Two Dumb Chefs and The Naughty Mouse King

Two Dumb Chefs. One is dumb, the other is more. Two of them work together in a kitchen to prepare yummy festival sweets. Everything is not that easy as they imagine. Nevertheless, the naughty Mouse king pass by, and ……

Naughty Mouse King leads you to the world of creativity. Stimulate by the upcycling materials, input your imagination.

Make the unseen to be seen. With the simple touch from hands, making the upcycling puppet alive.

Rock as Companion and Ally: The Whispering Tale Beside The Wall
Site-Specific Immersive Theatre The Inner Études

Hundreds of million years ago somewhere in the Northern hemisphere, the earth shook violently. Ashes and smoke billowed and shot through the sky while lava snaked through the lands. When all is calm, a piece of land hard as granite came into existence. A metropolis is miraculously built upon this steep terrain—Hong Kong. These granites, dotted with black dots, continue to be a symbol of strength and endurance used in roads and buildings all over this city while silently guarding people in their daily lives.

Presented by the creative team behind the highlight programme Property Guide at Lou Kau Mansion in the 2021 Macao Arts Festival, The Inner Études is a rock-themed immersive theatre inspired by the Victoria Prison and the geological history of Hong Kong rocks. Wearing headsets, the audience ventures into the century-old prison built with granite and connects with the emotions and experiences of those imprisoned a century ago by being immersed in a collage of projections, lighting, soundscape and performance.

To commemorate the opening of M+, Hong Kong’s new museum of visual culture, Hong Kong Ballet showcases Five Tiny Dances.

Five Tiny Dances will animate the newly-opened public spaces throughout M+ and enchant audiences of all ages through dynamic movement and rhythm. Highlights include excerpts from Hong Kong Ballet Choreographer-in-Residence Hu Song Wei Ricky’s The Lost Season, a highly physical meditation on our relationship with Earth and our responsibilities towards the environment. Accompanied by Max Richter’s iconic reimagining of Vivaldi’s epic The Four Seasons, The Lost Season is a thought-provoking and ultimately uplifting experience that inspires audiences to be better stewards of the natural world. The other four pieces, choreographed by Jessica Burrows, Feng Jingyi, Li Lin, and Lin Chang-yuan Kyle, encompass timely environmental and climate change topics, which inspire us to take steps towards a better future.

Sign Language Interpretation will not available for this non-dialogue-based event.

Art After Hours—Inside: Outside brings together three artists who transform the external everyday imaginary into installations, videos, and sound performances which crisscross the indoor and outdoor spaces of Tai Kwun. In presenting emotional worlds in suspension between memory and reality, the artists explore a unique inner realm.

With a setup at JC Cube, Chan Tsz Man Iv unveils a family’s little-known life in Tai Kwun through the reshaped memories of her mother, with the past and future interwoven in the space. The story of a mother’s childhood is recounted, along with spatial dialogues outlined with her daughter. Members of the audience are welcome to experience the stage installation.

Charles Kwong’s Requiem, with texts by the writer and storyteller Yuen Che Hung, features performances by local musicians, transforming Tai Kwun into the intermediary space between past and future. This musical journey ventures into inner worlds as manifested through funeral ceremonies— rituals in the face of death. The work will be shown at different spots across Tai Kwun, both indoors and out.

Looping on repeat on the Laundry Steps is Erkka Nissinen’s absurd and surreal series of video works. The normality and anomaly of daily life are laid bare through CGI, animation and roleplay.

Please register in advance for Chan Tsz Man Iv’s session. Doors open at 7pm at JC Cube and the performance starts at 7.30pm. The audience is cordially invited to come early, walk the space on stage, and delve into the artist’s sound and installation sets before the act.

In prison, time is at once transitory and eternal….resurfacing as memories for the future. In the 1980s, two women were imprisoned in Victoria Prison, where they experienced an unexpected romance in confinement. Their growing affections for each other were interrupted as one was released while the other wrote a love poem of longing on her bed board. When released from prison, she discovered that her lover had already married. She suppressed her mishmash of feelings and started a family as well. Approaching 1997, she did not want to live in a bigger prison. The decision to immigrate prompted a final rendezvous and conversation in which deep feelings were cast aside but never forgotten. Inspired by a bed board with a love poem found in a women’s prison, this groundbreaking immersive production features artists across disciplines, including Pat To Yan (theatre), Kingsley Ng (media installation), Adrian Yeung (video artist), Jass Leung (dramaturg) and Chow Yiu Fai (lyric artist). The immersive theatre will be remade in Tai Kwun, as lyrics, sounds, images and theatrical performances are interwoven, leading the audience to tread a path that explores Central then and now.

*Concept of the show title by〈黑房〉, Chow Yiu Fai

In prison, time is at once transitory and eternal….resurfacing as memories for the future. In the 1980s, two women were imprisoned in Victoria Prison, where they experienced an unexpected romance in confinement. Their growing affections for each other were interrupted as one was released while the other wrote a love poem of longing on her bed board. When released from prison, she discovered that her lover had already married. She suppressed her mishmash of feelings and started a family as well. Approaching 1997, she did not want to live in a bigger prison. The decision to immigrate prompted a final rendezvous and conversation in which deep feelings were cast aside but never forgotten. Inspired by a bed board with a love poem found in a women’s prison, this groundbreaking immersive production features artists across disciplines, including Pat To Yan (theatre), Kingsley Ng (media installation), Adrian Yeung (video artist), Jass Leung (dramaturg) and Chow Yiu Fai (lyric artist). The immersive theatre will be remade in Tai Kwun, as lyrics, sounds, images and theatrical performances are interwoven, leading the audience to tread a path that explores Central then and now.

*Concept of the show title by〈黑房〉, Chow Yiu Fai

Wander around K11 Musea and discover art, design — and candy — experiences with Joyce Wang, Nelson Chow, Tony Oursler, Jon Burgerman, Hajime Sorayama, and a’strict. Some of the “rooms” will be closing this week, some will stay longer so go check them while you can. Check the website, you can join a tour or go by yourself if you want to find everything on your own. Was lucky to finish my tour at @g.room.hk, thanks for having me!

The SAD School of Artists Development (SAD) is an ongoing conceptual art project initiated by Silas Fong in 2019. The project is informed by the wide array of observations on various roles in the art ecology, from artists, curators, collectors, to art schools, and personal experience throughout his career in art. Adopting marketing strategies, he developed a series of products and services for his make-believe art academy, transforming his thoughts into a series of videos, performances, artist’s books and art installations. The objective of SAD is to define a set of seemingly standardized and professional job skills for artists. Detailed studying of these skills, however, would reveal their speciousness – it is a parodied reflection on the phenomenon that the professionalization of art has diverted the focus of artists to job skills such as image building and personal network development, leaving the quality of the artworks to a state of being neglected and marginalised.
Following the SAD Info Days and SAD: School of Artists Development held in Korea in 2019 and 2020, Silas Fong has organised SAD Info Day 2021 at the invitation of vA!. Survival kits and crash course notes, which he has been continually developing for SAD to respond to the various social settings in the art community, were showcased. In the name of SAD, two seminars were held to explore how to apply Feng Shui and image design to help artists excel in their careers. Aspiring art students and young artists were invited to take part in the seminar. A video with the event highlights was produced and played repeatedly at the exhibition as a part of the art installation.