January 27, 2018
Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre
Hong Kong 852
Hong Kong
Next week, West Kowloon Cultural District welcomes acclaimed French artist Xavier Le Roy to lead Creation for Freespace: Dance in Alternative Space—a series of two professional workshops and a public forum exploring live art actions in the museum context.
Le Roy’s works produce situations that question the relationships between spectators, visitors and performers, and attempt to reconfigure the dichotomies that exist between notions of object and subject, public and private, and animal and human.
In the public forum on January 27, dance artist Scarlet Yu and Taiwanese performance artist River Lin join Le Roy to discuss how different modes of production are shaping performance practices in the region today. Through the lens of visual art, they consider aspects of intention and provocation, and the relationships derived from live art actions in the museum context, with each speaker discussing how their own performances in exhibition spaces affect their engagement with the audience, and in what ways they wish to create connections through the immediacy of their works.
This in-depth conversation is moderated by Anna CY Chan (Head of Dance, Performing Arts, WKCDA) and Alice Teng (Associate Curator, Visual Art, M+).
Speakers:
Xavier Le Roy (France), artist
Scarlet Yu (Hong Kong), dance artist
River Lin (Taiwan), performance artist
Moderators:
Anna CY Chan (Hong Kong), Head of Dance, Performing Arts, WKCDA
Alice Teng (Hong Kong), Associate Curator, Visual Art, M+
Language:
English with Mandarin / Cantonese simultaneous interpretation
Registration:
Free admission. Limited capacity on a first come, first served basis. Please register here in advance.
About West Kowloon Cultural District
Located on Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour, the West Kowloon Cultural District is one of the largest cultural projects in the world. Its vision is to create a vibrant new cultural quarter for Hong Kong. With a complex of theatres, performance spaces, and M+, the district will produce and host world-class exhibitions, performances, and cultural events, as well as provide 23 hectares of public open space, including a two kilometre waterfront promenade.
About Performing Arts at West Kowloon
The West Kowloon Cultural District is a place that brings together art, education and public space and supports the production, presentation and learning of performing arts of all disciplines—including xiqu (Chinese opera), dance, music, theatre and other art forms. The new venues we are building, the first of which include the Xiqu Centre, Freespace and the Lyric Theatre Complex, with planning for a dedicated music centre also under way, will establish a performing arts ecosystem in Hong Kong that enables artists and art groups to collaborate and grow together. By supporting local and regional creators, and promoting artistic excellence and diversity, we aim to build a new model rooted in international experience and position Hong Kong performing arts on the world stage, establishing a wider audience for all types of performing arts.
About M+
Hong Kong’s museum of visual culture—encompassing 20th and 21st century art, design, and architecture, and moving image from Hong Kong, China, Asia, and beyond—M+ will be one of the largest museums of 20th and 21st century visual culture in the world. Located adjacent to the Art Park on the waterfront, the museum building, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, is scheduled to open in 2019.
