Clockenflap Music and Arts Festival is an annual outdoor festival set on the iconic Central Harbourfront in Hong Kong. Debuted at the West Kowloon Cultural District for the first few years, Clockenflap has grown to become the most anticipated festival of the calendar year.
From 2012 to 2015, I was the Film Curator of Cinema Silenzio. A film dome operated in an outdoor festival setting, I used bluetooth headphones to ensure the film experience and sound quality was not lost. Cinema Silenzio tripled its capacity in 2 years, from a humble 50 seat film tent to 150 seat film dome. The Film Program included premieres of Ten Years, Amy and Racing Extinction. All were nominated for numerous films awards a year after. As well as, video art from renouned Hong Kong and international artists, animation favourites and Pixar for the family audience.
Cinema Silenzio also become the think tank of the festival, holding Q and A’s post-screenings and topical discussions featuring the city’s grassroots organisations, thinkers, and filmmakers.
Picture taken by Chris Lusher
Picture taken by Chris Lusher
Salon X is Immigration Museum’s signature winter program. In 2019, in line with the exhibition, Our Bodies, Our Voices, Our Marks; as the Program Producer I pose the question ‘What stories do our bodies tell?’. I invited the formidable Aniva featuring Grace Vanilau, Fipe Prieuss and Florence Tupuol to opened the night with Acknowledgement to Country, movement with oratory and song. Lay the Mystic, and Ryuichi Fujimara produced and performed tailored work in response to the seasonal exhibition. All paid homage to the significance of Samoan, Polynesia and Japanese tattooing as well as challenging the notion of literary work and story-telling. The Australian Haiku Society also were invited to host a Haiku open mic and writing session.
Salon X 2019 was also shown as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival.
Picture taken by Janel Yau
Picture taken by Alice Gibbons
Art Kinect is a reimagination of art, place and collective mindset in post-Covid world. If a city was a museum and public monuments, public art and plaques are the collection then what new narratives can we bring, knowing what we know now?
Using GPS technology, AR and/or mixed realities, Art Kinect can be an app or a device that inputs voices, sounds and visions inside a chosen public artwork. Whether it will be colonial statue, street mural, abstract contemporary or even a tree. If you can hear it, what would it sound like? What stories would it tell?
This is conceptual UX strategy I developed during the Melbourne lockdown. Art Kinect is my attempt to change the landscape of how we see art, symbolism and its connection to place.
