Water Remembers: Restoring the Vanished Cultural Landscape
The project is inspired by the spatial settings of Ma Wan, located at the threshold between the Pearl River Delta. We aim to focus on the fishermen groups and other coastal communities in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area, documenting their cultural memory through the dragon boat tradition. Our goal is to sustain and pass down local maritime knowledge and skills to future generations. To visualise the living tradition within water space, we will showcase the work of designer Tamshui and ISNHK in capturing the boat’s movements and illustrating how they employ temporal tactics to navigate present spatial discontinuities. The upcoming exhibition, feature talks, and workshops present an exciting opportunity to explore the design or non-design of organic archiving methods for water communities, witnessing how cultural landscape can be preserved amid changing landmarks and coastal lines to ensure traditional cultural practices are passed down and celebrated.
The project is inspired by the spatial settings of Ma Wan, located at the threshold between the Pearl River Delta. We aim to focus on the fishermen groups and other coastal communities in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area, documenting their cultural memory through the dragon boat tradition. Our goal is to sustain and pass down local maritime knowledge and skills to future generations. To visualise the living tradition within water space, we will showcase the work of designer Tamshui and ISNHK in capturing the boat’s movements and illustrating how they employ temporal tactics to navigate present spatial discontinuities. The upcoming exhibition, feature talks, and workshops present an exciting opportunity to explore the design or non-design of organic archiving methods for water communities, witnessing how cultural landscape can be preserved amid changing landmarks and coastal lines to ensure traditional cultural practices are passed down and celebrated.
- 2024
- Grantee: The Island Studies Network (HK) and tamshui (Woo Tam-ming)
tamshui was born in Hong Kong. After graduated from the School of Design (First Class Honors Bachelor) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2001, he became actively involved in various creative works. His works were exhibited and screened in various countries and places including Austria, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan and Hong Kong. He received the Gold Award in Animation Category in the 7th ifva in 2001, and the Rising Artist Award (Film & Media Arts) in the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards in 2002.
- Organisation: The Island Studies Network (HK)
The Island Studies Network (HK) serves as a platform to enable knowledge and practice exchange among members and the public, both regionally and inter-regionally. We embrace all kinds of academic scrutiny, social innovation, technological experiment as well as creative praxis as a way of knowledge production about or via the island. By standing in Hong Kong, a place surrounded by water connecting to the world, the Network will be a bridge for us all to link up with other interested parties, both regionally and inter-regionally, to open up a new horizon for island studies.