Stained Glass / The Colour in Me
Stained Glass / The Colour in Me
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Stained Glass -- Installation Art Exhibition Date: June 7th - 23rd, 2024
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The Colour in Me -- Live Performance Dates: 6 pm, June 21st, 2024 and 4 pm, June 22nd, 2024.
Please arrive at least 15 mins before the performance. There is no admission fee, however please feel free to donate to Hungate.
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Location: St Peter Hungate, Norwich, a Grade I listed redundant parish church in the Church of England in Norwich.
Princes St, Norwich NR3 1AE
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“When I entered the space, I was imagining a mode of cutting the space in half as an act of radically changing a traditional sacred space of Western typology. The viewers would enter the church encountering a spatial distortion – a redefinition of a sacred space.“ – K.B. Izac Tsai
The idea was intuitive – a stained glass. Instead of it being a vertical element in architecture,it became horizontal and cuts through the space. K.B. Izac’s work is a provocation at the architectural scale challenging the perception of the sacred space.
The installation is set to be extremely light, floating above the viewers, and creating a mirroring scene of the space. Meanwhile, light in all different spectrum of colours enters this mediaeval sacred space. The challenge of this installation would be, how to make the space both reflective and transparent? And how to introduce light and colour while the space is being mirrored?
This spatial installation is divided into four acts: the first one being the distortion of the sacred space named Stained Glass; the second act, named The Colour in Me, is a dance performance that interacts with the spatial installation. We’ve invited Shu-Yi Chou, one of the most renowned choreographers in the Far East.
The Colour in Me talks about the fluidity of space and the politics of body in discourse with the mirrored distortions of the sacred space and introduction of coloured lights from K.B. Izac’s installation. Shu-Yi’s work describes a condition where the history of the sacred space cutting through the vital existence of humanity, suturing the body as it moves within the space. The human body awaits the light invading shattered pieces of time.
Act III will be a re-production of the splitted fluid space through the filmographic perspective, and Act IV will be the final reveal of the storyline of this project. The project will only reveal its true identity by the end of the fourth act, which will continue in a different format existing in the digital space.
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Team member descriptions:
K.B. Izac Tsai is a designer, an architect, an artist, a researcher, a historian, a theorist, a radio programme producer and presenter. He finished his RIBA part I and II at the Architectural Association and also completed his Bachelors in Mass Communications and Masters in Marketing in Canada and the United States. His PhD at the Architectural Association focuses on economic and maritime history of cities in the Far East and Southeast Asia. He has competed and shortlisted in design competitions, and has been invited to present his work at London School of Economics, Norwich University of the Arts and University of Denver. He has taught at Leeds School of Architecture and Norwich University of the Arts. He is currently developing a multi-disciplinary platform for art, architecture, design, research and media that bridges knowledge from different backgrounds to experiment new possibilities. He is the founder of design studio KBITA (Taiwan), The Embassy Büró (London) and co-founder of research collectives Translocality.
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Shu-Yi Chou is a choreographer and a dancer. As a choreographer, he is known for his thematic interest in the relationship between individual and society. As a dancer, he is known to possess unique dance vocabularies. Presented in the form of theatre, site-specific performance or dance video, his creations in recent years often reflect how an individual or a group’s condition fluctuates in different social contexts, with consistent awareness and focus on the value of life. He was the recipient of the first prize of Global Dance Contest held by Sadler’s Wells Theatre in the United Kingdom, and the bronze prize of International Choreography Competition held by Cross Connection Ballet in Denmark. He is currently the Artist-In-Residence at Weiwuying National Centre of the Arts, the world's largest performing art theatre under one roof.
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Dorothy Cheung is a filmmaker and artist from Hong Kong. Her practice explores the notion of identities and home through a double perspective - personal and political, memory and forgetfulness. Her moving-image works are internationally exhibited in Whitney Museum of American Art, Kunstinstituut Melly (formerly known as Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art) and EYE Filmmuseum, and selected for film festivals including International Film Festival Rotterdam, Leeds International Film Festival, Seoul Women’s Film Festival, South Taiwan Film Festival and Queer Lisboa. She has also received commissions from M+ (Hong Kong), British Council (Hong Kong/UK), Jumping Frames Hong Kong International Movement-image Festival (Hong Kong) and Visual AIDS (US).
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Olivier Cong is a Hong Kong-based singer-song writer and composer. After finishing his college studies in psychology, Cong has been working with varied forms of music and sound art, he is into exploring the texture of sounds and often experiments with the use of minimal musical structures. He has composed for the Hong Kong Ballet, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and Shanghai Opera House, and has served as the music director for productions for West Kowloon Cultural district and Le French May Art Festival. Cong has worked with the K11 Art Foundation on art installations, and collaborated on feature film works with directors such as Tian Zhuangzhuang and Ann Hui.
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Shu-Ang, Yeh is a London-based interactive experience designer with a theatre background. His works appear across stage performance, immersive theatre, and commercial events. He also has extensive experience in international production and touring. Engagement and storytelling are at the core of his work. His recent interest is in how sensory design can shift the audience’s perception and be used as a way of narrative.
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Cecilia Kuo is a Taiwanese art administrator based in London. Following her passion for the arts, she completed her internships at MoCA Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art and Bamboo Curtain Studio, and she recently graduated with her master degree from Goldsmiths, University of London.
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Arthur C.H. Pai is a Taiwanese Theatre Producer currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Producing at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. With extensive experience in producing and directing, Arthur combines creative and political insights, emphasising abstract and diverse artistic expressions while advocating for the East Asian and LGBTQ+ communities in the UK.
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