25 – 26 November 2016
Transcultural and Cross-disciplinary Art Performances and Installations
“EXQUISITE CORPSE” playfully and unpredictably combining, displacing and replacing limbs, while forming creatures and languages of coincidence and encounter.
In the 2nd edition of this unique international graduate semester program, 27 artists and designers from six different art universities from Europe and East Asia spent one semester of intense transcultural and cross-disciplinary collaboration including all art and design disciplines. On 25 and 26 November seven groups will show their explorations and experiments in a variety of different formats and topics.
All events are free of charge and open to public.
25 November 2016 (Friday), 7:30pm
Venue: Connecting Space Hong Kong (Directions)
Oolong 烏龍
Sound making teabag
Tea infusing network
Networking frame work
Net playing puppets
Interactive Installation by:
Li Wanqi, Cinematic Art & New Media, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong;
Ho Yee Man, Studio Art, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University;
Tseng Hsin Pei, Graduate Institute of Trans-Disciplinary Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts;
Leung Hei Man, Studio Art, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University;
Yannik Sandhofer, MA Composition and Theory/Pop, Zurich University of the Arts;
Leo Collin, MA Contemporary Composition, Zurich University of the Arts;
The Bubble
A portable cube blocking out sound and light, a mobile shelter. What are the effects of this passing sensory deprivation in different locations? Exploring the exit to learn more about the ambiguity of the power to silence.
Installation by:
Giulia Cudini, MA Music Performance, Zurich University of the Arts;
Cheng Chi Chi, MA Studio Art, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University;
Daniel Eaton, MA Transdisciplinary Studies, Zurich University of the Arts;
Leung Hiu Yin, MA Craft & Design, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University;
26 November 2016 (Saturday), 7:30pm
Venue: Academy of Visual Arts (Kai Tak Campus), Hong Kong Baptist University (Directions)
After Condensation
If you walk through the streets of Hong Kong and you feel some water drops falling on your head, it is probably not raining.
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 to leave its traces through traditional acts.
Exhibition by:
Evan Ruetsch, MA Fine Arts, Zurich University of the Arts;
Huang Liangpeng, MA Total Art/Intermedia Art, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou;
Insulted Lemon Jam
The modulations and control of a process, a system by its results or effects.
Trying hard to prove our existence.
Celebrating the disappearance of an imagined existence.
Grasping something that could just fade out after 4 seconds or everything that slowly vanishes.
Sound Performance by:
Zhang Xiaofei, Film Directing, Hong Academy for Performing Arts;
Choi Tsui Yin, MFA, Sound Art, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong;
Zhang Kai Yu, MA Music Performance, Zurich University of the Arts;
Jan Vorisek, MA Fine Arts, Zurich University of the Arts;
It Will Become Someone Else’s Secret
Once again, it’s the future that’s being sacrificed. The medium – our body, its extensions, what does it matter? – is in a sinking movement, bringing the center of gravity closer to the ground. Waves of seething code will be washed away. The future fills you in with a question. Identity explodes in multiple morphings no longer governed by your laws, infiltrating the system at root. Resistance is futile, artificially involving us. It’s feeding back all the time.
Multi-media Performance by:
Jesica Bastidas Cruz, MA Physical Theatre, Accademia Teatro Dimitri, Verscio/Switzerland;
Jiecong Men, MA Curating/School of Intermedia Art, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou;
Park Jiyun, MA Cinematic Art & New Media, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong;
Angelo Brem, MA Fine Arts, Zurich University of the Arts;
Dennis Ginsig, MA Transdisciplinary Studies, Zurich University of the Arts;
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:
Yuan Yuan, MA Media Art/School of Intermedia Art, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou;
Li Hao, MA Media Art, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong;
0.142921%
At the bottom of garbage pyramid are cleaning staff who represent 0.14291% of the Hong Kong population. These people are hired by private companies which are contracted by the government. Every two years most of the staff contracts come to an end.
Some were once rich and in the middle of society. They lost everything, and became outsiders. They are the wasted in the waste society.
During the research, interviews in different garbage collecting centres were conducted. Hence the result will be a documentary performance modelled on the Greek myth of Prometheus.
Documentary Performance by:
Yang Liu, MA Dance/Choreography, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts;
Kuo Ying Hsiu, Graduate Institute of Trans-Disciplinary Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts;
Mbene Mwalimbunga, MA Theatre/Performance, Bern University of the Arts/Switzerland;
Andreas Mayer, MA Theatre/Scenography, Zurich University of the Arts;
Dinner Buffet from 6:00pm – 7:30pm (open to public)
Afterparty with DJ neoliebe & DJ senseless
About Transcultural Collaboration 2016
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”. For more information on “Transcultural Collaboration” please visit:
http://connectingspaces.ch/projects/education/tc2016/
http://www.transculturalcollaboration.com
Partner Universities
Zurich University of the Arts; School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong; School of Intermedia Art, China Academy of Art Hangzhou; Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University; Taipei National University of the Arts; Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
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