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.

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.

Born in Hong Kong, Yau Ching is known in the Chinese-speaking world as a prolific writer and in the English-speaking world as a filmmaker and video artist. While managing her multiple identities, she has been making socially engaged work for more than three decades. She studied at the University of Hong Kong, New School for Social Research, Whitney Independent Study Program in New York, and received her PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London. While she was teaching at Hong Kong Lingnan University and Taiwan National Chengchi University, among others, she was actively involved in community organizing and public education. Yau Ching has authored more than twelve books. Her award-winning film/video works have been invited to venues including Alexanderplatz Station of the Berlin Underground, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Galarie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris, Museum of Modern Art in New York, and broadcast in North America, Europe and Japan.

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.

CHAN Kam-lok, Mark was born in Hong Kong. He graduated from the Department of Cinema and Television, School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist university. He worked as a cinematographer and sound recordist in many independent productions and multi-media performances. He represented Hong Kong in a youth exchange tour in Japan in 1995-6. His video works have been shown on television and over 30 local and overseas festivals. The work Happy Valley (Waiting at T zero) won the Grand Prize in Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards 1997.

TSE Ming-chong graduated from the Department of Journalism of the School of Communications at the Hong Kong Baptist University. In 1997, he was awarded a fellowship for Artistic Development by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and in1995 he won the Bronze Award / Kodak Award, editorial by the Hong Kong Institute of Professional Photographers Ltd. Between 1998 to 2000, Tse held eight Solo Photography Exhibitions in Hong Kong and Australia. In 2003, he was awarded The British Chevening Scholarships for his MA studies in Imaging and Communication at Goldsmiths’ College, University of London. Tse is founder of Lumenvisum, an organization promoting photography in HK.

Afa Chiang received his dance training in the early eighties and also made his first video piece. He has worked in both artistic and commercial productions of dance and theatre. He has been a choreographer, director, visual artist, costume/set designer. In recent years he focuses on studying the relationship of human bodies in different environment, art forms and media. He founded the dance group Three Colors (1991) and the multi-media workshop The Flowery Flowery World (1998).