The Date Series

Chi Wo LEUNG

The Date Series

Chi Wo LEUNG (Artist)

School of Creative Media

Research output: Creative and Literary Works in Non - textual Form › RGC 42 - Painting, sculpture, drawing, photograph

Abstract

The Date Series began in 2017 with Leung Chi Wo’s visits to the locations where bomb attacks once took place during the 1967 riots. On the same date, at the same location, exactly fifty years later, the artist turns the camera skyward and captures the sky with black and white film. So far (May 2020), the series has expanded from the first six photographs to 26.

The series evolves into an ongoing reading of news archive of violent events from bombing to domestic conflicts, sexual assaults and gang fights and the collection of these events have become a social diary with a personal touch when the artist was able to revisit the sites of violence.

In naming the images, Leung chose civil and personal events that happened on the day of the crime, bringing to the forefront coexistences of ephemeral yet notable timelines referenced by the very same images. Through polysemy and polyphony, Leung systematizes the contemplation and conception of two kinds of parallel worlds: one temporally synchronous but spatially distant, another temporally distinct yet spatially unified.

Based on the groundwork of text and photography, the series expands to video My Random Diary and spoken word 50 Years.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - Jan 2018
Event	Something There and Never There: Solo exhibition of Leung Chi Wo - Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong, China Duration: 23 Jan 2018 → 10 Mar 2018 https://blindspotgallery.com/exhibition/something-there-and-never-there/

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Record validation is based on the information provided by the researcher(s) concerned. Suggestions for further amendments or supplementary information can be sent to [email protected]

Research Keywords

contemporary art
history and photography

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2 RGC 44 - Performance and participation in exhibits
1 RGC 11 - Research book or monograph (Author)
1 RGC 43 - Film, video
1 RGC 42 - Painting, sculpture, drawing, photograph

50 Years
Leung, W. C. W. (Actor), 8 May 2020
Research output: Creative and Literary Works in Non - textual Form › RGC 42 - Painting, sculpture, drawing, photograph
Date Series, My Random Diary, 50 Years
Leung, C. W. (Artist), 8 May 2020
Research output: Creative and Literary Works in Non - textual Form › RGC 44 - Performance and participation in exhibits
My Random Diary
Leung, W. C. W. (Actor), 8 May 2020
Research output: Creative and Literary Works in Non - textual Form › RGC 43 - Film, video

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The Date Series

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50 Years

Date Series, My Random Diary, 50 Years

My Random Diary

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