An exhibition entitled "Listen to Hong Kong" will be held at the Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Centre from tomorrow (September 4) to October 30, looking at how sound as an artistic language connects everyday experiences with creative expression.
      
     Attending the opening today (September 3) were the Assistant Director of Leisure and Cultural Services (Heritage and Museums), Mr Chan Shing-wai; participating artists Cédric Maridet, Ellen Pau and Samson Young; the Founding Member and Executive Director of the Education Programmes Partner soundpocket, Yeung Yang; and the Museum Director of the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Miss Eve Tam.
      
     The exhibition not only contributes to visitors' understanding of sound art and its multifaceted possibilities, but also inspires them to question the practice of listening, voicing and using sound. Three participating artists have developed their work on sonic memories of Hong Kong to share their everyday experiences.
      
     Inspired by colloquial dialogues of Hong Kong movies, Cédric Maridet has built an installation of voices to study people's ability to speak the truth. Ellen Pau started with a study on the DNA sequence of the city flower, the Bauhinia blakeana, and has offered an interesting experiment of sound. Samson Young's work is based on a two-year project of sound collecting at the boundary between Hong Kong and the Mainland before transcribing the compositions into graphical notations to challenge people's perception about hearing.
      
     Organised by the Hong Kong Museum of Art and with the art group soundpocket as the Education Programmes Partner, the exhibition offers free art workshops to enrich visitors' listening and sonic experience, as well as the appreciation of sound art.
      
     For details of the exhibition and workshops, please visit the museum's website at hk.art.museum/en_US/web/ma/program01.html or call 2721 0116 for enquiries.

Ends/Saturday, September 3, 2016
Issued at HKT 16:22

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