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Writing Sound (2018) Hong Kong (1-8 March) Kuala Lumpur (31 March-6 April) Workshop Mentor/Leader for Soundpocket, Hong Kong. With Hong Kong writer and artist Chan Sai Lok as creative co-contributor and language support. Soundpocket staff Alice Wong, Chan Hai Man (Mandy) and Vanessa Laiwingyan. Full Documentation in English and Cantonese at Soundpocket's Library Artist mentees: Wayne Choi, Fizen Yuen, JC Jessie, Donald Chung, Sean Wong, Hiuwa Li, Dave Chow, Ho Tsz Yeung (Jacklam), Listening to voice without searching for meaning is an integral means through which I explore the potential of language. As bilingual speakers of Cantonese and English, I was able to ask the artists about their experiences of working across two (or more) languages, for example what occurred when they moved between languages and if they had a different relationship with each language. I began to understand that English is considered a fourth language for everyone, with Cantonese (mother tongue) and Mandarin as spoken languages, Chinese as the written language and English as a fourth language. In Kuala Lumpur, the mix of languages was even more diverse, including Bahasa Malay, Mandarin, Cantonese, English, Tamil, Punjabi. Planned and organised by the Soundpocket team I led soundwalks every day in both cities, encouraging a practical approach to listening in the real world. As per my interest in cross-species language, we went to several bird aviaries as well as the bird market. Listening to the birds as users of language triggered some insightful responses from the artists. I encouraged the artists to write/draw/compose in the journals that were provided, searching for some way of drawing correlations between the visual and the sonic that made sense to them and their particular interests. Rhythm, repetition and metre proved to be helpful ways of approaching how sound could be written via mark-making. |
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Photo Credit Chan Sai Lok | ||||||||||
Photo Credit Chan Sai Lok | ||||||||||
Photo Credit Chan Sai Lok | ||||||||||
Photo Credit Chan Hei Man | ||||||||||
Lunch with Siew-Wai Kok and Tey Beng Tsz, Kuala Lumpur. Photo Credit Chan Sai Lok | ||||||||||
Tsz Shan Monastery Hong Kong. Photo Credit Alice Wong | ||||||||||
Tsz Shan Monastery Hong Kong. Photo Credit Alice Wong | ||||||||||
Ancestors graveyard, Tsz Shan Monastery Hong Kong | ||||||||||
North Point, Hong Kong | ||||||||||
Little Egret, Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong | ||||||||||
At Floating Projects. Photo Credit Wayne Choi | ||||||||||
Bali Mynah, Hong Kong Park Aviary | ||||||||||
All of us with Tey Beng Tsz and Yee Hun (intern) at Raw Art Space, Kuala Lumpur. Photo Credit Chan Hei Man | ||||||||||
The conflluence of two rivers, Sungai Klang and Sungai Gombak, central Kuala Lumpur (which means 'muddy confluence'). Photo Credit Wayne Choi |
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Kuala Lumpur. Photo Credit Wayne Choi | ||||||||||
Kuala Lumpur. Photo Credit Chan Hei Man | ||||||||||
Sean outside Raw Art Space, Kuala Lumpur | ||||||||||
Lunch with Xiang Yi Wong and Goh Lee Kwang near Rimbun Dahan residency, Kuala Lumpur. Photo Credit Wayne Choi | ||||||||||
Rimbun Dahan residency. Photo Credit Chan Sai Lok | ||||||||||
Xiang Yi Wong with the dogs of Rimbun Dahan residency, Kuala Lumpur. Photo Credit Chan Sai Lok | ||||||||||
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