What Burns Never Returns#8 - report

WHAT BURNS NEVER RETURNS PLATFORM#8_HONG KONG - REPORTA project by Alessandro Carboni

Every day we confront with spaces that are alwaysundergoing changes, re-planning and transformation bythe constant relation between the city and the body -from our neighborhoods and parks, to our streets, fromour lands to different borders. I aim to reveal how thesespaces function - and dysfunction - making way forthoughts and actions to be developed in order to createnew modalities of thinking – on the relation betweenhuman body and urban spaces in Hong Kong.(Alessandro Carboni)

WBNR_Platform#8 – HONG KONGFor more than a month, Alessandro Carboni has beenfocusing his research on Nga Tsin Wai village: one of the lastancient villages remained in Kowloon and Hong Kong atlarge,Taking this as a point of departure, Carboni examineslocal disappearing urban spaces, which overlap with severaldiscrete boundaries within Kai Tak River, Kowloon Walled Cityand To Kwa Wan. The project reflects the renewed recognitionthat space matters to cutting edge practices, especially theanalysis on urban and body transformation, making use ofknowledge in both choreography and new media art.Taken in whole or in part, Platform#8 aims not merely to showthe general phenomenon of urban transformation in HongKong, but to inspire people to consider how art practice, beinga discipline for active production of thinking, affects the cityand how it respond to our bodies and spaces. The projectposes a crucial question: How do we move from thinkingabout urban transformation to social and anthropologicaltransformation from exactly where we stand - in ourneighborhoods and our institutions, at the level of the body,the home, the street corner, the city, the region, the network,the supranational trade agreement and every space within,between, and beyond? While there have been much effortsput in theorizing and experimenting similar discourses, therole and potential of spatial investigation between body andcity remains an untouched area. This project and its exhibitioncontribute to the articulation of a powerful concept/tool thatlinks critical theory and ethical practice.A multidisciplinary exhibition and performance has beenpresented in to One space gallery. In addition, a symposia andtwo day workshop have extended the scope and scale of themain exhibition.

WBNR_Platform#8 – HONG KONGProject, concept, installation and choreography | Alessandro CarboniPerformers | Song Nan, King Sau Cheung, Ivy Tsui Yik Chit, Tong Wai Chun MaysonMusic | Dickson DeeContributors for research | Wallace Chang (Department of Architecture, CUHK), Choi Yan Chi (1a space), Tse Yin Mo (Art Product Promotion),Anthony Siu Kwok-Kin (Research Institute of China. History and Department of Chinese), Wing Sze Blake (community Development), Leung sik-lun(Vice-president of Nga tsin Wai community)Editor | Alessandro CarboniDesign | GoodmorningText, Pictures and drawing | Alessandro CarboniPicture in taken in Kai Tak Airport by Yeung Che King HUGO1a space working team | Kiki Ho, Natasha Wong, Vangi FongProject Assistant | Bernice LauTranslator | Natasha Wong, Bernice LauCCDC team | Raymond (Coordinator), Kevin (Assistant Coordinator)AcknoledgmentProduction : Associazione Culturale Ouroboros 2009 (Italy)Presenter: 1a space (Hong Kong)Rehearsal space is partially sponsored byPartnership Programme, CCDC Dance Centre(Hong Kong)Support | LaDU/MultimediaLab. of Urban Density - DIARCH Department of Architecture- Cagliari (Italy) | D3D_Master Didital Environment_NABA (Italy)

RESEARCH

HONG KONG

KOWLOON

KAITAK RIVER NGA TSNI WAI VILLAGEKOWLOON WALLED CITY KAITAK AIRPORT TO KWA WAN

KOWLOON WALLED CITY

KAITAK AIRPORT

NGA TSIN WAI VILLAGE

WALKING AS SENSE OF ABSENCE

_BODY _CITY _ GENERATIVE CODEchoreography, urban geography, communication technology

UNFIXED POSES AND INTERPRETATIONS

FROM OBJECTIVE MAP TO SUBJECTIVE MAPPING

From objective map to subjective mappingExhibition and PerformanceFriday, June 26, 2009 Opening @ 7.30 PM @ 1A spacegallery – Hong Kong

Searching for estimate spaceInstallation by Alessandro CarboniMeasurement (L) 12 x (W) 6 x (D) 0.70mixed media: wood and sandChoreography | Alessandro CarboniPerformers | Song Nan, Cheung Sau King, Tsui Ivy Yik Chit,Tong Wai Chun MaysonMusic | Dickson Dee

Unrealistic figures between map and shadowsInstallation by Alessandro CarboniMeasurement (L) 3.50 x (W) 3.50 x (D) 0.02mixed media: wood, 3000 plastic dots, chalkChoreography | Alessandro CarboniPerformers | Tsui Ivy Yik Chit, Tong Wai Chun MaysonMusic | Dickson Dee

The measurements as given positionInstallation by Alessandro CarboniMeasurement (L) 3.50 x (W) 3.50 x (D) 0.02Mixed media: wood, 600 nails, plasticine, cotton thread.Choreography | Alessandro CarboniPerformers | Song Nan, Alessandro CarboniMusic | Dickson Dee

CONTACTS:[web]: www.alessandrocarboni.org[email]: info@alessandrocarboni.org[external relation]: alessia esposito |relazioni@alessandrocarboni.org[blog]: www.wbnr.wordpress.com[video]: www.vimeo.com/ooffouro[Ladu]: ladulab.wordpress.com

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