Finding Paradise, Finding Home: In Conversation with Dorothy and Benjamin
Date
25 July 2026 (Saturday)
2.30PM to 3.45PM
Location
Shop–House by DECK
About
“Will that place be a paradise? Singapore!” was the theme song of a TV advert Singapore Airlines launched in Hong Kong in the year Dorothy was born. Seemingly a tourism promotion, the spot could also be read as an immigration advertisement. For the past one or two centuries, Singapore and Hong Kong have shared similar yet distinct histories. The instabilities brought about by war, the economy and geopolitics have found their way into our lives: In our shared experiences and in each of our family histories, there are always memories of migration or of homes that are now far away.
During their residency at DECK, Dorothy and Benjamin have been looking for the way home and stories of migration among the residents of Geylang. Where is the place where you can grow your roots? Will that be a paradise?
In this artist sharing session, Dorothy and Benjamin will share their past community-based creative projects—such as photo-audio walks in supermarkets, on boats and in national parks—and share the stories they learned during their residency at DECK.
For the best experience, participants are required to to bring headphones or earphones that connect to your mobile.
During their residency at DECK, Dorothy and Benjamin have been looking for the way home and stories of migration among the residents of Geylang. Where is the place where you can grow your roots? Will that be a paradise?
In this artist sharing session, Dorothy and Benjamin will share their past community-based creative projects—such as photo-audio walks in supermarkets, on boats and in national parks—and share the stories they learned during their residency at DECK.
For the best experience, participants are required to to bring headphones or earphones that connect to your mobile.
Featuring
Dorothy Wong & Benjamin Ryser
Artists | Speaker
Dorothy Wong Ka Chung (b. 1991 Hong Kong) and Benjamin Ryser (b.1989, Switzerland) are a Hong Kong-Swiss media and sound art duo. In recent years, they have worked in Europe, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the US, using images, videos and sounds to engage with local communities. Their focus lies in examining dispersed communities, exploring themes such as sense of belonging, identity, imagined homelands, and their intersections with politics and history. Their work collects stories from different individuals, exploring the possibility of collaboration between artists and local communities. This serves as a means of accumulating collective urban memories and fostering cross-regional community imagination.
Their site-specific works have been shown in playgrounds between Hong Kong and Berlin, in supermarkets in Kowloon City and around the world, on a boat in the Venice lagoon at sunset, and in the mountains of the Truku tribe in Taiwan. They have collaborated with museums and institutions such as M+, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Goethe-Institut Hongkong, WMA (Hong Kong), Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Kunstmuseum Thurgau (Switzerland), SomoS Arts (Berlin), Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Hong-Gah Museum, The Cube Project Space (Taiwan), Pro Helvetia - The Swiss Arts Council in Venice (Italy).
Their site-specific works have been shown in playgrounds between Hong Kong and Berlin, in supermarkets in Kowloon City and around the world, on a boat in the Venice lagoon at sunset, and in the mountains of the Truku tribe in Taiwan. They have collaborated with museums and institutions such as M+, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Goethe-Institut Hongkong, WMA (Hong Kong), Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Kunstmuseum Thurgau (Switzerland), SomoS Arts (Berlin), Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Hong-Gah Museum, The Cube Project Space (Taiwan), Pro Helvetia - The Swiss Arts Council in Venice (Italy).
