The Separated Rooms sheds light on the unique listening experience and primary medium of such transmission, the space. Five artists approach sound with manifested and nuanced perspectives. By responding to the infrastructure of an ordinary yet uncanny site, the artists create a momentary situation that visualizes inaudible sound - Hissing and roaring, soft and loud, slow and fast, rational yet surrealistic, intimate but irritating, biological and psychological… While a contemplative image is multi-layered, and juxtaposed with the urbanscape, sound resonates and ricochets within a confined everyday life setting, and it finally dissolved into the space .

The diversity of works reflects some phenomenon in Hong Kong - nerve-racking insomnia caused by over sensitivity, cyclical pitch hitting our hearing components, mental and emotional attachment to the love ones, etc. Aural space can hardly be shared, and so does individual listening experience. We are human after all, more or less we are mediated and habituated to certain mode of listening that is shaped by the society. Through a series of site-specific installation and improvisation, five artists aim to promote the mode of active listening, which heightens the relationship between interior and exterior space of participants.

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The exhibition/event is curated by LEE Kai Chung.
Five artists are CHOI Tsui Yin Grace, LEE Kai Chung, WONG Ka Chung Dorothy, WU Jiaru and ZHAO Qian Echo.

About the curator

Lee Kai Chung researches historical events, political system and ideology. Lee addresses the lack of proper governance on records and pending legislation of Archives Law. Through performance, documentation and installation, Lee considers individual gesture as form of political and artistic transgression that resonates with the pre-existing narratives of history and story. In his ongoing research, Archive of the People, Lee investigates framework of such socio-political issues, whether through a series of negotiation and encounter with Government departments.
(www.archiveofthepeople.com)

About the artists

CHOI Tsui Yin, Grace is a Hong Kong based artist, who was born in Taiwan. She received her bachelor degree in Psychology and is now finishing her study of Master of Fine Arts in School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.

WONG Ka Chung Dorothy received her Bachelor of Arts degree (Hons.) in Fine Arts from The Chinese University of Hong Kong before pursuing her Master of Fine Arts degree at School of Creative Media, The City University of Hong Kong. Recently Wong has finished her graduation thesis and she is now working on several exhibitions. Her main research is on photography and inter-media experiments between video and the still image.
(www.dorothywong2.squarespace.com)

WU Jiaru is a Chinese artist with a background of printmaking and media art. Wu explores mundane affairs and the beautiful cosmos.(www.chiaju.com)

ZHAO Qian, Echo is a Chinese artist with a background of literature and media art. Qian currently lives and works in Hong Kong. Her work focuses on microscopic sound and perceptual atmosphere.

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Date: Saturday 25 June 2016
Time: First session 7:00 – 7:40 pm | Second session 8:00 – 8:40 pm

Participants are expected to contribute a token of HKD30 or above upon arrival.
In addition, leaving in the middle of the performative event is not recommended.

RSVP is necessary. Please email 1) your name, 2) number of participants and 3) attending session (First session 7:00 – 7:40 pm | Second session 8:00 – 8:40 pm) to archiveofthepeople@gmail.com. Details of the exhibition venue will be further informed in the confirmation email.

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「隔壁」 探討獨特的聆聽經驗和聲音傳播的基本媒介──空間。五位藝術家採取和而不同的角度去開拓聲音的可塑性。在一個看似平常但牆壁發出斷續沈吟的展覽場地，藝術 家們透過製造具時間性的獨特情境，去呈現微以幾希的迴響 ──嘶喊與低叱 、輕柔與裂帛、理性而超現實、親密但惹人生厭、生理和心理、忽高又低⋯⋯在一系列發人深醒的意像重疊與並列於香港城市脈絡裡，聲音於那日常生活陳設中產生 迴響，最近滲入了無形的空間裡。

展覽中作品的多樣性反映香港人的普遍現像──夜夜惱人的失眠皆因過份敏感、喋喋不休的音頻重擊聽覺神經、 逝去感情如何留得住等等。各感觀中，聽覺經驗從來都是個人的且較難轉化作其他語言，相比下欣賞聲音的能力和傾向就被 社會因循的約定俗成所影響，而產生一些共同的領聽習慣。 藝術家們希望透過一系列的裝置和聲音作品，去推廣一種主動的領聽模式，進而加深參與者內在跟外在空間的連繫。

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是次展覽由李繼忠策劃。
五位藝術家分別是蔡翠茵、李繼忠、黃加頌、吳佳儒和趙倩。

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日期：星期六 25.06.2016
時間：第一節：晚上7:00 – 7:40 ｜第二節晚上 8:00 – 8:40
地點： 電郵確認

展覽將會收取30元以作營運經費。
另外，參加者不可在表演中途離開。

參加者請發電郵到archiveofthepeople@gmail.com，電郵內容請包括1）參加者名字，2) 參加者人數，3)參加時段（第一節：晚上7:00 – 7:40 ｜第二節晚上 8:00 – 8:40）。確認電郵中將會列明展覽地點。

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