Title Hong Kong as creative practice / Eddie Tay

Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022] ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (112 pages) : illustrations Series Palgrave studies in creativity and culture Palgrave pivot Palgrave pivot. Palgrave studies in creativity and culture. Contents Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Tsim Sha Tsui as Labyrinth -- Chapter 3: The Mall and Park as Heterotopic Spaces -- Chapter 4: Street Markets of Sham Shui Po: Going On a Derive -- Chapter 5: Embodied Mobilities: On the Subway, Cycling, Running Summary In this book, Hong Kong is seen as a labyrinth, a postmodern site of capitalist desires, and a panoptic space both homely and unhomely. The author maps out various specific locations of the city through the intertwined disciplines of street photography, autoethnography and psychogeography. By meandering through the urban landscape and taking street photographs, this form of practice is open to the various metaphors, atmospheres and visual discourses offered up by the street scenes. The result is a practice-led research project informed by both documentary and creative writing that seeks to articulate thinking via the process of art-making. As a research project on the affective mapping of places in the city, the book examines what Hong Kong is, as thought and felt by the person on the street. It explores the everyday experiences afforded by the city through the figure of the flaneur wandering in shopping districts and street markets. Through his own street photographs and drawing from the writings of Byung-Chul Han, Walter Benjamin and Michel de Certeau, the author explores feelings, affects, and states of mind as he explores the city and its social life. Born in Singapore and a long-term resident in Hong Kong, Eddie Tay is a poet and a street photographer. He is Associate Professor in the Department of English, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central platform, viewed March 20, 2023) Subject Social psychology -- China -- Hong Kong Environmental psychology -- China -- Hong Kong Street photography -- China -- Hong Kong Art and society -- China -- Hong Kong Art and society Environmental psychology Social psychology Street photography Psicologia social. Psicologia ambiental. Sociologia de l'art. SUBJECT Hong Kong (China) -- In art Subject China -- Hong Kong Hong Kong (Xina) Genre/Form Art Llibres electrònics. Form Electronic book ISBN 3031213629 9783031213625

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