Ho Siu Kee

Ho's works focused on the bodily experience, using his own body to heighten his senses and spatial awareness, employing different media including sculpture, installation, photography and video.[5] His visual presentation materializes and projects the innate personal experience as means of artistic expression which is expected to make up the communication between the 'Self' and the 'Other'.[4]

Walking on Two Balls (1995) was a way to feel the precarious balance of the first steps, or better, and to make the viewers aware of the complexity of what looks like the very simple act of walking. The Third Eye (1996), is an ingenious device to dismount the mechanism of vision, turning obvious the hidden, unconscious process that results in the act of seeing. With Flying Machine (1995-1996), and the Sisyphus Chair (1998), the myths of Greece are revisited by Ho to show how absurd are man's attempts to go beyond the physical limits of his body. A series of works, Gravity Hoop (1997), and An Evolutionary Body (2000), illustrate in a very original way the scientific theories that explain the human body as a machine, constrained by the laws of the Universe.[6] Sit/Stand/Lie depicts the simple and basic postures of sitting, standing and lying down. Ho claimed it was his favourite artwork, as he sees it as the critical turning point of his creative development. Quoted from the interview, Hong Kong artist Kurt Chan Yuk-keung said, "I fully understand what you mean because I can see some development in its simplicity. It is like getting some taste from drinking some pure water."[7]

Apart from his artistic practice, Ho is also an art educator. He worked in the School of Design at Hong Kong Polytechnic University from 1997 to 2000. In 2000, he joined the Hong Kong Arts Centre to help the establishment of its art education division namely Hong Kong Art School. Before teaching at Hong Kong Baptist University, Dr. Ho was the Academic Head of Hong Kong Art School.[4]