Based in Mexico City since the late 1980s, Belgium-born artist Francis Alÿs is known for his performative projects staged around the world. Among his itinerant interventions into the daily circumstances of life in various communities are his engagements with the paradoxes and cruelties of borders in places such as Tijuana and Jerusalem. For the exhibition “Wet feet __ dry feet: borders and games” at Tai Kwun Contemporary, curators Xue Tan and Sunjung Kim, of Seoul’s Art Sonje Center, focused on Alÿs’s projects in Gibraltar and Cuba, where narrow bodies of water represent cultural and political divisions, as well as his ongoing video series Children’s Games (1999– ). ArtAsiaPacific sat down with the artist, who made a trip to Hong Kong for “Wet feet __ dry feet,” to talk about his exhibition and how children have become enthusiastic partners in his creative endeavors.