Common Understanding ·
Common Consensus · Collective Action and
A Breeze from the
Woods
An Initiative to
Promote Eco-protection Concept "Co-exist with Earth"
HONG KONG SAR - Media
OutReach - 18 November 2021 - Tzu Chi Environmental Action Center
("Action Center") will open to the public for free starting November 20, 2021,
after green restoration of its original premises. With an aim to promote the
public's awareness of environmental protection, the Action Center will stage
two art exhibitions, Common Understanding · Common Consensus · Collective
Action and A Breeze from the Woods in its first season.
Each in unique style carries equivalent message toward environmental concern.
The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust is the funder for the Action Center's
environmental programmes, exhibitions, and related expenses. In addition to
exhibitions, the Jockey Club "Begin in the Heart" Environmental Collective
Action Programme consists of a series of workshops, vegetarian cooking classes,
and themed talks on regimen, climate change and green architecture.
Chief Executive Officer of the Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi
Foundation Hong Kong Ltd. ("Tzu Chi Hong Kong") cum representative of the
Exhibition Curatorial Committee Chung Ling SZE explained, "In addition to the
Action Center's regular educational programs for the community and schools,
'The Planet Room' and 'Jockey Club Eco Co-Creation Space' are two spaces
designed for exhibition activities. We hope to share our beliefs on 'Common Understanding, Common Consensus,
Collective Action', 'Purification at Source' and the 7Rs[1] spirit through cooperation with different artists at both spaces; thereby, encouraging visitors to practice the environmental protection concept of 'Co-exist with Earth'".
Climate change has
brought forth extreme natural hazards. Over the years, excessive use of fossil
fuels, deforestation and animal husbandry, along with overconsumption have
severely damaged the ecological environment, leading to seasonal instability
and subsequently wind, water, fire and land disasters. Architect cum
representative of the Exhibition Curatorial Committee Corrin CHAN pointed out,
"When it came to curating these two exhibitions, our curatorial committee
and team adhered to the belief of 'Co-exist with Earth'. Backed by statistical
research, the opening exhibition Common Understanding · Common
Consensus · Collective Action reveals the catastrophic imprints from
wind disasters, floods, water pollution, forest fires, and human behavior on
the earth through a combination of visuals, short films, audio installation and
exhibits, aiming to connect visitors with their body and mind. The other themed
exhibition A Breeze from the Woods showcases the joy to life with
the reuse of waste wood."
Opening Exhibition - Common Understanding ·
Common Consensus · Collective Action at The Planet Room (Permanent
Exhibition starting November 20, 2021)
The exhibition begins with Common Understanding toward the global warming crisis and its major causes, sets to achieve Common Consensus among visitors on the importance to phasing out the continuous climatic hazards through the learning of 7Rs rule, and encourages the visitors to become a Common Action Taker after awakening, live a simple life by implementing "Purification at Source", and reach a harmonic co-existence with our planet.
Recommended viewing sequence for Common
Understanding · Common Consensus ·
Collective Action is as follows:
Wind - Through short films to view
casualties and financial losses around the globe caused by wind disasters, such
as tornadoes and tropical cyclones.
Water - An abnormal climate has caused
localized flooding disasters on the planet, as well as heavy rains and
blizzards to occur one after another, while in some places there have been
persistent droughts resulting from insufficient rainfall. The interactive installation
"Hong Kong in 10 Bottles" assessed the quality of Hong Kong's
water resources whose samples were collected from 10 places in town by Tzu Chi
volunteers from different age groups.
Fire – Wildfires caused by lightning
strikes, droughts and human factors not only burn down forests and human living
facilities, but the toxic smoke they produced also induces respiratory
diseases.
Land – The impact of human
destruction on mountains, forests, and land are evident when a number of severe
soil erosion occur amid earthquakes and heavy rains. Chris CHEUNG (h0nh1m)'s
interactive ink installation Carbon Reveries records the
stupefying increase in carbon emission over the past 63 years. 12 bamboo pipes
are used to form a bamboo grove. Each corresponds to a set of annual carbon
emission data, allowing visitors to rethink the relationship between carbon
emission, nature's vibrancy and human intervention to the ecosystem. Chris
explained, "This work makes visitors feel as if they were in the bamboo grove,
breathing in sync with the nature and sensing the vibrancy of nature. When visitors touch each bamboo pipe with their own hands, the warm temperature of their palm will make the ink color of the bamboo pipe gradually fade out, implying human intervention to the nature. The entire installation also looks like a set of factory exhaust pipes, reminding visitors that global warming is a crisis that brooks no further delay." Upon understanding the irregularities of wind, water, fire and land, visitors can meditate at the round-shaped mediation area to reflect on what have been seen, heard, and felt; together with the round, mellow and harmonious sound of singing bowls, the entire setup is intended to awaken and inspire visitors to environmental protection from the body, mind to consciousness.
Themed
Exhibition – A
Breeze from the Woods at Jockey Club Eco Co-Creation Space (November 20, 2021 to March 12, 2022)
Woodwork artist Che LAM (Che Gor) has been engaged in hand-made woodwork
for nearly two decades. His themed exhibition A Breeze from the Woods
features a large-scale installation of 108 wooden sharks of various sizes.
Hanging down horizontally from the ceiling to the ground, this installation
brings visitors the pleasure of being in the deepness of the ocean, where they
gaze face-to-face with the sharks. As an enthusiastic diver himself, Che Gor
thinks that sharks are not terrible. The
stronger preying upon the weaker follows the law of nature, while high-end
predators in the food chain like sharks are only small creatives existing in
nature, yet the most important link to maintain the marine ecosystem. There are
also several different mortise and tenon wooden furniture and toys on display
at the same venue, including tenon wooden stools, wooden radios, wooden boxes
with frosted glass depicting begonia flower motifs, wooden mobile phone
holders, etc. Che Gor says, "Tzu Chi Environmental Action Center's belief
in cherishing materials coincides with my belief in 'trees have life' and the
recycling of surplus wood and waste wood from any renovation projects. I believe visitors to the Action Center will
understand the power of environmental protection and will use all natural resources in a proper way." A series of sharing sessions and workshops will be held in December, allowing visitors to craft wooden tops, mobile phone holders and experience tenon joints of wooden stroller assembly, etc. For registration and details, please refer to the Action Center's official website.
Members of
the Tzu Chi Environmental Action Center Curatorial Committee include Chung Ling
SZE, Shu Lin LEE, Wing Kam LEUNG, Yuk Lin CHOW, Ching Hsiu HUANG, Man Lee NG
and Corrin CHAN. Advisors include Stanley WONG (Anothermountainman) and Chi-ming
SHUN (Opening Exhibition), while Kathfree FUNG and Sunny WONG are co-curators
for both exhibitions.
Tzu Chi
Environmental Action Center
Address
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5 Che Kung Miu Road, Tai Wai
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Opening Hours
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10:00-12:30 and 13:30-17:00 Mondays,
Wednesdays to Sundays
(Closed on Tuesdays and Public holidays)
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Telephone
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2337 0158
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Fee
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Free
Admission
*To avoid overcrowding, visitors are advised to register on Action
Center official website before visiting. Walk-in visits will be subject to
availability.
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Website
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www.tzuchieac.org.hk
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[1] The 7Rs include
RESPECT all things, both animate and inanimate; REPAIR things to make them
durable as much as possible; RECYCLE all resources in a systematically way;
REFUSE excessive consumption and packaging; encourage to REDUCE at source;
REUSE whenever possible; and RETHINK the importance of the symbiosis between
humans and Earth.
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