Week by Week – Hong Kong I
Week 5
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Typhoon Mangkhut
On September 16, while we patiently waited inside for the black rain and violent winds of typhoon Mangkhut to pass – talking, cooking, painting and unpacking instruments all day – many of Hong Kong’s buildings, roads and trees faced severe destruction. The authorities had issued Hurricane Signal 10 for this strongest of this year’s tropical cyclones. Many of us had never experienced a storm of such force. All photos by Florian Geisseler.
Week by Week – Zurich
Week One In a nutshell Program kick-off: Daniel Späti, Zhao Chuan and Elizabeth de Roza Lecture: Elizabeth de Roza on Embodied Practices and Censorship Workshop: Elizabeth de Roza on Body and Space Lecture and Workshop: Elodie Pong on Secrets Lecture and Workshop: Melanie Grütter on Gender and Body Language Excursion: Benedictine abbey of Einsiedeln Self presentations Day 1 This year’s program started with a vibrant morning full of first encounters and conversations about everyone’s expectations, aims, hopes and passions for the months to come. It allowed for some first glimpses into each other’s worlds – and for calming the nerves. The kick-off lecture was given by core faculty member Elizabeth de Roza. She is an artist-researcher/educator, performance maker, theatre director, a multi-disciplinary performance artist, creative collaborator and theatre academic based in Singapore. In her lecture she shared impressions and insights of her artistic work. She focused on the meaning and potential of embodied practices and talked about the creative dealing with rules, regulations and (self-)censorship. The lecture was followed by a workshop on body and space including a first …
Where Shall We Meet Tonight?
By Claudio Rainolter (Design, Zurich University of the Arts), Jiaming August Liao (Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong), Sijia Star Liu (Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong), Jingying Zhang (New Media Art, Taipei National University of the Arts) Intro n. The family or social unit, occupying a permanent residence. A house or flat, considered as a commercial property. A place where something flourishes, is most typically found, or from which it originates. The district or country where one was born or has settled on a long-term basis. Concept This is an invitation for the audience to think about what is home for themselves. We try to build up an immersive and intimate space for the audiences by sharing four stories picked up from our personally experience but slitted into pieces for one fragmentary narration surrounding in the space, by that the audiences can build up their own version of the storyline. We try to make a home model in-between ideal and reality by faking the real furnitures and installing an interactive scenario. The …
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.