Sound Forms 2021 Present_Present: Programme 2: Chaos Hands and Lawrence Lau
Variety show
Description
Description
Our memory of a place becomes obscured as time passes. Sound Forms 2021: Present_Present invites artists to ponder on their intangible recollections of a “place”, and the significance of home, roots, distance and location in their works. Featuring 12+ groups of artists, the fourth edition of the festival will open on October 14-16th, at Hong Kong Arts Centre featuring cross-disciplinary audio-visual performances, and continue at Tai Kwun F Hall on October 26-28th surrounded by multi-channel speakers and light installations.
1. how high are you moons today?
Audiovisual trio by Chaos Hands (Allison Wright, Nicole Patrick and Xuan)
Sometimes it’s nice to lean on “How To” guides to trust we will learn necessary coping skills.
For instance,
How To Know How Tall You Are:
1. Do you look up to people?
2. Can you hear others when they share?
3. Have you noticed the sun today?
Or
How To Know What Kind of Fish You Are:
1. When swimming upstream, what speed do you swim in relation to your other fish friends?
2. Do you move closer or farther from the surface when a wave comes your way?
3. Can you recall where you found food yesterday?
If we had a “How To” guide for this last year, we may have learned how to capture, how to acknowledge, how to process what’s been going on. We sometimes wish that was the case. We’ve come together as Chaos Hands, guide-less, to create a work that exposes our isolation so we can acknowledge where we are.
We invite you to join our sharing of a new concept we are working on: a film driven by a long form poem, written by Nicole Patrick. The film depicts our current separation and isolation. It is accompanied by music that recalls early synthesizer aesthetics of the late 80s and 90s.
2. Elemental Practice #2 – Spectators
Live performance and Live streaming by Lawrence Lau
Elemental Practice #2 – Spectators, which features live performance and live streaming, is an experiment of presenting given situations for different groups of spectators. The performer will perform in a private space with one group of audience. Meanwhile, I will stream the performance, both audio and video, through the internet to another station set up in a public space, on this occasion, Sai Yeung Choi Street in Mong Kok. At the same time, the station’s situation in Mong Kok will also be sent back to the private space, McAulay Studio, forming a loop that allows the spectators in different areas to see each other.
Elemental Practice is a series of works that questions different fundamental components and concepts about music or sound through simple experiments and presentations. In Elemental Practice #2, the spectators from different contexts are the subject of the work, presenting a situation that sensing how various audience groups interpret the same sounds or musical contents.
Info
$100
$100
Indoor
Local,Non-local
