Tsang Man-tung hosts "Visible Sounds & Audible Images" multimedia lecture series online
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The lectures feature Tsang and four guest speakers who share how, through their works, they have looked into time and space, the inner and the outer, the material and the spiritual, and speed and its reversal. In every lecture, Tsang's singing bowl performance complements the guest speaker's artworks, alongside a dialogue on arts between the artist and the moderator.
Details of the four episodes are as follows:
October 30 (Friday)
Guest speaker: anothermountainman (Stanley Wong), visual communicator
November 6 (Friday)
Guest speaker: Choi Sai-ho, artist of electronic music and multimedia field
November 13 (Friday)
Guest speaker: Koala Yip, creator of multimedia works and practicing educator in multimedia performance
November 20 (Friday)
Guest speaker: Francis So, time-lapse artist and aerial photographer
With 20 years of experience as a scenographer and over 200 design projects for the stage, Tsang Man-tung has a brilliant track record of awards. The notable ones include Best Set Design, Best Costume Design and Best Make-up and Image Design at the Hong Kong Drama Awards; the Award for Best Artist (Theatre) in the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards 2007-08; and Outstanding Set Design for Dance three times at the Hong Kong Dance Awards. In 2010, he visited the Yale School of Drama as a special research fellow on an Asian Cultural Council fellowship from 2009. He was awarded under the Secretary for Home Affairs' Commendation Scheme in 2015 for his contribution to the development of arts and culture. In 2017, he won the Silver Prize for Set Design at World Stage Design 2017 with the martial arts dance drama "Storm Clouds".
Conducted in Cantonese, the first episode has been uploaded to the LCSD's one-stop Online Resources Centre at www.lcsd.gov.hk/en/onlineresources.html. For programme enquiries, please call 2268 7323 or visit www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/CulturalService/Programme/en/multi_arts/programs_1044.html.
Ends/Friday, October 30, 2020
Issued at HKT 17:41
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