"In these drawings, I chronicled my relationship with and reactions toward significant events on each day. The majority of these "events" are current affairs in the context of the absurd political situation in Hong Kong, while others are memorable moments of personal interaction that I shared with people. These events are recounted through notations, mark-making, written word, and stamped symbols. Each work addresses a definitive set of actions and reactions that bring into focus our altered contemporary conditions of human distance and solitude, fragmentation and cohesion in recalibrated interactions." -Samson Young

Contributors: Samson Young, Jessica Hong

Publisher: Dartmouth College

Language: English

Softcover, 36 pages

9.5 x 8 in.

About the Artist

Multi-disciplinary artist Samson Young works in sound, performance, video, and installation. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Music Composition from Princeton University in 2013. In 2017, he represented Hong Kong at the 57th Venice Biennale. Other solo projects include the De Appel, Amsterdam; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh; SMART Museum, Chicago; Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art in Manchester; M+ Pavilion, Hong Kong; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Ryosoku-in at Kenninji Temple, Kyoto; and Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, among others. Selected group exhibitions include Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Gropius Bau, Berlin; Performa 19, New York; Biennale of Sydney; Shanghai Biennale; National Museum of Art, Osaka; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; Ars Electronica, Linz; and documenta 14: documenta radio, among others. In 2020, he was awarded the inaugural Uli Sigg Prize. His works are in the collections of Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; M+ Museum, Hong Kong; Mori Art Museum, Japan; and KADIST, Paris.