一個支援藝術科技創作的實驗計劃

「表演藝術 X 科技」試作計劃不以產出完整表演製作為目標，而是以人為本，重視意念、理念、實驗、反思、論述與實踐並行，為創作人提供資源及一個月的研習空間（進駐牛棚藝術村），發酵新的想法，確立自己的創意製作方向，從而對藝術理念有所更新與變化，以完成階段性的進程，培養藝術跨域以及全面的思維視野，為未來完整的創作鋪路。是次徵集由2021年10月開始徵集計劃，並於最後收到的三十多份申請書中，挑選兩個獲選者，並提供港幣9萬元資助，及一個月牛棚空間作實驗，最後於該地方作實驗展演。然而為配合政府在最新《預防及控制疾病條例》下之規例，原訂於2022年1月22-23日假牛棚藝術村的「表演藝術 X 科技提案徵集」試作計劃展被迫取消，並因各種因素，最後改為線上播放演出。

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兩隊獲選者為概念來自契訶夫經典劇作《海鷗》，再結合感官與科技進行展演的「康斯坦丁的影像散文」團隊；以及運用音樂、視覺藝術與影像設計交織作為創作主軸的「假日貞操」團隊。

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Would the hope come in the future when the arts meet the technology? We look forward to the prospect of exploring the potential collaboration between technology and arts companies in Hong Kong, whereas those possibilities have been created in the other places in the world. We would like to ask for the Potential possibilities in future collaborations, and the challenging issues in the present moment.

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EP1 Yuen Hon Wai - Fabrics x Scenography

EP2 Adrian Yeung - Interactive Media Arts

EP3 Yan Pat to - Robot Era

EP4 Otto Li & Kong Kee - Animation and Illusion

The seaside. By the forest. Evening breeze. Music. Tango. Five men and women from different parts of the city, each with different personalities and perspectives, have come together this evening to enjoy the “Milonga”, the dance party culture of the Argentine Tango.

The Argentine Tango is a charismatic dance that attracts the eyes of the world. The milonga - a combination of Tango dancing, drinking and chit-chat - is a social and cultural activity widely popular in South America. People dress up according to the ambience of the party, and on their feet are shoes suitable for tango. They socialise, drink, saunter, toast each other, and chat, and when in the mood, with just a tacit eye contact, they are ready to take to the dance floor. Here, no social rules are set, everything is impromptu. It is an everyday social activity among friends to enjoy beautiful moments of their leisure time together.

Audience members can choose from one of the dancers going to a milonga as the subject to follow throughout the entire journey. It is a narrative of an ordinary day and there are no gripping or dramatic turns. The fun is in the details of the happenings in the milonga and beyond. Throughout the video, there is no dialogue, only Tango music, and like Tango, the story only begins the moment the dancers encounter.

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With one’s feet in the Hong Kong soil, dance is the method of which the research works one through the relationship of the self and the world. Through publications, curatorship, discussions, and other means, We promote diversified conversations between Hong Kong’s and the world’s dance.

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Supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, the Overview is an annual, bilingual collection of research-based essays that discuss significant issues and incidents of the Hong Kong dance.

Meniscus was premiered on 1 Nov 2019 in London, a multimedia ensemble work drawing from the trauma of witnessing unfortunate happenings through the screens. Now, as the artists performed at “Meniscus” are dispersed around the world and live group shows are not possible, we are presenting you an online interactive game version of Meniscus. 

At Meniscus Going Online,  we invite you to experience moments of the works by choosing your own journey as you click on different choices and view different footages, token at different corners of the world. In the game, You could be watching them performing dance on a Scandinavian snowy field and then be listening to them telling you a story on the street of the East Asian city. Through this, we experiment with what is liveness on screen and how to present a work about screen trauma through the screens.

Let's choose the journey(s). 

17, 18 July 2020 (Fri, Sat)

1 pm, 8 pm BST

''Those people, that crowd of people, moving to different directions, are like cells. They, like us, if only living in a giant body, then the pain I am used to is only temporary, not worth mentioning. I feel this after having been to a bookstore in Tsim Sha Tsui. At that moment, I just stared at the crowd who was looking at the Christmas decorations." One day, she suddenly said to me. Before that, she stared at me for ten seconds. I am just wondering what kind of spirit is living in this girl's body?

After his completion of three epic works: 'A concise history of future China', Yan Pat-to returns to explore the most intimate and yet painful part of himself. One's memory is inseparable to the city. We can't tell our story without city.

The pendulum of life swings both ways, relentlessly and callously and the only certainty is its evanescence. A bonesetter treats patients from all walks afflicted with bone ailments and returns home at night to a hoarding attic and an unresponsive partner. His orderly world is thrown into disarray one day by a bizarre vision of the skeletal variety. A health freak receives a sudden call in his exquisitely furnished harbour-view bachelor's pad that will send his life into turmoil. Inside a swanky apartment on the peak, a woman savours the slow passing of solitary time at the breakfast table, nursing a fateful idea between contemplative bites. Depicted apart though it could as well be superimposed or intertwined, these characters delve into a multiplicity of experiences, whether lived or imagined, in which every element perpetuates the cyclical motion of being.