Love Song：bittersweet crumbs of having them at home / Also a Song: caak3 again
《哀歌：他們存在於此的悲喜 / 也是一首歌：再拆》
Tai Kwun JC Contemporary, Sound Forms 2024, 8th - 9th Nov 2024
In 2024 I was invited to join Tai Kwun’s HICCUP Festival co-presented by Tai Kwun Contemporary, Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong (Sound Forms), and Per.Platform. I invited artists Annisa Cheung and Vunkwan Tam as my collaborator to further develop the idea of the closing performance of The Portraits Lying Aside. For the two days' performance, we created a space filled with assemblages of objects we’ve collected. With 3 more performers, on the first day, we used these assembled objects as instruments. On the second day, we performed by disassembling the “instruments” and dismantling the installations again. The performance aims to amplify the inherent potentials of objects and temporality of space and performance.
Work description
In Love Song: bittersweet of having them here / Also a Song: caak3 again, Winsome Wong, Vunkwan Tam, and Annisa Cheung will create a space filled with assemblages of objects and sounds they’ve collected—ranging from discarded household items and online-purchased objects to scrap metals and low-quality recordings played through inexpensive speakers. They have invited their friends Frank Q, Red, and Bright to join the performance. On the first day, the six of them will perform a song, using these assembled objects as instruments. On the second day, they will also perform another song, through disassembling the “instruments” previously used for the first song and attempting to carefully pack them away.
在《哀歌：他們存在於此的悲喜 / 也是一首歌：再拆》中，黃慧心、譚煥坤和張靜瑜將建構一個由他們收集的物件與聲音組裝而成的空間，包括廢棄的家居用品、網購物件、爛銅爛鐵、透過廉價喇叭播放的低品質錄音等，並且邀請了朋友Frank Q、Red和Bright共同參與演出。在首日演出中，六人將以這些組裝好的物件作為樂器，演奏第一首歌。第二天，他們將拆掉這些曾用來演奏第一首歌的「樂器」，並嘗試將它們妥善包裝，藉此也演奏另一首歌。
Sound Forms 2024, HICCUP Festival, Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong, Per. Platform, Tai Kwun
https://www.taikwun.hk/zh/programme/detail/hiccup/1452
Photos by Zoey Chan and Helen Leung