Kangaroo, Panda and Dog
「袋⿏、熊貓、狗」17 OCT — 16 NOV 2025
Goethe-Gallery & Black Box Studio, Hong Kong
Curator: Wong Ka Ying
Artists: Ailsa Wong, Grace Liu, Tsz Ying, Holok Chen, Kong Yiu Wing, Cheung Sin Yi Selina
策展人：黃嘉瀛
藝術家：黃雅珊、廖子盈、陳可樂、江耀榮、張善怡
Drawing on the symbolic resonance of animals such as dogs, horses, and mules in Cantonese labor metaphors, this exhibition explores the exhaustion, repetition, and invisibility underpinning Hong Kong’s gig economy. Figures like the kangaroo and panda—appropriated in food delivery branding and state-endorsed “panda economy” strategies—are recontextualized to reveal deeper entanglements between platform capitalism and public policy. Through the lens of animality, the project critiques how bodies become algorithmically managed and exploited in ever-moving cycles of service and consumption. Viewers are invited to reflect on how labor has become increasingly mobile, precarious, and dehumanized within digitally governed infrastructures.
Through a constellation of installations, videos, participatory game and documentary practices, the exhibition critically engages the aesthetics and temporalities of endurance under algorithmic governance. Together, these works expose unseen narratives behind food delivery platforms and capitalism economic system, transforming familiar urban rhythms into spaces of critical reflection on endurance, value, and survival.
廣東話中常見以動物作為勞動隱喻的語彙——如「狗」、「馬」、「牛」、「騾」等，《袋鼠、熊貓、狗》探討香港電子商貿經濟體制下，勞工所面對的疲憊、重複與不被見。袋鼠與熊貓的形象，被全球外賣平台如 Deliveroo 及 Foodpanda 挪用為品牌標誌，本地則以「熊貓經濟」包裝與推動經濟活動及政策。這些動物意象被重新詮釋，揭示平台資本主義與權力和政策之間更深層的糾結。展覽以批判身體如何在演算法治理下被管理、操控，並不斷被投入於服務與消費的流動循環中。邀請觀眾反思當代勞動如何在數碼治理結構中日益流動，不穩定狀態與去人性處理。
是次展出的裝置藝術、錄像、互動遊戲及紀錄片創作，批判性地介入大數據管控下勞動的美學與時間性，包括重複運動的馬匹、熱力打印的外賣單據、少數族裔外賣員工的的棋盤、以及從事外送工作的藝術家的第一身紀錄片。這些作品共同揭示了數碼平台及應用程式背後被忽視的人力，讓熟悉的城市節奏轉化為對韌性、價值與生存的修羅場。
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《藝術展覽探索外賣員的笑聲與掙扎 參展藝術家：唔只係送餐工具》，Yahoo 新聞，18 Jul 2025
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