Chungking Express Market: a pop-up in the famous Hong Kong complex, inspired by Wong Kar-wai’s film, that is a blend of art, culture and music
- Chungking Express Market, a two-day pop-up event in the Hong Kong estate celebrated in Wong Kar- wai’s 1994 film, will offer a mix of art, culture and music
- More than 30 stalls will be selling fashion, jewellery, artworks and photos, while ‘open-deck’ sessions will let budding DJs play their own music
Two Hong Kong creatives have joined forces to present Chungking Express Market, a tribute to Wong Kar-wai’s 1994 movie, at the new Heath space in the basement of Chungking Mansions, in Tsim Sha Tsui, where it was filmed.
The pop-up event, which runs from May 13 to 14, will feature more than 30 vendors, who will be celebrating the diversity of Hong Kong’s creative communities, ranging from photographers, illustrators and tattoo artists to jewellery and fashion designers and independent streetwear brands.
Budding DJs are invited to bring their own USB sticks and try their hand at the open-deck sessions.
This is the first time the co-hosts, Nicole Law Ching and Nathan Cornish, have organised a market together. While Law has participated in such events before as a vendor, Cornish has experience running The Bay Market, at Kennedy Town’s Belcher Bay.
Posing as characters inspired by Wong’s 1994 film Chungking Express, which tells the stories of lonely Hongkongers, Law and Cornish’s promotional photo rouses a feeling of nostalgia while adding their own personal touch.
“I reached out to Nathan for various reasons,” Law says. “He has done markets before, and can supplement the music element with his Y2K collective; but most importantly, I’d never seen a successful market perfectly blending Kowloon and Hong Kong Island, local and expat crowds together.”
