CARAVANSERAIS
/ kærəˈvænsəˌraɪ /ResearchProject 1
Sonic Ecology
- Curatorial Statement
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Listening to Ecosystems from Interdisciplinary Perspectives
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Music and Activism
- The Vigil of Debris
- The Recycling Concerto
- The Unexpected Guest
Project 2
Music & Moving Image
Project 3
Naamyam Creative Research
南音創意研究
- 策展人的話
- 南音的互動
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戲台南音賞析
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南音創意研究〈客途秋恨〉MV創意對談: 許敖山x杜泳
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南音飄揚未定
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香港南音之永劫回歸？
- 南音︰起點抑或歸處？──「南音新創作展演」的兩種實驗
- 傳統音樂的突破？南音未來之路——「南音研究計劃」
Project 4
Contain
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The Unexpected Guest
Sonic Ecology Commission
Video Presentation & Interview
Lo Lai Lai Natalie (artist) and Lam Lai (composer / curator)
中文版本︎
Introduction
As a visual artist, Lo Lai Lai Natalie (also a former travel journalist) is interested in the development and the construction of nature. She is a learner at the collective organic farm Sangwoodgoon, where she seeks alternatives and autonomy as an artist, a farmer and a Hong Kong-er. In this exhibition, she and composer Lam Lai discussed what the ideal relationship between humans and nature should be. The discussion started with Lo sharing her own experience on a farm by mentioning how farmers deal with pests and invasive animals. The frequent visits of wild boars have posed a threat to their farm lately as they have been destroying the area by digging the ground with their strong snouts. When this unwanted situation is coupled with the rapid increase in the population of wild boars, some people have proposed various solutions to the arising problems, including euthanizing this invasive species after the capture operation. How do the two species coexist when they pose a threat to each other? There seems to be a paradox between the competitive exclusion principle and the observed biodiversity. Contradictorily, the more humans try to improve their living in the modern world, the more damage they inflict on nature.
Exhibition
The Unexpected Guest
27 Mar - 10 Apr 2021
Lung Fu Shan Environmental Education Centre Hong Kong
Artist Lo Lai Lai Natalie collaborated with composer Lam Lai to discuss what the ideal relationship between man and nature should be, and the paradox of the coexistence between human and urban wildlife.
“Is it restlessness or an undercurrent that is behind the romantic and charming façade of the countryside?
The English cottages have always been a secret garden for visitors. With the old inhabitants on the pondside gone far with their laughters, the place is now enlivened by pairs and pairs of bright eyes of the wild boars who are regular guests in the dark.
Farmers from all over Hong Kong suffered serious losses. As both the people and boars had to sustain their own living, ideas for solutions sprouted, including “death threats” against the wild boars that wandered in the city, playing in water pools and shopping malls and rummaging through recycling bins to find food. “Who is the unexpected guest,” citizens debated on and off the Internet. Yet, the farmers still had no choice but to continue dealing with the wild boars in the field day and night.
Desires are, perhaps, like a flowing stream—it goes on and on.”
The Unexpected Guest | 不速之客
Single Channel Video, Mixed Media and Installation | 單頻道錄像、混合媒體和實體作品
Size Variable | 尺寸可變
Lam Lai, Lo Lai Lai Natalie | 林儷（Lam Lai）、勞麗麗（Lo Lai Lai Natalie）
Biographies
Lo Lai Lai Natalie
Lo Lai Lai Natalie
Lo Lai Lai Natalie was born in 1983 in Hong Kong. She graduated from the Faculty of Art in The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Major in Fine Arts, minor in Japanese Studies) in 2006. She received her Master of Fine Arts from the Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2017. Lo is a former travel journalist. She is interested in the development and the construction of nature. She is a learner at the collective organic farm Sangwoodgoon (Hong Kong) where she also explores the lifestyle of “Half-Farming, Half-X”, a practice that seeks alternatives and autonomy as an artist and Hong-Konger. Lo founded the Slow-so TV channel, with a focus on food, farming, fermentation, slow-driving, surveil- lance, and meditation. Her artworks are mostly moving images, photography, mixed media and installation. Her work is collected by the Sigg Collection.
https://www.lolailai.com
Lam Lai
Lam Lai
Lam Lai received her BA and MA in composition and electronic music at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and further studied at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. She is interested in the new media hybrids and new experiences for the audience. Her compositions - orchestra, ensemble, electronic, and interdisciplinary works - have celebrated their world premieres all across the globe. In 2011, her work Frozen Moment for synchronising two ensembles in two cities was performed by the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble and Ensemble Adapter at the Berlin MaerzMusik Festival. Participated art festivals include the Munich Biennale, Stuttgart Die Irritierte Stadt, Musica Nova Helsinki, Iceland Cycle Music and Art festival, Hong Kong Hell Hot! Music Festival, New Vision Arts festival, Sonic Anchor. Lam Lai also contributes in the music and art education sector. She was invited by Hong Kong Arts Centre as an artistic tutor, designing a series of workshops on the topic “Art & Technology” for different groups of secondary school students who came for the exhibition.
https://lamlai.com