17.05. - 21.06.2025 | Goethe-Gallery & Black Box Studio

Exhibition Opening in the presence of the facilitators and the artists on 17.5.2025 (Sat) from 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM. All are welcome!

How is the Zeitgeist revealed through written text in the situatedness of Hong Kong and our relations with each other? Text is an omnipresent public and private companion, at work, home, leisure or on the move. In the churn of the necessary, the imposed, and the personal choices of what we read for (dis)information, pleasure, provocation, connection or escape, this exhibition seeks connective pathways between shared access to a multiplicity of texts. It combines text-based artworks and zines by Pop & Zebra, Kaio Wu Hiu Nam, Crip Zine, Ning-Ning and Damon Tong, with interactive visitor activities for text-making and sharing.

The Goethe-Gallery becomes a temporary in-between space where the banal, the imaginary and the world-building of text coexist in new intertextual intimacies and where visitors collaboratively co-create the visual accretion of text and contemporary meanings during the exhibition.

Facilitators
Megan Olinger, Christine M. Kaiser, Michael Leung and Kay Mei Ling Beadman are independent artist/curator/researchers who entwine a range of intersectional disciplinary areas. Since meeting during their doctoral studies in Hong Kong, they have collaborated on exhibitions, conferences and workshops, including at JCCAC (2021), Floating Projects (2022), Documenta 15 (2022) and multiple EASST conferences (2020-2023).

Opening hours of the Goethe-Gallery and Black Box Studio
10:00 AM - 7:00 PM (Mon - Fri)
9:30 AM - 6:30 PM (Sat)
Closed on Sundays and Public Holidays