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

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.