Lamma Mia

In recent years, Hong Kong has witnessed a growing interest in reinforcing the research components in community art projects, especially those that take place in rural areas, including island, as a site for artistic experiment and social regeneration. Initiated and co-curated by art practitioner Anthony Leung Po-shan, herself a resident of Hong Kong’s Lamma Island, “Lamma Mia” brings an insufficiently explored island studies perspective to research-based art project. This talk sheds light on how the project’s relational aesthetic approach reveals the inseparability of the land and the sea in forming Lamma Island’s unique local community and cultural landscape. Ultimately, this project invites the audience to reconsider Hong Kong as a place characteristically grounded on a high ratio of land-sea interface.