Cheung King Hung on Patrick Lee and Hiram To at Para/Site
In Collaboration with and Translated by Asia Art Archive from the text as originally published in 1997

This essay is a response to two projects: “Eucharist” by Patrick Lee and “You don’t know how I feel...” by Hiram To, both held at Para/Site art space in July and August 1997. The author is the late Cheung King Hung (1950–2016), also known as KH, who led a reclusive life. Educated in France, he returned to Hong Kong during the 1980s. As an artist, he worked with installation and photography; as a writer, his poems, essays, and cultural criticism were published on various independent platforms and were respected by the avant-garde art community. This essay published in the PS newsletter exemplifies the special literary style of KH: he discusses the projects of Lee and To at Para/Site from the third-person point of view of “Kandinsky”—an imagined hybrid of the modernist painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) and himself.

— Anthony Yung, Senior Researcher, Asia Art Archive