ONE WOMAN APARTMENT
One Woman Apartment consists of a video monologue describing Su's experiences and thoughts on a failed project that was intended to take place in conjunction with the 2008 4x4 AiR residency program. The residency centered on issues of experimental forms of artistic exchange with the community, specifically within the region of Shum Shui Po, a district known for its thriving sex industry. Su's initial premise was to work for a day as a 'one woman apartment' sex worker, a common practice that arose out of a law preventing two or more prostitutes from working in the same premises. By sheer coincidence four sex workers were murdered in their apartments in that very same month. This presented significant problems for Su and her plans to contact related NGOs to assist with the project. Coupled with her own internal struggles about whether or not to push ahead, from a personal perspective as well as from the perspective of an artist's responsibility towards the public, Su finally decided to give up her pursuit of the project, opting instead to become a volunteer at one of the NGOs.
- extracted from Agency For Unrealized Projects: Hong Kong Division, curated by Nadim Abbas. LEAP issue 3
One Woman Apartment consists of a video monologue describing Su's experiences and thoughts on a failed project that was intended to take place in conjunction with the 2008 4x4 AiR residency program. The residency centered on issues of experimental forms of artistic exchange with the community, specifically within the region of Shum Shui Po, a district known for its thriving sex industry. Su's initial premise was to work for a day as a 'one woman apartment' sex worker, a common practice that arose out of a law preventing two or more prostitutes from working in the same premises. By sheer coincidence four sex workers were murdered in their apartments in that very same month. This presented significant problems for Su and her plans to contact related NGOs to assist with the project. Coupled with her own internal struggles about whether or not to push ahead, from a personal perspective as well as from the perspective of an artist's responsibility towards the public, Su finally decided to give up her pursuit of the project, opting instead to become a volunteer at one of the NGOs.
- extracted from Agency For Unrealized Projects: Hong Kong Division, curated by Nadim Abbas. LEAP issue 3
