Live Performance: A Buzzing Witness 旁觀者濁 (HKUK)

【Live Performance | 《A Buzzing Witness 旁觀者濁》展演】

This performance draws on the framework of Unsettled Urbanism, exploring how the spaces we inhabit are constantly changing, unfinished, and reshaped by everyday practices. Through our work, we aim to narrate a story of the city under conditions of uncertainty, viewed through the contrasting lenses of a cicada and a firefly.

While the cicada meditates on its own form of immortality, the firefly illuminates a fleeting moment with its glow. Together, their existence invites a deeper reflection on themes of life and death, highlighting a stark contrast between the mundane resilience of lower life forms and the tragic fate of humans.

Moving beyond the confines of conventional theatres or galleries, we approach this project through immersive, site-specific performance practices.

Visual Artist : Lit WH Performance Artist : Kiwi Chan

本次演出以「不穩定都市主義」（Unsettled Urbanism）為創作框架，深刻探索我們所身處的空間如何持續流變、處於未完成的狀態，並在日常與行為之中不斷被重新形塑。

作品透過「蟬」與「螢火蟲」兩種截然不同的視角，折射出城市懸而未決的狀態。蟬凝視著自身某種形式的「永生」，螢火蟲則以短暫的光芒照亮瞬息。兩者的存在，不僅引領我們思索生與死之間的詰問，亦突顯出低等生物平凡而頑強的生命力，與人類一手造成的悲劇形成鮮明對照。

演出將以沉浸式與場域特定（Site-specific）的形式展開，在表演、空間、環境與觀眾之間，建立起直接且流動的有機連結。

視覺藝術家： 列詠虹 Lit WH 表演藝術家： 陳家蔚 Kiwi Chan

Live Performance Sessions (20 minutes) 現場演出（每場20分鐘）

藝術家介紹 Artist Bio

Lit Wing Hung is a visual artist based between London and Hong Kong. Working across sculpture, installation, textiles, and performative photography, her practice explores displacement, precarity, care, and bodily resilience. Through material-led and siteresponsive approaches, she examines how bodies inhabit and adapt to domestic and provisional spaces shaped by mobility, ownership, and control. Lit received a BA in Fine Art (Sculpture) from RMIT University in 2019 and an MFA in Arts & Humanities from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2026. Her work has been exhibited and developed through international exhibitions and residencies across Hong Kong, Japan, Germany, Portugal, Canada, and the United States. Alongside her artistic practice, she works in art direction, scenography, and Cheongsam making, extending her engagement with material knowledge, craftsmanship, and spatial composition.

Kiwi, Chan Ka-wai is a contemporary performance artist and independent creative producer working across Butoh, experimental theatre, devised performance, and immersive experiences. She founded KIWI & ZENZERO STUDIO in 2018 and the non-profit arts group STAR & DUST COLLECTIVE in 2021. Rooted in Pan-Asian contexts and feminist perspectives, her practice transforms urban spaces into dynamic aesthetic environments, drawing on Oriental aesthetics to explore contemporary life through embodied and site-responsive performance.

Date: Nov 12-14 Time: 17:30-17:50 Price: Free

HKUK Kingston Community Centre, Telephone Exchange, 6 Ashdown Rd, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2FP

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