[VIDEO ESSAY] Private City
SYNOPSIS, THEME, SETTING & COMPONENTS Ours, but not ours. Following a busker on a performing-space scouting journey, competing for private space on Mong Kok’s pedestrian bridges, “Private City” investigates the city’s public space appropriation, privatization, and contestation, as well as how such micro-manifestations of guerilla urbanism impact circulation and the rhythm of the city. Footbridges – 1,043 pieces of shared urban infrastructure across Hong Kong (Highways Departments, 2022), are frequented by commuters to efficiently traverse through this walkable, multi-layered city (Ho et al., 2022). As De Certeau (1984) argued, possibilities organized by the spatial order are actualized by occupants