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Why Theatre Exists?

1964. Two years after the new ‘Bauhaus style’ Hong Kong City Hall had been opened in Central Hong Kong, it started to become the main theatre venue and cultural hub, which it remained for decades; Marshall McLuhan coined his infamous expression ‘the medium is the message’ in the same year, an influential media theory for the contemporary, at a time when television was still in its infancy, and the personal computer lay almost twenty years in the future.

2014. In a summer night some fifty years later, 87 cans of tear gas were fired in and around Central. That night, snapshot images and video clips of people being dispersed by the gas were, in an instant, all over television news, home TV screens, smartphones and social networks.

We believe theatre is a ‘mirror to society’, allowing it to examine itself; a world of ‘concentrated reality,’ we find pieces of ourselves in it; it is also a door for provoking thoughts and changes; theatre artists open conversations with the audience about the environment, community and philosophy, establishing an extended and in-depth thinking with their works. Apart from creating a meaningful dialogue, their greatest desire is to respond to what is happening in society. Faced with Hong Kong’s current situation, as local theatre practitioners we must ask ourselves: Why Theatre Exists?

The exhibition has three sections: EXPLORE, EXPERIENCE, EXIT. Visitors must take off their shoes before entering. Why Theatre Exists? will be imprinted at the entrance wall, manifested our theme to explore, as well as an question to all visitors. Hong Kong’s most representative theatre works will be shown on the side walls, and in models, renderings, videos, photos.

EXPLORE

Black is the keynote of theatre, as well as of our concept of exploring the use of space. Thermochromic technology requires visitors to use their body-heat to interact with the space while at the same time exploring different esthetics of theatre.

EXPERIENCE

Interviews for Why Theatre Exists? will be projected onto the wall, with people sharing their experiences of ‘how theatre is their exits’ shown through the only small window in the room.

EXIT

Interviewees’ voices will be heard and the warmth of visitors’ feet will make the floor disappear to reveal the sky underneath. Their feet and the ‘blue sky’ are merged, narrowing the distance between their body and mind, to reflect themselves and again asking the question: Why theatre exists?

Exist is Exit? Exist or Exit?

Being one of the oldest creative industries in the world, what does THEATRE mean to Hong Kong? What is its value and position? Are we seeking communication, relief, creation or self-satisfaction? The small window that exists in our confined space is the only exit from the room.

Curators : Allan Shek Pang TSUI, Billy Cheuk Wah CHAN Theme authors, designers/ architects of exhibition: Po Yu CHAN, Cindy Pui Shan HO, Wai Man SIU, Ted Kin Tak CHAN, Tsz Yan YEUNG

Exhibiting artists / ateliers

• 銘鏗 劉 (Ming Hang Lau)

Specialization: lighting designer, Pop-up Art Designer, Theatre Director
Education: BFA (Hons), Lighting Design, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts
Collaboration with theatres: Theatre du Pif, On & On Theatre Workshop, Prospects Theatre, Hong Kong Repertory Theatre, Actors’ Family, City Contemporary Dance Company, School of Theatre of Macao Conservatory and The Theatre Practice (Singapore).
Additional information: Lau has directed and created his own theatre productions, including "Mr. Windy NoBody", "Am I Crying, Just Do It Lady Eccentric" and "Ordinary Living", which are fusions of storytelling, paper-cutting, music and the crafting of pop-up storybooks.

Exhibiting works

• Janice Sze Wan POON: (And Then, I Float), 前進進戲劇工作坊 (On and On Theatre Workshop), 2013, Director: Chun Chow LEE, scénický a kostýmní výtvarník/set and costume designer: Wai Man SIU, světelný designér/lighting designer: Ming Hang LAU, video designér/video designer: Ziv Siu Leung CHUN ; Identification of exhibit: photos in video format ;
  Comments: Inspired by Letters to Olga, a collection of letters to his wife written by Czech playwright Vaclav Havel from prison, this monologue depicts the voice and journey of a dissident's wife who is under house arrest. She is comforted by reading letters and her thought travels far with her counterparts.
• 逸君 黃 (Jonathan Yak Kwan WONG)

Specialization: set designer, costume designer
Education: BFA (Hons), Theatre & Film Design, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts; MFA, Theatre Design, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
Collaboration with theatres: Hong Kong Dance Company, Hong Kong Repertory Theatre, Utopia Cantonese Opera, Tang Shu Wing Theatre Studio, Trinity Theatre, Just Grand Partnership and Cole Kitchenn Ltd.
Teaching activities: HKAPA Artist-in-residence
Additional information: In his graduation project Phaedra, his contemporary approach of set and costume design won the Academy Student Union awards for Best Stage Design and Best Production, as well as several Hong Kong Drama Awards.

Exhibiting works

• Martin Crimp: 安. 非她命 (Attempts On Her Life), 香港話劇團 (Hong Kong Repertory Theatre), 2013, Director: Wai Hang FUNG 馮蔚衡, Costume designer: Cindy Pui Shan HO Video designer: Wing LO Lighting designer: Tsz Yan YEUNG Sound designer: Wai Fat CHAN ; Identification of exhibit: model ;
  Comments: “What is happening in our world?” asks playwright Martin Crimp. The world has changed. It is becoming blurry, constant disputes, hard to judge right or wrong. People keep challenging each other, making the society disintegrate. Anne’s life is not hers; she can be human, but also anything. The only thing that does not change - she can’t control her life.
• 子欣 楊 (Tsz Yan YEUNG)

Specialization: lighting designer
Education: BFA (Hons), Lighting Design, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts
Collaboration with theatres: Hong Kong Dance Company, Hong Kong Repertory Theatre, W Theatre, Windmill Grass Theatre. Awarded Best Lighting design twice by HK Drama Award
Additional information: Yan has twice won the HK Drama Award, for "Phaedra" (2006) and "Iron" (2012). In 2012 the whole design team for HK Dance "Two Swallows - Ode to Wu Guanzhong" received the HK Dance Dance Award for Outstanding Design.

Exhibiting works

• Martins Crimp: 安. 非她命 (Attempts On Her Life), 香港話劇團 (Hong Kong Repertory Theatre), 2013, Director: Fung Wai Hang 馮蔚衡, scénický výtvarník/set designer: Yat Kwan WONG, kostýmní výtvarnice/costume designer: Cindy Pui Shan HO, videodesignér/video designer: Wing LO, světelný designér/lighting designer: Tsz Yan YEUNG ; Identification of exhibit: photos in video format ;
  Comments: “What is happening in our world?” asks playwright Martin Crimp. The world has changed. It is becoming blurry, constant disputes, hard to judge right or wrong. People keep challenging each other, making the society disintegrate. Anne’s life is not hers; she can be human, but also anything. The only thing that does not change - she can’t control her life.
• Wing Shing MA (Comic Creator)/ Chun Tung SIN (script) : 風雲 (Storm Clouds), 香港舞蹈團 (Hong Kong Dance Company), 2014, Director: Yuntao YANG, scénický výtvarník/set designer: Man Tong TSANG, kostýmní výtvarník/costume designer: Kwan Kit MOK, hudební režisér, skladatel/music director, composer: Che Yi LEE, skladatel/composer: Sai Ho CHOI, video designér/video designer: John Chi Wai WONG ; Identification of exhibit: photos in video format ;
  Comments: Based on the martial arts comic by Hong Kong’s renowned artist Wing Shing MA, dance drama Storm Clouds brings memorable characters and their fantastical, imaginative world to life. It mirrors the comic’s visual structure and its underlying Zen ideas through inventive staging and sensitive choreography, creating a grand and expansive world on stage.
• 珮姍  何 (Cindy Pui Shan HO)

Specialization: set designer, costume designer
Education: BFA (Hons), Theatre & Costume Design, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts
Collaboration with theatres: Trinity Theatre, We Draman Group, The Radiant Theatre, Hong Kong Dance Company and Kearen Pang Production
Additional information: Recent costume design for Hong Kong Arts Festival, The Hong Kong Jockey Club, Artocrite Theatre, The Cans. Macau Cultural Centre. Hong Kong Repertory Theatre.

Exhibiting works

• Martin Crimp: 安. 非她命 (Attempts On Her Life), 香港話劇團 (Hong Kong Repertory Theatre), 2013, Director: Wai Hang FUNG 馮蔚衡, scénický výtvarník/set designer: Yat Kwan WONG, kostýmní výtvarnice/costume designer: Cindy Pui Shan HO, videodesignér/video designer: Wing LO, světelný designér/lighting designer: Tsz Yan YEUNG ; Identification of exhibit: photos in video format ;
  Comments: “What is happening in our world?” asks playwright Martin Crimp. The world has changed. It is becoming blurry, constant disputes, hard to judge right or wrong. People keep challenging each other, making the society disintegrate. Anne’s life is not hers; she can be human, but also anything. The only thing that does not change - she can’t control her life.
• 偉發 陳 (Wai Fat  CHAN)

Hong Kong
Specialization: sound designer, sound artist
Education: Bachelor of Arts (Music) from the University of Hong Kong
Additional information: Born and raised in Hong Kong, Chan obtained his Bachelor of Arts (Music) from the University of Hong Kong. In recent years, Chan has worked extensively as a theatre composer and sound designer. He plays guitar, bass and various homemade instruments.

Exhibiting works

• Martin Crimp: 安. 非她命 (Attempts On Her Life), 香港話劇團 (Hong Kong Repertory Theatre), 2013, Director: Wai Hang FUNG 馮蔚衡, scénický výtvarník/set designer: Yat Kwan WONG, kostýmní výtvarnice/costume designer: Cindy Pui Shan HO, videodesignér/video designer: Wing LO, světelný designér/lighting designer: Tsz Yan YEUNG ; Identification of exhibit: Sound clips ;
  Comments: “What is happening in our world?” asks playwright Martin Crimp. The world has changed. It is becoming blurry, constant disputes, hard to judge right or wrong. People keep challenging each other, making the society disintegrate. Anne’s life is not hers; she can be human, but also anything. The only thing that does not change - she can’t control her life.
• Janice Sze Wan POON: (And Then, I Float), 前進進戲劇工作坊 (On and On Theatre Workshop), 2013, Director: Chun Chow LEE, scénický a kostýmní výtvarník/set and costume designer: Wai Man SIU, světelný designér/lighting designer: Ming Hang LAU, video designér/video designer: Ziv Siu Leung CHUN ; Identification of exhibit: Sound clips ;
  Comments: Inspired by Letters to Olga, a collection of letters to his wife written by Czech playwright Vaclav Havel from prison, this monologue depicts the voice and journey of a dissident's wife who is under house arrest. She is comforted by reading letters and her thought travels far with her counterparts.
• 榮 盧 (Wing LO)

Hong Kong
Specialization: media artist
Education: MFACM, Media Design and Technical Arts, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong
Collaboration with theatres: Theatre Noir, HK Arts Festival, Windmill Grass Theatre, BravoTheatre, Pichead on Stage, Class 7A Drama Group
Additional information: His work Me, Mother, Grand Mother, Father, DV won the Grand Jury Prix at the 2007 Beijing College Student Film Festival; She is a Girl, I am a Girl too was screened at the Asian Lesbian Film and Video Festival 2005.

Exhibiting works

• Martin Crimp: 安. 非她命 (Attempts On Her Life), 香港話劇團 (Hong Kong Repertory Theatre), 2013, Director: Wai Hang FUNG 馮蔚衡, scénický výtvarník/set designer: Yat Kwan WONG, kostýmní výtvarnice/costume designer: Cindy Pui Shan HO, videodesignér/video designer: Wing LO, světelný designér/lighting designer: Tsz Yan YEUNG ; Identification of exhibit: video ;
  Comments: “What is happening in our world?” asks playwright Martin Crimp. The world has changed. It is becoming blurry, constant disputes, hard to judge right or wrong. People keep challenging each other, making the society disintegrate. Anne’s life is not hers; she can be human, but also anything. The only thing that does not change - she can’t control her life.
• 偉敏 邵 (Wai Man SIU)

Hong Kong
Specialization: set designer, costume designer
Education: BFA (Hons), Theatre & Costume Design, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts
Collaboration with theatres: Hong Kong Dance Company, Hong Kong Repertory Theatre, W Theatre, On & ON Theatre Workshop, Windmill Grass Theatre
Additional information: Double winner of HK Drama Award, for "Shedskin" (2012) and "The Cherry Orchard" (2014) respectively.

Exhibiting works

• Janice Sze Wan POON: (And Then, I Float), 前進進戲劇工作坊 (On and On Theatre Workshop), 2013, Director: Chun Chow LEE, světelný designér/lighting designer: Ming Hang LAU, zvukový designér/sound designer: Wai Fat CHAN, video designér/video designer: Ziv Siu Leung CHUN ; Identification of exhibit: model ;
  Comments: Inspired by Letters to Olga, a collection of letters to his wife written by Czech playwright Vaclav Havel from prison, this monologue depicts the voice and journey of a dissident's wife who is under house arrest. She is comforted by reading letters and her thought travels far with her counterparts.
• 紹良 秦 (Ziv Siu Leung CHUN)

Hong Kong
Specialization: media artist, visual artist, Graphic Design
Education: BFA (Hons), Applied & Media Arts, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Collaboration with theatres: Hong Kong Dramatists, Hong Kong Ballet Group, Trinity Theatre, On & On Theatre, trailer editing work for Hong Kong Dance and Yat Po Singers.
Additional information: Ziv is a freelance media designer who also works on video projection design for theatre production, promotion trailer editing and graphic design projects.

Exhibiting works

• Janice Sze Wan POON: (And Then, I Float), 前進進戲劇工作坊 (On and On Theatre Workshop), 2013, Director: Chun Chow LEE, scénický a kostýmní výtvarník/set and costume designer: Wai Man SIU, světelný designér/lighting designer: Ming Hang LAU, video designér/video designer: Ziv Siu Leung CHUN ; Identification of exhibit: video ;
  Comments: Inspired by Letters to Olga, a collection of letters to his wife written by Czech playwright Vaclav Havel from prison, this monologue depicts the voice and journey of a dissident's wife who is under house arrest. She is comforted by reading letters and her thought travels far with her counterparts.
• 文通 曾 (Man Tong TSANG)

Specialization: set designer, Vibrational Healing and Subtle-Energy Therapy
Education: BFA (Hons), Theatre & Costume Design, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts
Collaboration with theatres: Hong Kong Dance Company, Hong Kong Repertory Theatre, On & On Theatre, O Theatre, PIP Theatre
Participation in other important exhibitions: World Stage Design 2009
Awards: Honourable Mention for Set Design at World Stage Design 2009
Additional information: He has received numerous awards in the field, including Best Set & Costume Design and Best Make-up & Image design at the HK Drama Awards and Young Artist in 2003 and Best Artist (Theatre) in 2008 from the HK Arts Development Council.

Exhibiting works

• Wing Shing MA (tvůrce komiky/comic creator)/ Chun Tung SIN (scénář/script) : 風雲 (Storm Clouds), 香港舞蹈團 (Hong Kong Dance Company), 2014, Director: Yuntao YANG, kostýmní výtvarník/costume designer: Kwan Kit MOK, světelný designér/lighting designer: Tsz Yan YEUNG, hudební režisér a skladatel/music director, composer: Che Yi LEE, skladatel/ composer: Sai Ho CHOI, videodesignér/video designer: John Chi Wai WONG ; Identification of exhibit: model ;
  Comments: Based on the martial arts comic by Hong Kong’s renowned artist Wing Shing MA, dance drama Storm
  Clouds brings memorable characters and their fantastical, imaginative world to life. It mirrors the comic’s
  visual structure and its underlying Zen ideas through inventive staging and sensitive choreography, creating a grand and expansive world on stage.
• 君傑 莫 (Eddy Kwan Kit MOK)

Specialization: costume designer, Art direction in Film and TV
Collaboration with theatres: Hong Kong Dance Company, Hong Kong Repertory Theatre
Awards: Awarded Best Art Direction in 1990 Asia Pacific Film Festival by Kawashima Yoshiko, & Best Costume and Make-up Design at the 34th Golden Horse Award by Eighteen Springs.
Additional information: He has worked on countless films and TV dramas and has received multiple nominations at the Hong Kong Film Awards for Art Direction, Costume and Makeup Design.

Exhibiting works

• Wing Shing MA (Comic Creator)/ Chun Tung SIN (script) : 風雲 (Storm Clouds), 香港舞蹈團 (Hong Kong Dance Company), 2014, Director: Yuntao YANG, scénický výtvarník/set designer: Man Tong TSANG, světelný designér/lighting designer: Tsz Yan YEUNG, hudební režisér a skladatel/muisc director, composer: Che Yi LEE, skladatel/composer: Sai Ho CHOI, videodesignér/video designer: John Chi Wai WONG ; Identification of exhibit: photos in video format ;
  Comments: Based on the martial arts comic by Hong Kong’s renowned artist Wing Shing MA, dance drama Storm
  Clouds brings memorable characters and their fantastical, imaginative world to life. It mirrors the comic’s
  visual structure and its underlying Zen ideas through inventive staging and sensitive choreography, creating a grand and expansive world on stage.
• 哲藝 李 (Che Yi LEE)

Gaoxiong Taiwan
Specialization: composer, theatre director, music director
Collaboration with theatres: Hong Kong Dance Company
Awards: LEE was awarded Best Composer on the 23rd Gold Prize Award, China Top Ten HIFI Record Award, China Music Awards
Additional information: Lee has composed and arranged over 1,500 and 3,700 songs respectively. Apart from composing, arranging and scoring for over 100 local and international performing companies, he has also performed at dozens of international arts festivals.

Exhibiting works

• Wing Shing MA (Comic Creator)/ Chun Tung SIN (script) : 風雲 (Storm Clouds), 香港舞蹈團 (Hong Kong Dance Company), 2014, Director: Yuntao YANG, Set designer: Man Tong TSANG Costume designer: Kwan Kit MOK Lighting designer: Tsz Yan YEUNG Video designer: John Chi Wai WONG ; Identification of exhibit: Sound clips ;
  Comments: Based on the martial arts comic by Hong Kong’s renowned artist Wing Shing MA, dance drama Storm Clouds brings memorable characters and their fantastical, imaginative world to life. It mirrors the comic’s visual structure and its underlying Zen ideas through inventive staging and sensitive choreography, creating a grand and expansive world on stage.
• 世豪 蔡 (Sai Ho CHOI)

Specialization: composer, audio-visual artist, musician
Education: MFACM, City University of Hong Kong
Collaboration with theatres: Hong Kong Dance Company
Additional information: In 2006 he became the first Hong Kong musician to join the Red Bull Music Academy in Melbourne; he was one of Hong Kong Time Out Magazine’s Hong Kong Top 20 Musicians in 2008 and came first at The Best of HK Indie 2009.

Exhibiting works

• Wing Shing MA (tvůrce komiky/comic creator)/ Chun Tung SIN (scénář/script) : 風雲 (Storm Clouds), 香港舞蹈團 (Hong Kong Dance Company), 2014, Director: Yuntao YANG, scénický výtvarník/set designer: Man Tong TSANG, kostýmní výtvarník/costume designer: Kwan Kit MOK, světelný designér/lighting designer: Tsz Yan YEUNG, videodesignér/video designer: John Chi Wai WONG ; Identification of exhibit: Sound clips ;
  Comments: Based on the martial arts comic by Hong Kong’s renowned artist Wing Shing MA, dance drama Storm
  Clouds brings memorable characters and their fantastical, imaginative world to life. It mirrors the comic’s
  visual structure and its underlying Zen ideas through inventive staging and sensitive choreography, creating a grand and expansive world on stage.
• 志偉 黃 (John, Chi Wai WONG)

Hong Kong
Specialization: theatre director, Multi Media Artist
Education: School of Film and Television, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts
Collaboration with theatres: Hong Kong Dance Company, Danny YUNG, Zuni Icosahedron, PIP Theatre, Edward Lam Dance Theatre and Stan LAI
Additional information: A multi-media artist, Wong graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, majoring in Film & Television. He is now the creative director of a multimédia creative agency – dontbelievhinstyle. He has worked on creative projects in art, entertainment and commercial.

Exhibiting works

• Wing Shing MA (Comic Creator)/ Chun Tung SIN (script) : 風雲 (Storm Clouds), 香港舞蹈團 (Hong Kong Dance Company), 2014, Director: Yuntao YANG, scénický výtvarník/set designer: Man Tong TSANG, kostýmní výtvarník/costume designer: Kwan Kit MOK, světelný designér/lighting designer: Tsz Yan YEUNG ; Identification of exhibit: video ;
  Comments: Based on the martial arts comic by Hong Kong’s renowned artist Wing Shing MA, dance drama Storm
  Clouds brings memorable characters and their fantastical, imaginative world to life. It mirrors the comic’s
  visual structure and its underlying Zen ideas through inventive staging and sensitive choreography, creating a grand and expansive world on stage.
• Wing Sze WONG: 三國 (What is Success?), 非常林奕華 (Edward Lam Dance Theatre), 2012, Director: Edward LAM 林奕華, produkční ředitel/production director: Po Yu CHAN, scénickýž výtvarník/set designer: Ewing Yau Wing CHAN, image designer: Kary KWOK, světelný designér/lighting designer: Billy Cheuk Wah CHAN, zvukový designér/sound designer: Chak Ming CHUNG ; Identification of exhibit: video ;
  Comments: Loyalty. Courage. Benevolence. Forgiveness. Admiration. Jealousy. Resentment. What Is Success? is an adaptation of classic novel Three Kingdoms that delves into the uncertainty of the human heart. LAM's style remains dialectical and diverse. His persistence with the reconstruction of the classics is expressed with rich emotion in this work.
• 友榮 陳 (Ewing, Yau Wing CHAN)

Specialization: set designer, Scenic Artist
Education: Higher Diploma, Applied Arts, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts
Collaboration with theatres: Yam Kim Fai & Pak Suet Sin Charitable Foundation, W Theatre, Edward Lam Dance Theatre
Continuing collaboration with directors: Yuri NG, Shu Yi CHOU
Additional information: Ewing has collaborated with a large number of theatres, dance companies and arts festivals; his works are simple yet powerful. His designs with ELDT were most acclaimed – from French classroom to abandoned warehouse, all were impressive and unforgettable.

Exhibiting works

• Wing Sze WONG: 三國 (What is Success?), 非常林奕華 (Edward Lam Dance Theatre), 2012, Director: Edward LAM 林奕華, produkční ředitel/production director: Po Yu CHAN, scénický výtvarník/set designer: Ewing Yau Wing CHAN, image designer: Kary KWOK, světelný designér/lighting designer: Billy Cheuk Wah CHAN, zvukový designér/sound designer: Chak Ming CHUNG, videodesignér/video designer: John Chi Wai WONG ; Identification of exhibit: model ;
  Comments: Loyalty. Courage. Benevolence. Forgiveness. Admiration. Jealousy. Resentment. What Is Success? is an adaptation of classic novel Three Kingdoms that delves into the uncertainty of the human heart. LAM's style remains dialectical and diverse. His persistence with the reconstruction of the classics is expressed with rich emotion in this work.
• 焯華 陳 (Billy Cheuk Wah CHAN)

Hong Kong
Specialization: lighting designer
Education: BFA (Hons), Lighting Design, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts
Collaboration with theatres: PIP Theatre, Edward Lam Dance Theatre, Hong Kong Repertory Theatre, Hong Kong Ballet, Trinity Theatre, Hong Kong Arts Festival
Continuing collaboration with directors: Danny YUNG, Stan LAI,
Additional information: Billy has collaborated with a large number of directors and choreographers in opera, dance and modern theatre, and won the award for Best Lighting Design at the 2008 HK Drama Awards. He is one of the curators for the Parallel Space – Hong Kong Theatre Design Exhibition 2013–15.

Exhibiting works

• Wing Sze WONG: 三國 (What is Success?), 非常林奕華 (Edward Lam Dance Theatre), 2012, Director: Edward LAM 林奕華, produkční ředitel/production director: Po Yu CHAN, scénický výtvarník/set designer: Ewing Yau Wing CHAN, image esigner: Kary KWOK, světelný designér/lighting designer:Billy Cheuk Wah CHAN, zvukový designér/sound designer: Chak Ming CHUNG, video designér/video designer: John Chi Wai WONG ; Identification of exhibit: photos in video format ;
  Comments: Loyalty. Courage. Benevolence. Forgiveness. Admiration. Jealousy. Resentment. What Is Success? is an adaptation of classic novel Three Kingdoms that delves into the uncertainty of the human heart. LAM's style remains dialectical and diverse. His persistence with the reconstruction of the classics is expressed with rich emotion in this work.
• 家賜 郭 (Kary KWOK)

Hong Kong
Specialization: costume designer, Photograper
Education: MA(RCA), Photography, The Royal College of Art, U.K.
Collaboration with theatres: Edward Lam Dance Theatre, Hong Kong Arts Festival
Teaching activities: Lecturer in fashion styling and image design at the Hong Kong University SPACE Community College
Additional information: Kary photographs for commercial and editorial clients. His work takes its inspiration from fine art and fashion. He is the image designer for all of Edward Lam’s theatre plays. In 1999 he published a photography book entitled “109 Women 69 Men and 10 in between”.

Exhibiting works

• Wing Sze WONG: 三國 (What is Success?), 非常林奕華 (Edward Lam Dance Theatre), 2012, Director: Edward LAM 林奕華, produkční ředitel/production director: Po Yu CHAN, scénický výtvarník/set designer: Ewing Yau Wing CHAN, světelný designér/lighting designer: Billy Cheuk Wah CHAN, zvukový designér/sound designer: Chak Ming CHUNG, videodesignér/video designer: John Chi Wai WONG ; Identification of exhibit: photo, photos in video format ;
  Comments: Loyalty. Courage. Benevolence. Forgiveness. Admiration. Jealousy. Resentment. What Is Success? is an adaptation of classic novel Three Kingdoms that delves into the uncertainty of the human heart. LAM's style remains dialectical and diverse. His persistence with the reconstruction of the classics is expressed with rich emotion in this work.
• 澤明 鍾 (Chai Ming CHUNG)

Hong Kong
Specialization: sound designer
Collaboration with theatres: Edward Lam Dance Theatre
Additional information: Ming is a sound engineer, sound effects and music designer, drummer, percussionist, member of independent band Gayamyan (Falsetto) and… HuH!?.

Exhibiting works

• Wing Sze WONG: 三國 (What is Success?), 非常林奕華 (Edward Lam Dance Theatre), 2012, Director: Edward LAM 林奕華, produkční ředitel/production director: Po Yu CHAN, scénický výtvarník/set designer: Ewing Yau Wing CHAN, image designer: Kary KWOK, světelný designér/lighting designer: Billy Cheuk Wah CHAN, video designér/video designer: John Chi Wai WONG ; Identification of exhibit: Sound clips ;
  Comments: Loyalty. Courage. Benevolence. Forgiveness. Admiration. Jealousy. Resentment. What Is Success? is an adaptation of classic novel Three Kingdoms that delves into the uncertainty of the human heart. LAM's style remains dialectical and diverse. His persistence with the reconstruction of the classics is expressed with rich emotion in this work.