[HK] Para Site presents: River Lin 'My Body is a Para Site'

Elsewhere in Me: Live Art in the City Series

7 live art interventions across Hong Kong with River Lin

Mapped across the city over the course of a week, My Body is a Para Site places familiar acts in unexpected settings. Behind the glass facade of a shopfront, the artist invites visitors to spend time with him individually, crossing the boundary between public and private encounters. Along popular routes, Lin traverses the city carrying an assortment of ordinary objects, hosting group runs that blend movement with a playful contemplation on the baggage we carry. At the communal spaces of a hotel, the artist rests and weighs himself, exposing private rituals of the body to fellow travellers and guests. As the week builds towards its finale, the artist leads audiences back to the building where Para Site currently resides, enacting a sequence of housekeeping routines to conclude this week-long mobile diary.

At each encounter and location, everyday acts take on a strangeness that creates glitches in our normative way of reading and navigating our surroundings.