Indus-haus
Resonating with Hong Kong’s luxury residential properties sales galleries, the exhibition is presented as a showroom for the fictional residential project “Indus-haus” in a polluted post-apocalyptic world.
Resonating with Hong Kong’s luxury residential properties sales galleries, the exhibition is presented as a showroom for the fictional residential project “Indus-haus” in a polluted post-apocalyptic world.
It invites audiences to walk into the make-believe project launch as potential prospective buyers. The project offers an imaginative ground to explore how human are shaping their new home under overdevelopment, scarce natural resources in a speculative future. While building a new real estate is dynamic and visionary, it is arguable that the process leads to the destruction of existing neighbourhoods. When an old home is replaced, when the old land is taken, should we stand up against the development? Or should we embrace the new and reconcile? The exhibition prompts reflection on the balance between capitalist development, the preservation of nature, and the positioning of humans in the future.
- 2024
- Grantee: Samuel Yip
Samuel Yip has been active as a new media artist, specializing in the creation of new media artworks and installations. His works have been showcased in various cities, including Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Beijing, Taipei, Milan, and Tokyo.
Since 2013, Samuel has served as the Creative Director and founder of WARE (https://ware.hk/), a new media design studio. WARE works locally and internationally with cultural sectors and commercial brands, to design digital experiences by fusing arts with technologies. From 2015 to 2022, Samuel also contributed as the Technical Director and Exhibition Designer for the Microwave International New Media Arts Festival. His creative approach is to integrate cutting-edge technologies into experience with art and design, and to design multimedia projects such as showroom experiences and interactive installations in exhibitions and museums.