PROGRAMME
PROGRAMME
Cinematic Playground
City life is in evolution, its people strive to adapt to its changes. A city with multiple layers is eventually in shape. Twelve local art creatives respond to this mutating cosmopolitan through real life experiences like installations and soundscape tours, and virtual adventures such as digital fortunetelling and prolonged online live broadcast. A new kind of bonding is constructed in this realm of mixed-reality.
Artist
Chan Ka-chun Joseph
Artwork
Migratory Birds
Artist’s bio
Joseph Chan was trained in mechanical engineering and graduated from the School of Creative Media of the City University of Hong Kong. Travelling across engineering, science and art, he finds an extraordinary world of explorations and imaginations.
Artwork description
Bird migration is a miracle in nature. When daylight shortens and night extends, the originally warm and fertile homeland turns foreign, they would travel ten thousand kilometers to migrate to another place. This work simulates the flying motions of birds on migration. They flip their wings with constant rhythms to cross the oceans.
Exhibition Date: 1-30 Nov
Opening Hour: 12:00-22:00
Extended Programme
A Literature Response to Migratory Birds
New poems will be written by writer Marvin Yu in response to the work. Different lines of the poems will be distributed randomly to visitors at the exhibition venue.
Artist
Cheung Wai-chun Kevin
Artwork
Pedal Power Projector
Artist’s bio
Kevin Cheung graduated from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University majoring in Product Design. He is enthusiastic in developing different upcycling products by turning trash into art pieces and products that are sustainable and durable.
Artwork description
Bicycles used to co-exist with rickshaws on streets of old Hong Kong prior to trams. Ride on this Penny-farthing, the father of modern bicycles, and travel back in time to cruise down the old streets of the city through moving images.
(Special Thanks: Director Fruit Chan)
(Special Thanks: Director Fruit Chan)
Exhibition Date: 1-30 Nov
Opening Hour: 08:30 - 17:00 (Mon - Fri), 09:00 - 18:00 (Sat & Sun)
Artist
Lam Yeuk-hei Alize
Artwork
Mood Piano
Artist’s bio
Alize Lam graduated from the Department of Fashion Design at Nottingham Trent University. By recycling wasted materials, she has created a whole range of simple musical instruments and toys, hoping the public would apply upcycling in their daily life.
Artwork description
Early cinema were all “silent films”. Live music accompaniment was adapted to add extra flavours to the films. Will a different story be told if the same images are accompanied by different genres of music? Mood Piano is an enormous hand crank music box with two channels: the treble part which plays light-hearted melodies, and the bass part that plays haunting tunes.
Exhibition Date: 1-30 Nov
Opening Hour: 08:30 - 17:00 (Mon - Fri), 09:00 - 18:00 (Sat & Sun)
Artist
Vee Leong , Orlean Lai
Artwork
Birds Sing Louder in the City
Artist’s bio
Orlean Lai (Concept) Independent creative producer and curator. She has founded orleanlaiproject to focus on curating hybrid collaborations across arts genre. Vee Leong (Concept, Voice) Text-based and intermedia artist.
Artwork description
In this city of hustle and bustle, not only birds are singing at the top of their lungs.
Birds Sing Louder in the City invites audience to walk, listen, speak and be present here and there, to make harmonic screaming and to take the reverberation for their own. Daily resonances, field recordings, voice performances, and sound creations all come together as a call-out to people on the road.
Birds Sing Louder in the City invites audience to walk, listen, speak and be present here and there, to make harmonic screaming and to take the reverberation for their own. Daily resonances, field recordings, voice performances, and sound creations all come together as a call-out to people on the road.
Developed with: AK Kan, Kampo Tse, Ng Tsz-kwan
Sound Design: AK Kan
Voice Coach: Cherry Lam
Acknowledgement: HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity
Sound Design: AK Kan
Voice Coach: Cherry Lam
Acknowledgement: HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity
Artist
Mak Hei-yan Heiward
Artwork
Let it Ride
Artist’s bio
Hong Kong film director and scriptwriter, her productions are always dominated with multiple narratives and characters to tell the differences and mentalities of youth and adults.
Artwork description
The Heterotopia Express is now launched. Tour guides will take our travellers for a ride along an ordinary route to unveil the extraordinary tales. By mixing genuine statistics with fictive urban legends, passengers will breakthrough from reality and dash straight into the heterotopia of complexity. Absurdity never subsides, so we are always in business.
Heterotopia Tour Guide
Sham Ka-ki - Hong Kong actor who leads in several local films and TV dramas.
Sham Ka-ki - Hong Kong actor who leads in several local films and TV dramas.
Manson Cheung - Hong Kong actor, film composer and singer-songwriter.
Exhibition Date: 5, 12, 22, 26 Nov
Opening Hour: As Registered
Venue: Tai Nan Street, Sham Shui Po
Assembly Point: Book Punch (3/F, Tai Nam Commercial Building, No. 169-171, Tai Nan Street, Sham Shui Po)
*This artwork experience will be conducted in Cantonese only.
Artist
Yip Man-wah Mick
Artwork
St. Peter’s Cupboard
Artist’s bio
People who work with me call me Mick; I create in the name of Yip Man-wah; my childhood friends call me Siu Keung. Graduated from the School of Creative Media of the City University of Hong Kong in 2002. Yip studied applied physics prior to that.
Artwork description
This work is born on a particular date, just as all beings do. Its birth is determined by the power of the astronomical objects which reflects its fate and character. There would only be one full moon each month, usually. In November 2020, on particular dates and in a specific place, look up and two full moons will be seen.
Exhibition Date: 2-4, 27-29 Nov
Opening Hour: 18:00-22:00
Extended Programme
A Sound Journey: The City has Turned Upside Down
Playwright Shek Chun-kit invites audience to bring along their Upside Down Contemporary Camera Obscura to visit Yip Man-wah’s installation St.Peter’s Cupboard, where stories about the city will be told. It is left for the audience to rethink whether it is the city that has turned upside down, or we have always been merely looking at her reflections.
A Sound Journey: The City has Turned Upside Down
Playwright Shek Chun-kit invites audience to bring along their Upside Down Contemporary Camera Obscura to visit Yip Man-wah’s installation St.Peter’s Cupboard, where stories about the city will be told. It is left for the audience to rethink whether it is the city that has turned upside down, or we have always been merely looking at her reflections.
Creative Writing: Shek Chun-kit
Date: 2-4, 27-29 Nov
Time: As Registered
Venue: Near Shop No. 105, 1/F., Nina Mall 2 (8 Yeung Uk Road, Tsuen Wan)
*Activity would be conducted in Cantonese, each session runs for approximately 30 minutes. Suitable for participants aged 12 or above.
*Activity would be conducted in Cantonese, each session runs for approximately 30 minutes. Suitable for participants aged 12 or above.
Artist
Dylan Kwok
Artwork
Tramwaves
Artist’s bio
Dylan Kwok is a designer, a maker and a communicator. He likes to intervene public space in whimsical manner.
Artwork description
Do you know that we could hear the waves when riding on trams in Hong Kong back in the 1920s? Travelling along the northern tracks, you may encounter a fellow passenger, dressed in the attire of an explorer of the last century, viewing the shoreline as if it was nearby.
Exhibition Date: 4, 14, 21, 28 Nov
Opening Hour: Morning & afternoon
Venue: Kennedy Town to Shau Kei Wan, along tram route
Extended Programme
“Docking” Guided Tour
This guided tour will be led by local artist Hanison Lau, who will be the storyteller to take participants to walk along some historical streets in Sai Wan and Sheung Wan and share their relevant historical tales.
“Docking” Guided Tour
This guided tour will be led by local artist Hanison Lau, who will be the storyteller to take participants to walk along some historical streets in Sai Wan and Sheung Wan and share their relevant historical tales.
Date: 14 Nov
Time: 10:30 / 17:30
Venue: Kennedy Town Terminus
Artist
Chilai Howard
Artwork
ONLY3MATTERS
Artist’s bio
Chilai Howard is a Hong Kong mixed-media art worker graduated from the School of Creative Media of the City University of Hong Kong (Critical Intermedia Laboratory) and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Creative Communication), who loves to explore speculative affairs and experience different artistic media.
Artwork description
a data driven generative art print installation,
a live stream,
a digitalisation of traditional Fu Ji (spirit writing),
a blessing without blessing,
a free art print,
a message encrypted into graphic,
a brand new world after years of ideology.
a live stream,
a digitalisation of traditional Fu Ji (spirit writing),
a blessing without blessing,
a free art print,
a message encrypted into graphic,
a brand new world after years of ideology.
Exhibition Date: 1-30 Nov
Opening Hour: All Day
Website: www.only3matters.com
*Digital spirit writing takes place in specific time slot with daily quota. Please refer to website for details.
Artist
Tsui Ka-hei Haze
Artwork
LoopOut Radio
Artist’s bio
Haze Tsui, the elder of The Tsui Brothers, focuses on crossmedia projects. Producer, animation director, author and visual artist. Now working as the producer of Dragon’s Delusion and director of the Milktealogy animation series.
Artwork description
In this twisted city, the only realness may lie within the fantasy behind cameras. LoopOut Radio is an amination YouTube live stream that runs indefinitely to investigate the realness beyond such “live broadcast”. Images are extended from screens to a parallel universe where the ending is recorded like a fable. Temporal and spatial elements like sets and details overlap which give birth to a new narrative.
Artist
Wong Chun-hei Stephen
Artwork
The Car Race on the Bed
Artist’s bio
Stephen Wong graduated from the Department of Art of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2008. His recent works focus on local countryside sketching which depicts the wrestling and coexistence of men and nature.
Artwork description
During the pandemic, domestic objects turn into imaginary landscapes on Instagram. The folds of bedsheet and unfolded duvet give form to the landscape of a virtual car race video game, which with a combination of photography and computer rendering turns the bedroom into a race track.
Extended Programme
“In Search of Micro-space” Photography Workshop
Hong Kong artist Lai Lon-hin will introduce the method of “microobservation” to look at the city and explore the possibilities of photography.
“In Search of Micro-space” Photography Workshop
Hong Kong artist Lai Lon-hin will introduce the method of “microobservation” to look at the city and explore the possibilities of photography.
*Activity runs for about 1.5 hours. Suitable for participants aged 15 or above.
Artist
Tang Hok-lun Cyrus
Artwork
When you are being alone...
Artist’s bio
Cyrus Tang, Hong Kong sound designer for motion picture and video. With his own workshop Noisy Miner, he explores the possibility of sound in an image oriented society.
Artwork description
Being alone can be seen as the time when one’s trapped in a space. What would be the sound that one could hear in such condition? And what would be the images that emerged in mind? A collection of interviews on the sounds and images of “being alone” is gathered, and analysed through a computer programme to transform into graphics, which give birth to a sound and image collage of “being alone” on Instagram.
Extended Programme
“Draw the Sound” Workshop
Led by tutor Alice Wong, kids aged 5 to 10 and their parents will participate in an outdoor and indoor listening experience and the observations will then be transformed into graphic creations. Activity runs for 1 hour.
“Draw the Sound” Workshop
Led by tutor Alice Wong, kids aged 5 to 10 and their parents will participate in an outdoor and indoor listening experience and the observations will then be transformed into graphic creations. Activity runs for 1 hour.
Artist
Ho Wai-kwan Jun
Artwork
LOST / CLUES / ESCAPE
Artist’s bio
Jun Ho graduated from the School of Design of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University majoring in Digital Media Design. Currently works as Creative Executive at Warner Music Hong Kong.
Artwork description
The artist creates three animation works to complete the universe of interactive story FindingEva, where the lost would be found in the end. LOST leads to the opening of the story; CLUES is a showcase of the artist’s imaginative universe; ESCAPE reveals the past of the protagonist towards the end of the journey.