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。

Jo Law is an artist, researcher, and scholar who investigates the transformative potential of art, science, and technology in response to our changing sociocultural and political environments. Jo works with divergent media to develop a materialist aesthetic engagement with everyday experiences. Her award-winning screen works have been exhibited in international programs.

Through her media art practice and scholarly research publications, Jo explores how the textual imprints of media and materials in artworks shape human experience. Jo teaches at the University of Wollongong.

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.

HUNG Keung was born in Hong Kong and graduated from the School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Department of Fine Arts, Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was awarded the Most Promising Artist Awards in 1994. In 1996, he studied film and video on an MA programme in Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design, England. He is the first Chinese video artist to win the BBC British Short Film Festival 98 Best Short Ambient Video Award and the Best of EMAF in the European Media Art Festival 98. Also, he got the Gold Award, Special (Video) Distinguished Awards in 1997 & 1998. His works have been widely exhibited in Asia, Europe and the US, including England, Croatia, Netherlands, Albania, Germany, Taiwan, Thailand, and India. He actively engages in CD ROM interactive programme and is currently lecturer at the School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

A photojournalist, video director and lecturer by profession, Birdy Chu graduated from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University majoring in graphic design. He then proceeded to film and videoproduction and advanced photography studies in Canada. His works have been shown in film festivals in many cities, and he has held solo exhibitions on photography in Canada in 2009 and 2013 respectively. Birdy was selected as one of the finalists of the Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Awards 2009, of the Hong Kong Art Prize 2013, as well as in the Human Rights Art Prize in 2015. He won the Most Popular Mobile Film Award at the Mobile Film Festival 2016. Through visual images Birdy shows his concerns on social development and builds an image archive for this ever changing city. His book on political demonstrations in Hong Kong “I walk therefore I shoot: a record of Hong Kong demonstrations” was published in 2013.