Offsite: Christopher K. Ho

Hong Kong–based artist Christopher K. Ho’s CX 889 pays tribute to the wave of Hong Kong-to-Vancouver immigration between 1989 and 1997. The installation re-stages familiar sights, hazy and half-remembered, from Hong Kong’s beloved Kai Tak Airport, which was dismantled a year after the 1997 handover of Hong Kong sovereignty from the United Kingdom to the People’s Republic of China. CX 889 evokes the disorienting but warm reactivation of familiar sights, sounds and scents after a trans-Pacific flight—a state of unwakefulness that may also inform memories of Vancouver in the 1990s, when immigration and urban development changed the city beyond recognition.

Offsite is located at 1100 West Georgia Street, between Thurlow and Bute Streets, just west of the Shangri–La Hotel. Directions »