Drift City 10 Years, 2000-2010

A decade ago, in an anonymous city, a skyscraper marked for demolition suddenly vanished overnight. Someone said hands and legs had grown out of it, and it had simply taken off to explore the world. Drift City is a story about the city. The main character is an insignificant, soon-to-be-forgotten skyscraper. In fact, the skyscraper itself has forgotten when it was created and the faces of the people who once thronged its rooms and corridors. But somehow, in the fog of lost memory, there remains a vague sense of mission. Thus it drifts in space, between reality and utopia, endlessly searching for an ideal city. On this premise, visual artist Kacey Wong has been wearing his skyscraper suit and travelling the world for the past decade in an effort to explore the architectural monuments of our civilisation. The Drift City photo series and exhibition is the result - as is this fascinating accompanying book.