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❑ organization history

Art Together Limited is a non profit organization in Hong Kong since 2008. It has organized art events and exhibitions at public places and outdoors. Collaborating with local art groups, artists, as well as social service organizations, Art Together Limited has developed activities through which local people from all classes can access to the arts. It also committed to developing local art by organizing workshops, education programs and lectures together with many education institutions. Art Together Limited researches various forms of society from the perspective of the arts and it places major efforts in organizing projects that appreciate local cultural context intimately so that not only art professionals but also general public may interact with the artist easily. Furthermore, it has contributed the exchange of art and culture in the region as they continue to actively cooperate with alternative spaces from countries nearby such as Cow House in Macau, Mumbai Community Art Exchange Program in Hong Kong, etc.

❑ art work and program introduction

Art Together from Hong Kong tells about the sea level rise in 2019 Sea Art Festival. As the global warming continues, thermal expansions of the oceans and melting of continental glaciers have contributed to rising of sea level. Climatologists warn us that “If mankind does not change their habit of consuming energy and wasteful ways of living, the sea level will rise up to tree meters by the year 2100.” When it happens, the whole world will lose 1.79 million㎢ of lands. Such loss of lands is to take place in the major crops' cultivation regions. Moreover, there is also high possibility of land loss for major cities in the world including New York, US and Shanghai, China, so that the land loss due to sea level rise may lead to massive resettlements of billion people after all. In order to alarm the calamity of the situation, Art Together installs The Pit of Heartbreak (2019) near the coastline of Dadaepo Beach. This wooden structure in the shape of staircase with 1.6 meters in depth below the sea level allows the audience an indirect experience of sea level rise as they can walk up and down the structure of which ceiling line parallels with sea level. ‘Sand Castle Workshop,’ ‘Wishes We Blow On the Winds,’ etc., these Art Together’s Nine-day workshop programs at The Pit of Heartbreak also expands the range of experience. The participants in ‘Sand Castle Workshop’ get to build sand structures with wooden mold at ebb tide, then watch them being swept away when the waves gradually surge in to the structures at high tide. ‘Wishes We Blow On the Winds’ asks, on the other hand, participants to tie pieces of cloth on which they wrote things they we can do for the ocean and earnest wishes on the poles erected near by The Pit of Heartbreak. These wishes would flap whenever wind blows and the words on them would reach to the every corner of the earth riding on the wind traveling the ocean. Through this, Art Together wants to share their earnest wish that the warmth of the participants’ heart can reach that of the earth while raising awareness of sea level rise through this.