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Client: Oil Street Art Space, Hong Kong
Location: Hong Kong, China
Completion date: 2023
Project Team
Artist / Creative Director / Producer / Sound Designer / Editor
Choi Sai-ho
Procedural Animation Programmer
Jason Lam
Sound Designer
Anthony Yeung
Co-producer / 3D Animator
Mick Yip
Visual Production Team Member
Kaitlyn Hau
Visual Production Team Member
Edwin Cheung
Visual Production Team Member
Jerry Chen
Visual Production Team Member
Candice Ng
Visual Production Team Member
Angie Woo
Visual Production Team Member
Carrie Chu
Beach Drone Footage
Wild Bear Company
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Overview
“Hush.Rush” was an immersive multimedia exhibition situated in a historic yacht club building opened in 1908, but converted to a public art space since 2013. The building was on what was the waterfront but now far away from the waterfront with reclamations in front of it.
There were one big room and one small room with respective dimensions of 15m (L) x 5.2m (W) x 5.3m (H) and 3.2 (L) x 3.2m (W) x 2.5m (H). A “beach” was created in a large LED floor which almost occupied most of the space and there was wave sounds. There were projected birds flying around the walls. This tranquil environment back to a hundred years ago re-appeared in the hustle and bustle of Hong Kong. When walking into the small room, the moving Hong Kong cityscapes with traffic sounds showed on the all-around LED walls and floor. Audiences had a feeling of flying through and over the city. The proportions of the areas of the “cityscape” to the “beach” actually also represented the nowadays Hong Kong where there are still a large area of countryside to smaller urban areas. This contrast in the historic building with hundred-year historical development redefined audiences’ perceptions of Hong Kong, opened up audiences’ imaginations, and broke the barriers of time and space.
Goals
The artist Choi Sai-ho wanted to create multimedia artworks with moving images and sounds that could associate people’s memories that there was used to be in the waterfront in contrast with high-rise buildings surrounding the historic building now. Furthermore, he wanted to create a tranquil space simulating the nature that could be a relaxing place for audiences, and simultaneously another bustling space for audiences to experience the 3-dimensional cityscapes and feel the vibrant city pulses, in a historic building which has been stood for more than 100 hundred years from the time in a relative remote area to an urban area nowadays. The audiences could travel between two different spaces “Hush.Rush”.
Additional Information
Over 70,000 visitors came to the exhibition. Unexpectedly, the artworks attracted lots of children who treated the exhibition spaces as a playground for them, running on the water/waves without being getting wet. Some children even pretended to swim on the waves. Not only children but also adults loved the artworks. Audiences sat together on the waves and chatted with one another. Some walked on the waves and on the city. This was a total new experience for them.