A Kind of Magick

Hong Kong super curator Ying Kwok, who represented the city at the Venice Biennale in 2016, brings the timely Anonymous Society for Magick to Blindspot Gallery in Hong Kong, a group exhibition featuring Chen Wei, Hao Jingban, Lam Tung Pang, Wang Tuo and Trevor Yeung. Kwok borrows the concept of Magick from early20th-century occultist and ceremonial magician Aleister Crowley’s definition of 0agick as the “science of understanding oneself and one’s conditions”, in a comparative study of how artists apply that to their artistic practices. And times. Lam Tung Pang’s The Great Escape 2020, large-scale kinetic video installation references street magician Harry Houdini’s daring escape acts. Lam creates moving illusions that project the desire to escape from both the social turbulence and viral feverishness of his home city, while Chen Wei’s ensemble neon-light intallation Drifting Along (Hong Kong), offers a diagnosis of the contemporary social conditions in China and Hong Kong. Until May 23.