2023
Media installation-theatre, 180 mins (live version); video with 4 channels of audio, 41 mins, 3D printed PLA, custom electronics (installation version)
Concept, Music and Video
Samson Young
Lighting Designer
Kaki Lai
Sound Designer
Gut Lam
Set and Costume Designer
Ayami Oki-Siekierczak
Videographer
Leung Ho-sing
Musicians
William Lane, Linus Fung
Performer
Woo Yat-hei
Technical Director
Allen Fung
Deputy Technical Director
Chan Wing-kit
Production Manager
Katrina Chan
Production Assistant
Macy Tse
Creative Coordinator
Thomas Yau
Programme Coordinator
Becky Wong
Deputy Producer
Meredith Wong
Curator
Bobo Lee
Documentation courtesy of West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, image credit Winnie Yeung @ Visual Voices. Additional documentation by Dennis Man Wing Leung.
Co-presented and co-produced by West Kowloon Cultural District and the School of Theatre and Entertainment Arts, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.
”This part-theatre, part-video installation piece was loosely structured around Walter de la Mare’s short poem the Listener. The 3-hour experience consisted of two almost identitical cycles of events.
‘[Walter de la Mare’s The Listeners] asks that crucial question about poetry in general: who listens, and what does it mean to listen to the silence of the poem on the page, which is a silence always still asking to be voiced […] Hearing things in that house of poetry may lead to ghosts and phantoms, or to the memorable rhythm of urgent knocks, or perhaps just to those open, unanswered questions which were our own in the first place, but are returned to us, magnified, by the hospitable acoustic openness of the poem.’ - Angela Leighton, Hearing Things.”