Help!

Inkjet print, speaker, music, Plexiglas and steel frame, 41 x 52 x 8.5 cm, 2016


Source:

  • A sign reading, “Long live Chairman Mao,” sits atop the Bank of China Building in Central during the May 1967 riots by Henry Mok for the South China Morning Post, September 22, 1967
  • Help! by The Beatles, 1965.
  • Since the conflicts between the protesters and police in Garden Road, Central on May 22, 1967, military speakers were installed on the roof of the Government Information Services Office to play music at high volume including Beatles to strike back the anti-British slogans broadcasted with the loudspeakers from the nearby Bank of China Building.