【Tai Kwun newly commissioned】DigiRadiance：GOLD_LEAD_WOOD_COAL

Description

DigiRadiance: GOLD_LEAD_WOOD_COAL presents a newly commissioned, multi-channel video installation produced by the internationally acclaimed New Zealand artist Lisa Reihana.

GOLD_LEAD_WOOD_COAL engages in a fictional work based on the moving story of SS Ventnor. The vessel had been en route with the remains of Chinese gold-diggers from New Zealand’s South Island to Hong Kong and Canton; however, it tragically sank passing New Zealand's North Island, close to a Māori settlement. The Māori inhabitants gathered the remains of the Chinese and buried them according to their local customs. Taking this historic tragedy as a starting point in her speculative tale, the artist explores questions around foreign labour, longing, and displacement.

This is the second multimedia installation of DigiRadiance, and is specially commissioned to transform the historic F Hall Studio on Tai Kwun’s Prison Yard into an immersive art work.