‘This is an Era of Diaspora’: How Hong Kong’s Art Community Is Finding Home in the U.K.—Three years after the U.K. launched the BNO visa scheme for Hong Kongers, artists are settling into their new home. My story
@artnet
Five months of police daily use of tear gas across town has literally turned Hong Kong into a toxic gas chamber. Even the govt isn’t clear abt the toxins of tear gas (how ridiculous!). Deeply worrying.
If you are from Hong Kong, or been following Hong Kong news over the past months, you will never forget what happened a year ago today. No need to share an image. No hashtag needed. The memories are imprinted in your mind and they cannot be erased.
😱TOO stunned to see this in
@guardian
@ObserverUK
Lunar New Year recipes. You most definitely DO NOT pair a LNY dish w joss paper 金銀衣紙 which=hell money you burn for the dead. You DO NOT talk abt death in the New Year! DM me next time if you are unsure
As a Hongkonger who grew up with the memories of 1989 Tiananmen, witnessed the 2014 Occupy protests, 2019 Hong Kong protests n 2020 NSL, watching the events unfold in China today (via Twitter mostly) is huge on a personal level, w complicated feelings. There’s so much to process
People are waving the national flag and singing the national anthem of the US at the
#Thanksgiving
assembly as part of
#HongKongProtests
.
#POTUS
signed the Hong Kong Human Rights & Democracy Act into law this morning HK time
NOW—“See you tonight at Edinburg Place.” Office workers r chanting during “Lunch with You”
#HongKongProtests
in Central. Hongkongers will assemble tonight for
#Thanksgiving
after
@realDonaldTrump
signed the Hong Kong Human Rights & Democracy Act.
Clip circulating on Telegram n WhatsApp. Rounds of gunshots are heard. Said to be Yau Ma Tei.
@inmediahk
said a stampede allegedly happened causing many injuries. Lots of ambulance n medics r seen now in Yau Ma Tei per live
#HongKongProtests
Hong Kong people are crazy people, lining up at a newstand in Mongkok at 2.30am to get hard copies of
@appledaily_hk
. More than 6,000 crazy ones are tuning in live to watch people buy newspapers.
Chinese actress Liu Yifei, star of upcoming Disney blockbuster Mulan, shows support for Hong Kong police on Weibo, retweeting a People’s Daily post. Weibo shows that she is an iPhone user
#hongkongprotests
It’s too much for a 13-year-old to deal with this. I can’t help looking up the generational planets of Luk and his peers born around similar times: Uranus in Pisces, Neptune in Aquarius—Uranus and Neptune swapped signs. They r meant to be different.
A month ago, the world was laughing at Hong Kong. It turns out ppl’s distrusts in govt has saved them. And now “failed states” seem to be everywhere.
#coronavirus
NOW—these road blocks made of bricks, bamboos and glass in Hong Kong’s CBD Central have become a kind of protest art installations
#HongKongProtests
pics by me
Msg fr a social worker now inside
#PolyU
: protesters are trapped, the youngest ones are 11 or 12. Original post fr HK Social Workers’ General Union:
#HongKongProtests
Great quote fr this auntie at today’s Sheung Shui
#HongKongProtests
agst mainland shoppers smuggling HK parallel imports to China: “I don’t under why there r so many riot police today. They have all sorts of weapons. What r they afraid of? We just have a voice.” 1/
That’s why the scouts not the Hong Kong police are asked to volunteer at coronavirus quarantine camp sites. They are busy with this👇🏼
#HongKongProtests
#CoronavirusOutbreak
Horrible scene reveals when what appears to be undercover cops drive to ram into a crowd of
#antiELAB
protesters on the 3-month anniversary of the death of Alex Chow, a uni student believed to have fallen in a clash in Tseung Kwan O.
#HongKongProtests
H/T:
@isaacyeephoto
Tweet attached: armed protesters roaming around in the US.
Pic here: Hong Kong lawmaker Roy Kwong at
#HongKongProtests
, unarmed, was arrested, via
@StandNewsHK
A group of about 11 mostly-armed demonstrators protesting the stay at home order marched around downtown Raleigh and ordered sandwiches at a Subway.
#Covid_19
#ncpol
#MealTeamSix
The return of tear gas in Hong Kong on a day of protest agst the proposed new national security law imposed by Beijing. Almost a deja-vu of 2019 anti-extradition bill protests, except that this time HK is facing the giant directly
#HongKongProtests
via
@StandNewsHK
It is an embarrassing scene.
@WHO
Director General, Bruce Aylward, hangs up in an interview with RTHK when he is asked about reconsidering Taiwan’s membership. Ironically, despite being so close to China, Taiwan manages to keep the
#coronavirus
infection and fatality rate low.
Controversial pro-Beijing lawmaker Junius Ho lost his seat in District Council to pro-democracy candidate Lo Chun-yu. Netizens’ aldy hv their artworks ready to celebrate, calling him #何已完 (“Legislator Ho, which sounds the same as “Ho’s already finished” in Cantonese)
#HongKong
Outside the newly reopened Hong Kong Museum of Art. 2 shots fired just now. Probably tear gas. TST protest is approved until 6pm. Some tried to seek refuge running into the museum. Aunties standing next to me r angry n scared
#HongKongProtests
#HKMoA
Is👇🏼video real? Meanwhile in Hong Kong, police was caught on camera pepper spraying
@StandNewsHK
reporter who was covering Yuen Long
#HongKongProtests
yesterday.
The Police in Mallorca, Spain making rounds around villages on lock down to do this 😭
To alleviate the anxiety of the people and to keep them entertained ❤
Hong Kong govt’s inaction re
#CoronavirusOutbreak
is creating another political crisis for themselves. And this will be worse. It will not be yellow or blue. It will be abt survival.
This looks like a scene straight out of a zombie movie: shopping mall security guards tried to hold the doors to stop riot police fr entering but they failed
#HongKongProtests
“Art as a weapon”-creative outputs emerged in
#HongKongProtests
over the past 6 months r more than artistic expressions to channel ppl’s complex emotions; they are embedded in the protests as strategies to keep the movement going. My latest
@BBC_Culture
First we have political art. Now we music. “Glory To Thee, Hong Kong” is probably the most powerful piece of music the city has ever heard. Here’s an orchestra+choir version #願榮光歸香港
#glorytoHongkong
#HongKongProtests
Winnie Yu, chairwoman of HAEA said the union's leading committee respected the members' decision. She thanked people and groups supported the strike and made "sincerest apologies" to people affected.
Fighting against coronavirus, Hong Kong style. The spirit of resistance and resilience inherited fr
#HongKongProtests
helped flatten the curve. But it’s too soon to celebrate as 2nd wave of outbreak is approaching. My essay
@LowyInstitute
The Hong Kong media is raving the performance of a local actress painting her face dark to play the role of a Filipina in a TVB series. I didn’t watch the show (not planning to) but this just feels so wrong. Why does this still exist in this day and age?
It was a canister thrown outside Langham Place in Mong Kok when an object was thrown from a heckling crowd at police. A rally was called there to commemorate the “Fishball Movement” in the same night in 2016.
This is not some Jackie Chan action movie scene fr 1980s: can someone pls explain what kind of police operation this is? Those were just shoppers at a mall
#HongKongProtests
Fox News just interviewed a Pennsylvania man who went through the coronavirus quarantine process -- but he couldn't stop coughing during the interview 😳
We don’t hv a lot of info but one can only imagine how serious this
#CoronavirusOutbreak
is if Hong Kong’s neighbouring city Shantou is shutting its border, and how infuriating the HK govt is.
//journalists — including student reporters — are being targeted[...]It appears that a deliberate effort is being made to prevent independent reporting of events, and police in Hong Kong increasingly do not want their actions seen or recorded.//
@IFJGlobal
Hong Kong CE Carrie Lam said this morning the national anthem bill is among the Legco House comm’s top priorities. As COVID-19 appears to be under control, this controversial bill is set to return. My earlier
@qz
piece on ppl’s anxiety over this bill
Most infuriating development in Hong Kong has finally arrived: govt butchered the long established requirement for free TV licence to silence opposing voices fr public broadcaster RTHK. Plus YouTube’s censorship of anti-govt YouTubers, HK’s freedom of speech is at its most dire.
Chinese actress Liu Yifei, star of upcoming Disney blockbuster Mulan, shows support for Hong Kong police on Weibo, retweeting a People’s Daily post. Weibo shows that she is an iPhone user
#hongkongprotests
Dramatic reactions of the people of Hong Kong and the international community are a vote of no confidence in the Hong Kong and Chinese governments’ abilities to protect people and contain the
#coronavirus
. My take
@LowyInstitute
Ppl in the rest of the world can somewhat focus on fighting
#coronavirus
. But not in Hong Kong. Political arrests come first. Catching those breaking quarantine order roaming ard w faulty tracking wristbands seems to be much lower on the list.👇🏼. Police will meet press in 20.
Guy Fawkes mask + sea of American flags + no police. What a scene at tonight’s assembly. (Took these with iPhone portrait mode)
#HongKongProtests
#thanksgiving
As galleries in New York n art spaces in the West r closing amid
#coronavirus
outbreak, things seem to be picking up in Hong Kong. An art opening where everyone😷: Chow Chun Fai’s paintings—reflection n memories of
#HongKongProtests
at Gallery Exit. Live tour fr earlier tweet👇🏼
Dec 25 12.15am. Riot police just said everyone who was stopped will be arrested, pushing the onlookers on the opp away and extend the cordon line. Onlookers are agitated, arguing with the police
#HongKongProtests
#MerryChristmas
Ppl were not afraid of
#HongKongProtests
but now w/ the
#coronavirus
, things hv taken an extreme turn. If the Hong Kong govt still doesn’t act quick, this will 攬炒/destroy HK’s economy. Int’l gallerists’ reaction to Art Basel HK fair is a serious warning
Is👇🏼video real? Meanwhile in Hong Kong, police was caught on camera pepper spraying
@StandNewsHK
reporter who was covering Yuen Long
#HongKongProtests
yesterday.
First artists were elected at Hong Kong's District Council election. Now one of them—Clarisse Yeung—is the chair of Wan Chai District Council. Artists getting into policymaking bcos of
#HongKongProtests
, which I reported earlier for
@artnet
HSUSU Editorial Board captured this moment when Chiu’s assistant was forcibly pulled away fr Chiu by riot police and appeared to hv been pushed to the ground. He claimed an officer had slammed his asst head-first to the ground.
#HongKongProtests
Full clip:
Non-Hong Kong residents travelling from South Korea will be denied entry amid
#CoronavirusOutbreak
fr tomo 6am. HK ppl demanded border closure to non-HK residents travelling fr mainland China but Carrie Lam called it “discriminatory”. Now is HK govt discriminating agst S.Korea?
What is considered illegal in Hong Kong is now happening in London: a commemorative event of the 33rd anniversary the June 4 Tiananmen crackdown outside of the Chinese embassy …
Incredible website consolidating records of Hong Kong police brutality during
#HongKongProtests
. Launch coincides w/ govt budget to up police budget by 9 times. BTW since when wtf can be a domain name?
Rejection of HKTV’s free-to-air TV licence subsequently led to a week-long protest outside govt HQ in Oct 2013. Looking back, it played a key role in laying the foundation for Hong Kong’s quest for freedom and justice. 4/
Hongkongers at London’s Piccadilly Circus rally against the clampdown of press freedom in Hong Kong amid the recent abrupt closure of pro-democracy/liberal media outlets including Apple Daily, Stand News n Citizen News following the implementation of the National Security Law 1/
Medical experts and workers have been urging the govt would seriously reconsider their recommendations to seal the border.
"At the end of the day, those who suffer will be everyone in the city."
Carrie Lam said she hoped medical staff would seriously reconsider their plan to strike.
“At the end of the day, those who suffer will be the patients and the healthcare system.”
NOW: Hundreds of Hongkongers are protesting in Kingston UK, condemning the clampdown of press freedom in Hong Kong amid the recent closure of pro-democracy/liberal outlets Apple Daily, Stand News and Citizen News.
Riot police out in full force in many places across town, and tear gas was deployed in Tsim Sha Tsui outside the historic The Peninsula hotel. Crowd said to be in an illegal assembly. Is tear gas really necessary on Christmas Eve?
#HongKongProtests
For weeks Hong Kong people demand border closed to non-HK residents. Not freight transport or HK residents. HK residents returning r to sent to quarantine camp. And for weeks Carrie Lam has been twisting ppl’s demand.
#CarrieLam
said it has become "meaningless" to argue for border closure. "If we close more, we will be closing freight transport or HK residents hoping to come back. It's become meaningless to suggest border closure becos we have reduced the cross-border traffic to the minimum."
This was why medical workers in Hong Kong went on strike in Feb to protest against HK govt’s refusal to close border to mainland China completely. From😷to border closure, HK has been ahead of many countries in the world. But ppl don’t listen.
Reminder that none of today's horrific violence would have occurred had Carrie Lam withdrawn the extradition bill when 2 million Hongkongers peacefully protested against it in June. Lam and her CCP backers opened the Pandora's box of violence, and it's surely going to get worse.
Protest, Hong Kong style: ahead of the one yr anniversary of bringing Lady Liberty up on Lion Rock, the team behind the iconic sculpture returned to the HK mountain for
#savehk12youth
rally—12 light beams as the 12 HKers detained in mainland, according to
@initiumnews
If you thought Hongkongers would be too afraid to leave their homes today, think again. I’m looking east down Hennessy Road and it’s a sea of umbrellas, held by countless thousands wearing nothing but black.
#HongKongProtests
Hong Kong director Johnnie To at
@berlinale
: cinema has always been at the forefront (of culture); when an authoritarian regime takes over, cinema becomes their prime target. Those who fight for freedom should stand with cinema, as cinema speaks up for them.
The crowd is excited after the signing of
#HKHRDA
n pro-democracy camp’s
#HKDCElections
landslide victory. Joshua Wong just said on stage next step will make HK Human Rights & Democracy Act “遍地開花” (blossoms everywhere) globally
#HongKongProtests
1m ppl protested peacefully, no response fr govt. 2m ppl protested peacefully, no response. Months on, those in power only make one-sided condemnation on protesters n young ppl, refusing to admit their wrongdoings n listen to ppl. Now my alma mater is a war zone
#HongKong
In Hong Kong, buying locally-grown vegetables is abt more than just fighting coronavirus—“We resist, we protest, because we want to maintain our way of life.” My latest for
@qz
//The report said Lee (a Belize citizen) had long been providing capital to anti-China groups based in the US, colluding with foreign forces to interfere in Hong Kong affairs, and had supported activities that endangered China’s national security.// !!!
People are no longer allowed to protest peacefully in Hong Kong. Almost all protest applications are banned. For the rare “no objection” ones, Police start shooting tear gas even b4 begins. When will ppl understand institutional violence as the main culprit for all this mess?
Outside the Kowloon mosque, Philip Khan condemn HK police and CE Carrie Lam in rage, saying the government is insulting Islam by spraying blue dye to the mosque using water cannon
#HongKongProtests
The last time Hong Kong saw 1 million protesting was 1989, against June 4 Tiananmen Sq crackdown (left pic). Today’s 1m protest (right) shows Hong Kong’s greatest fear is back.
#NoExtraditiontoChina
This week in Singapore and Taipei, I’m often asked by those in the art world if things will be ok by the time Art Basel returns to Hong Kong in March.👇🏼certainly doesn’t look good. What scares ppl away are not the protests but the image of a police state.
Am in the area for an event at Tai Kwun, but came across riot police, water cannon and teargas in Central, where an approved rally is cut short.
#HongKong
Yuen Long district councillor Chan Shu-Fai said he was moved by Hong Kong Police’s “support Wuhan” clip and will move a motion to demand police chief Chris PK Tang to lead 3,000 police officers to help with
#coronavirus
outbreak in Wuhan. He is also asking other DCs to support.
A Hong Kong citizen caught a girl wearing the coronavirus quarantine tracking bracelet eating out. Those wearing this bracelet r not supposed to go out for 14 days. The citizen filmed her and her adult guardian at the noodle place, and chased them all the way. Part 1:
Letters allegedly fr Hospital Authority HR: "if you wish to take part in the strike, you can only do so in compliance w/ laws of HK." Staff demand complete Hong Kong border closure amid
#coronavirus
outbreak. Right to strike is enshrined in Basic Law
[Thread] It’s the New Year’s Eve and streets in Hong Kong are full of riot police (again). Here’s my last story of the year—and the decade: I picked 12 artworks that speak about the emotional upheavals of
#HongKongProtests
, published in
@qz
1/
From one country two systems in 1997 to one country one system in 2020, Hong Kong cartoonist Ah To: “my heart is ripped apart watching my home town fall. If article 23 is implemented, I might not even be able to do political cartoons anymore.” Ah To’s IG:
成日話香港人中文唔好, 呢篇勁, 李白《將進酒》parody. Lennon Wall version X.0, a parody of the famous Tang poem “Bring in the Wine” by Li Bai that summarises Hong Kong people’s discontent w/ govt fr
#HongKongProtests
to coronavirus outbreak in abt a dozen lines. Via LIHKG. 1/