An advanced city is characterized not by how truthful it is but by how it hides and disconnects its dwellers from what is keeping the city going and alive, and most importantly energy and and water. This project seeks to reveal what has been dismissed and covered up by reconnecting the lost dots in the city. 一個進步的城市往往是是一個被高度管治的城市，讓居其中者與維持城市生命氣息的元素疏離，包括能量和水的輸送及源頭。這展覽嘗試尋索這些被埋的連線。
Category Archives: environment環境
Water Drafting @Beijing 徵水 @北京
Once Upon a time a River (Garrison Creek) 從前這兒有條河
Two works in support of the Human River Walk 2008 in Toronto.
Working with kids and community to create a stream of fish muppets that flow with the flow.
Concrete Fish at Fort York Gallery
Dry Spell 旱咒
Denizens of Waters 眾水之民 cum Why are you so sad? 你為啥發愁?
Quench 解渴
Earthwork and Murmurs of a Place
Quench解渴 @ Cattle Depot牛棚
While water is traded and consumed as commodities to quench our thirst, there are dire consequences often left untold. 當水變成商品之後, 背後的故事有多少人知道…. In cities, there is an increasing demand for bottled water and other bottled drinks, marketed as “safer” and “higher class”by corporations that suck up aquifers andsprings which kept from their consumers that they are often privatizing the water sources, depleting and polluting groundwater to elicit dire ecological and social consequences. These include displacement of the local dwellers, humans and all. For humans, wrecking of agro-communities, health and intensified poverty, especially in places where suchacts are either looselyor not regulated. Women, lower in status and chief care takers of their families are often receiving the hardest hit, some may be sold or trafficked to as force-labor or to quench sexual desires of others.The trafficking situation is worsening as the water situation deteriorates, while the politicalecological-economic power gap widens across the global and within nationstates.Yet, these women’s voices are silenced, unheard. The picture inserted in these bottled water is a women of “color”, naked, blinded, tied and gagged. 當樽裝水和其他商品飲料被推銷為安全純淨和高檔而銷售在節節上升的時候，它們原產地的源泉和地下水除被私有化及徵用外，其情況也是在每況愈下，一邊被抽乾，一邊被污染，附隨而來的是嚴重的生態及社會後果。對當地的居民而言，則包括其農產及社區被破壞，健康變差和加劇貧窮，特別是對汲水活動不制約的地區。而女性，在地位不尊和要照顧家庭的情況下，往往首當其衝。其中更不幸者是被人擄拐貶賣至被迫作苦工或供人洩慾。 隨著全球的清潔水源越趨貧乏及政治經濟–生態的權力分配兩極化，貧窮和擄拐貶賣的情況在靜悄悄加劇。困在樽裝水裏的是一幀被暴露、綑縛、蒙眼和封口有色人種的女性。
Vision of Nature 眼界
Seven large magnifying glasses mounted with shiny metal frame welded on metal stands are placed randomly at different parts of a woodland. These frames draw attention to the framed part of the woodland, which produce enlarged and distorted images when the framed scenes have objects right in front of the magnifying glasses, and inverted ones when the framed scenes are faraway. The metal frames symbolized the scientific paradigm mediates our understanding and relationship with nature.
Towards the end of the trail is a full length mirror where a visitor would find oneself amongst the trees and scrubs, deviated from the role as an observer or knower.