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AfterStudio: a Beginning of an End of a Beginning
BarofSpace Residency at PMQ
July 2024 
Curator: Thomas Tsang

A three-week live architecture performance and collective exploration. The exhibit, which was started by four graduate architecture students in association with the HKU Department of Architecture, attempts to dispel myths about architectural authorship and production through a collaborative process of dismantling an exhibition space.

The daily performance of gradually dismantling the previous exhibition setting is the central characteristic of AfterStudio. What starts as an enclosed interior with four timber stud walls will gradually open up to become a space that accommodates public programs. This un-building process will begin by embracing faults and improvising with materials, opening up new avenues for conversations and spontaneous encounters within the city.

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https://www.pmq.org.hk/event/hku-architecture-gallery-afterstudio-beginning-of-an-end-of-a-beginning/

As the physical space opens up during the disassemblage, public activities will be arranged around themes that range from the scale of individual rooms to shared urban spaces. Talks, interviews, and city tours will be used to engage with both the general public and larger architectural and creative communities.

AfterStudio turns into a short-term testing ground for unprofessionalized spatial acts that rethink the role of architecture in wider society. AfterBar takes over the area in the evenings as a gathering spot for shared meals, screenings, short presentations, and conversations about how architecture is evolving in Hong Kong’s urban landscape and popular culture.



Roundtable talks during disassembly.

The workshop begins with a drifting tour along the MTR Island Line, followed by a hands-on session where participants can create their own “mapping box for getting lost”. Un-navigating the signs and arrows we tend to instinctively follow, the mapping kit invite us to a journey of reimagining commuting: through detours, undesired path, imaginary routes. As we surrender to the possibility of getting lost, perhaps ending up somewhere stranger, but might we discover new ways of moving, sensing, and being in this city?



































BarofSpace Object Zine Vol.1
Table with Holes
AfterStudio Object Assembly