Samson Young: OFTEN EASY SOMETIMES IMPOSSIBLE (LYRICA) (2021)

This collaboration of the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble (Hong Kong) and Ensemble Resonanz (Hamburg, Germany), travels along the questions of containing, of shipping and shifting cultural identities. Featuring new compositions of Berlin-based collaborative composer Simon James Phillips; installations, algorithmic programming and a new composition by Hong Kong-based composer/artist Samson Young, CONTAIN opens a space of in-betweenness. With streaming sounds, videos and interview fragments, deep darkness and lights, musicians and audience float through states of disorientation. The project explores different sensations of getting lost, and new ways of coming together in the in-between. This is water, a no man’s land.  The practice-based research project is the result of an intensive workshop period in Hong Kong in 2019, interviews with musicians, philosophers and curators conducted by project artistic director Folkert Uhde and dramatic advisor Elisa Erkelenz. CONTAIN workshop 2.0 - as an in progress production -  further builds upon the music, installations and conversations from the past three years, looking ahead towards a larger-scale full production.

Artist Talk with Samson Young​
Sun 12 Sept, 5-6pm
McAulay Studio, Hong Kong Arts Centre

[NOTE: since only 1 audience member is permitted per performance, selection will be by lottery after registration]

© Samson Young Multi-disciplinary artist Samson Young works in sound, performance, video, and installation. He was Hong Kong Sinfonietta’s artist associate in 2008 - 2009, and graduated with a Ph.D. in Music Composition from Princeton University in 2013. In 2017, he represented Hong Kong at the 57th Venice Biennale.



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