Issue June 2022
What We Watch
Leung Lok-hei, Giraffe
“Together, this ensemble of electronic techniques called into being a new world—a peek-a-boo world, where now this event, now that, pops into view for a moment, then vanishes again.” In his book Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman described the era of new media with prophetic vision, where everything in society become forms of entertainment. We spend an excessive amount of time every day on our phones, TVs and the internet, where information flashes by mostly meaninglessly. This led to artist Giraffe Leung (L4-06) questioning what he watched, and capturing what he saw from the media with his works. Look, entertainment is all that remains in our world.
Intimate Portrait
