Zoom! Hongkong Artists

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Veröffentlicht am Samstag, 08 Oktober 2011 14:53

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Au Yeung Tung, male, graduating from the Cultural Studies Department at the Lingnan University.. He has been doing performance art and improvisational art work, including Contact Installation, Site Specific Performance, Conceptual Art, Dance, etc. I took part in Action Script (2010), From June 4^th to July 1^st (2010), From May 4thto June 4^th (2009). Hong Kong On the Move, Performance Art Project(Asian People’s Theatre Festival Society), Site-specific and Object Theatre in the Square(Theatre Space and Silo Theatre (Holland)), Phoenix (Unlock Dancing Plaza), Rascals and Scumbags drifting in the street, From Ageneration to A generation and Hong Kong People, Hong Kong matters – Social Forum 2007 Closing Performance (Ageneration). He also performed in International Performance Art Festivals in Xian and the Philippines in 2010.

Mr Au Yeung’s works focus on the social dimension of the human existence. By using alternative ways of presentation, he tries to stimulate passers-by and audience to feel and think about the situation faced by deprived groups in Hong Kong. Through the medium of art, he promptly responds to current social issues.

Chan Mei Tung

Born in Hong Kong. She is from the post-90 generation and she is an under graduated student major in Humanities.

She gets in touch with performance art in 2009, the 20^th anniversary of theTiananmen Incident. Before that she focused on contemporary dance, theatre and movement art work.  She found herself can get use to the performance art form, using body as part of the material to present the message. She found a strong sense of being involved when putting her body into her work and that is the way she uses to express, to articulate, to make a statement and to dissolve herself and the others.

She is a freshman of performance art who keeps on exploring more possibility in the art form, not aiming at joining art festival or being a performance artist, she treats performance art as a friendly way to express herself as a human being. From time to time she found herself has no choice but stand out to articulate. 

Chen Shisen / Sanmu/Sam Muk

Born in Beijing, and currently based in Hong Kong.  He started doing performance art after joining the "Southern Artists Salon" in 1986.  He went to Japan in 1987, and after the Tiananmen Incident in 1989, he participated in the democracymovement which brought about a great influence on the theme of his works.  By using media such as poetry, printmaking and installation, his body of work reflects on the oppression forced on the people by wars, massacres and their fellow human beings themselves.He alsoexaminesoriental culture in a ritualisticway.  He moved back to Hong Kong in 2002 and started to create works in different places while hetravelledand to curate festivals and exhibitionsincluding “Hong Kong On the Move”.He has been instrumental in enlivening the performance art scene in Hong Kong.

Wai Man, LEUNG (Hong Kong)

Performance Artist

Performing Artist, Theatre and Dance Improvisation

Community Art Facilitator

Leung Wai Man is a Hong Kong based performance artist. She started involving in People’s Theatre since 1999 and has a particular commitment in community art projects. She has wide-ranging experience in designing art programs and creative workshops. She also provides Playback Theatre and Forum Theatre training in educational institutions and community organizations. Using theatre and dance as the main medium, Leung works with young people, old people, new immigrants from China, unemployed people, adults with mental disabilities, and woman group with trauma in domestic violence. Influenced by the idea of sex, gender, and feminism, Ms Leung started exploring the genre in her live performing art form. Her performances often make use of sex/gender issues to engage in discussion about identity, the body, politics, and sexual relationships. She has been performing in different places since then, including the mainland China, India, the Philippines, Thailand, Myanmar, South Korea and Japan.

Mok Chiu Yu
He graduated from the University of Adelaide with a B.Ec. degree (1967) and completed his counselling training at the University of Keele (1980), He has worked as a youth worker, newspaper editor, high school teacher ( 1984 - 1990), arts festival organizer and cultural worker since 1990. He was Executive Secretary of the Arts with the Disabled Association Hong Kong from 1995 - 2004 after which he headed a new organization called Centre for Community Cultural Development.  He has extensive experience in cross cultural collaborations in theatre e.g. the Big Wind Project, a cultural caravan involving artists from nine cities in Asia, Australia and America, which toured Asia for 4 months, Yours Most Obediently etc. He has been involved in many community theatre projects (including projects involving migrant workers and persons with disability) in Hong Kong. He has produced many plays by the two famous deaf theatres of Hong Kong and has helped to groom the Theatre of the Silence to be a world famous deaf theatre and Hong Kong's most important cultural ambassador. He has also been a keen promoter and proficient facilitator in various educational and community theatre methodologies in Hong Kong eg. Basic Integrated Theatre Arts, Theatre of the Oppressed, Playback Theatre etc. He was the Congress Director of IDEA 2007 in Hong Kong, attended by altogether 1,700 drama educators from all over the world. He also organized many smaller conferences related to theatre and education, arts related therapies etc. His publications include When the Big Wind Blows, Fluid Sculpture – the Playback Experience in Hong Kong, Black Sky – Plays of South Asian and Hong Kong Encounters and he was author of several journal articles on applied theatre. He teaches part time at Lingnan University. He won the first ever Drama Achievement Award presented by Hong Kong's Arts Development Council in 1999. More recently he helped Griffith University to set up a Master programme in Education and Applied Drama in Hong Kong. Presently he is the chief executive of the Centre for Community Cultural Development and the advisor of the drama committee of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. He has been a keen promoter and organizer of playback and playforward theatres and has been instrumental (with others) in introducing playback theatre to Hong Kong and China, turning it also into a “movement”.

He recently organized Action Script in October 2010, an international performance art round-table discussion on documentation of performance art and the future of Asian Performance Art

cum workshops and festival of performances.

Vinci, Mok Wing See / Hongkong

Vinci is now currently working as a muti-media “performer” in action art or performance art scene,dancer field, writting, film art direction, painting, singing, installation, movement theatre,mask theatre,mime…etc. And, she also sometimes teaching in drama/movement/dance classes as well for elderly/ children/disables & handicaps/ teenagers/ housewife/ patients etc.She has just curated/organized a “movement art festival 2010>in Hong Kong which without any Government subsidies,but with so many supports from Asia artists in new or old generation(action/physical scenes).To Vinci,introducing art and making art to be more human that close to community(especially the lower class) is what she really want to work hard in her coming future.
And,that is why she has formed a group‘ART WAVE’ with friends from different art fields/media for providing more regularly interactive live street art jamming /performance in public or local area/common space .
Beside taking Drama as her major study in The Hong Kong Academy For Performing Art between 1994-1996,
Vinci has kept learning different kinds / style/ forms of performing art in short term workshops or regular training from artists of different countries: Impro-visational/contact dance from G. Hoffman Soto of U.S.,Ku Ming Shen of Taiwan and Kristie Simson of England;simple Khon dance from Pichet Klunchun; action/ performance art from Alastair MacLennan of Northern
Ireland, Tamar Raban of Isarel，Boris Nieslony of Geremy and Roi Vaara of Finland;
Community music from Pete Moses of England; Indian based contemporary dance from Astad Deboo of India; Africian drums from Makha Diop of South Africa;Butoh dance from Daisuke Yoshimoto/ Mokoto Matsushima/ SANKAI JUKU /Yumi Umiumare/Yukio Suzuki of Japan,Lee Swee Keung of Malaysia; Pantomime from Federic Hererra of Paris and Desmond Tang of Hong Kong, Physical theatre from Shu-Wing Tang of Hong Kong,Andy,Ng Wai Shek of Hong kong and Pappa Tarahumara of Japan, environmental dance from Victor Ma of Y-Space ,Hong Kong; contemporary dance from Andy Wong of Hong Kong, Ong lock Wong of Maylayia, Andre Gingras of Holand and Jacek Luminski of Silesian Dance Theatre, Poland,Sang Jijia from Tibet-Europe; Ballet dance from Mandy Yim of Hong Kong;Tai Chi and dance from Chan Chau Yam of Taiwan; choreography from Daniel Yeung of Hong Kong and Jacek Luminski of Silesian Dance Theatre,Poland; mask acting from Hoi Chiu of Hong Kong to explore a bigger varieties or flexibilities for her art fantasy.

yuenjie MARU ( YUEN Kin-leung )
Performance Artist based in Hong Kong. He gets in touch with installation art in 1995. From the time onward, he explores in different art media such as writing, theatre, dance, happenings and art performance. He started his solo performance since 1999 and then being so called as performance art and live art. He now call his art-works as "MARULIVEART" and concerning about love, human being, social issues, environment and so on. He have performed in Mainland China, Macau, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and UK. His book "yuenjieMARULIVEARTenYearsPerformances" has been published in June 2010.

Human-pupa Series are developed from my past work "Human-Time-Semi-Escape" in Nippon International Performance Art Festival (NIPAF) Summer 2007. Human is the most important element of this work. The pupa can be different materials which represent different resistance in our life. Then, I try to come out from the pupa, but do I have any change? Am I become a butterfly? Where are the little flowers?

Choi Tsz Kwan / Hongkong

Choi Tsz Kwan, ger is a performance artist, designer, educator and social activist in Hong Kong. She was one of the initiators of ‘Art Action to Conserve the Clock Tower’ with a series of art actions to draw public attention on the removal of the Star Ferry clock tower which was the heart of the city and Hong Kong history in 2006. In the same year, she founded the performance art group We Are Society (WAS) to deliver messages of happiness, freedom and public life to local communities. During the 20th anniversary of the 1989 June-4th massacre, she co-founded ‘P-at-Riot : June-Fourth Festival for Post-80s Generation’ to reiterate the spirit of questioning and rebellion to young people by means of visual art, movie, reading and music. In 2009, she joined the ‘Post-80s Youth anti XRL’ to protest against the government’s decision on a HK$66.9 million railway project. She was responsible for the propaganda design and action planning in the group. Since 2008, she has been working as a secondary school teacher responsible for curriculum design and teaching of a group of students who decided not to take the public examinations. Right now she is focus on setting up a community museum of Hong Kong monopolizing development. 

He is a performance artist, designer, educator and social activist in Hong Kong. She was one of the initiators of ‘Art Action to Conserve the Clock Tower’ with a series of art actions to draw public attention on the removal of the Star Ferry clock tower which was the heart of the city and Hong Kong history in 2006. In the same year, she founded the performance art group We Are Society (WAS) to deliver messages of happiness, freedom and public life to local communities. During the 20th anniversary of the 1989 June-4th massacre, she co-founded ‘P-at-Riot : June-Fourth Festival for Post-80s Generation’ to reiterate the spirit of questioning and rebellion to young people by means of visual art, movie, reading and music. In 2009, she joined the ‘Post-80s Youth anti XRL’ to protest against the government’s decision on a HK$66.9 million railway project. She was responsible for the propaganda design and action planning in the group. Since 2008, she has been working as a secondary school teacher responsible for curriculum design and teaching of a group of students who decided not to take the public examinations. Right now she is focus on setting up a community museum of Hong Kong monopolizing development.