Time: 6–7:30pm, 11 November 2022
Location: HART Haus, 3/F, Cheung Hing Industrial Building, 12P Smithfield Road, Kennedy Town, Hong Kong
The Opening Reception of HART Social Studio Showcase “Six Happenings” will be accompanied by “The Uncanny HAUS”, presenting three performances by HART artists Natasha Cheung (b.1998, Sydney) and Liao Jiaming (b.1992, Guangdong), with US and Hong Kong-based artist Anlan Huang (b.1996, Guangdong). The performances share a similar vein using heterogeneous mediums of performance in conjunction with lens-based media to explore the theory of Uncanny Valley, a model published in 1970 by Masahiro Mori, a Japanese roboticist researching on objects that imperfectly resemble human likeness provoke a sense of unease or uncanniness to the viewer. Through digital and physical augmentation, AI distortion, and humorous personification, the artists invite the audience to consider how our identities are constructed through history, culture and technologies.
時間：2022年11月11日下午6時至7時半
地點：HART Haus, 堅尼地城士美菲路 12P 祥興工業大廈 3 樓
匯舍聯展「六序」開幕酒會中的「不可思議之HAUS」將呈獻三個表演作品，表演藝術家分別是HART匯舍藝術家張穎曦（1998年生於悉尼）和廖家明（1992年生於廣東），及駐美國和香港的藝術家黃安瀾（1996年生於廣東）。三位藝術家以類似的媒介表演，加入影像主導的手法來探索1970年由日本機器人學教授森政弘發表的「恐怖谷理論」— 該理論說出倘若物件不能符合人類慣常的想法便不會產生好感。透過利用數碼和身體的附加效果、人工智能帶來失真和灰諧的擬人手法，藝術家邀請我們反思由歷史、文化和科技等影響而建構的身份。
Artists 藝術家
Natasha Cheung 張㯋曦
Natasha Cheung (b.1998, Sydney) received her BA in Fine Arts and Visual Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 2020 and her MA in History of Art and Archaeology from SOAS, University of London in 2021. She is interested in articulating incompatible assemblages of identity without reifying existing structures that seek to compartmentalize and invalidate contradiction. She sees paradox as a necessity and strives to make this visible and visceral through implementing installation, photography, video, performance, conversation, as well as drawing itself as forms of drawing. In particular, she is interested in the languages and belief structures constructed to describe sight and vision, and making visible how these non-neutral interfaces have contributed to continued colonial imaginaries as well as how to manipulate these languages to render the absurdity of our reality.
張㯋曦於 1998 年出生，2020年畢業於賓夕法尼亞大學（藝術和視覺研究系），2021年畢業於倫敦大學亞非學院（藝術史與建築學系）。她視繪畫為媒介與循環無端的哲學，而過程中的目標是美麗地失敗。對話，也是她想與咏詩一起採掘的繪圖工具。她對語言及信仰結構形成的視覺以及思覺感有興趣。這些非中立的界面如何促成了如今依然持續的殖民想像，以及這些結構如何透過操縱語言來渲染現實世界的荒謬。
Liao Jiaming 廖家明
Liao Jiaming (b.1992, Guangdong) obtained his BA in Journalism from Sun Yat-sen University in 2016, and his MFA in Creative Media from City University of Hong Kong in 2019. He now lives and works in Hong Kong.
Starting from images, Liao’s creative practice expands to different media including photography, video, installation, and etc. His works usually focus on the topics of urban life, minority groups and living space, questioning the relation between the real and the virtual, as well as the subject and the object. Liao’s works have been exhibited or screened in Hong Kong, Shanghai, London, Zurich and other cities.
廖家明1992年出生於中國廣東。2016年，他從中山大學畢業并取得新聞學文學學士學位；2019年，他從香港城市大學畢業并取得創意媒體藝術碩士學位。他現時工作、生活於香港。
他以圖像為創作基礎，并以此延伸至攝影、錄像、裝置等媒介。他關注都市生活、少數群體及生存空間等議題，以作品質疑網絡和信息世代中現實與虛擬、主體和客體的關係和連結。他的作品曾於香港、上海、倫敦及蘇黎世等城市展出或放映。
Anlan Huang 黃安瀾
Anlan Huang (b.1996, Guangdong) lives as a nomad in New York, London, and Hong Kong, Anlan Huang (Yasmine) is an artist and writer. She transcribes the co-existing love and hurt.
黃安瀾（1996年生於廣東），藝術家，寫作者。她在都市間候鳥般遷徙，她轉譯時常共生的愛與傷害。