This video clip gives a short insight into our two days’ event “Exquisite Corpse”, which served as the final presentation format of “Transcultural Collaboration 2016”. What you see are impressions of the work of seven different groups, which presented their collaborative experiments in this setting. The event took place on 25/26 November 2016 at Connecting Space Hong Kong and Kai Tak Campus of the Academy of Visual Arts. If you would like to know more about the specific arts works and their content, please refer to the section “Group Works” on this website.

  During three months in Hong Kong, I lived in Yau Ma Tei, which near by the Temple street night market. Every day I walked by, I found out people throw trash directly on the street, and leave huge trash to cleaners. So we decided to observe the night markets for 24 hours. As a result, people came and leave, in this big consumer city, easily buying and leave all trash behind, they only expect others to result the problem. We also do action in the night market to aware this city garbage problem, the action call: “Nothing should be abandoned.” In these research, we interviewed the cleaners, to know more about what do they think about their lives and jobs. And put these interviews into our final performance. We found out the landfill in Hong Kong is also a big issue, so we went visiting and having a interview with landfill office employee. These experiences let me to rethinking our own living place situation, and what is the difference from Hong Kong. It is hard …

At the beginning the space itself, accessories, costumes and TV monitors are assumed to be installed, and give a hint to the main performance which will be followed. Just as temples and churches do, visitors are free to visit and feel the atmosphere of the space when the ceremony is not held yet.

The floor filled with water creates second images by reflecting the videos projected on the wall. Also, the tv screens which are connected to the camera mounted on the costume, displaying the visitor’s appearance and revealing the symbol of reflection.

Cooking Phallocentrism with Kay, Wendy, Giulia, and Jade Directed, Cinematographed and Edited by Jade Park Haejun Presented for Womb club, HAO GAO YEAH 2.0 Park Haejun, Jade B.A Korea National University of Arts, School of Film, TV&Multimedia, M.F.A City University of Hong Kong, School of Creative Media (2015~)

“EXQUISITE CORPSE” playfully and unpredictably combining, displacing and replacing limbs, while forming creatures and languages of coincidence and encounter. Transcultural and Cross-disciplinary Art Performances and Installations by “The Bubble” and “Oolong 烏龍”

These events present the experiments and explorations of the annually international graduate semester program “Transcultural Collaboration” a cooperation of art universities from Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan and Europe. Its general focus is on transcultural topics and its main working method is cross-disciplinary collaboration including all art and design disciplines. The program is mainly taking place in Hong Kong and includes stays in Zurich and Taipei. It’s part of the networking platform “Connecting Spaces Hong Kong – Zurich”.

Exquisite Corpse Transcultural and Cross-disciplinary Art Performances and Installations 26 November, Kai Tak Campus, 7.30pm Academy of Visual Arts, Baptist University, 51 Kwun Tong Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong These events present the experiments and explorations of the annually international graduate semester program “Transcultural Collaboration” a cooperation of art universities from Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan and Europe. Its general focus is on transcultural topics and its main working method is cross-disciplinary collaboration including all art and design disciplines. The program is mainly taking place in Hong Kong and includes stays in Zurich and Taipei. It’s part of the networking platform “Connecting Spaces Hong Kong – Zurich”.   Boundary There is a vast man-made cyberspace floating above our heads. The boundary of the “virtual” world and the “real” one keeps expanding, from screens to our senses. We enhance perceptions of light and sound in this boundary where new cultures and aesthetics are emerging, regardless of limitations on the land. Audio-visual Installation by Yuan Yuan, MA Media Art/School of Intermedia Art, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou Li …

After having formed a groupf, there were a diverse of issues that could have been dealt with in the project. The four of the students: Going Chow Kuo, Andreas, Lukas Mayer, Yang Liu and Mbene Mwambene settled on to tackle garbage. Not only was this enough but a form had to be decided too. The presentation would be documentary performance. We would show raw data, calculated data, images, videos, installation and most importantly theatre dance performance.
Hong Kong is populated by 7.2 Million people making it one of the densely poluted places on earth. The consumer power is astronomically highly hence a clear problematic waste problem. Needless to say, space is a challenge but where would the waste finally rest? …

If you walk through the streets of Hong Kong and you feel some water drops falling on your head, then it is probably not raining.
Videos – Pictures – Performance – Installation by Huang Liangpeng and Evan Ruetsch.
We encounter air conditioning water every day, when the condensation falls on our heads, we are nothing but helpless, for a moment you feel this unpleasant wet feeling. Nevertheless, the water drops will dry out.
We allow the falling condensation water to leave its traces through Traditional acts.

Being the result of a very harmonious group of four, the cube was soon completed. A minimalistic white box with carrying handles, resembling a litter for transporting royalty, stood there ready to be used. The interior was coated with a sound-absorbing material, covered in black velvet. Roughly one cubic meter of black and white silence. …

There is a vast man-made cyberspace floating above our heads. The boundary of the “virtual” world and the “real” one keeps expanding, from screens to our senses. We enhance perceptions of light and sound in this boundary where new cultures and aesthetics are emerging, regardless of limitations on the land.

Insulted Lemon Jam Playlist
Salted lemon drink (54:92)
Sham Shui Po (1:29:56)
First jam, (16:30) – approx
Second jam (21:19) – approx
Presentation 1 (32:23)
Feedback (17:35)
Presentation 2 (25:44) – approx
Feedback 2 (32:51)
Mentoring (33:17)
Final (25:44) – approx

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