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.”