The Rest of Us

10/12/2009 - 24/12/2009

‘The Rest of Us’ is a visual exhibition and an opening night cabaret presenting everyday fashions direct from the streets of Hong Kong, along with queer masquerades derived from Cosplay and its various sub-cultural tangents.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANDREW GUTHRIE: Over 60 photographs of the so-called ordinary citizens of Hong Kong as they appeared in public, when and where they were asked to model. These were taken over a period of half a year in various areas around Hong Kong, by photographer Andrew Guthrie with help from William Fung, Joanne Chow and Rock Leung. Models were asked to stand in front of a portable white backdrop situated in whatever area the photographers could utilize. These full body portraits will be presented in two formats: on life size roll out banners and on A4 size photographic prints.

CLOTHING: In addition to these images, an interaction between fantasy and the everyday will be proposed through the display of local hand-made Cosplay costumes of Maggie Leung, Mizuki Mochizuki, Sam the Punk and Maid Date Café, along with photographs of their creators in “before” and “after” Cosplay modes.

FLASH CABARET
at [The Rest of Us] Exhibition Opening

Hosted by M/C extraordinaire Diane To, this upbeat evening will feature live performance art, video screenings, refreshments and costuming games involving Hong Kong uniforms. Hong Kong artist Movana Chen will do a live performance session to demonstrate how she knits books into fabrics in her newest project, Traveling Into My Bookshelf. Toronto-based artist/sexpert Louise Bak will dig and scratch underneath layers of doll costume to reveal a bodily essence. Hong Kong artist Him Lo will enact Leave Me + Build Me, a project in which he covers himself with an uncanny body suit to test how people gaze and react. Austrian artist Nino Jaeger will give a performance lecture about gender and clothing through the sculpture Pipistrello: Dolce Vita, based on the lyrics of Mozart’s Le Nozze Di Figaro. Evening meal and refreshments will be provided together with new video art by Mia Chen and Robert Iolini.