23rd October, 2015.
For immediate release

Around sound art festival 2015
presented by soundpocket
18.11 - 18.12.2015
curated by Helen Homan Wu (US/ HK) and Aki Onda (JP/ US)@ Osage Gallery, Karin Weber Gallery, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong &McAulay Studio, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Participating Artists|
Feng Hao (PRC) | Chelpa Ferro (Brazil) | Phoebe Hui (HK) | Eli Keszler (US) |Jacob Kirkegaard (Denmark/ Germany) | Rie Nakajima (JP/UK) |Sergei Tcherepnin (US) | Dennis Wong (HK)
About Around sound art festival 2015
Examining the contemporary phenomena of sound art, the fifth edition of the Around sound art festival,
Around sound art festival 2015 seeks to uncover the multi-layered range of perspectives by showcasing theartistic process behind concepts dealing with sound. The exhibitions bring together local and internationalartists, each with a very distinct set of language, tools and techniques used in resonating their ideas. Asidefrom the exhibition, through performances, workshops and talks, we attempt to break down assumptions
that audiences might have on the definition of sound art.
This year, the festival is curated by Helen Homan Wu (US/ HK) and Aki Onda (JP / US) in which they
explore how a new generation of sound and visual artists use sound as an artistic medium or conceptual art
form. Artists Feng Hao (PRC), Chelpa Ferro (Brazil), Phoebe Hui (HK), Eli Keszler (US), Jacob
Kirkegaard (Denmark/ Germany), Rie Nakajima (JP/UK) and Sergei Tcherepnin (US) are invited toexhibit their works at Osage Gallery and Karin Weber Gallery. Talks and performances will be presented
together with Dennis Wong (HK) at School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong and
McAulay Studio, Hong Kong Arts Centre.

Programme-at-a-glance
Date
Nov 18 (Wed)Time
1800-2000

Venue
Osage Gallery

Nov 18 – Nov 27

1100-1900(Mon to Sat)
1200-1900(Sun)
1030-1830(Mon to Sat)
1430-1830(Sun)
1800-1930

Karin Weber Gallery

Nov 19 – Dec 18

Nov 19 (Thu)

Osage Gallery

1900-2000

M6094 Future
Cinema Studio, SCM
Multimedia Theatre,
SCM
Multimedia Theatre,
SCM
Karin Weber Gallery

Nov 21 (Sat)

1600-1700

Osage Gallery

Nov 24 (Tue)

2000-2100

McAulay Studio,Hong Kong ArtsCentre

2000-2200
Nov 20 (Fri)

1500-1700

EventFestival OpeningOpening Reception
Exhibition
by Rie Nakajima

Artists
All artists and curatorspresent-Exhibition
by Feng Hao, Chelpa Ferro,Phoebe Hui, Eli Keszler, Jacob
Kirkegaard, Sergei Tcherepnin
Artist Talk

-Performance

Feng Hao, Rie Nakajima,Sergei Tcherepnin
Phoebe Hui,
Sergei Tcherepnin
Rie Nakajima

Exhibition soft opening, Artist
Talk
Meet the Curators
Sonic Anchor #25 *Ticket︰$50 (Tickets are now available at URBTIX)
Credit Card Telephone Booking: 2111 5999
Ticketing Enquiries: 3761 6661
Internet Ticketing: http://www.urbtix.hk
Audience members are strongly advised to arrive punctually.
Hong Kong Arts Centre reserves the right to refuse admission of latecomers.
Sonic Anchor is Co-presented By

Enquiry: (852) 2356 2226 / listen@soundpocket.org.hk

Free and open to the public

Artist Talk

* Sonic Anchor #25

Programme fees

Feng Hao, Eli Keszler

Helen Homan Wu,
Aki Onda
Eli Keszler, Dennis Wong(with 30-min. postperformance discussion)

Ticketed programme$50*

Press Preview
Date: Nov 18 (Wed) Time: 1700-1800
Venue: Osage Gallery
Members of the media are more than welcome to join us!
Please RSVP at liza@soundpocket.org.hk or via phone at 23562226

Venue Information
Osage Gallery
4/F, Union Hing Yip Factory Building, 20 Hing Yip Street, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong
www.osagegallery.com
Karin Weber Gallery
G/F, 20 Aberdeen Street, Central, Hong Kong
www.karinwebergallery.com
School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong
Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, 18 Tat Hong Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
www.scm.cityu.edu.hk
Sonic Anchor by Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong
McAulay Studio, Hong Kong Arts Centre
2 Harbour Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
www.cmhk.orgAbout the Artists

Feng Hao (PRC) is an art creator. His works mainly focus on sound art andexperimental music, and that involve in drawings, performances, images, performing arts and design etc.,
which makes him an interdisciplinary artist with various styles. He researches on performances with premade guitars and explores every possibility in it. He also creates works in sound art in which they relate tosocial phenomenon; and creates plunderphonic works with the name “DJ Strausss”. He has an experimental
band Walnut Room which explores music languages such as improvisation, industrial, no wave, dark wave,etc. and expressions in performing arts.

Chelpa Ferro (Brazil) was created in 1995 by artists Luiz Zerbini, Barrão and Sergio
Mekler in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. As a multimedia group, Chelpa Ferro presents experiments in electronic
music, video, objects and installations in exhibitions, live performances and records. The group has alreadymade presentations in art galleries and museums in Brazil, United States and Europe. It has also participatedin art biennials, such as that of São Paulo and that of Venice and has played live concerts in the UK, UnitedStates and Europe.

Phoebe Hui (HK) is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher primarily working in
the relationship between language, sound and technology. Hui received her MFA at UCLA Design Media
Art, MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, and her BA in Creative Media from
City University of Hong Kong. She is the recipient of a number of grants and awards, including Yale-China
Art Fellowship, Hong Kong Art Development Council Young Artist Award (Media Art), Asian CulturalCouncil Altius Fellowship, Bloomberg Emerging Artist Award, Asian Cultural Council United States-JapanArts Program Research Fellowship, Hong Kong Art Development Council Art Scholarship, Hong Kong
Design Association Design Student Scholarship, among others. She had presented her research-based art
practice and papers in different places such as ISEA, MIT Media Lab, Asian Contemporary Art Week,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, to name a few. Currently, she is teaching in the Visual Arts and Culture
program at the Hong Kong Design Institute.

Eli Keszler (US) is a New York based artist, composer and percussionist who situates hispractice within the intersections of architecture, performance, installation, notation and composition. His
work uses microprocessor-controllers and sound producing constructions that activate motors to strike,scrape and vibrate enclosures. These works are often accompanied by collections of visual works, drawings
and scores. His installations can be experienced autonomously or with an ensemble/solo performancefeaturing Keszler's aggressively propulsive drumming.

Jacob Kirkegaard (Denmark/ Germany) is an artist and composer who works in
carefully selected environments to generate recordings that are used in compositions, or combined withvideo imagery in visual, spatial installations. His works reveal unheard sonic phenomena and present
listening as a means of experiencing the world. Kirkegaard has recorded sonic environments as different as
subterranean geyser vibrations, empty rooms in Chernobyl, Arctic calving glaciers and tones generated by
the human inner ear itself. He is now based in Berlin.

Rie Nakajima (JP/UK) is a Japanese artist working with installations andperformances that produce sound. Her works are most often composed in direct response to uniquearchitectural spaces using a combination of kinetic devices and found objects. She has exhibited andperformed widely both in the UK and overseas and has produced ‘Sculpture’ with David Toop since 2013.
With Keiko Yamamoto she has a music project, 'O YAMA O' which explores music with no genre. She
frequently collaborates with David Cunningham, Miki Yui, Pierre Berthet, Guy De Bièvre in the crossing
area of art and music. She has performed with Angharad Davies, Clive Bell, Johan Vandermaelen, Lee
Patterson, Shuichi Chino, Daichi Yoshikawa, Junko Wada, Lau Nau, Phill Niblock and many others. She isfrom Yokohama and currently based in London.

Sergei Tcherepnin (US) was born in 1981 in Boston, Massachusetts andcurrently lives and works in New York. His recent solo shows include exhibitions at Taka Ishii Gallery,Tokyo, with Ei Arakawa (2011), the CAC Brétigny, Paris, France, with Ei Arakawa and Gela Patashuri(2011), and the Showroom, London, with Ei Arakawa and Gela Patashuri (2011).

Dennis Wong (HK), a.k.a. Sin:Ned, is an improviser, experimentalist and noisepractitioner from Hong Kong. He is the co-founder of Re-Records, Twenty Alpha, and theHong Kong organizer of JOLT Festival. He is the core member of No One Pulse, AfterDoom, adeō and underture, and the main advocator of the Hong Kong underground experimental musicscene with his prolific output and concert series Noise to Signal and festival series Kill The Silence. Hisworks have been featured in the infamous Belgium imprint Sub Rosa’s “An Anthology of ChineseElectronic Music” and “An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music Vol. 7”.
© Ray Fung

About the Curators© Fridolin Schöpper

Helen Homan Wu (US/ HK) was born in Hong Kong and is a New York native; sheis a curator, cultural producer and consultant. She is the founder of Opalnest, an agency and curatorial
platform that represents emerging to mid-career artists who are conceptually minded yet experimental andmulti-disciplinary in practice. She has presented artists such as Carsten Nicolai, Arto Lindsay, Haegue Yang,
Aki Onda, Wang Jianwei, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Nadim Abbas, Raha Raissnia, Jacob Kirkegaard, among
others. As a producer, she has produced and managed major initiatives such as Art Basel Hong Kong’s
inaugural cultural events, Creative Time/ICI’s “Living as Form” in Hong Kong and New York, Armory ArtWeek’s public events, Today is the Day Foundation’s art auction events, etc. She is currently focused on
research in China and the South Asian regions.

Aki Onda (JP / US) is a sound artist and curator. Onda was born in Japan andcurrently resides in New York. He is particularly known for his Cassette Memories project – works
compiled from a “sound diary” of field-recordings collected by Onda over a span of two decades. In recentyears, Onda often works in interdisciplinary fields and collaborates with filmmakers, choreographers andvisual artists such as Michael Snow, Ken Jacobs, Raha Raissinia, and Maxime Rossi. Onda has performed atP.S.1 MoMA, (New York), ICA (London), Louvre Museum, Palais de Tokyo, Fondation Cartier (Paris),Bozar, Wiels (Brussels), Sound Live Tokyo (Tokyo) and many others. As a curator, Onda has organizedmajor performances and exhibitions throughout North America, including events of Japanese artists at TheKitchen, ISSUE Project Room, Audio Visual Arts (New York), Images Festival (Toronto) and Time-Based
Art Festival (Portland).

About soundpocket, presenter of Aroundsoundpocket is a registered charitable organization in Hong Kong, founded in 2008 as a direct response to
the increasing interest of sound art in Hong Kong, the demand for public awareness and education in thesense of hearing and deep listening, and the need for cultural sensitivity in creative practices. As a promoter,educator, facilitator, and gatherer, soundpocket is committed to the long-term nurturing of active listeners.
Since its inception, soundpocket has collaborated with non-profit organizations, small enterprises,
independent voiceworkers and musicians, and curators of contemporary art on various art and culturalprojects. soundpocket positions itself in the fields of sound, art and culture by initiating interdisciplinary
projects that bring multiple art forms and a variety of cultural contexts into the focus of sound and listening.
In this sense, soundpocket supports not just an art form, but ideas and possibilities that engage withaesthetically meaningful, culturally-grounded and publicly relevant sonic practices, which have a lot to teachabout how we understand the world and the experiences yet to be valued.
www.soundpocket.org.hk

Media Enquiry
Liza Chan
E: liza@soundpocket.org.hk
T: (852) 2356-2226 / 9157-0679*** Press images available upon request.

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