ODDKIN

Exhibition opens on 17.10.2025 (Fri) at 6:30 PM in the presence of all participating artists. All are welcome!

Accompanying Programmes:

17.10.2025 (Fri) 6:30 PM - 8:15 PM, Goethe-Gallery and Library, Goethe-Institut Hongkong
Gallery Tour (in English) and Artists Sharing (in Cantonese) by four participating artists, with Q & A

09.11.2025 (Sun) 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Online
ODDKIN Exhibition Response: Guest Talk
Guest Speaker: Dr. ZHANG Zimu 
Participants: Chan Hau Chun, Chui Chi Yin, Lam Wing Sze, Yim Sui Fong
Free event. Conducted in Mandarin and Cantonese
Registration for the talk and get the event link: https://cuhk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vFdQvaPMRiiRkFe_oc0cDw

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

In turbulent times, we borrow Donna Haraway's concept of ODDKIN to ask: In the face of global ecological and social crises, how might we learn to form alliances? How can we explore the possibility of "odd kinship" in conditions that demand co-existence and co-survival? Such kinship is not grounded in bloodlines but in connections with the eerie - those unfamiliar, unruly forms of life. We take a practice of confrontation as our method, allowing differences to rub against one another, convening a temporary yet necessary creative coalition.

The exhibition is initiated by YIM Sui Fong, with participating artists CHAN Hau Chun, CHUI Chi Yin, and LAM Wing Sze. Working primarily with moving image, the four artists begin with observations of urban everyday life, transforming reading, discussion, and field encounters into sound and video installations. The process of this exhibition grew out of a series of reading groups: from Haraway's Staying with the Trouble to Zanette & Clinchy's Ecology of Fear, further extending to Fisher's The Weird and the Eerie and Waite's On the Politics of Boredom. The sites of these gatherings were deliberately varied - rooftops, Lion Rock, canteens, airports - each becoming a scene where theory, body, and site intertwined, and where practices of mutual reflection and critique could unfold.

"Facing unease" became our shared creative proposition. The works move between self-confrontation and the eerie: multi-channel video reveals fractures and reconstructions of the self, while sound installations evoke forces that are difficult to perceive yet deeply shape our realities. We ask: if the weird and the eerie are modes of action, might they help us negotiate, with sharper sensitivity, the thresholds between absence and presence?

Through the interlacing of image and sound, the exhibition rehearses a form of temporary collective action. ODDKIN is, perhaps, a way of learning - learning how to find connection within fracture, and how to respond within unease.