Hong Kong's Para Site is preparing to leave the Quarry Bay space it has occupied for the past decade. To mark the organisation's 30th anniversary, the nonprofit will run a nomadic programme across the city next year, testing new forms of collaboration before deciding what kind of permanent home it wants. Para Site was founded in 1996 by Hong Kong-based artists Patrick Lee, Leung Chi-wo, Phoebe Man Ching-ying, Sara Wong Chi-hang, Leung Mee-ping, Tsang Tak-ping and Lisa Cheung. It began in Sheung Wan and relocated to Quarry Bay in 2015, building a reputation as a platform for interdisciplinary discourse on contemporary art. Its recent Elsewhere in Me programme staged four newly commissioned performances in venues across the city, a hint of the dispersed model to come. Upcoming exhibitions under the transitional period will include work by Hong Kong's Yim Sui Fong and Sydney-based Justin Talplacido Shoulder, who performs as Phasmahammer. Venues for the nomadic year have not yet been announced. Executive director James Taylor Foster told the South China Morning Post that for one year the organisation would test and experiment, nurturing different collaborations and reciprocal relationships, getting closer to the streets and the ground. The experiment, he said, would inform the kind of space Para Site ultimately settles into — a rare case of an institution deliberately unhousing itself to rethink its purpose. The move comes as Hong Kong's art ecology faces wider pressures, from rising rents to the fallout of gallery closures. Para Site's nomadic turn suggests an alternative model: instead of competing for ever-scarcer fixed space, the institution will treat the city itself as its venue, building audiences in neighbourhoods it might never have reached from Quarry Bay.