Luke Ching with Security Guards: Empathy Inspires Unlimited Possibilities for Labour Rights
2017-03-13
Luke Ching started to work with the security guards with his campaign “please give security guards chairs”. As an artist, he met and causally chatted with security guards at the Arts Museum everyday and became aware that a chair, for many security guards, gives them a sense of dignity. “Once I am grasped by this feeling, I can’t get rid of it”, he described. He then realized that not only security guards at the Arts Museum, but also in government buildings, cashiers in shops and many others, work without chairs. For Ching, art is to inspire feelings of others and his campaign, is indeed a form of art.