Video protest planned against Hong Kong’s chief executive election
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A local group of artists has asked Hongkongers to film and broadcast whatever they get up to on election day, however mundane, to protest what they call an undemocratic chief executive poll.
One of the artists said the videos were meant to highlight just how few people in the city will be busy voting that day.
Artist collective Add Oil Team asked people to use Facebook Live to broadcast themselves on the Sunday morning, with the hashtag #1194only. The group will then make a real-time montage from the clips.
Sampson Wong Yu-hin, one of the six artists working on the project, said the videos “could feature people eating breakfast or watching television shows.”
“Basically, we want to show the real Hong Kong; what the large majority of Hongkongers are doing instead of going to vote, because they could not,” he added, “hence reminding the rest of the world that 99.97 per cent of our population is not enfranchised to choose its leader.”