Wai Kwok Choi

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E-Musée museum was created in April 2020 and opened on 18 May 2020. As a virtual museum organised by individuals, it has the independence and autonomy to react flexibly and quickly to any developments. For example, when the museum was ready to open, a pandemic hit and various museums in the community were temporarily closed. So the museum simply decided to open in order to close.

These days, E-Musée decided to hold an auction which aims to bring artifacts back to us virtually during the quarantine, while allowing us to be inspired by history and build a sense of empathy across time and space. Let historical stories save our lives while liberating the artefacts in the museum through our consumption and imagination.

The entire auction is presented in a video with four virtual auction rooms and an auction catalogue. The auction objects were mainly 12 virtual Ru kiln ceramics. I plays all roles in these process. Like an archaeologist, I collect the vast virtual images of the museum into a small cabinet. 

Sincere thanks to my tutor Dr. Hilary Powell for being the voiceover of my film<I will abandon this city of the horizon>.

This auction catalogue serves as a specific explanation of the lots in this sale.

In this era, not only has the British colonial phenomenon not ended, but the country has also been colonised in reverse by something much softer. I was reminded of Jorge Luis Borge's novel The garden of forking paths. I saw many gardens, lakes, rivers, ancient oriental ceramics that appear in abundance here like an enigma, gardens in ancient oriental ceramics and some wartime cipher machines in London. I began to abandon an association with the indigeneity of these artefacts, instead basing my perceptions in the eyes of the Other (sinologists, orientalists，collectors) and the Other's perception of my country. They are a mix of my fictional memories and a reinterpretation of the city for me. So what does the city look like? I won't tell you in words what the city or its future looks like, because there are a million possibilities for the future and it has already happened.

The set consists of nine illustrations, and as the viewer looks at the illustrations, they can turn on the corresponding audio to listen to them. It is believed that looking at the drawings while hearing the novel will keep the eye on the images rather than the words, so that the whole appreciation process will become more pure.

Great thanks to my tutor Dr. Cecilia Wee for being the voiceover of my illustration set <The garden of forking paths>.