Inspired by the disappearing historical landscape of Nga Tsin Wai Village, East Kowloon, this site-specific performance explores the memory of the salt fields that once surrounded Nga Tsin Wai Village — one of the last remaining walled villages in urban Hong Kong. Over the course of nearly four hours, Alessandro Carboni carried and transported 500 kilograms of sea salt along the banks of the Kai Tak River, using a simple metal bucket as both tool and symbol. Through the repetitive and laborious act of walking, documented by a GPS tracker, the artist transformed the act of movement into a form of mapping — tracing invisible routes across a territory under rapid urban transformation. The work reactivates the physical gestures and endurance once embedded in the daily labor of salt field workers, evoking the material and sensory memory of a vanished landscape and its silent resistance to erasure.

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