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Break Dance in HK, Louis Stettner@Boogie Woogie & in the studio: Didgeridoo player William Barton
11/09/2024
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Executive Producer：Diana Wan
11/09/2024
The didgeridoo, a wind instrument used in both ceremonial and informal settings, is an iconic symbol of Aboriginal Australia. Later in the show, didgeridoo performer William Barton, conductor Luke Dollman, sheng player Loo Sze-wang and William Lane of the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble will be joining us to talk about their upcoming concert featuring the didgeridoo and other instruments.
On show at Boogie Woogie Photography are 20 silver gelatin prints by American photographer Louis Stettner, best known for his black and white images of New York City and Paris.
Originating in hip-hop culture and the block parties of New York’s Bronx district in the 1970s, breakdancing made its first appearance as an Olympic event this year. While its inclusion has been controversial, Hong Kong has its own aspiring breakdancers and athletes who want to elevate the dance form as a sport.
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Break Dance in HK, Louis Stettner@Boogie Woogie & in the studio: Didgeridoo player William Barton
The didgeridoo, a wind instrument used in both ceremonial and informal settings, is an iconic symbol of Aboriginal Australia. Later in the show, didgeridoo performer William Barton, conductor Luke Dollman, sheng player Loo Sze-wang and William Lane of the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble will be joining us to talk about their upcoming concert featuring the didgeridoo and other instruments.
On show at Boogie Woogie Photography are 20 silver gelatin prints by American photographer Louis Stettner, best known for his black and white images of New York City and Paris.
Originating in hip-hop culture and the block parties of New York’s Bronx district in the 1970s, breakdancing made its first appearance as an Olympic event this year. While its inclusion has been controversial, Hong Kong has its own aspiring breakdancers and athletes who want to elevate the dance form as a sport.11/09/2024Watch -
HKAC public art project, "Cloud Chamber"@Para Site & in the studio: Concerto da Camera Baroque Ensemble
With the hosting of the Olympics and the Paralympic Games this year, Paris and France, are very much in the international spotlight right now. To celebrate that, later in the show we’re bringing you some music from the 17th century French Baroque era. First though, Public Art Hong Kong is a non-profit organisation funded by the Y.K.Pao Foundation to make art more accessible to the public. In 2005, the foundation selected the Hong Kong Arts Centre to act as its executive arm. In the ensuing two decades the Arts Centre has continued to take art to the streets and to bring communities together.
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Artist Kingson Chan, Theta Sequencing@Lucie Chang Fine Arts & in the studio: RUMBU
A recent global study suggests that the average person spends around six hours and forty minutes staring at computer or TV screens every day. Young people born between the 1990s and the early 2010s, often labelled the Gen Z generation, average around nine hours a day. It’s not always good for our concentration or our mental health. Recently, many avid screen-gazers have been increasingly advised to “Touch grass”, to disconnect from technology, go outside, get some fresh air and be in nature.
That phrase is the title of the latest exhibition by local artist Kingson Chan.
“Theta Sequencing” at Lucie Chang Fine Arts is a dual exhibition by two young female artists, Ji Zou and Zhou Binbin.
While both have Chinese origins, they grew up and studied overseas.
The exhibition illustrates their two artists’ use of contrast, imageries and cultural symbolism.
If you’ve seen him on The Works before you’ll probably remember RUMBU’s striking countertenor voice. He was trained in classical music performance, but his true passion is for jazz and pop. He’s a recent graduate of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. He’s here now to tell us what he’s been up to since and to introduce his first digital single "Do You Understand?"28/08/2024Watch -
Comic artist Jeffrey Kwong, "HK Emerging Artists"@Jao Tsung-I gallery & in the studio: Pianist Jerold Chu & band
The “wuxia” genre of Chinese fiction highlights martial arts and chivalry, recounting the stories and adventures of martial artists in ancient China. This form of historical fantasy has become hugely popular worldwide thanks to comics, television, dramas, films and video games. Hong Kong writer Wong Cho-keung better known by his pen name of, Wong Yee, is famous for his wuxia and science fiction novels. Now some of those novels are being adapted and published in comic form.
The Jao Tsung-I Academy Gallery is currently showing 48 works by six emerging local artists. They are William Ho, Brenda Hui, Cheung Yung-ka, Kenny Ip, Silver Qian and Daisy Dai. The exhibition is organised by the academy, in collaboration with the Sun Museum, to highlight talented young artists and to encourage their ongoing development.
Since returning from the United Kingdom in in 2020, jazz pianist Jerold Chu has established himself not only as a keyboard player but also as a bandleader and producer.
A former student of music composition for film and television, jazz vocal performance, and the history and sociology of music, Chu performs in a variety of musical styles, as well as with his band, Jerold and Friends. This Saturday, the band’s performing as part of the annual music festival of the jazz club Chez Trente.
To tell us more, Jerold’s with us right now.21/08/2024Watch -
Gaylord Chan’s retrospective@ASHK, Tetsumi Kudo@Hauser & Wirth & in the studio: Education University's orchestra
Gaylord Chan, affectionately known as雞粒 by friends and acquaintances in the art world, died in June 2020. He was 95 years old. While working in his first career as a telecommunications engineer, Gaylord took up art in 1968, enrolling in an art and design course in the wake of his first wife being struck down with cancer. In 1973, he held his first solo exhibition. A year later, he co-founded the Hong Kong Visual Arts Society. The Asia Society Hong Kong Centre is currently showing the first major retrospective exhibition of Chan’s work.
On show at the Hauser & Wirth gallery are works by the Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo, who died in 1990. A multidisciplinary artist whose work included painting, performance, installation and sculpture. In 1965, Kudo began making cages, the objects that later came to define his art. He spent the next 15 years working with this form.
Through these cages, he examined humanity's relationship with nature and technology and how they interact in what he called the "New Ecology."
He used found materials to illustrate the idea that humans, like pets, are being “fed”, observed, or controlled by a larger organised system.
The Department of Cultural and Creative Arts at The Education University of Hong Kong offers a range of courses of different art forms. Later on the show, members of the university’s orchestra are here to tell us more themselves and an annual concert that they recently finished.14/08/2024Watch -
Listen to the Sound of the Earth Spinning@CHAT, The Adorned Body@HKPM & in the studio: Fusicianz
"Earth Piece: Listen to the sound of the earth turning” is a conceptual work by multi-media artist, musician and activist Yoko Ono. First published in 1964 in the form of postcards, it’s part of her “Instruction” series, in which a set of instructions provide starting points for the user’s own creativity. “Earth Piece” is also the starting point for a current exhibition at the Centre for Heritage, Arts & Textile.
At the Hong Kong Palace Museum until 14th October, “The Adorned Body” features nearly 400 items of clothing, jewellery and accessories, created in France between the late 18th and the early 20th century. The exhibits, from the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, are being displayed in Asia for the first time.
As its name suggests, the band Fusicianz brings together a mix of cultures, instruments, styles, sounds, and ideas. Formed during the Covid pandemic in 2020, the 16-member band plays traditional Chinese and Western music, and boasts among its members singer-songwriters, music producers, and educators. On 3rd September, Fusicianz is giving a concert at the Hong Kong City Hall. Nine of its members are with us right now.08/08/2024Watch -
Fred Radix, The Whistler, I.M. Pei@M+ & in the studio: Scott Murphy & Adriel Bote
Saxophonist Scott Murphy came to our studio a couple of months ago to talk about his newly released album, “a dream of form”. A bit later in the show we’ll be bringing you an extra piece of music that we recorded at the time. But first, another wind instrument, and one we all carry with us all the time. French musician and comedian Fred Radix is known as “Le Siffleur” or “The Whistler”. As the name suggests, there is a fair amount of (if Ben & Billy can whistle, whistle) whistling involved in his musical comedy.
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SSP Virtual Community Game, "POST-MORTEM" @Osage & in the studio: Mak Ka-yin
The Works presents the latest art's happening in Hong Kong to our audience.
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Pianist Kyohei Sorita, Antoinette Rozan@Sin Sin & in the studio: Cello Festival at the HKAPA
Since 1984, the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts has taken a leading role across Asia in educating and nurturing new generations of talent in music, theatre, dance, stage production, film and TV, and more. In music, the academy organises a cello festival and a piano festival every year. Later on this week’s show, we’re once again welcoming cello students Trevor Chan and Charlotte Mak into the studio to talk about the cello festival that ended in late May.
First though, to the piano. on 25th June, pianist Kyohei Sorita, known for his Chopin repertoire, came to Hong Kong to play a concert with the Basel Chamber. We went along to their rehearsal.
Antoinette Rozan’s family has been involved in the arts for five generations. Not only is her father an artist, she can count, among the earlier generations of the family, engravers, sculptors, and architects. For her though, it wasn’t until a trip to the south of France in 1998 that she discovered her passion for sculpture in clay and metal.
On show at the gallery till the 24th of August, the exhibition “Vital”, demonstrates Rozan’s energy, strength, movement and the paradox at the centre of her creativity.
The exhibition features ink on paper as well as sculptural works.17/07/2024Watch -
Illustrator Jonathan Jay Lee, Wu Guanzhong@MOA & in the studio: Singer-songwriter Gwenji
Indie folk singer-songwriter Gwenji’s experience of studying music at school is likely to be all too familiar to many Hong Kong schoolchildren. She’ll be with us later to tell us about how she grew up playing the violin before going on to find her own path. While Gwenji found her voice in songwriting, Jonathan Jay Lee’s formative influence was comics. He was born and raised in the United States, but an early small project for Marvel comics opened doors for him to work in Hong Kong later in the 2000s.
He’s been here ever since.
The relationship of Chinese painter Wu Guanzhong and Hong Kong continues, even though the artist died in 2010. In March this year, Wu’s son donated HK$100 million to fund a “Wu Guanzhong Art Sponsorship” to promote Wu’s work and other related Chinese modern art. Three programmes have been launched under the fund.
You can catch one of those programmes now in “Between Black and White” a thematic exhibition of a selection of Wu’s paintings, on show at the Wu Guanzhong Gallery.10/07/2024Watch
