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Memoro, 2026
Participatory performance
Memoro (v.)
Means to mention, to recall, or anything related to memory.
In business, legal documents, or diplomatic negotiations, informal or semi-formal writings are often referred to as ‘memos’, used to record details of transactions or agreements. Their form can be any: they can be as slight as a note, a document, or a record of correspondence, depending entirely on the writer’s choice.
Some believe that the purpose of a memorandum is not to remind the reader, but to protect the writer. A memorandum made of speech thus turns spoken words into text, establishing a form of safeguard for the speaker. Beginning from the notion of “preparing to forget,” Memoro devises a performative framework that invites participants to uncover the “nearly forgotten” of their own and the collective’s. Together, they reinterpret familiar or unfamiliar “documents / agendas / materials”, compose a time-limited memorandum in situ.
The work extends from Draft Agreement (2024), a participatory performance presented in 2024 in The Peripheral Experiment, a temporary insurgent independent art festival curated by the Singapore-based experimental art group Emergency Stairs in Dongbuzhou. During which the audience were handed an illustrated “draft agreement” and invited to interpret and revise its contents, initiating a collaged dialogue in which structures of power intertwined with personal histroy.
This time, returning to a familiar cultural context, lets dialogue to be stirred by both collective experience and individual memory, collaging sameness and difference together so that blurred impressions may be redrawn and lingering echoes affirmed and preserved. Under the witness of the public, footnotes are added to memories on the verge of being forgotten, seeking out the words that ought to be ‘remembered’.
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Memoro
Concept & Performance | cc'ed
Date| 2026.6.27 (Sat)
Time| 3 & 8 pm
Venue | Noii. art house @noii.arthouse
The Bass of Quotidian, 2025
Site-specific Exhibition
Within the realm of jazz music, there exists a common bass pattern known as the "Walking Bass," where the steady progression of a bass tone, akin to a stable walk, serves as the rhythmic backdrop, punctuating the entire composition beat by beat. Exhibition The Bass of Quotidian, a collaborative presentation by the artist Edwin Chuk Yin Man and the curator Cecilia Chan Nga Ying, unveils an exhibition as a musical composition cultivated within the shared living space over the course of a year. It also represents Chuk's ongoing exploration and understanding of the concept of "Non-place," as proposed by anthropologist Marc Augé. Featuring a body of photography, slide projections, videos, and site-specific installations, the artworks do not focus on the traces of the two individuals' lives but rather respond to the daily gaze outside the window, highlighting the underlying bass tones that set the foundation for everyday life.
The exhibition venue stands on a segment of Kwai Chung along the longest thoroughfare in Hong Kong - Castle Peak Road. It is also a reference to one of the anthropological "Non-places" - a place devoid of a sense of belonging, lacking interpersonal relationships, and historical narratives, existing solely as a conduit for spatial transitions and human mobility, where individuals navigate in anonymity and solitude. Photography as the means, Chuk questions the essence of observation by gazing at where one is situated.
The exhibition takes the concept of non-place as its starting point, extending to a dialogue with the local history of Castle Peak Road, exploring non-place as a personal experience of living space, and subsequently inviting the audience to immerse themselves in the exhibition venue of non-place. The exhibition unfolds the understanding of the connection between people and places through various perspectives, encouraging a reconsideration of the solitude entwined within the enigmatic covenant of non-place.
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The Bass of Quotidan
Artist | Edwin CHUK Yin Man
Curatorial｜Cecilia Chan Nga Ying
Openning｜Opening: 2025.7.13, 7 - 11 pm
Period｜2025.7.13 - 29, opens on every Mon & Fri to Sun
Time｜7 pm - 11 pm
Draft Agreement, 2024
Participatory performance
Draft Agreement employs text and image as dual media to examine the possibility of interpreting history before it becomes fixed as history. During the performance, audiences receive an illustrated “draft booklet”, inviting them to participate in the interpretation and revision of its contents. In this exchange, where structures of power intersect with individual experience, the work interrogates the contours of truth and proposes history as something continually negotiated and collectively reconstructed.
The project is also the first collaborative work by Cecilia Chan Nga Ying and Edwin Chuk Yin Man, before the formation of cc’ed. It originated from an archival object: a White Paper published before 1984, The Draft Agreement Between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the People’s Republic of China on the Future of Hong Kong. Beginning with this discarded document, the work brings into relation our individual text- and image-based practices developed over the past few years, forming a mediatised collage of dialogue shaped by the entanglement of power structures and personal experience.
During the presentation, audiences, as participants in the meeting, are invited to speak in any audible form before the assembled listeners and to interpret the contents of the “Draft Agreement” in real time, collectively reconstructing a 30-minute, time-bound history. In doing so, the work probes the boundaries of truth and considers the possibility of history being read before it hardens into history.
The project also explores the possibilities of dialogue across different environments. In the outskirts of Nantong, a remote and unruly township on the edge of Jiangsu Province, China, we took part in the first edition of The Peripheral Experiment, an independent art festival curated by Emergency Stairs, an experiential theatre group from Singapore. There, the work in progress became one bridge among participants from different cities, facilitating exchange through a process of experimentation.
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Draft Agreement
𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁 & Performance | 𝗰𝗰’𝗲𝗱
Date | 2024.6.30 (Sun)
Venue | Reading Room, Bian Zhilin Art Museum, Nantong
The Peripheral Experiment
Initiated by | Liu Xiaoyi and Huang Suhuai
Presented by | Plain Art Studio and Emergency Stairs
Dates | 2024.6.29–30
Photo credit: Zhang Zhao
