Making room for space

You can find a place of rest even amid a hectic life. You can find a niche to survive in even in a packed space.' These words by artist Kam Chi-keung, ironically, do not ring true for Oil Street art groups. The idea of a resting place has obsessed Kam for some time, and has given him a theme for his Jam Packed With Space project, part of this month's Oil Street Festival.

Ironically, before the festival is over the various art groups inhabiting the dilapidated, airy maze of an old government storage depot will have been in yet another meeting with government planners, looking at whether they should be allowed to continue in a highly accessible, brilliantly situated impromptu arts space in North Point.

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