Assembly
@ SITE Galleries
37 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Friday, March 6th, from 4:15PM - 6PM
“The Public Order Ordinance is one of Britain’s worst legacies in Hong Kong and has repeatedly been criticised by the UN for excessively curtailing freedom of expression.” – Paddy Ashdown, 13 June 2018
Be Water: 和你 Flow will host a reception gathering, titled Assembly, on March 6, 2020.
Assembly references the Public Order Ordinance in Hong Kong that has allowed the Hong Kong government to penalize any protester, which has included some 900 minors as young as eleven years old with criminal offenses of “unlawful assembly” and “riot”.
These designations have been used liberally at the discretion of the police to potentially deem any spontaneous public gathering in Hong Kong with criminality. In doing so, it grants the government wide range to prosecute protesters and government dissenters as criminals, often using photographic identification technology. This has resulted in prison sentences of even non-violent student protesters, some up to seven years. Assembly reclaims the organic social activity of convening by inviting you to gather with us to view work on display in Be Water: 和你 Flow.
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