Table(s) of Contents

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Presented by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, JOCKEY CLUB New Arts Power presents its finale programme Table(s) of Contents, from 8 to 29 January 2022, featuring an exhibition and 8 lecture performances.

The finale programme of the JCNAP 2021/2022, Table(s) of Contents, is curated and produced by No Discipline Limited. The team brings together 8 diverse local artists and arts groups, pairing them in 4 groups to explore the notion of performativity across different disciplines.

“Table of contents” generally refers to the opening pages for books where readers are provide with a brief description of the structured content materials.
Juxtaposing thoughts and perspectives, the three-member curatorial team connects Table(s) of Contents to a table. Each serves a rendezvous for knowledge exchange, a vessel for ideas and content, and a podium / stage for ‘lecture performance’. The “tables” will each showcase the creative and interaction content produced by Ata Wong x Cam Wong, Janice Poon x Wong Sze- yi, Lam Pui-lim Anson x Verdy Leung, Alain Chiu x Nicholas Wong, when they are sharing a table for exchange of ideas and thoughts. In the process, unexpected resonance sparked, on social or personal issues. They also drew reflections upon similar and contrasting experiences. KaCaMa Design Lab is invited to design and created the “tables” of varied materials, shapes and conditions, intricately merge and form the four groups of exhibits.

Table(s) of Contents Lecture Performance: ‘Duck and Cover’
Ata Wong (Theatre Director) x Cam Wong (Chef and Visual Artist) Lecture Performance
Dates & Time: 14, 15.1.2022, 20:00
Venue: Soho Yard (19 Old Bailey Street, Central)
In Cantonese, for approximately 40 minutes.

“Duck and Cover” is a term that originates from a civil defence guide film produced by the US Government during the Cold War in the 1950s to educate citizens to be prepared for atomic bomb attacks. Amid the covid outbreak, Hong Kong people have different food consumption approaches when they prepare their pandemic grocery list.
Drawing on a similar theme of emergency prevention, Theatre Director Ata Wong, Chef & Visual Artist Cam Wong will demonstrate the preparation of a dish named ‘Duck and Cover’. The duo will also introduce various foods for consideration in times of emergency, so that audiences still have different choices in the best of time.

Table(s) of Contents Lecture Performance: ‘Flow to unfold’
Janice Poon (Playwright and Dramaturg) X Wong Sze-yi (Artistic Swimmer and Tutor) Lecture Performance
Dates & Time: 14, 15.1.2022, 21:00
Venue: Soho Yard (19 Old Bailey Street, Central)
In Cantonese, for approximately 40 minutes.

Though dancing with grace in the swimming pool and stage acting in the theatre seem to be very different art forms, Wong Sze-yi, artistic swimmer, and Janice Poon, playwright and Dramaturg, found something in common – the “flow” of time. Time tells the demand for exact arrangements of rhythm, power and tension is just as profound whether dancing in the pool or acting on a stage.
The two artistic creators Wong Sze-yi and Janice Poon have jointly revisited their well-treaded experience to discover their artistic convergence in the flow of invisible time and space. During the lecture performance, they invite audience to discover their inner power and bring to light their potential.

Table(s) of Contents Lecture Performance: ‘Clear Mirror, Still Water’
Lam Pui-lim Anson (Theatre Actor) X Verdy Leung (Ikebana and media artist) Lecture Performance
Dates & Time: 21, 23.1.2022, 20:00
Venue: Soho Yard (19 Old Bailey Street, Central)
In Cantonese, for approximately 40 minutes.

Ikebana artist arrange flowers in the vase, while actor explore the world within the theatre. Theatre and flowers have maintained a deep relationship in Japanese culture. “The Legend of Kazeka” is amongst the works of Zeami Motokiyo, renowned playwright in the early Muromachi period, that uses ‘flowers’ to discuss the various theories of classical Japanese dance-drama Noh.
Actor Lam Pui-lim Anson and Ikebana artist Verdy Leung are greatly influenced by Japanese culture. They both work relentlessly on their artistic skills, spiritual cultivation, and observe and reflect on human emotions and worldly reasoning through stage performance and ikebana. During the performance talk, both artists will share their many insights as they live through the blossoming and withering of flowers or the rise and fall of the curtains.

Table(s) of Contents Lecture Performance: ‘Emotions, Processing’
Alain Chiu (Composer and Sound Artist) X Nicholas Wong (Poet) Lecture Performance
Dates & Time: 21, 23.1.2022, 21:00
Venue: Soho Yard (19 Old Bailey Street, Central)
In Cantonese, for approximately 40 minutes.

Emotions are familiar yet also an unfamiliar partner to us. For artists, emotions affect also the aesthetics of their works and their life. Through more than a month of collecting and sorting of an array of objects, sound artist Alain Chiu and poet Nicholas Wong transformed the objects into vessels of emotions. Each type of emotion is being showcased as a metaphor or being personified, to help broaden the public’s understanding and imagination of various emotions. During the lecture performance, Alain and Nicholas will unseal each object in front of the audience, and demonstrate how to record and ‘process’ emotions through the use of sound and text.

Table(s) of Contents is the finale programme of JOCKEY CLUB New Arts Power 2021/2022.

ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER

JOCKEY CLUB New Arts Power, launched in 2017, is an annual arts festival presented by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council with the funding support from The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust. It brings together established and emerging local artists to produce creative, approachable and engaging arts experiences for all. Over the past three years, 43 arts groups have participated in JCNAP. Together they produced 90 live performances and a remarkable number of major exhibitions. Uniting art groups and various organisations from the social welfare, academic and commercial sectors, it held over 550 community and school events, reaching some 460,000 participants. JOCKEY CLUB New Arts Power 2021 / 2022 will be held from September 2021, featuring a total of 6 ticketed programmes that include dance, theatre and music, as well as presenting more than 100 community and school activities.