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Join us this Friday evening, 28 March 2025, 8-9pm at the Tai Kwun Artists’ Book Library! 

This performance is part of the ‘nowhere left but here, here i am again’ exhibition at the library. 

‘77 Days: I am still here’ is a multidisciplinary project by Hong Kong-based artist Sissi Kaplan which based on her artist book, ‘77 Days: An Experience Report’, portrays the artist through various states of isolation. Initially owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, then in having to navigate personal loss, Kaplan “reflects [on] the human desire for connection through acts of creation.” 

For ‘nowhere left but here, here i am again’, Kaplan together with long-time collaborators Tomson Chan @tomsonchan_com, Sam I-shan @samishan, Vivian Wang @wangvivian, and Cyril Wong @cyrilsingstheblues expand on her book to create another kind of “experience report” including the use of moving images, performance, postcards, and a wall installation. 

Here, Kaplan’s isolation gives way to a bid for reconnection in multiple ways, not unlike the actions of On Kawara (1932-2014). In fact, on one page of her book, Kaplan writes, “I AM STILL HERE” a phrase often associated with his mail art practice which not only serves as her project title, but hints at the historical resonance of Kawara and other artists whose conceptual approaches are used to mark their continued presence in countless ways.

Thank you Ingrid (Pui Yee) Chu @chupuiyee1771 for the invitation, curation, text and image!

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