Leung Po Shan

Leung Po Shan (Anthony, , pen name: 梁寶山)

In 2011, she suspended writing art criticism and creating works. To satisfy her yearning for knowledge, she went back to CUHK, aiming for a Ph.D. degree in culture studies. She has completed the thesis on art labour in 2017.

Love the Fucking Country—1998, 2000 Leung once said that the elements and motives of creation were responding to the social environment. She felt that creative works should change with changes to the surrounding world. Love the Fucking Country was born in response to the 1997 transition "hangover". Leung projected the image of national flag on the ground for people to walk on. Later the image was projected on a melting ice cube, which then showed a twisted reflection of the flag.

Ideas She defined the relationship between her performance arts and visual arts as: 1) No matter how you use your body to achieve expression, it considers the visual perception first; 2) She combined her body with visual effects. Most of her movements were planned in advance with clear steps and procedures.

She emphasized textual information. Hr work started as texts. She responded to others and created works based on her own words. Leung also believed that hybrid curator/artist/critics could expose unique benefits. Leung claimed that scholars who could write about local art history correctly are more important than creative artists.