Yu Chau Street Temporary Playground

Some playgrounds in this city are more basic than official parks, namely “temporary playgrounds”. with no designated land use or plans to be demolished. Built to be transient and stayed “temporary” for perhaps 50 years, where are the kids who once played hide-and-seek on these grounds, with faces and laughter that might have matured through time?

Growing up on a borrowed land named Hong Kong, children have realised how precious spaces are. Sham Shui Po was once home to grassroot families together with art and cultural groups until it became the hub of gentrification. Yet, if you stick your head out from this shopfront on Yu Chau Street, you can still find ordinary grocery stores and draperies from earlier times, or have a chat with pedestrians and kaifongs waiting at the bus stop outside. This space of happenings is the working studio of curator Kitty Yeung – where the temporality remains. Who knows if the landlord will renew the lease, or will Kitty Yeung be priced out? The state of transitory is the projection of an imagination’s end.

Sham Shui Po changes, so does the studio. Someday the temporary playgrounds will meet their fate. Spaces cannot be possessed, but people may be granted the power to interpret spaces with meanings through creation and curation. Kitty Yeung transforms her studio into a temporary playground, inviting artists to create, play and fill the space with their talent. All we have is now, let’s have fun!

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