Head up to the third floor of JC Contemporary at Hong Kong’s Tai Kwun arts and heritage centre and the first thing that hits you is a set of stage lights trained directly on the gallery entrance. For a few seconds, visitors are caught in the limelight, like performers walking onto the stage for a production they did not know they had been cast in. It is a fitting prelude to An Intimate Surrender, artist Isaac Chong Wai’s first solo live-art commission in the city he grew up in. The 36-year-old...