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<\/a><\/p>\nDomestic workers are Hong Kong\u2019s largest minority group and one of the most visible components of the city’s society, and their legal and symbolic status are matters of constant negotiation, reflecting the shifting position of Hong Kong citizenship. The group\u2019s invisibility in the various narratives of what constitutes Hong Kong society is countered by the hyper-visible weekly occupation of Hong Kong\u2019s public spaces for the Sunday picnic gathering of the community. It was the social spaces and cultural structures constituted around this regular gathering that facilitated the beginnings of the project. The stories of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong are crucial narratives that need to be told alongside the city\u2019s growing affluence in the past decades, together with the stories of the struggles of what is considered the \u201clocal\u201d working class, and on the backdrop of the different historical waves of labour migration in Hong Kong and the world. Thus, this event will highlight how several of Hong Kong\u2019s leading contemporary art center, Para\/Site exhibitions address various sociopolitical and cultural realities in Hong Kong and beyond in Asia, and how the specific language of exhibition making contributes to this discussion. Cosmin Costinas will focus on the current project, \u201cAfterwork\u201d which is an autonomous proposition, including the often ambivalent and polychromatic aspects of the social and cultural mosaic of Hong Kong, Philippines, Indonesia, as well as of other Asian contexts.<\/p>\n