ECOLOGIES. Matters of Coexistence.
Transcultural and Cross-disciplinary Art Performances and Installations
24 – 25 November 2017, Hong Kong
29 young artists and designers from Europa and (South-)East Asia will present their explorations and experiments on the far-reaching topic of “Ecologies – Matters of Coexistence” at Connecting Space in North Point on the 24th November and in the lush surroundings of the Academy of Visual Arts’ Kai Tak Campus on the 25th.
PROGRAM 24 NOVEMBER
Date: 24th November 2017 (Friday)
Time: 7:30 pm
Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong, G/F, 18-20 Fort Street, North Point, Hong Kong
Performances & Installations (short descriptions further below):
– J_O_D_S_C
– Lab9 V1.2
– Dull Boy Jack
This event is free of charge and open to public.
PROGRAM 25 NOVEMBER
Date: 25th November 2017 (Saturday)
Time: 5:30pm open doors; 6:00pm start performances
Venue: Academy of Visual Arts (Kai Tak Campus), Hong Kong Baptist University, 51 Kwun Tong Road, Kowloon, HK (MTR exit A2)
05:30pm doors open
06:00pm start performances
07:00pm dinner buffet
08.00pm performances/exhibition
10:00pm party with MADAO, DJ Lifestyle, Max Wild and Mathis Neuhaus
Performances & Installations (short descriptions further below):
– RethINK
– Kowloon Park – You Are What You Eat. 九龍公園-人如其食
– Into the Voice
– The Museum of Loneliness
– Leisure Time Center, 2047
– All events are free of charge and open to public.
Performances & Installations:
J_O_D_S_C
Kana Nishio and Boram Lee are on a journey of developing self-cognification. Hailing from Tokyo and South Korea respectively, the two artists experienced changes of self-identity in reacting to the new environment of Hong Kong.
Installation by
Kana Nishio, Tokyo University of the Arts
Boram Lee, Taipei National University of the Arts
Lab9 V1.2
LAB9 V1.2 reflects upon the balance of forces and the interrelation between ecologies. This interactive installation invites the audience to step in and become part of a system.
Interactive Installation by:
Jaime Francisco Belmonte Caparrós, University of the Arts Helsinki
Nadja Müller, Zurich University of the Arts
Chen Wenjia, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong
Huier Zhao, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong
Dull Boy Jack
Through a personal approach driven by emotions, the work reflects the complexity of the individual in the system of society. It deals with the impossibility of total inclusion in the face of the need for structure and the necessity to coexist.
Multimedia performance by:
Chanelle Eidenbenz, Zurich University of the Arts
Patrycja Pakiela, Zurich University of the Arts
Qiuming He, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
Xuanyang Huang, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong
RethINK
The performance piece combines the disciplines of Classical guitar, dance and painting. Blending them into each other, it creates new relationships between and alternative emphases on these usually clearly defined subjects.
Performance by:
Samuel Toro Perez, Zurich University of the Arts
Tina Wong, Academy of Visual Arts, Baptist University of Hong Kong
Fan Yun Yang, Tapei National University of the Arts
Kowloon Park – You Are What You Eat
九龍公園–人如其食
Based on the topic of ecologies, the installation focuses on Kowloon Park as a social place and ecosystem defined by certain and distinctive parameters, a place that is coined by the dialectic of freedom and control.
Installation by:
Yimeng Wang, China Academy of the Arts Hangzhou
Maria Chan, Academy of Visual Arts, Baptist University of Hong Kong
Shijing Zong, Shanghai Theatre Academy
Ruilu Shao, China Academy of the Arts Hangzhou
Into the Voice
This site-specific sound installation explores how power and regulations operate in and through particular places, bodies, and social contexts. By looking at different situations and spaces the artists employ a variety of tactics, including soft, interpersonal tactics that rely on social pressure, and hard tactics that employ coercion and force.
Sound installation by:
Marleen Fitterer, Zurich University of the Arts
Alicia Olmos Ochoa, Zurich University of the Arts
Maximlian Hanisch, Bern University of the Arts
Stephanie Lee, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
The Museum of Loneliness
This exhibition expresses the different perspectives on loneliness, a feeling, which could be accepted or rejected, that one could feel forced into or could choose. While it is often evoked in solitude, it can also arise even when someone is amongst others.
Exhibition by:
Henry Lee, LASALLE University of the Arts Singapore
Liana Yang, LASALLE University of the Arts Singapore
Jin Wang, China Academy of the Arts, Hangzhou
Suet-Chi Chong, Academy of Visual Arts, Baptist University of Hong Kong
Leisure Time Center, 2047
This installation raises questions on the future of work and the role that humans are going to play in an automated society. What will happen to us, if everybody has more time at free disposal?
Mixed media installation by:
Ozan Polat, Zurich University of the Arts
Ramona Sprenger, Zurich University of the Arts
Max Wild, Zurich University of the Arts
Riwen Zhang, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong
TRANSCULTURAL COLLABORATION
The works presented are the result of this years’ international graduate semester program “Transcultural Collaboration”, a cooperation of art universities from Hong Kong, Mainland China, Singapore, Taiwan and Europe that brings together an extensive range of disciplines and invites them to collectively think about transcultural topics. Its main working method is cross-disciplinary collaboration, including all art and design disciplines from music, to visual arts, to dance, to interaction design and everything in between. The program is mainly taking place in Hong Kong and includes stays in Zurich and Singapore.
Cooperating Universities:
Academy of Visual Arts; Hong Kong Baptist University
Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong
School of Intermedia Art, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou
Taipei National University of the Arts
Zurich University of the Arts
For more information, please visit
www.transculturalcollaboration.com
www.connectingspaces.hk