This compilation features works by 10 local video artists that capture the burdensome anxiety of the end of British colonial rule, which caused shockwaves that were felt throughout the wider landscape of daily life in Hong Kong. The transition of Hong Kong from a colonial to a post-colonial city has been critical to the development of the city and its people. Evidence of this can be seen through this selection of single-channel video that spans the years from 1990 to 1998. While the Reunification may have induced trauma and/or liberation, these experiences, as title suggests, have expired.

本作品集收錄了十位本地錄像藝術家對後殖民統治的憂慮。香港由殖民主義統治過渡到後殖民主義，對於整個城市及香港人都有決定性的影響，從這輯由1990至1998年創作的單頻道錄像作品可見一斑。雖然回歸可能引發著的創傷和解放情緒，但這經驗一如題目所說都過期了。

Ellen Pau, born in Hong Kong, began her art career while studying radiography at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, creating her first experimental super-8 film, The Glove. She co-founded Videotage in 1986 and received the Asia Cultural Council Fellowship in 1992, creating Song of the Goddess in the U.S. Her international career launched at the 1995 Gwangju Biennale, followed by exhibitions at “City on the Move”, Asia Pacific Triennial, Shanghai Biennale and Taipei Biennale. Since 1996, she has been a director at the Microwave International Media Art Festival. At the 2001 Venice Biennale, she presented Recycling Cinema. Recent exhibitions include Awakening: Art in Society in Asia 1960s–1990s (2019) at the National Gallery Singapore, What About Home Affairs (2019) at Para-site and Shape of Light at M+ Facade (2022). Her works are held in collections of the Hong Kong Museum of Art, M+, and Griffith University. The Asia Art Archive launched her archive in 2023.

Jamsen Law, born and grew up in Hong Kong, Jamsen Law’s independent video works have been exhibited in festivals in Europe, Asia, North and South America, such as Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival, Transmediale Berlin and Ogaki Biennale. He also had his solo screenings in Toronto, Tokyo, Busan and Hong Kong. Jamsen’s works explore the meaning of process and existence, consciousness, interiority, desire and fear through multiple artforms.

After his research on media aesthetics in Institute of Advanced Media Art and Science in Japan, he started to curate media arts-related artist-in-residence and collaborative projects. He now teaches visual arts in Hong Kong Design Institute.