on water culture and human landscape transformation in Kowloon, Hong Kong
The Association Formati Sensibili proposes the project “Learning Curves” by Alessandro Carboni. The project is a further step in the
interdisciplinary research that the artist develops a number of years in
Southeast Asia. The project includes an artist in residence to be held
in the city of Hong Kong from January 22 to March 15, 2013, with a view
to producing sound interdisciplinary audio documentary and visual arts.
The research was commissioned by the Sound Pocket for the Sound Around Festival and
Sound Archive in Hong Kong. There will also be the creation of a sound
installation, a performance, a conference, a series of workshops and
lectures entitled “Italian Landscape Practices”. The project is
supported by the Italian Cultural Institute in Hong Kong, Place
by the Urban Research Unit, School of Architecture of the Chinese
University of Hong Kong and the gallery 1a Space in Hong Kong.
The first part will be devoted to research in Hong Kong. In January,
Alessandro Carboni will be involved in the analysis of the landscape,
coastal and urban and social transformation of some areas around
Kowloon, Hong Kong, through a multidisciplinary approach to the creative
arts to science involving students, artists, scientists and local
researchers. At the stage he will partecipate at Sound Around Festival.
The second part sees a series of laboratory activities of stretegie
exploration of the andscape that will be developed within the School of
Architecture and the Primare and secondary schools in Hong Kong.
The last part of the residence will be dedicate to the conference
“Italian Landscape Practices” that take place at the Chinese University
of Hong Kong in which the artist recounts his experiences of research in
the Italian countryside. This will be accompanied by the exhibition
“Italian Landscape Practices” consists of 10 photographic panels with
text and images, tell the travel and research the artist in the Italian
landscape of Abruzzo, Valle d’Aosta and Sardinia.
Programme
26 January – 03 February 2013
Performance e Installation – Festival Around, Hong Kong
26 February – 8 March
Exhibition “Italian Landscape Practices”, School of Architecture, Chinese University, Hong Kong
2 March 2013
Conference “Italian Landscape Practices”, School of Architecture, Chinese University, Hong Kong
Installation “Sound Topography – diary of body mapping around
villages and estates,
Shatin”5.4.2013 (Fri) | 11.00am –
7pm6.4.2013 (Sat) | 10am – 6pm@ open area near Pai Tau Village,
Shatin
Performance “Dialogue on Maps”6.4.2013
(Sat) | 11.00am – 12.30pm@ Shatin Rural Committee, 248 Pai Tau Village,
Shatin
Artist biography:
Visual artist and performer, focuses his research on the body and
its relationship with space. In recent years, he has developed several
projects, exhibitions and performances at festivals, museums and
galleries in Europe, USA, Hong Kong, India and China. His practice is
also expressed through teaching and research at the School of
Architecture in Hong Kong and the research project Body Complex Network.
Recently presented the performance Learning Curves, Kaitak River, at
the XIII Biennale of Architecture in Venice.