Millie Chen’s artwork: Daipaidong (Foodstalls)

Daipaidong was part of Hong Kong Foodscape’, an installation exhibition by Millie Chen, Lee Ka Sing and Leung Ping Kwan at Hong Kong Heritage Museum in 2004. This artwork interacts with one of the themes of Leung Ping Kwan’s writing - Foodscape.

Date 2004, 2014
Colour Colour
Format Multimedia installation
Author's Note The exhibition‘Hong Kong Foodscape’was structured around memory and cross-cultural associations as triggers on the topic of food in Hong Kong from the varying perspectives of the writer Leung Ping Kwan, and artists Lee Ka Sing and Millie Chen. Chen, the daughter of immigrants to Canada, occupied the most distanced point of view, necessarily basing her experience of Hong Kong food cultures on brief visits, mediated information, and the inherited distant memory of a father who lived in Hong Kong during his younger years; her contribution was positioned as the collective memory of diaspora.
Daipaidong (Foodstalls) consists of a sensorial station where various scents and sounds are triggered through the interaction of visitors. The writing and thoughts spawned by the ‘Hong Kong Foodscape’ collaborative project were manifested in unusual ways, including auditory recordings and scent journeys. These ephemeral experiences took place throughout the ‘Hong Kong Foodscape’ exhibition.
‘Hong Kong Foodscape’ circulated around writing related to food, in particular the poetry of Leung Ping Kwan. The exhibition was set up as a dialogue between his texts and multiple manifestations of the act of ‘reading’, which in this sense is opened up to incorporate not only envisioning but also smelling, hearing, and moving bodily through the information. The audience is encouraged to expand their perceptions about ‘reading’ by being presented with these differing approaches. In this way, contemplations about food culture are moved beyond the expected to challenge preconceived assumptions and to create pleasurable possibilities.
Material Type Image
Collection Journeys of Leung Ping Kwan
Source Millie Chen
Note to Copyright Permission for use in Hong Kong Memory is given by Millie Chen
Accession No. lcs-yasi-0058
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