Curator
Eugenia Law

Participating Artists
Ricky YEUNG Sau Churk
Phoebe MAN
MUDWORK
Foreseen Agency (Shan WONG + Kachi CHAN)

Workshop artist
Korhan Erel 

Collaborators
The Salvation Army Yaumatei Multi-service Centre for Senior Citizens
The Neighbourhood Advice-Action Council Martha Baker Social Centre for the Elderly
Mighty Oaks Foundation

Engagement Design Support
Sing Jantzen Tse

Exhibition opens on April 16, 2026 (Thu) at 6:30 PM in the presence of curator and artists.

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

How can art forge connections with society, and through which strategies might artists build relationships and respond to our times? 

The Chinese title of the exhibition references the lyrics of the 1987 Cantopop song “共同渡過” (Walking Through Together), invoking the search for companions in moments of transition as a metaphor for the aims and energies of artistic intervention and community participation in participatory art practices. 

Featuring 4 Hong Kong artists from different generations - Ricky YEUNG Sau Churk, Phoebe MAN, MUDWORK, and Foreseen Agency (Shan WONG + Kachi CHAN) - the exhibition brings together socially engaged practice, community-based art, participatory and collaborative approaches, and artists acting as social agents, to cultivate relationships with diverse communities. Amidst the challenges and flux of our present time, this exhibition invites your active participation - To collectively explore and reimagine the forging of communities, while sensing, perceiving and understanding our world anew.

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Accompanying programmes

1. Locationsong - Soundscape Workshop
April 18, 2026 (Sat), 2:00 - 7:30 PM
Goethe-Institut Black Box Studio and Wan Chai District
Suitable for aged 18 or above
Conducted in English with simple translation in Cantonese and Mandarin. Free admission. Please register online in advance.

How do we listen to a city? And how do we reinterpret it? 

“Locationsong” invites participants to tune into the soundscape that we often overlook of the city, exploring how sound reveals layers of nature, human activity and connections in between.

Led by Berlin-based sound artist Korhan Erel, this full-day workshop begins with a guided city walk to record the living soundscape of the urban environment. Together, we will choose a location and make a recording there, listen and analyze the recording, determine the sound events and their timings. 

From listening analytically to isolate the various sound events it contains, we will explore our sonic awareness and listening skills, and co-create new pieces of rhythm and melodies with our collected recordings, identifying and mapping the distinct layers of sound. Using these notations as a score, participants will then reinterpret it with their own sound in playful vocal experiments, transforming everyday noises into an improvised “chorus” of the city.

No prior musical knowledge or singing ability required. 
Participants are encouraged to bring their own notepads and pens for note jotting. 

Register here

2. In Play: Net Communities - Roundtable Workshop
April 25, 2026 (Sat), 3:00 - 5:00 PM
Goethe-Institut Black Box Studio
Conducted in Cantonese
Free admission. Participant please apply through open call

Do you want to start an exciting debate with the trainer and Pokémon?
This is a public round table discussion developed from the Pallet Town Meeting Installation artwork by Foreseen Agency. This AI-driven performative piece reimagines Pokémon's societal hierarchy through four roles—the Trainer, Pokémon (as pet-companion), Training Centre, and Elite Four—convening at a symbolic round table. Responding to keywords like connectivity, stability, level, and hierarchy, the roles engage in unequal dialogue, with speech access dictated by the manual rotating microphone. This setup critiques game worlds as political playgrounds, mirroring real-world power dynamics and subverting the round table's ideal of egalitarian exchange, fostering a dynamic feedback loop of questions and insights.

Building on these themes, our live event examines how virtual worlds, technology, and the internet can either strengthen or fracture community solidarity. In collaboration with the Institution of Niche, we are launching this open call to invite broader contributions and foster inclusive, multi-directional dialogue around media theory, internet communities, and participation. Audience members will witness and participate in moderated conversations.

Apply here

3. Restoring Play: Workshop and tour on Togetherness 
May 2, 2026 (Sat), 2:00 - 4:00 PM
Goethe-Gallery
Free admission. Priorities will be given to online registrants.
Suitable for aged 8 or above, participants under age 16 must be accompanied by an adult. 

How can the familiar classroom desk and chair become a bridge between play, memory, and imagination? This participatory event invites audiences to sit, literally ,on the artwork by MUDWORK, a creative collective known for transforming everyday objects into interactive sculptures and whimsical creative wonders.
Drawing from their ongoing collaborations with local schools, MUDWORK reimagines desks and chairs rich with childhood traces, integrating reused materials into kinetic artwork. Each repurposed object carries the marks of shared experience, turning nostalgia into movement and conversation while technology and robotic medium were humanised.
After the hands-on encounter, the curator of the exhibition will lead a guided tour of the exhibition, unpacking how participating artists redefine everyday materials as catalysts for empathy, sustainability, and community building. This session invites reflection on how play can foster connections, reviving the spirit of togetherness through reclaimed objects and reimagined spaces.

Register here