Invited by the Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, I spoke at the ‘2018 Annual MCS Symposium – Performing Crossover: Variations and New Alternatives in Hong Kong’s Cultural Studies’, about how performance studies informs my practice as an artist/researcher.
Session Two:Performance Studies in the post-Umbrella Movement Era
The second part of the annual MCS symposium features Hong Kong artists actively engaging in performance as a mode of social intervention. Their work can be located in a broader set of creative responses to the Umbrella Movement, prompting the question of a relationship between performance and social movement understood as intrinsic in performance studies. Exploring the potentials of the emerging discipline that views sociocultural acts and bodily movements in everyday life as performance, the speakers will interrogate the place of performance studies and their work in the post-Umbrella Movement era. In so doing, they will engage interdisciplinary scholars working on the context of Hong Kong.
Moderator: CHAN Ching-kiu Stephen
Speakers: AUYEUNG Tung, HUNG Fan-keung Billy, LI Siu-leung, wen yau
Date/Time: 17/3/2018, 16:40-18:10