1 Chan Ka Kiu
Miss Toilet, 2017, still from digital video: 1 min 29 sec. Courtesy the artist and Para Site, Hong Kong.
2 Jala Wahid
Oh Leander!, 2017, still from single-channel video with sound: 4 min 15 sec. Courtesy the artist.
3 Nadira Husain
Performative Body – Embodied Performances, Red, 2018, tempera and acrylic on canvas, 180 × 140 cm. Photo by Dotgain. Courtesy PSM, Berlin; and Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leipzig.
1 Chan Ka Kiu
HONG KONG
In 2003, a deadly outbreak of acute respiratory syndrome forever altered Hong Kong’s handling of hygiene. Concerned with the isolation and apathy that arose from the resulting collective germophobia, Chan Ka Kiu proposes an alternative perspective to contamination in her video A Theory About Flu (2018): instead of us catching the flu,…