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Public Programmes for Kotodama ​

Start
Jul 14, 2018
End
Aug 25, 2018

(Re)constructing mother tongues: experience in the Sinosphere
Jul 14, 2018
3:00pm

Panel discussion by Okui Lala (artist), Tang Kwok-hin (artist), and Law Lok Man, Louise (Executive Director of Fleurs des lettres magazine)
Moderated by André Chan

To kickstart the program, this panel will discuss the connections between language and the construction of national identity, particularly within the East Asian cultural sphere.

This session will be conducted in English.

 

Screening of Rhymes of Shui Hau 
Jul 25, 2018
7:00pm

A film by Chan Ho Lun
2017| Colour | 50 mins | Cantonese, Wai Tau Waa with Chinese and English subtitles
Q&A session with Chloe Lai and André Chan

This special screening offers a glimpse of Hong Kong prior to its industrialisation and urbanisation, and charts the race to preserve disappearing rural songs. The film features three elderly ladies from the village of Shui Hau situated on Lantau Island, humming rhymes in Wai Tau Waa, an almost extinct dialect of Cantonese.

This session will be conducted in Cantonese.

 

Chinese Hill Billies
Aug 8, 2018
7:00pm

Lecture performance by Alex Yiu

This session will be conducted in English. The lecture performance investigates the relationship between sound and identity in Richmond, Vancouver’s Chinatown. It departs from the uncertain origins of the song Red River Valley, known under different titles and sung in different languages throughout the decades. In his performance, Yiu focuses on a particular event, when the song was performed in the largest Chinese restaurant in the city in 1939, by a band formed by Chinese immigrants, the first of its kind.

 

Performance by Talents Displaced
Aug 25, 2018
4:00pm

During the last weekend of the exhibition, a special performance by Talents Displaced will take place. Talents Displaced was founded in 2016 by a group of asylum seekers and refugees living in Hong Kong.

 

Public Tours
A series of public tours hosted by the curator of Kotodama, André Chan, will provide insight into the ideas and processes behind the exhibition at Para Site.

Jul 14, 2018
2:00pm
(Cantonese)

Aug 11, 2018
3:00pm
(English)

Aug 25, 2018
3:00pm
(English)

 

 

Para Site Art Space is financially supported by the Art Development Matching Grants Scheme of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

The content of these activities does not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.