Colour Ideology Sampling.mov

Colour plays a powerful symbolic role in political expression. Through conversations on political hues — from ‘Hong Kong yellow’ to ‘Taiwan blue’ — the film examines whether such colours can coexist, and how they differ across contexts. By analysing individual colour samples, it reveals the complexity and plurality behind political symbolism.

Chan Cheuk-sze & Kathy Wong: ‘An art student and a social science student engage in dialogue, questioning, and ultimately an embrace while sifting through video materials. The film features three cameras: one belonging to Kathy, another to Karen, and a third — a scanner freely available in the library.As graduate students from the fields of political science and art, we attempt to use the tools most familiar to us to initiate a dialogue on the political spectrum and the perception of colour. When “the colour we see”, “the colour people claim”, and “the colour we understand” become misaligned, we momentarily set aside the stereotypes shaped within Hong Kong’s echo chambers. Through our experience of living in Taiwan, our imagination is loosened and reconfigured, allowing us to step into the seldom-discussed grey areas of political spectra in Hong Kong and Taiwan.Perhaps we, too, are samples the audience can capture.’