Ngo Chun Tse
Neither/Nor
Hong Kong | 2023 | Colour | 02’57” |
Cantonese, Chinese and English Subtitles
"Neither/Nor" is an artist’s film that adapts Night on the Galactic Railroad to explore identity, migration, and the temporal uncertainties of transition. Situated within the constructed hyperreality of a virtual network—a borrowed place on borrowed time—the film navigates the liminal states between belonging and displacement, history and present. Through a hauntological reflection on migration and global mobility, Neither/Nor reveals how relational ties to places shape our understanding of presence. The work interrogates the 'in-betweenness' of ethnicities, borders, and hyperreality, offering a poignant meditation on transition and resilience.
Artist Bio
Ngo Chun Tse is an artist based between London and Hong Kong. His practice spans moving image, text, installation, and lecture performance, critically engaging with the historiography of decolonisation, the production of technological and cinematic images, and the hauntology of diasporic experience. He is a resident at Metroland Studios as part of Metroland Culture’s Peer-to-Peer 2024 cohort.
He has presented work at institutions including Videotage (Hong Kong); FLAMIN (UK); g39 (UK); Outpost Gallery (UK); LUX (UK), Metroland Cultures (UK) and Universidade Católica Portuguese (Portugal). He has graduated with MFA Fine Art Media from Slade School of Fine Art and BA (Hons) Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts.