What can artists do to strengthen the social fabrics of communities? For Hong Kong-based Luke Ching, theorizing and observing are not enough. Since 2013, Ching has served stints as a security guard, cleaner, and wet-market hawker in order to physically experience and understand the roles of these workers in society. In parallel, he initiated campaigns for the rights of service employees to sit during their shifts, and the labor-rights group 放工後打工仔撐未放工打工仔 (Off-duty Workers Supporting On-duty Workers). In this interview with ArtAsiaPacific, Ching discusses what sparked his interest in the public domain, non-hierarchical approaches to solving labor issues, and how to build empathy.