Harcourt Road Exhibition: C & G Artpartment

28 Sep-9 Nov 2024

Overview

Harcourt Road: Exhibition showcases the objects, stories and learning about the two Harcourt Roads in Hong Kong and in Sheffield, collected by artist-organisers C & G Artpartment (Clara Cheung & Gum Cheng).

This research and community engagement project focuses on Harcourt Road, a street that exists in both cities. A leafy residential street in Sheffield with underexplored histories of migration and community organising, Harcourt Road is, in contrast, an arterial route prone to traffic in Hong Kong’s city centre. With government buildings and the Golden Bauhinia Square nearby, the road was crucially also the heart of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement when, in 2014, it was occupied by democracy activists for over three months.

Having constructed a bespoke Mobile Museum as a literal 'vehicle' for excavating oral and material histories, C&G Artpartment (Clara Cheung & Gum Cheng) will share some of the key research and artistic milestones from the last two years to coincide with the ESEA (East and Southeast Asian) Heritage Month in the UK as well as the 10-year anniversary of the Umbrella Movement.

Launching on Sat 28 September, we will celebrate with an appearance of the Mobile Museum on the Moor from 12 - 3pm and host a series of performances and conversations from 4 - 6pm at Bloc Projects' gallery:

4 - 4:20pm - introducing the project ⁠(with Co-Director Sunshine Wong and C & G Artpartment)

4:20 - 4:45pm - music performance featuring Juliana Day⁠

4:45 - 5:15pm - presentations by Harcourt Road organisers & residents⁠

5:15 - 6pm - drinks

C & G Artpartment (Clara Cheung & Gum Cheng) are community organisers, activists and artists based in Sheffield. With a strong concern for ecologies of art, C & G Artpartment’s socially oriented practices respond to social and cultural issues. Between 2007 - 2021, they curated more than 100 art exhibitions that included more than 100 Hong Kong artists. Their work has been included as part of Peer to Peer, the Shanghai Biennale and the Singapore Biennale. C & G are the 2024-25 Wysing x Para Site resident artists.

Harcourt Road is funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.