Water reclamation / China /Bill Aitchison

Water Reclamation, filmada en Hong Kong, está en una calle que fue recuperada hace 100 años. Prefiero usar la obra robada, no recuperada, ya que nunca fue tierra. La performance le devuelve el agua vertiéndola sobre mí afuera de cada tienda que vende agua a lo largo de la calle. También es una especie de ritual en el espacio público.

Water Reclamation, shot in Hong Kong is on a street that was reclaimed 100 years ago. I prefer to use the work stolen not reclaimed as it was never land. The performance returns it the water by pouring water over myself outside every shop that sells water along the street. It too is a sort of ritual in public space.

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Bill Aitchison is a British inter-disciplinary performance artist. He has presented his videos, performances, soundworks and photography in galleries, museums, theatres and festivals in Europe, Asia, America, Australia and The Middle East and his artworks are held in private collections and museums. He holds a practice-based PhD from Goldsmiths College, University of London, is curator of Last Minute Live Art and associate professor in the School of Culture and Creativity, BNBU Zhuhai.
His current research is focussed upon the performance of landscape with a special focus on land reclamation sites within the Greater Bay region of southern Guangdong. This body of work aims to merge the natural and man-made timescales of landscape change and ecology with those of live performance and the gallery. It has resulted in a solo-exhibition in Ox Warehouse (Macau 2024) a number of stand alone videos some of which have been shown in group shows such as Bay Area Contemporary Art Biennale (Guangzhou Art Museum 2025) IMAF (Serbia 2025) Ruthin International (UK 2024)