January 24th, 2010
Suitman Goes to Sham Shui Po
On a muggy day last summer, I was on Apliu Street looking for a used camera stall when I noticed a street DJ playing 1960s Chinese pop. Since the working-class neighbourhood of Sham Shui Po isn’t known for its street performers, I was surprised and took a closer look.
Lo and behold, it was Suitman, the Korean-American performance artist. His partner, Julia Kwan, was taking photos of the crowd as he performed. She told me that Suitman had been taking his DJ booth all around the city, to places like Soho and Sai Kung, and of all the places he’d been, it was Sham Shui Po that gave him the largest and most attentive audience.
Tags: Hong Kong, Kowloon, Street Art, Street Performance, Streetlife
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