of the legend of the white snake and green serpent, and how Fa Hai, the monk, pursued them relentlessly. Despite White Snake’s efforts to integrate and provide charity, she was always seen as a threat, and her relationship with Xu Xian was deemed unacceptable.

We must reckon the forces behind our desperation are deep rooted historic and structural failures.

Today, I came with my partner, "Gu Gu Gu" (Spotted dove), to this marriage registration office on Red Cotton Road, representing the grievances of our kin who have been stripped of their rights and rejected for hundreds, even thousands of years. This rejection, this exclusion, has turned more and more people into spirits.

I want to tell humans that our love is not frightening and should not cause alarm. This wedding dress is just a piece of clothing; it is not sacred nor terrifying. The real horror lies in depriving people's rights based on prejudice. Demonizing a part of society and viewing them as threats or diseases, and aggressively resisting their pursuit of equality, the gatekeeping monk Fa Hai is truly frightening.

Providing an alternative framework for same sex partnership is a directive from the Court of Final Appeal. I want to remind the public and the legislators: if the bill is voted down, it will be like "flooding the Golden Mountain" in our era. So we manifest here today to heal your allergy to diverse love.Our manifestation is nothing but a phantasm projected by your fear. It is not who we are.

In the end, we will continue to witness your actions for the next thousand years, to see if you will repeat your old wrongs, isolating a part of your society and turning them into outcasts, nurturing grievances.

As Stephen Chow once said, our numbers lies not in effort but in your doings!

Thank you all.

Lastly, let this song commemorate our love:

Flower of Love

Composed by Andy So

Performed by CUChorus

My friend made this for me. It’s an impossible triangle!

各位，我星期三有個展覽，大家嚟撐場啦！佢叫「袋鼠、熊貓與狗」

係講外賣員勞動中嘅非人化同異化。

其中我嘅佢品叫Ludo, 係我觀察到啲外賣員會喺街邊捉棋，用高速咁玩，令我認起速度和意外嘅關係。

地點係香港藝術中心14樓歌德藝廊

„.-•¹°”ˆ˜𝑲𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒐, 𝑷𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒂, 𝑫𝒐𝒈˜ˆ”°¹•-.„

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Exhibition Opening Reception

2/7/2025

1830-2000

Goethe Insitut Hong Kong

14/F, Hong Kong Art Centre

Ailsa Wong

Liu Tsz Ying, Grace

Holok Chen Holok A-Oui Acoba

Kong Yiu Wing 江曜榮

Cheung Sin Yi, Selina

勞動最光榮

Repairing the Unicorn for the Unicorn dance!

Voidpunk workshop by M+ Museum

A few years ago, Holok Chen resonated with characters from a sci-fi film and has since masquerade as an alien, bringing an extraterrestrial perspective to observe and learn from life in Hong Kong and redefining the meaning of living in the human world. Whether you are curious about masquerades but don't know where to start or want to understand the concepts behind it, this workshop provides room for exploration and sharing with the artist and other participants. Through visual symbols and associations, you will take the first step in creating your masquerade persona and expressing your multifaceted self.

Before the end of the workshop, an M+ Educator will lead you on a visit to the photography exhibition Yasumasa Morimura and Cindy Sherman: Masquerades , allowing you to learn more about two artists who also expressed themselves through masquerade and to understand the inspirations and expressions behind their works.