Alessandro Carboni: Always Becoming#Hong Kong
Alessandro Carboni presents a further step of Always Becoming project in Hong Kong. The project is a nomadic platform of research reflecting on the body by combining performative practices, embodiment processes, urban space cartography and experimental geography. Conceived as a collaborative working platform, the project is founded on the interdependence between science, practice and production. Performers, artists and theorists share research materials, thoughts, ideas to work around the body as vector, as a tool and not a condition, to analyze the environment and the urban space. Time and space will be approached from a variety of viewpoints; artistic, political, social. The research period is envisioned to be oscillating between moments of urban explorations, performances, workshops, rehearsal, informal presentations and longer outdoor practice sessions. Always Becoming# took place already in several cities such as Aarhus, Malmo, Copenhagen.
The project is a production by Progressive Archive, with the support of Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC); Videotage: Fuse Artist-in-residence Programme; Italian Culture Institute of Hong Kong; School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.
Activities
RESEARCH:
29.1.2016 (Fri) – 28.2.2016 (Sun)
WORKSHOP
EM: tools urban practice and performance practice
with Alessandro Carboni
04-18-25.02.2016
7:00pm to 10:00pm @ School of Creative Media
EM is a method of urban mapping and performance practice created by Alessandro Carboni that uses the body as device to capture and extract urban events an to map to what happens in a place in its geometrical and temporal extension. The method allows to deal with those events and embody, reconfigure them with a choreographic thinking. The workshop provides practical and theoretical activities in studio and outdoors. info: acarboni.promo@gmail.com
LECTURE
Spacing resonance in the topology of the voice
with Piersandra di Matteo
23.2.2016 (Thu) – 5:00pm
@6/F Future Cinema M6094 – School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong more info
EXHIBITION
City_Scores# – video and drawings
20-28.2.2016, 11:00am to 6:00pm
Opening
19.2.2016 (Fri) – 6:00pm to 8:00pm
@ Videotage, Cattle Depot Artist Village
PERFORMANCE
Corporeal Maps#Hong Kong
19.2.2016 (Fri) – 6:00pm to 8:00pm
@ Unit12, Cattle Depot Artist Village
23-24, 26.2.2016 – 5:00pm
25.2.2016 – 11:00am
27-28.2.2016 – 2:00pm
@ Unit12, Cattle Depot Artist Village
SYMPOSIUM
Embodied City – talks, presentation, detours
20.2.2016 (Sat) – 11:00am to 6:00pm @ Unit12, Cattle Depot Artist Village
21.2.2016 (Sun) – 10:00am to 6:00pm @ Peng Chau island – more info
Visual/media artists, theorists, performers and urban planners – including Piersandra di Matteo (Performing Arts Theorist), MapOffice/Laurent Gutierrez and Valérie Portefaix (Architect/Visual Artist), Yang Yeung (Curator), David Jhave Johnston (Digital Poet), Jane Prophet (Media Artist), Damien Charrieras (Media Theorist), Lai Wai Yi, Monti (Visual Artist), Josef Bares (Visual Artist) and more… – will sit down face-to-face with Carboni, and openly discuss the relations between body and city, embodiment processes, urban space cartography and mapping practices.
Working team:
Project, installations and choreography | Alessandro Carboni
Performers | Felix Ke and Tsui Ivy
Project Coordinator | Florence Wai
Texts and images | Alessandro Carboni
Assistant and texts editing | Luxi Fang
