Rout-ing Exhibition
Rout-ing...
Written by Carmen Chan (2021)
Habits, mundane objects, common feelings, unconscious desires... Our everyday life is composed of things that are so familiar that they become difficult to be experienced anew. The Route-ing exhibition was curated to be a playful experiment with our own everydayness.
習慣靠牆走、堆在房間角落的衣物、突然想養貓的衝動...我們的日常生活由這些熟悉卻微不足道的事情組合而成，當我們身處日常、習慣日常，Route-ing則想帶領大家嘗試與日常「玩遊戲」。
It was intended to uncover the hidden individual stories behind humans, objects and their place in space. We hoped that by immersing themselves in the dynamic experience of object placement, visitors can explore the different ways humans interact with objects on the street, in shops, hawker stalls, wet markets and personal rooms.
Route-ing希望透過這次展覽讓大家理解每件日常物件、每個人和他們所在空間背後的故事。我們把日常生活中常見的情況搬到到展覽場內，并重新整理結構、排列，令觀眾不但可以在沒有外來影響的環境集中感受日常中被我們所忽視的的細節，并能在我們的引導下發掘街道旁、街市中、店鋪內、攤檔上、房間中與不同物件互動的樂趣。
By engrossing in the variety of sensory experiences, and playing an active role in different missions and games, visitors are able to understand how these myriads of placements promote unique perceptions, interconnections, the geometry and hence the political tensions of subjects—we, common people, need to be fully conscious that, we are the designers and producer of our own rights.
Route-ing提供了不同的感官體驗和遊戲讓大家能更進一步了解看似微不足道、雜亂無章的日常排列其實蘊涵了不同個體對生活獨特的理解、之間的聯繫、為此組成的網絡、最終去到不同價值觀的碰撞與張力—我們，作為日常生活的參與者，需要明白自己所身處的日常，是由我們之前所做的每一個細微的決定組織而成；此刻你又在多大程度上有能力干涉日常生活的走向？
(2021)
Curated by Carmen, Rebecca, Tia, Elaine, Carol and Athena
This exhibition is followed by the research project: Negotiations in Public Spaces.
In Sheung Wan, negotiations happen when two or more entities collide, which happens rapidly due to the limited street area. The ROUTE-ING exhibition re-conceptualised and rebuilt the actual situation of a busy street in the given space, and providing external force to encourage diverse interactions and possibilities.
Boxes are the most common obstacles found on the street, their richness in variety(shapes, sizes, colours) provides almost infinite possibilities and diversity of interaction. They are scattered all over the floor, but mainly in the middle of the open space which also acted as a playground for the Jammed task. Meanwhile, it helped to guide and separate the incoming and leaving visitors.
The visitors were submerged in this reproduction of a busy and crowded street, but this time we encouraged them to interact with the obstacles. Throw away all the practical consideractions, there was no time limits, objectives and private properties in the playground.
