OUR ART PROGRAMME
ENCOUNTERS ACROSS CULTURES 2023
CREATING ACROSS TECH, ART AND MUSIC
With technology’s dizzying capabilities and omnipresence in our lives today, we come to wonder: is tech cold and lifeless, the opposite of the human vitality of the creative arts? Is tech disconnecting us from one another or empowering us, pushing the possibilities to create and connect?
In their first ever collaboration, artist and music producer Vicky Fung and media artist Keith Lam bridge this false opposition, in a discipline-crossing creative journey traversing the four Houses.
Together they use tech to reveal the inner rhythms of our very senses, and transform the inexpressible into a collective experience, presented at the Houses.
INSTALLATION
Hong Kong
What does Tjoe's journey revisiting his hometown sound like?
Shanghai
What does Vicky's journey in the Paris of the East sound like?
Chengdu
What does Wan Pin's journey in this city of contrasts sound like?
Beijing
What does Keith's journey in this storied capital sound like?
Media Artist
KEITH LAM
Media Artist and Co-founder and Artistic Director of Art & Technology studio Dimension Plus. His works have won awards at international art festivals, including Prix Ars Electronica and Japan Media Arts Festival. His works have been shown around the world at top museums and art festivals including Hong Kong Museum of Arts, The National Art Centre at Tokyo, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Ars Electronica Festival, The New Technological Art Award Biennial at Belgium, FILE, ISEA, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, National Taichung Performing Arts Center and Hong Kong Art Festival.
Media Artist
KEITH LAM
Media Artist and Co-founder and Artistic Director of Art & Technology studio Dimension Plus. His works have won awards at international art festivals, including Prix Ars Electronica and Japan Media Arts Festival. His works have been shown around the world at top museums and art festivals including Hong Kong Museum of Arts, The National Art Centre at Tokyo, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Ars Electronica Festival, The New Technological Art Award Biennial at Belgium, FILE, ISEA, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, National Taichung Performing Arts Center and Hong Kong Art Festival.
Artist & Music Producer
VICKY FUNG
Artist, music producer, singer-songwriter and curator, Vicky has always presented uniqueness and novelty in her works with a strong sense of emotional synchronicity. A Clore Fellow of 2023, she has worked with many prominent music artists in Hong Kong with an impressive list of music awards from media and professional associations and seeks to develop her interest in socially engaged art projects. In recent years, she has ventured into multi-media creation, including “Utopia…Momentarily” (2016) in the New Vision Media Festival, interactive virtual reality experience “Silili and The Tree” (2021) and immersive art and music performance “Soul Walk” (2022).
Artist & Music Producer
VICKY FUNG
Artist, music producer, singer-songwriter and curator, Vicky has always presented uniqueness and novelty in her works with a strong sense of emotional synchronicity. A Clore Fellow of 2023, she has worked with many prominent music artists in Hong Kong with an impressive list of music awards from media and professional associations and seeks to develop her interest in socially engaged art projects. In recent years, she has ventured into multi-media creation, including “Utopia…Momentarily” (2016) in the New Vision Media Festival, interactive virtual reality experience “Silili and The Tree” (2021) and immersive art and music performance “Soul Walk” (2022).
Guitarist
TJOE MAN CHEUNG
Tjoe Man Cheung, London-based musician and producer working across with artists across UK and Europe, including Brown Penny and PYJÆN, and in different festivals across the world. Alongside, Tjoe also initiated his own solo music projects and has founded NTBM (a jazz collective formed by emerging musicians from around the world) and his solo music projects. A graduate from the Musicians Institute, Tjoe was inspired and nurtured under the tutorship of Scott Henderson, Allen Hinds, Brad Rabuchin and Daniel Gilbert, with influences of jazz, funk, blues and pop.
Guitarist
TJOE MAN CHEUNG
Tjoe Man Cheung, London-based musician and producer working across with artists across UK and Europe, including Brown Penny and PYJÆN, and in different festivals across the world. Alongside, Tjoe also initiated his own solo music projects and has founded NTBM (a jazz collective formed by emerging musicians from around the world) and his solo music projects. A graduate from the Musicians Institute, Tjoe was inspired and nurtured under the tutorship of Scott Henderson, Allen Hinds, Brad Rabuchin and Daniel Gilbert, with influences of jazz, funk, blues and pop.
Erhuist
WAN PIN CHU
Wan Pin CHU is an international award-winning Erhuist and film composer based in Hong Kong. Wan is recognised as a versatile performer with rich emotions and limitless virtuosity in his music. In the UK, he is the first Chinese instrumentalist to perform in The Duke’s Hall in Royal Academy of Music and have performed in over hundreds of concerts all over the world including UK, US, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Chinese Mainland, and won an impressive list of national and international music competitions. Chu is also a dedicated composer and has participated in the scoring of many films, televisions, games and commercials.
Erhuist
WAN PIN CHU
Wan Pin CHU is an international award-winning Erhuist and film composer based in Hong Kong. Wan is recognised as a versatile performer with rich emotions and limitless virtuosity in his music. In the UK, he is the first Chinese instrumentalist to perform in The Duke’s Hall in Royal Academy of Music and have performed in over hundreds of concerts all over the world including UK, US, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Chinese Mainland, and won an impressive list of national and international music competitions. Chu is also a dedicated composer and has participated in the scoring of many films, televisions, games and commercials.
Media Art Curator
JOEL KWONG
Joel Kwong is a media art curator, writer, producer and educator based in Hong Kong. She is currently the Programme Director for Microwave International New Media Arts Festival, and the founder of SIBYLS – a creative Arts x Tech consultation and production agency. Most recent produced and curated projects include Reimagines Heritage (online portal) (2023), Out of Thin Air - HK Film Arts & Costumes Exhibition at Hong Kong Heritage Museum (2023). Juried around Asia include VH Award (South Korea) (2022), and Siggraph Asia 2020 (South Korea) etc. She has given lectures in many Hong Kong tertiary institutions and universities and has also given talks at international art festivals including Ars Electronica in Linz, Transmediale in Berlin, and ACT Festival in Gwangju, South Korea.
Media Art Curator
JOEL KWONG
Joel Kwong is a media art curator, writer, producer and educator based in Hong Kong. She is currently the Programme Director for Microwave International New Media Arts Festival, and the founder of SIBYLS – a creative Arts x Tech consultation and production agency. Most recent produced and curated projects include Reimagines Heritage (online portal) (2023), Out of Thin Air - HK Film Arts & Costumes Exhibition at Hong Kong Heritage Museum (2023). Juried around Asia include VH Award (South Korea) (2022), and Siggraph Asia 2020 (South Korea) etc. She has given lectures in many Hong Kong tertiary institutions and universities and has also given talks at international art festivals including Ars Electronica in Linz, Transmediale in Berlin, and ACT Festival in Gwangju, South Korea.
Experience it yourself
Immerse yourself in the experience of Encounters Across Cultures 2023 using your eyes, ears, and physical touch. Open your senses to transcend time and space to meet the artwork in different dimensions. Move closer to the sculptures to listen to musical tracks weaved with emotive musings and unique sounds drawn from the city you are standing in.
Exhibition dates
The Upper House, Hong Kong
October 9 - October 23
The Middle House, Shanghai
October 30 - November 13
The Temple House, Chengdu
November 20 - December 6
The Opposite House, Beijing
December 14 - January 15
Listen now
Those unable to experience Encounters Across Cultures 2023 in person can still listen to the four unique musical pieces on Spotify.
Each track represents a different home of our four Houses – Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing or Chengdu. The musical pieces capture the unique biometric data collected in that city, including the sensations and emotions of the person collecting the data and their surrounding sounds. This data is transcribed into emotion-driven graphics and crafted into music.
Does your favourite city sound like how you imagined it?
Programme Artists - Vicky Fung & Keith Lam | Producer - Joel Kwong | Travellers - Tjoe Man Cheung & Wan Pin Chu | Performing Musician - Vicky Fung, Keith Lam, Tjoe Man Cheung, Wan Pin Chu | Creative Agency - Hypemaker | Director - Daniel Teo | Director of Photography - Sam Chan | Camera Crew - Chan Hin Cheuk, Tang Yik Hei, Ma Pui Chuen, Poon Ho Man | Photographer - Daniel Teo | Director - Daniel Teo | Producer - YunZhen | Director of Photography - Yerson | Camera Crew - 李文玉 | Production Assistant - 团子| Director - Daniel Teo | Producer - YunZhen | Director of Photography - Allen Jam | Production Assistant - 尾巴 | Photographer - YunZhen | Director - Daniel Teo | Producer - YunZhen | Director of Photography - Gragon | Production Assistant - 武艺 | Photographer - YunZhen | Editor - Edwardo Chan | Colourist - Louis Lo | Director of Photography - Chow | Camera Crew - Kelvin Lam, Billy Tai, Louis Chow | Editor - Fred Lau