Law Yuk Mui: Take me to the River, Draw me a Star

EVENT DESCRIPTION

During the summer drought of 1963, two hundred village women in Sheung Shui who set up an altar on the top of Wa Shan by Ng Tung River, praying for rain. They laid bamboo, flowers and fruits, fresh water, animal sacrifice beside the rain prayer rock on the mountain top, and performed a set of ancient rituals. It is said that not long after the ritual was performed rain fell from the sky.

Media artist Law Yuk Mui will create video and sound installations based on her field study and archival research of the rainmaking ritual, she will perform and re-enact the ritual with sound artist Lam Yip in a format of live cinema in the opening.