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CHAN Kwun-Fee

Chan Kwun-fee graduated in the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. As an independent trans-disciplinary artist creating mainly contemporary performance work, Chan is concerned with human conditions in contemporary world as well as the power relationships and social structure. Her works are renowned for the global visions and humanistic concern. Chan freely employs different media like text, performing bodies, space and technologies, with ethnographic research, to create live works that emphasises experiential and multi layers of narratives.

In 2014 – 2018, Chan investigated about refugee and war ethics issues in the renowned Border series which consists of three immersive theatrical plays. From 2019, she started the “Dream and Reality” series using sound installation as tactics to explore about sub-consciousness and collective consciousness. In the meantime, she is concerned with urban development issues by curating series of live works in real cityscapes.

Her work Kassandra, or the World of the End of Representation won the IATC Critics Award 2018 for “Performance of the Year” by the IATC(HK) and was nominated for Best Overall Performance, Best Director and Best Scenography at the Hong Kong Theatre Libre.

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Work

《 Only When You Sleep, It Works 》

Are you in reality or a dream? Are you really sure?

The sound from the brain intersects with the sound from the body; fiercely they grow,

People survive between horror speculation and barrens of life; how can they sail forth to the future of darkness?

If we are the last generation of the earth, can we declare,

‘This is the best moment among all possible worlds’?

If reality is an eternal nightmare, what would you like to overwrite?

Inspired by A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming.

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A journey of experiential-performance only achievable by audience’s involvement. Rest assured in this effortless trip, simply relax. There is no absolute way, as your subconscious and memory will guide you through any routes beyond our default.

Work

《 Where is Our Sea? — Vision Variables 》

Does the sea in front of you seem real? It is indeed a fabrication based on the sea of 2018. In 2040, the sea has vanished. Humans have to face their existence in the void landscape.

“Vision Variables” is an audio guided performance along the future coast. Wearing the headphones and wandering around the coast, audience will find that they are drifting between the timespace of here-and-now and the future. They will walk and participate through the guidance of the audio, tucked into the future landscape, to rethink about possibilities of our reality and future.

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