Architecture is Art Festival

 

Artistic Director: Mathias Woo
Hong Kong Cultural Centre
1 / 9 – 18 / 10 / 2009

Zuni

Presenter: Zuni Icosahedron

Programme commemorating the
20th Anniversary of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre
Zuni Icosahedron is the Venue Partner of
the Hong Kong Cultural Centre

Co-organisers:
School of Architecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong Institute for Contemporary Culture
People Mountain People Sea
Design and Cultural Studies Workshop
City Pictorial

Message from Artistic director

Architecture is Art Festival is an art festival with architecture as the central topic.

We live amongst architecture, but our understanding of architecture always remains in the economic dimension. The essence of architecture is not economy, but art. Architecture is everywhere, in every aspect of our world of the senses: sounds, colours, smells, lights and the air. Architecture has always been considered as art in Chinese and Western traditions; and has created various aesthetic systems for spaces. Both the Chinese Siheyuan or quadrangles and the Western gothic churches use architectural spaces to draw relationships between men, heaven and earth. However, with the globalisation of capitalism in the last decades, under the environment of our economy being dominated by the market, architecture all over the world has become more integrated, serving for economic benefits only, and focusing solely on monetary returns.

Architecture should only be art, and nothing else, just as cinema should only be art. Economic benefits should have evolved out of artistic effects; but now the nature of architecture is distorted by the market. If the true nature of architecture is lost, and architecture is no longer art, then architecture is no longer architecture. What we are left with is luxury apartments and properties for sale and speculation.

What is the meaning of architecture for the human race, without the art of architecture? What is the meaning of architecture when architecture does not evolve out of art?

Architecture is Art Festival will re-examine architecture from an artistic point of view, manifesting various artistic possibilities of architecture with different art forms.

VIEW TRAILER

ARTISTS AND PARTICIPANTS

ARTISTIC IRECTOR /IRECTOR / DESIGNER

MATHIAS WOO

Mathias Woo
Executive Director of Zuni Icosahedron

   

ADVISORS

Kan Tai Keung

Kan Tai Keung
Designer, Dean of Cheung Kong School of Art & Design, Shantou University

Ho Puay Peng Ho Puay Peng
Director & Professor, School of Architecture; Director, Centre for Chinese Architecture and Heritage, CUHK
  Han Jian

Han Jian (Beijing)
Professor & Vice Dean of the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University

Desmond Hui

Desmond Hui
Director, Centre for Culture and Development; Professor of Cultural and Religious Studies Department, CUHK


CREATIVE ADVISOR, THE FORBIDDEN CITY

Chiu Kwong-chiu

Chiu Kwong-chiu
Author, “The Grand Forbidden City-The Imperial Axis”; Person in charge of Design and Cultural Studies (Hong Kong) Workshop

   

CURATOR, RETHINKING THE CULTURAL WATERFRONT

Chang Ping-hung

Chang Ping-hung
Associate Professor, School of Architecture, CUHK

   

SPECIAL GUEST ARTISTS

Anthony Wong

Anthony Wong
Singer, Composer and Producer; Founding Member of People Mountain People Sea

Kam Kwok Leung

Kam Kwok Leung
Media Veteran; Scriptwriter; Artist


KUNQU OPERA ARTISTS

Zhang Hong

Zhang Hong (Nanjing)
National Class One Playwright of the PRC

Shi Xiaomei

Shi Xiaomei (Nanjing)
National Class One Performer of the PRC

  Li Hongliang

Li Hongliang (Nanjing)
National Class One Performer of the PRC

   

VISUAL ARTISTS ANDCREATION

Stanley Wong

Stanley Wong
(alias anothermountainman) Creative Director & Founder, 84000 Communications

Karena Lam

Karena Lam
Artist

  Tobias Gremmler(慕尼克 Munich)

Tobias Gremmler
(Munich)
Art Director and Designer, ‘Digital Media’ in Germany
www.syncon-d.com

Li Chi Tat

Li Chi Tak
Designer, Comic Artist

  Lai Tat-tat Wing

Lai Tat-tat Wing
Comic Artist

   

GUEST SPEAKERS

Cheng Jianjun

Cheng Jianjun (Guangzhou) Professor, Department of Architecture, South China University of Technology

Wang Weijen

Wang Weijen
Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong

  Ray Chen

Ray Chen (Taipei)
Founder & Design Director of Ray Chen International Ltd.

Liu JiaKun

Liu JiaKun (ChengDu)
Person in charge, Jiakun Architects

  Zhu Xiaodi

Zhu Xiaodi (BeiJing)
Dean & Chief Architect, Beijing Institute of Architectural Design

Zhang Lei

Zhang Lei (Nanjing)
Person in charge, Atelier Zhanglei Architecture Design Institute; Professor, School of Architecture, Nanjing University

  Wang Shu

Wang Shu (Hangzhou)
Dean & Department of Architecture, China Academy of Art

Jiang Jun

Jiang Jun (Beijing)
Chief Editor, Urban China; expert of urban problems and individual artist and curator

  Li Wen

Li Wen (Guangzhou)
Deputy Editor-In-Chief, City Pictorial; passion in promoting creative culture in China

Chen Xujun

Chen Xujun (Guangzhou)
Expert of Ecotourism; Writer; Chief Representative of Green Globe 21 in China

  ZHANG XIAOZHOU

Zhang Xiaozhou (Beijing)
Music Critic; Performance Curator; Sport Critic

   

CREATIVE WRITING

Pia Ho

Pia Ho
Founding Member, Zuni Icosahedron; Creative Director, Hong Kong Commercial Radio

   

Music / Sound Creation & Live Performance

Yu Yat-yiu@ PMPS

Yu Yat-yiu@ PMPS
Composer; Founding Member, People Mountain People Sea

Steve Hui(Nerve)

Steve Hui(Nerve)
Composer; Member, experimental electronic music group VSOP

  VSOP

VSOP
Formed by Kim Lam and Steve Hui (Nerve)

Jason Choi@ PMPS

Jason Choi@ PMPS
Composer; Founding Member of People Mountain People Sea

  Edgar Hung

Edgar Hung
Composer; Founder, the multimedia group der Fluss

Lam Tsan Tong

Lam Tsan Tong
Music Manager, Wuji Ensemble

  Cheng Yuk

Cheng Yuk
Lecturer, The Junior Music Programme, the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts

Chau Chin Tung

Chau Chin Tung
Principal Percussion, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta

  Gaybird@ PMPS

Gaybird@ PMPS
The kingpin of individual group “Multiplex”

Xu Cheng

Xu Cheng (Shanghai)
Independent Sound Artist

  Dajuin Yao

Dajuin Yao (Taipei)
Sound Artist; Music Producer; Curator; Radio Host; Art Historian

Zen Lu

Zen Lu (Shenzhen)
Experimental Musician; Sound Artist; Founder, We Play! Records and Neo Sound group

  Sin:Ned

Sin:Ned
Music Critic; Electronic Music and Sound Artist

A lok

A lok
Founder, the alternative experimental music brand Lona Records

  Pun Tak Shu

Pun Tak Shu
Multimedia artist in sound/music, video, graphic and theatre

Joao Vasco Paiva

Joao Vasco Paiva
Sound/ Music artist

  Aenon Jia-en LOO

Aenon Jia-en LOO
Sound Artist in electronic music live performance

KWC

KWC
Member, the electronic music live band No One Pulse and the Laptop trio iii

  Gayamyan

Gayamyan
Formed by Ma Lap-yin, Chung Chak-ming and Cedric Chan

   

ARTIST / PERFORMER  

Cedric Chan

Cedric Chan
Resident Artist, Zuni Icosahedron; Member, the local band of Gayamyan

David Yeung

David Yeung
Founding Member & Resident Artist, Zuni Icosahedron

  Dick Wong

Dick Wong
Choreographer; Creative Performer

Carson Chung

Carson Chung
Creative Performer

  Tanya Chan

Tanya Chan 
Legislative Counselor; Creative Performer

Carmen Wu

Carmen Wu
Resident Artist, Zuni Icosahedron

  Shirley Yip

Shirley Yip
Creative Performer

Albert Tsang

Albert Tsang
Creative Performer