Crimes?

Departure

Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong and Macau Contemporary Art Exhibition
He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen



HK artist Luke Ching 程展偉video presentation: "cross-border crimes in 2007-2008" shown in Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong and Macau Contemporary Art Exhibition. Ching’s idea through committing “minor crime” as defined with Hong Kong law standard in other region of the world and observe local law enforcement reaction:
Such as eating and drinking in the London underground (metro train), smoking at a local restaurant in Taipei. The artist presented the different values of the various acts in different regions. These behaviours defined as "offense" or "crime" in one region may not consider as a big deal in another part of the world.


As a matter of fact, we may engage in a wide variety of offense every day, such as crossing roadways without follow traffic lights or signs, not bucket up car safety belts on taxi or mini-bus, present or shown street arts in public space and so on ...

One other example was about household live poultry farming. Animal farming in residential area is illegal in Hong Kong. It is worth noticed these acts as "offense" in certain regions maybe an indispensable part of the people's daily lives in other part of the world.