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SUN HING Story 新興的故事
2003
Opening with close-up shots of mysterious substances in large tanks, heaving machines, and large spools of thread, this video work traces the interactions between people, machinery, and cloth in a textile factory run by Hong Kong–based manufacturer Sun Hing. Views of fabric rollers, ranks of taut threads, and technical components rapidly shuttling back and forth capture the activity in the factory. A soundtrack of industrial noises, including deep thumps and high-pitched fluttering, accompanies the relentless visual motion. Some workers are shown tending to equipment that seems to run itself, while others engage in labour-intensive processes. Later in the video, finished products appear as workers inspect, fold, and sort a wide variety of garments.
Based in Hong Kong, Laurent Gutierrez and Valérie Portefaix have worked together as MAP Office since 1996. Their practice moves between the disciplines of art, architecture, and urbanism, often taking the form of public installations or research projects. Sun Hing Story forms one part of their larger PRD Stories project, which attempts to record the networks of manufacturing and trade in the Pearl River Delta. Without a specific narrative or explanatory frame, the work’s documentation of fast, repetitive textile production alludes to the tight regulation of time, space, and bodies in a factory context. The video closes on a woven band bearing the logo of the Hello Kitty brand, raising questions about the labour that lies behind popular global fashions.
Based in Hong Kong, Laurent Gutierrez and Valérie Portefaix have worked together as MAP Office since 1996. Their practice moves between the disciplines of art, architecture, and urbanism, often taking the form of public installations or research projects. Sun Hing Story forms one part of their larger PRD Stories project, which attempts to record the networks of manufacturing and trade in the Pearl River Delta. Without a specific narrative or explanatory frame, the work’s documentation of fast, repetitive textile production alludes to the tight regulation of time, space, and bodies in a factory context. The video closes on a woven band bearing the logo of the Hello Kitty brand, raising questions about the labour that lies behind popular global fashions.
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