‘Utopia’ Exhibition is an interdisciplinary collaboration, exhibiting student artworks from Wearables and Experimental Photography courses of Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University. Under the three different sub-topics of “Eco Ethics”, “Utopics and Micro-Utopia” and “Body Politic”, students explore the material, space, basic visual elements as well as the daily life activities and then use the body and wearables to convey their inner thought. They have put great effort in the idea development, execution till presentation to reflect their concerns in the social and living environment. The avant-garde group of artists challenges the traditional role of the artist/designer operating within the spheres of cultural production. Rather than produce objects for fashion consumption, their images and objects create models for new worlds as prototypes for micro-utopias. This exhibition profiles a new wave of conscientious artists and designers who are willing and able to take responsibility for the material goods and services they produce and the effects these have on our social, political and ecological environment. To further strengthen the influence, the artwork concept was explicated by peculiar photographic styles.
Some of the exhibits are published in “Milk”, a local youth fashion and cultural magazine, for a twelve series from March to May. They were featured in the fashion sessions in hopes of arising deeper thought in the fashion culture by the mass media to the audiences.
