Frieze
The art of Hong Kong’s future
In May this year, the amazing lightscape of Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour – emanating from its endless traffic, luxury shopping malls and skyscrapers – received a strange addition. A series of projected numeric sequences and Chinese and English phrases began to run on a nine-minute loop across the facade of the city-state’s tallest building, the International Commerce Centre. The light installation, Our 60-Second Friendship Begins Now, created by artists Jason Lam and Sampson Wong, had been commissioned by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. Its name is a tribute to a poetic pick-up line from a 1990 Wong Kar-wai film, Days of Being Wild, set in 1960s Hong Kong.