On Saturday and Sunday, enjoy live music in the Art Park. The mixed line-ups offer a variety of great sounds, from high-energy world music and blues to laid back jazz and funk. Free admission.

Renowned cellist Trey Lee and brilliant Musicus artists return to Tai Kwun in an exciting line-up of concerts both indoors and outdoors.

Two unconventional compositions will kick off this heritage concert series at the Laundry Steps on Saturday. With inspiration from Tai Kwun, the new work by Musicus Society’s Call for Scores winner Luk Wai-chun features both Chinese and Western instruments with electronics and video projection. The other work by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho for string quartet and electronics presents an interesting colours of string instruments.

In contrast to the sounds of living composers, the program at JC Cube presents three Austro-German classics by Haydn, Beethoven and Brahms – all with a fascinating underlying linkage to patronage of music and the arts. From aristocratic benefactors to the institutional support provided by Vienna’s Society of Friends of Music, cultural patronage has been key to the development of great art and artists for centuries.

Join us to celebrate music old and new made possible by this storied tradition of cultural patronage!

Trained with profile pictures collected from gay dating apps, artificial intelligence (AI) generates a series of images, which compose the main content of the exhibition.

The similarity of the images implies people’s perception through social media and desirous pursuing of bodily perfection. The distortions, due to the interference from machine learning (ML) metaphorize the morbidity of it.

The use of ML not only questions the ways of the image production, asking the question “what is photography”, but also simulates how images are produced, stored, chosen and reproduced in the process of online dating. Nearly a case study of modern online dating, it shows how the notion of beauty has shaped our social behaviours thus influencing our self-cognition.

Other pieces of work demonstrate different perspectives of phenomena in online dating, raising an open discussion on the complexity and fragility in interpersonal relationship.

As a conclusion of THY LAB’s eight years of performance, we showcase 15 enlarged photographs from our local family archive. Starting from the beginning of Thy Lane, at Prince Edward MTR station Exit D, and ending at Shek Kip Mei Street, visitors can see eight selected photos, each signifying one of the eight years we have run THY LAB.

The photos originally washed up at our door after the Mangkhut typhoon of 2018. Stroking and drying the storm-soaked prints, we felt an intense feeling of loss, and a desire to reconnect.

At the end of the lane, back in the theatre in THY LAB, a larger selection of the archived images will be displayed. In showcasing forgotten memories along the alley and inside our Lab, we celebrate the infinite micro-histories that are the very fabric of our Sham Shui Po community.

The invisible yet substantial presence of the lane draws a new geography within Sham Shui Po: a subconscious backbone boulevard for us to reimagine the gravitational centre of this urban area. We carve out a dwelling space-time outside the sorrow of memory, where forgotten intimacies enlighten and heal us in catharsis.

This exhibition aims to capture moments and memories we don’t want to forget, and to encapsulate them in the form of art.

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From finite space to unlimited creativity

An exhibition of recent works by members of Hong Kong Sculpture. The artists say, “We hope our unlimited creativity will bring all of us – artists and exhibition visitors – closer together.”

Hong Kong Sculpture was established in 2014 with 19 members, focusing mainly on creating sculptures. The group regularly organises exhibitions and workshops to promote the creation of three-dimensional artworks, and has been commissioned to create a number of large-scale public art works. Members have visited Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Xiamen and Taiwan for artistic exchanges.

Japanese artist Izumi Kato’s art practice is a journey into our own sense of humanity which begins at the point of convergence between imagination and reality. Untitled (2021), Kato’s sculpture trio, is a new bronze variation born from his stone sculpture series.

With Untitled, Kato conveys the organic shape of stones in a stack of partially hand-painted bronze blocks, marking a departure from previous works in both form and origin. Each sculpture portrays Kato’s iconic wide-eyed humanoid creature, at once evoking a soft sense of primitivism while also alluding to the far-flung future.

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