Thinking of Art as Informal Life Politics in Hong Kong

by Olivier Krischer

This chapter considers artistic practices as a form of informal life politics in the context of Hong Kong, through the case of the Wooferten 活化廳 art space. Besides situating the space’s emergence in the context of local cultural politics, and a ‘translocal’ network of regional collaborators, I also consider theoretical approaches to this form of creative action, and relate them to the often overlooked history of social movements in Hong Kong.


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