The following thinking started with the consideration of documentation get the stories or the process as a whole in the form of a book or not.

When there is no digital transmission platform, documentation was existed in the form of books for a good reason. Paper form of documentation was either for a physical record of the happening, or for broadcasting and communicating the matters concerned in those processes being documented.  But in the age of digitisation where everyone is involved in all different sort of processes, does tangible documentation still in need?

One thing that I was wondering when thinking about this question is what purpose(s) does the documentation serve. If it is documenting the process for more people to see it — then I can’t see the reason why one would not have chosen social media instead? Or reading through my previous line you probably would argue that publication, online or offline, are materially different in nature (that explains the phenomenon of writers jumping off the ship of Facebook to “”). How different are they really, in terms of materiality? Online platforms with different designs and functions requires a set of  common conditions to operate, and their goal are similar — to attract more users.(Afterall, it was a choice that we opted in to) If online platforms achieve this mission better that a tangible documentation– why do we still need a tangible one?

Second thing that came to m mind. Even Instagram could do the job of a book. An Instagram account named uploaded (no) illustrations that compose as a whole as a documentation of the scene at the Occupying Central. It became timeless once it has been uploaded to Instagram. A ‘Like’ could be given, footprints of accounts refreshes, every minute every day after.

However . And for such reason I am emphasising that as a pragmatist, what I mean is Online Platform could do the job better than a book; apparently books could not be replaced. Yet, isn’t challenging the status-quo by changing the way social media was intended to be an act of art? The attempt to make space within rules are what we need, instead of walking away.

The political movement had accelerate the rather static art scene in Hong Kong, once the gallery and governmental museum was dominant in defining and showing art. After taking over the public spaces (a test run for not only the political utopia, but many other aspect of life), a group of the public are more willing to step up and adventure on alternatives, which were highly discouraged before. Just don’t know where would this movement bring us to in sooner future.