(opp14) Thirty New Stories

Lee Ka-sing OPUS Archive
“Thirty New Stories” series consists of thirty individual pieces,
all documented through photographs taken during the installation
on-site.
Media: Text, and photo print paired with ready-made objects.
Thirty New Stories
(2018) Opp.14

Lee Ka-sing

Thirty New Stories
“2K 2.0” marked my second collaboration with Kai Chan and
took place at my gallery in the spring of 2018. For this project,
Kai utilized images from my “Mobile Poetry Lab” series as
the foundation for his collaborative pieces, while I created
photographs using a collection of objects and items he provided.
Subsequently, these works were incorporated into my “Time
Machine” series. In the exhibition, I arranged my photographs
into five vertical panels, collectively named “Five Poems.”
Beyond the core collaborative pieces, I engaged in a playful
endeavor on one of the side gallery walls. Here, I sought to pair
the objects given to me by Kai with fragments of photo prints
from my archives, including test strips of jobs collected from
our studio during the eighties and nineties. I referred to these
juxtapositions as New Stories, which were spontaneously arranged
on the wall, each accompanied by a caption line. The text was,
in fact, the most significant part of the work; it gave a soul to the
framework.
The “Thirty New Stories” series consists of thirty individual
pieces, all documented through photographs taken during
the installation on-site. I have always harbored a desire to
recreate these shots in a more elaborate manner within a studio
environment. However, I never had the chance to do that.
Perhaps, this series will serve as a blueprint for the next step, a
larger body of work.

Thirty New Stories
Text, and photo print paired
with ready-made objects

Three Roses

Chairman Duno’s
Old Daddy Organ,
Radio, and LP

Daydream of
a Firecracker

Photograph Hidden
Secrets with a Large
Format Camera

Boy in Red, Rising from
the River Blue

Instruction Manual
about Retrieving
Memories from a
Bundle of Fragrant
Sticks

Long-range Missile Test
at Mr. Kim’s Backyard

An Artificial Satellite
Sending Messages to
the Fake Planet

The Wind, the Cloud,
and the Songs of a
Rainy Day

Caterpillar Walking
Across the Black Sea

Social Gathering before
There was FB

Two Pieces of Sliced
Lemon Looking
Forward to Being
an Artist

The Girl with a New
Hairdress, and Her
Beloved Small Shoe

Proposal for Swimming
Lessons for a Butterfly

Boy and the Blue Ego

Discovery of the Red
Mountain in a Recent
Political Movement

A Happy Day in the Life
of a Baby Phoenix

This Book, in the Shape
of a Fingernail, Can
Teach You How to Light
up a Piano

Time-pieces, Broken
Movements, and the
Divided Constellation

Small Book and the Big
Chapter of a Story

Third Uncle and the
Sky Ladder from Aten

Three Items that
Might Have Changed
the Horizon of Your
Sensitivity

Alarm Signal Pop-up
from the Pink Colour
Mini-tablet

An Appointment with
God

A Flower-hunter’s
Roadmap

Languages in the
Post-digital Era

A Comparative Study
on the Horse-power
between a Steam Engine
and Fifty Speeding
Boats

The Rocket is Pushing
from Mesosphere
to Troposphere, Oh
I Forgot to Bring my
Lunch-box

The Footnote of the Final
Shot on the Making of
an Institution

Data Being Transmitted
into Memory

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