Des hôtes: a foreigner, a human, an unexpected visitor

with Milena Bonilla, Kasper Bosmans, Raimundas Malašauskas, Toshie Takeuchi, Luisa Ungar, Trevor Yeung, and Yu Honglei

Curated by Christina Li

The fall program at Spring draws attention to the roles of host and guest. Over the course of three months, the exhibition has gradually taken shape through an ongoing event program, artist-devised tours, chocolate readings, post-hypnosis sessions and zoological lectures, where artworks function as prompts for—or evidence of—these gatherings. Traversing the various circumstances where the host-guest status quo is stretched and ruptured, Des hôtes creates a web of relations that magnifies the realities of how we receive and relate to one another.

Inspired by the story of Lonesome George, who was the last known specimen of a subspecies of Pinta Island tortoise, Trevor Yeung will embark on a search for other Lonesome Georges out in the wild, resulting in an evening of tales that Yeung will present in collaboration with a storyteller.

Don’t forget that this week (Nov 1 – 7) is also the HK Art Gallery Week presented by Hong Kong Art Gallery Association (HKAGA). This Saturday (Nov 7) the HKAGA joins South Island Cultural District (SICD) to co-present Art Day in South Island, come visit Spring and explore the galleries and art spaces in our neighbourhood. Click here for more details.  

*Due to limited capacity, registration for the event is now closed. Please stay tuned for details for the next session.

For this performative gathering, Milena Bonilla and Luisa Ungar invite guests to drink chocolate and take part in a public scrying. The hot chocolate leaves the stains necessary for images to turn into visions and conversations. The inapprehensible character of the liquid plays on fears, affections and expectations, while delving into the past and future, if the cacao allows it.

* Limited capacity; please RSVP at rsvp@springworkshop.org

Luisa Ungar and her invited guest will present their research on relationships between public space and animality. It follows from the studies called Spontaneous innovation for future deception (SIFFD) developed in various zoos around the world since the 1940s. On this occasion, the invited animal behavior specialist will focus on the way in which certain local wild species have adapted themselves to staged environments.

* Limited capacity; please RSVP at rsvp@springworkshop.org.