Dorothy Wong Ka Chung and Benjamin Ryser 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).

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