Fenwick Pier was once a historic landing point in Wanchai, Hong Kong—a meeting place where sailors from around the world first encountered the city, and where the complexities of Hong Kong’s colonial past and its shifting sovereignty under mainland China quietly unfolded after 1997. When the government decided to demolish the building in 2022, cultural worker Tong Yang, with technical support from MetalinkArt, began reimagining it as a digital platform, preserving memory while marking a passage from physical heritage to new cultural infrastructures in a new era where the digital realm joins the physical.

As part of this transformation, Fenwick Pier experiments with decentralised tools and frameworks, including early explorations into cultural participation–based RWA models that rethink value, presence, and collective authorship. The platform envisions distributed archives, shared knowledge bases, and experimental modes of exchange and support.

分域碼頭 (Fan1wik6 Maa5tau4), a name in use since the 1960s, transliterates the English into Cantonese while carrying a symbolic resonance beyond its colonial past. 「分域(Fan1wik6)“」means divided realms,「碼頭(Maa5tau4)」is Pier, together carrying a symbolic meaning of “a pier connecting divisions”. It recalls the site’s historic role while embodying its current function as a transdisciplinary platform linking creators, thinkers, and spaces across geographical and conceptual boundaries. It invites the curious to cross disciplines: artists who write, researchers who create, scientists who seek the spiritual connotation—those ready to step beyond the comfort of familiar traditions. Here, you are welcome to share your reflections as text or as possible collaborative projects.

Rooted in Hong Kong yet resonating globally, Fenwick Pier 分域碼頭 supports experimental practices, critical discourse, and collaborative work that reflect on cultural legacy while imagining new ways of working together through residencies, workshops, partnerships, and cultural exchange.