A Tango with Kaito - a love triangle between kaito, island and humans
Sat, Nov 04
|Chi Yan Old School
by Island Studies Network (HK). Traditions require three conditions to survive through circles of life: communities, free public space and the resilient local knowledge.
Time & Location
Nov 04, 2023, 10:00 AM – Nov 26, 2023, 6:00 PM
Chi Yan Old School, Peng Chau, Hong Kong
About the event
“Boats, islands, human beings… Three inter-dependent elements, forming an unbreakable trilateral relationship.” – “The Island Tales”
Art film “The Island Tales” captured the close-ended nature of an island as a metaphor for the end of a century. In 2000, concepts such as “anthropocene”, “non-human agency” and materiality have yet become prominent academic terms, but the film predicted how easily our human lives fly by in a befuddled, hazy state, like a drunken dream.
During the days when tunnels, bridges and railways have yet to exist, kaitos weave between shores of constellation-like islands and the New Territories. Transportation routes, designed to aggravate towards the city center, limited the exchange between humans and objects to the dichotomy of urban and rural, stifling the openness of the ocean. Setting off from the seaside of the islands, kaitos and cable ferries that sailed towards entangled directions linked up village with village, as well as…