Technical Arts Festival 2022

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Hong Kong’s first “Technical Arts Festival”, igniting new theatre experience through technical arts.

Technical Art Festival invites experts from various backgrounds and professions, working together for technical arts development from new perspectives and creation of experimental works, with the purpose of promoting and exchanging ideas on stage design and technology.

15 Technical Artists have taken on an adventure of creation, new short programmes are staged after months of research and experiments. We can’t wait to bring you an extraordinary theatre experience through 6 showcases, free exhibition and more!

Technical Arts Festival 2022 : Exhibition
Co-curated by Lawrence Lee and Allen Tsui, the exhibition will exhibit the creative and experimental process of the showcases, including sketches, videos, props, creative logs, unformed experiments, concept maps etc. The exhibition will give audiences a glimpse into the creative processes and behind the scenes.

Wong Chi Yung, cross-disciplinary artist and curator is invited to present his work “An Odyssey of Light”, which is a large-scale light installation project. This artwork is created as an artistic response toward his research on light and human emotions. Wong begins his creative journey by questioning and investigating the fundamental properties of light, such as color, intensity, rhythm, form, direction and movement could affect our emotion, mindful ability, introspection?

ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER

The Hong Kong Association of Theatre Technicians & Scenographers (HKATTS, [hey_cats]) was founded in 1989 by a group of enthusiastic theatre practitioners. It is a professional organization, registered as a non-profit company, which aims to promote theatre technology and scenography in Hong Kong, facilitate communication and cooperation within the theatre industry, raise professional standards, and foster exchanges between local and overseas theatre professionals.