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The House Collective announces the third iteration of its biennial programme, ‘Encounters Across Cultures’, which celebrates the immeasurable creativity fostered through multicultural and multidisciplinary collaboration. This year’s programme explores the intersection of technology and the creative arts through four multi-sensory data sculptures and music tracks, inspired by biometric data captured during journeys across four cities. ‘Encounters Across Cultures’ will open at The Upper House in Hong Kong, travelling to The Middle House in Shanghai, The Temple House in Chengdu and The Opposite House in Beijing.
In their first ever collaboration, Hong Kong based artist and music producer Vicky Fung and media artist Keith Lam have created a series of multi-sensory data sculptures that follow four travellers – music producer Tjoe, erhuist Chu Wan Pin, and themselves – as they tour four cities. Creating a tangible journey for audiences, ‘Encounters Across Cultures’ weaves together all of these stories to create four musical pieces and data sculptures, designed with soundscape recordings of the musicians’ movements and biometric data, such as pulse and skin resistance. The process includes Lam’s representation of this biometric data into emotive graphics, which Fung reshapes into musical tracks; the biometric data is then transformed into data sculptures that embody each traveller’s visceral sense of the city. The four Houses will host the installations, capturing these private journeys into one shared experience for visitors.
