31 June 1997

Part of ‘Still in Transition: 20 Years After Hong Kong’s Handover’

Installation view of “31 June 1997” at Videotage, Hong Kong, 2017.

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Videotage presented a project by artist and historian David Clarke that was based on the invention of a fictional “independence day” in which Hong Kong was under neither British nor Chinese sovereignty. Titled “31 June 1997,” the name alludes to the imaginary day between the last day of British rule and the first day of Chinese rule in Hong Kong.

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