From bird-watching to mechanical-bird-watching

People often ask “What is kinetic artwork?”, and that’s also a concern of the artist.

For many years, Chan has created kinetic things (machines), from crawling robots to special-effect machines and kinetic artworks. “Machines” are sometimes toys, sometimes tools, and sometimes artworks (or the medium of artworks). This paradigm of “machine is being something” often leads many of us to focus unconsciously on “being what”. When we look at a machine, rather than focusing on the machine itself, we tend to search for its “purpose”, “usage” or “subject matter”, without seeing its very existence.

Webinar: 27 Mar 2021, 4pm Zoom meeting ID: 835 720 9437

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Gallery address: 2 Lower Albert Road, Central