Since 2019, River Lin’s My Body is… series has staged takeovers at museums, a library, anda university through live encounters. Across geographies, diverse groups of individualshave disrupted and embodied these institutions through their queer identities, personalhistories, knowledge, and lived experiences. The occupied spaces came alive – breathing,dancing, conversing, advocating – opening up multiple interpretations and perspectives.Carrying this spirit of activation, My Body is a Para Site is a series of nomadic interventionsthat drifts and dislocates Para Site throughout its home city of Hong Kong. Para Sitebecomes present wherever the artist stands, wherever we gather, and wherever newrelationships form.

Mapped across the city over the course of a week, My Body is a Para Site places familiar actsin unexpected settings. Behind the glass facade of a shopfront, the artist invites visitors tospend time with him individually, crossing the boundary between public and privateencounters. Along popular routes, Lin traverses the city carrying an assortment of ordinaryobjects, hosting group runs that blend movement with a playful contemplation on thebaggage we carry. At the communal spaces of a hotel, the artist rests and weighs himself,exposing private rituals of the body to fellow travellers and guests. As the week buildstowards its finale, the artist leads audiences back to the building where Para Site currentlyresides, enacting a sequence of housekeeping routines to conclude this week-long mobilediary.

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