Sang Yat Fai Lok was recreated from newspaper archives, production stills, and family photographs of the Rediffusion (Lai Dik Foo Sing) Television Programs “Calvin’s Corner,” circa 1960; “Children’s Corner,” circa 1965; and “Happy Birthday,” circa 1975. Though wildly popular and adored by generations of children in the Pearl River Delta region, there are no recordings of these programs in existence. This was the case for the majority of early broadcasts, which were filmed live and transmitted directly into homes.

Based loosely on the prolific career of Hong Kong television personality, Calvin Wong Hay and his brother Eddie Wang Yee Hang, the work simultaneously documents a lost era of Hong Kong’s broadcast history and the artist’s discovery of estranged familial ties to the region. Through probing both the idiosyncrasies of his ancestors (concubines, gambling addiction, alleged murder, pet monkeys trained to perform lewd acts) and their mysterious pasts, Sang Yat Fai Lok is a psychedelic re-imagination of a personal history long repressed.

《Sang Yat Fai Lok》由報紙檔案、製作劇照及家庭照片重組而成，所有資料出自麗的電視（麗的呼聲）於約1960年播映的「Calvin’s Corner」、1965年的「兒童樂園」及1975 年的「快樂生辰」三個節目。雖然深受珠三角地區幾代兒童歡迎，但節目卻沒有錄影存檔留下，讓人回想起早年電視廣播製作，節目全是現場拍攝直接傳送到家中。作品以王曦（Calvin’s Corner 節目主持，人稱加明叔叔）和弟弟Eddie Wang的電視生涯為本。此作品在記錄一段被遺忘的香港廣播歷史同時，亦是藝術家對他與家族的疏遠關係的重新發現。透過尋找祖先神秘的過去，如有關納妾、賭博成癮、謀殺嫌疑或訓練猴子作猥褻表演等特質與行為，《Sang Yat Fai Lok》是一個對於長期被壓抑的個人歷史，迷幻般的重新想像。

Adrian Wong was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois in 1980.Originally trained in research psychology(receiving a Master’s degree from Stanford University in 2003. He continued hispost-graduate studies at Yale University, where he received an MFA in 2005. He has been based in Hong Kong, S.A.R. since 2005, where he is the co-founder and director of Embassy Projects, an arts consultancy and independent production studio. His recent exhibitions include “Reversing Horizons” at Shanghai MOCA, “Dis Play” at Para/Site Art Space, the HongKong Sculpture Biennial, and the Louis Vuitton Foundation sponsored “A Passion for Creation”. His videos have been screened internationally at the Circa Art Fair, the Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, the LenbachhausMuseum – Kubus, and the LOOP Media Center – Seoul.
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