SO IT IS_Hong Kong is the third stage of SO IT IS project. An invitation to the performer and choreghapher Rebecca Wong Pik - kei to embrace a practice and build an unpredictable imaginary of what bodies can be and do.

Rebecca created her poster starting from the rules we wrote to communicate the imaginative practice of SO IT IS:

- each poster is one and unique, like our bodies (as long as it is not our desire that changes this indication)
- the shot is full-length, the body is naked
- the size of the poster is full size
- the body is at rest and not in an action
- the interventions on the body are carried out in graphic post-production / photomontage
- each poster is posted in a different city
- the artist chooses the exact place for the posting, based on their city and the communities that live there

Free to respect, to reinterpret and to betray the rules Rebecca imagined a poster that embodies also Hong Kong’s social and political situation in a state of flux and social turmoil for almost three years starting with social movements and then the global pandemic.

“When our ancestors encounter a disaster, no matter if it is natural or man-made, the first action will be asking the gods to bless us. We develop the idea of blessing charms and reconstruct them with different parts of the body, both intimate and familiar, in the hope of encouraging urbanites to use their bodies as vessels for the ultimate liberation of the body and mind” – that’s what Rebecca writes around the idea of her project."

SO IT IS _# weaves a network of affections and relations: a practice of contact with the people we will meet and the communities surrounding them, materialising in an urban, non-virtual space. It is a gesture of infestation of public spaces.

The action-matrix which inspired SO IT IS_Roma came to life in Bologna in 2020, within the public art project La lotta è fica, designed and curated by CHEAP street poster art. Now it thrives and transforms through other bodies and places.

The map of posters will be put together, stage by stage.

SO IT IS_香港是SO IT IS計劃的第三階段，由舞蹈藝術家黃碧琪實踐身體可塑性和可能性的一些不可預計的想像。

碧琪由我們所撰寫的規則出發創作，以傳達SO IT IS這富想像力的行動：
每張海報都是獨一無二的，如同每個人的身體 （除非我們希望改變這個指示）
全身拍攝，身體裸露
海報尺寸根據真人一比一比例而製
身體是靜止而非活動中的
身體通過後期平面製作／攝影合成而被改造
每張海報將於不同的城市展出
藝術家根據他們所住的城市和當地社區，選擇海報實際張貼的位置

碧琪可以遵守規則，亦能自由詮釋甚至違反規則，碧琪想像出暗藏香港的社會和政治現況的一幅海報。近三年來，香港經歷社會運動和繼疫症，社會處於變化和動蕩之中碧琪的想法如下：「在我們傳統文化中，遇上天災人禍，祖先們第一個行動便是求神保佑，符咒是我們從神明中得到最直接實在的回應。我們以符咒為起點，再用身體不同的身體部位重組成符咒，有私密有熟悉的，希望提醒城市人在當下，以身體作為器皿，為香港驅病氣使身心得到終極的自由解放。」

SO IT IS_# 分為多個階段，編織成一個情感和關係的網絡：讓我們的合作對象和他們身處的社區建立關聯，並於城市的非虛擬空間將這種關聯具體化。它是一種侵佔公共空間的姿態。

CHEAP street poster art於2020年在博洛尼亞設計和策劃公共藝術項目La lotta è fica，啟發了SO IT IS_Roma的行動。它現已通過其他個體和地方茁壯成長並轉化。

各地的海報將會按逐個階段，集合成一幅地圖

A graduate of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Wong’s choreography and performances question stereotypes from a female perspective. Sometimes provocative her works evoke a revaluation of attitudes by and towards – women, body and desires, especially sex.
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Major works include; when time limps, Woman.Body, 19841012, Nook and Bird-Watching. With performances in Iceland, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, China and Australia.

Wong studied Butoh under master Yukio Waguri’ and participated in the theatre production, White Room in 2016. Earning a scholarship in 2017.

She joined the Atlas choreography workshops at the ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival. In 2018 Wong participated in Creative meeting Point :Hong Kong x Barcelona a residency exchange programme with the support of West Kowloon. Bird-Watching was part of The Message Behind the Wall by 198491 winner of the Outstanding Small Venue Production 2019.

In April 2021, she was supported by Tai Kwun(HK) to create a full-length solo work, Under∞Line; In September of the same year, she was commissioned by the Freepsace of West Kowloon Cultural District's "The Future of Performance series" as one of the lead members of "A Thousand Plateaus", a new media production. Her works interrogate theater's value in a turbulent generation.

畢業於香港演藝學院。愛由女性角度出發並透過編舞及表演，質問社會上的標籤和定型，透過具批判性的編舞作品，重新評估女性的位置，特別在身體、慾望及性這幾方面。以女性角度質問傳統亞洲思想。在動盪的世代重新詰問劇場的存在價值。主要作品包括《千高原》、《牢性》《Under∞Line》、《在時間癱軟時》、《女身》、《19841012》、《隅》及《睇・女》，作品曾於瑞典、冰島、日本、韓國、馬來西亞、新加坡及中國演出。

A project by Silvia Calderoni and Ilenia Caleo together with Rebecca Wong Pik-kei
Graphics and post-production CHEAP street poster art
Project curated by Paola Granato
Writing Ilenia Caleo
Translation Ilaria Patano
Photography William Muirhead
Thanks to Sylvia De Fanti, Maddalena Fragnito, CRAAAZI, Fivizzano27, Motus and Franco Yau

計劃由Silvia Calderoni及Ilenia Caleo發起，與黃碧琪 合作
平面設計及後期製作：CHEAP street poster art
計劃策展：Paola Granato
文字：Ilenia Caleo
翻譯：Icarian Patano
攝影：William Muirhead
鳴謝：Sylvia De Fanta, Magdalena Fragnito, CRAAAZI, Fivizzano 27, Motus and Franco Yau