Always Becoming#Hong Kong

On the occasion of the Fuse Artist in Residence Program promoted by Videotage and supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC) APT artist Alessandro Carboni presents a further step of Always Becoming project in Hong Kong. The project is a nomadic platform of research reflecting on the body by combining, performative practices, embodiment processes, body mapping of urban space, cartography and experimental geography. Conceived as a collaborative working platform, the project is founded on the interdependence between science, practice and production. Performers, artists and theorists share research materials, thoughts, ideas to work around the body as vector, as a tool and not a condition, to analyze the environment and the urban space. Time and space will be approached from a variety of viewpoints; artistic, political, social. The research period is envisioned to be oscillating between moments of urban explorations, performances, workshops, rehearsal, informal presentations and longer outdoor practice sessions. Always Becoming# took place already in several cities such as Aarhus, Malmo and Copenhagen.

Performers, artists and theorists share research materials, thoughts, ideas to work around the body as vector, as a tool and not a condition, to analyze the environment and the urban space. Time and space will be approached from a variety of viewpoints; artistic, political, social. The research period is envisioned to be oscillating between moments of urban explorations, performances, workshops, rehearsal, informal presentations and longer outdoor practice sessions. Always Becoming# took place already in several cities such as Aarhus, Malmo, Bologna, Copenhagen. 

The project is a production by Progressive Archive, with the support of Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC); Videotage: Fuse Artist-in-residence Programme; Italian Culture Institute of Hong Kong; School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong

LECTURE
From objective map to subjective mapping with Alessandro Carboni 
04.2.2016 (Fri) - 3:00pm 
@ School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong 

Spacing resonance in the capture of the voice-body with Piersandra di Matteo 
23.2.2016 (Wed) - 6:00pm 
@ School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong 

EXHIBITION 
City_Scores# - video and drawings 
20-28.2.2016, 11:00am to 6:00pm
 Opening 
19.2.2016 (Fri) - 6:00pm to 8:00pm 
@ Videotage, Cattle Depot Artist Village 

PERFORMANCE 
Corporeal Maps#Hong Kong 
19.2.2016 (Fri) - 6:00pm to 8:00pm 
@ Unit12, Cattle Depot Artist Village 
23-24, 26.2.2016 - 5:00pm 
25.2.2016 - 11:00am 
27-28.2.2016 - 2:00pm 
@ Unit12, Cattle Depot Artist Village 

SYMPOSIUM 
Embodied City - talks, presentation, detours 
20.2.2016 (Sat) - 2:30pm to 6:00pm 
@ Unit12, Cattle Depot Artist Village 
21.2.2016 (Sun) - 11:00am to 5:00pm 
@ Peng Chau Island 

Visual/media artists, theorists, performers and urban planners - including Piersandra di Matteo (Performing Arts Theorist), Prof. Chang Ping-hung (Architect), MapOffice/Laurent Gutierrez and Valérie Portefaix (Architect/Visual Artist), Yang Yeung (Curator), David Jhave Johnston (Digital Poet), Jane Prophet (Media Artist), Damien Charrieras (Media Theorist), Lai Wai Yi, Monti (Visual Artist) - will sit down face-to-face with Carboni, and openly discuss the curious relations between urban space, body and mapping practices. 

WORKSHOP 
EM: tools urban practice and performance practice with Alessandro Carboni 
13-14.02.2016 
11:00am to 3:00pm 
@ Videotage, Cattle Depot Artist Village 

EM is a method of urban mapping created by Alessandro Carboni who uses the body as a cartographic tool. The goal is to stimulate, observe, capture and extract events that occur in real time in the urban space. This method is able reveal those events of which we are not fully aware because they are in the periphery of our attention: they are waiting to be revealed. The workshop consists of practical and theoretical activities in studio and outdoors. 
info: acarboni.promo@gmail.com 

Working team: 
Project, installations and choreography | Alessandro Carboni 
Performers | Felix Ke, Tsui Ivy
Theoretical consultant | Piersandra di Matteo 
Project Coordinator | Florence Wai 
Texts and images | Alessandro Carboni 
Assistant and texts editing | Luxi Fang 
Design | Leo Cheung