Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020

Back to Basics program / AUGUST 2023
Phoebe Wong
Hong Kong SAR, China
http://www.aicahk.org/eng/author/PhoebeWONG
About
With a background in design and anthropology, I am a Hong
Kong-based researcher and critic with a particular interest
in contemporary art, design and visual media. I am also a
co-founder of the Community Museum Project, a curatorial
collective dedicated to revisiting indigenous creativity and
underrepresented histories and practices of the everyday.
My practice spans writing (art critique and cultural
criticism), archiving, and research. Topics currently under
exploration: postcolonial discourse, memory and alt-history,
museonomics, archiveology, data mapping, essay film, art
and technology, and, most recently, trees.
GREEN Forensics
olive green, pea green, lime green, emerald, avocado, pistachio,
bottle green, Lincoln green, jade, matcha, verdure, copper
green, viridescence, viridity, chrome green, patina, verdigris
. . . grass, vegetation, forest, grove, tree, shrub, vine, moss,
earth skin, lichenology, algae, moss agate, frog, kale, rocket,
greenhouse effect, chlorophyll, snake, leek, bean, lime,
herbs, woods, bush, gooseberry, spring, mint, weed, verdant,
grassy, leafy, greenish, verde, foliage, greenery, lawn, green
room, vegetarianism, vegan, broccoli, cucumber, aloe vera,
asparagus, celery, parsley, khaki, camouflage, bice, zucchini,
squash, spinach, green tea, death cap, sickly green, vine,
evergreen, pine, fern, fir, jungle, colonial pine, . . . wet behind
the ears = green behind the ears, green thumb, greenwashing,
to go green, green with envy, green-eyed monster, the grass
is always greener in the other side, green stick fracture,
green card, greennote culture, forest bath, green light,
agriculture, agrilogistics, environmental, ecological, nature,
conservationist, eco-, eco-friendly, dark ecology, field, green
belt, Peter Pan, grassroot, deforestation, green economy,
oasis, plant, plantation, horticulture, horticulturist . . . unripe,
inexperienced, callow, raw, unseasoned, untried, naive,
innocent, unworldly, gullible, callow, immature . . .
William Gass is a lover of lists. For him, 'the list is a venerable
and inventive literary mode'.
Taking its cue from William Gass's On Being Blue (1976),
Green Forensics is a cultural investigation into all things
green. The end result will be a chapbook listing all things
green, along with 50 selected entries that combine research,
fact, cultural context, allusion, 'thick description', dialectic,
insight, and, hopefully, poetics.