Marginalia are “notes written in the margins of a text.” The exhibition’s title strikes parallel
between these intensely personal annotations to the center and our voices and perspectives as migrants and immigrants. marginalia is thus a collection of annotations, additions, responses and reflections from those who have occupied marginal positionings or who work with materials and practices deemed peripheral. It is a celebration of ways of creation that is found in our homes and places of gathering, learnt from friends and elders, and rooted in the routes of our migration.

Fifteen artists, collectives, and migrant and labor groups present new artworks and public
programs that use textiles and found materials; music and dance; food and cooking; film and video; print, drawing, and painting; and many other ways of expression, to reflect on the diasporic experience in Hong Kong. Some works reference festivals and folklores derived from the artists’ homelands, while others map, trace, and uncover migration histories and marginalizing practices here in the city. Existing works by two Hong Kong-based collectives will populate Current Plans’ kitchen and dining area, which visitors are encouraged to add onto throughout the show.

Gallery address: 3F, Remex Centre, 42 Wong Chuk Hang Road