A Book Act 1 has welcomed a lot of visitors. After its successful completion last week, Karin Weber Gallery is excited to commence ‘A Book Act 2’ on 21st January.

Another ten Hong Kong artists participated at Act 2 this time. Whilst some continue to use artist’s book as the form, the execution is very different. There will be papercutting, textile works, sound object and augmented reality.

Lee Kai Chung, whose art practice is mostly research driven, presents a video installation which resembles the mechanism of a microfilm reader. He cites book is a physical and metaphorical labyrinth as suggested by Jorge Luis Borge (1899-1986). It echoes his personal experience of dealing with dozens of archives. IV Chan made a very interesting flashcard book for children using fabric. ‘F’ for fat and . ‘I’ for incest. It looks at various labelling on women. Meanwhile, Kate Ouyang created a work using one of her least favourite books. The popular Japanese manga character Doraemon possesses many gadgets and one of which is called ‘memory bread’. Kate dreams she could digest the content of the whole book by eating it. The How to Read Series by Chihoi is a set of drawings of possible or impossible ways of bookbinding which dictate or open up ways of reading. Go Hung made a colouring book trying to explore ways how advertisers manipulate consumers. The augmented reality animation by Eugene Lun looks at the Chinese proverb “a book holds a house of gold” in his signature crazy and hilarious way.

Books capture and inspire the imagination of their creator and their readers. A Book Act 1 & 2 witnesses how books find a new expression expressed as an art form.

Participating artists: IV Chan, Chihoi, Go Hung, Andio Lai, Lee Kai Chung, Mimi Luk, Eugene Lun, Kate Ouyang, Stephanie Sin, Tom Chung Man.

Special performance ‘Flying Exercise’ by Mandy Ma at 4pm.

Gallery address: 20 Aberdeen Street, Central