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Hong Kong conceptual artist & labour activist (born 1972)
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Luke Ching Chin Wai
程展緯
Born1972
Hong Kong
EducationBA Fine Art, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1996; Master of Fine Art, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998
Websitewww.galleryexit.com/ching-luke.html

Luke Ching Chin Wai (程展緯; born 1972) is a conceptual artist and labour activist from Hong Kong. His artistic practice twists the role of the artist and observer and has created works which, with a mix of humour, respond to the cultural and political collisions in Hong Kong. He studied at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and graduated with an MA in Fine Art in 1998. He has participated in exhibitions and residencies worldwide.

Artistic practice

Ching's works range from photography, sculpture and video to social intervention, often made as a spontaneous response to his surroundings. His artistic practices are based upon his belief in agency and responsibility of the artist for social purposes.

Since 2007 in his ongoing project undercover worker, he has worked in different low paid jobs in Hong Kong to experience their working environments and make first-hand observations of working conditions. He used his project to visualize problems hidden within Hong Kong and connect different situations and lead several campaigns to improve working conditions of low paid workers. As part of his 'labour campaigns', he has successfully improved working conditions for low paid workers, such as providing chairs for security guards and cashiers; provided a new design for public rubbish bins to make cleaner’s job easier; and urged the city’s Labour Department to improve health & safety standards related to prolonged standing. His work has launched collaborative activities to encourage employers make positive changes and raise awareness of worker’s welfare.

He also uses pinhole photography, installations and video works to document of the rapid changes to Hong Kong and other cities. In 2017 he turned a hotel room at the Titanic Hotel, Liverpool into a pinhole camera for the Look Liverpool International Photography Festival.

His works Pokfulam Village: View (Positive) (1999), Screensaver (2014), 1823: Complex Pile (2014), and Pixel (2014) are collected by M+.

Exhibition Glitch in the Matrix at Para Site in 2021

Art residencies

  • 2020 Helsinki International Artist Programme
  • 2012 Breath, Chinese Arts Centre, UK
  • 2008 plAAy: Hide and Seek, Blackburn Museum, UK

Awards

  • 2019 shortlisted Visible Award for Undercover Worker Project
  • 2016 Hong Kong Arts Development Council Artist of the Year: Visual Arts
  • 2005 Photography Award Winner, Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibition 2005, Hong Kong

References

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  2. "Digital File '1 degree_website.doc' (GB3451/OC/D/1801/963)". Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art. 2009-09-04. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
  3. Yeung, Yang (2019). "South Ho's Force Majeure and Luke Ching's Liquefied Sunshine". Retrieved 2020-02-24.
  4. "Look/17: Luke Ching". Liverpool International Photography Festival. 4 March 2017. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
  5. ^ Leung, Suzannie K. Y (2019-11-28), "Socially engaged arts: Luke Ching's practices for Hong Kong", The International Journal of Social, Political, and Community Agendas in the Arts, 14 (4): 25–35, doi:10.18848/2326-9960/CGP/v14i04/25-35, S2CID 212845318{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  6. ^ "Award 2019 – Shortlisted Undercover worker – Luke Ching". Visible Project. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
  7. Wilson, Henrietta (2016), "For now we see through a window, dimly: Luke Ching", AsiaArtPacific, retrieved 2020-02-24
  8. Goodbody, Pete (2017), ""Playing With Time": Artist Luke Ching Makes Giant Pinhole Camera For Look/17", Double Negative, retrieved 2020-02-23
  9. "Luke Ching Chin Wai | Makers | M+". www.mplus.org.hk. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
  10. "Luke Ching Chin Wai". Helsinki International Artist Programme. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
  11. "Breathe Residency (People's Residency): Luke Ching, 16 July - 16 September 2012". Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
  12. "plAAy: Contemporary Asian Art in Blackburn with Darwen Archive". Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery. 25 May 2009. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
  13. "Awardee List 2016". Hong Kong Arts Development Council. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
  14. "Hong Kong Art Biennial 2005 results announced". Hong Kong Arts Development Council. Retrieved 2020-02-24.

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