This compilation revolves around urban space. The selection offers a wide sample of artists’ negotiation of the space which surrounds us; from hyper-architecture to spatio-temporal dislocations to the cinematic spectacle and back.

本作品集是環繞城市空間的作品，收錄了一系列藝術家對他們所身處的環境之表達。從超密度的建築到時空錯置以至影像的光影，互相對疊的空間製造出另一種對周圍環境的看法。

CHAN Chui-hing, Nose was born in Hong Kong and graduated from The University of Hong Kong with a degree in Biology.
He began making video art in 1998, and regularly screens his work locally and aboard. In 2000, he won the Distinguished Award in The 6th Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Award with his piece, Well. In 2003, he participated in the 1st Berlinale Talent Campus in The Berlin International film Festival. Chan also participates in independent film productions.

LEUNG Chi-wo was born in Hong Kong. He graduated with a MFA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1997 after studying photography study in l’Istituto per lo Sviluppo Socio-Economico dello Spilimberghese in Italy and an internship in the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst in Ghent, Belgium. He has done a few exhibitions in Hong Kong, New York, Melbourne, Tokyo, Oslo, Vienna, Hamburg and Toronto, etc. Awards received include the Asian Cultural Council Fellowship (1997) and Urban Council Award of the Contemporary Hong Kong Art Biennial (1996). In 2000, he has held a solo exhibition in the Queens Museum of Art, New York. In 2001, his site-specific project was exhibited in the Hong Kong Pavilion in the Venice Biennale.

Dorotea Etzler (English name Doreen) is a conceptual artist based in Berlin, Germany. As VJane lazyliu she interacts with the smart phone to create artistic imagery. Her work investigates the media by means of glitch art and visual noise. Her background is in architecture and video. From 1998 to 2000 she lived in Hong Kong and became part of the Oil Street Artist Village.

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.

LEUNG Olive graduated from the Central St. Martin College of Art and Design, majoring in Fine Art Film and Video Art. She is now a freelance artist.

Sara Wong was a founded member of Para/Site Art Space in Hong Kong. She received her BFA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and her MLA (Master of Landscape Architecture) from the University of Hong Kong. She has exhibited in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Taipei, New York, Honolulu, Tokyo, Melbourne, Venice, Seoul, Gwangju, Oslo, Munich, Kassel and Berlin. Awards received include Artist Grant of the Centre de Reflexion sur l’Image et ses Contextes, Switzerland (2000); Most Promising Artist of the Philippe Charriol Foundation, Hong Kong (1994); Ramon Woon Art Creative Prize, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (1992). She has also participated in the Artist-in-residence programme held in PS1 Contemporary Art Center (1999), the Bronx Museum of the Arts (2000), New York; Ecole Cantonale d’Art du Valais (ECAV); Sierre, Switzerland (2000) and the Nordisk Kunstnarsenter Dalssesen, Norway (2002).

Co-Artistic Director cum Executive Director of Zuni Icosahedron, Mathias Woo leads a career as a scriptwriter, director, producer as well as curator, and is recognized for a portfolio of more than 60 original theatre works, which have been invited to cities around the globe including Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai, Suzhou, Tokyo, Singapore, Taipei, Berlin, Brussels and Krakow of Poland. Mathias’ theatre works explore subjects as wide-range as literature, history, architecture, religion, current political affairs. Woo is renowned for incorporating multimedia into theatre creation. The multimedia architectural musical series The Life &am; Times of Louis I. Kahn and Looking for Mies became the hallmark in the scene of Hong Kong theatre. His recent productions include Eighteen Springs, 1587, A Year of No Significance (an adaptation from historian Ray Huang’s book of the same title), Hua-Yen Sutra, East Wing West Wing series, and Kunqu opera Tang Xianzhu’s Dream on Dreams, and A Tale of The Forbidden City. Worked with Stan Lai, Edward Lam, Meng Jinghui for multimedia stage design. In 2009, Woo initiated and curated “Architecture is Art Festival”, the first of its kind themed on architecture in Hong Kong, which re-examines architecture from an artistic point of view, manifesting various artistic possibilities of architecture with different forms. Looking for Mies’ has been awarded the Design For Asia Award by Hong Kong Design Centre in 2012. He was awarded the “Shenzhen-Hong Kong Life Award: Arts and Culture Figure of the Year Award” by Southern Metropolis Daily in 2013.