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Mobile M+: Live Art

Date: Dec 5-20 - All day

Venue: multiple locations in Hong Kong

Price: Free

M+, Hong Kong's future museum for 20th and 21st century visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District, will present Mobile M+: Live Art, a series of cross-disciplinary public performance art events and exhibitions taking place at 8 different locations around the city which aim at exploring aspects of 'liveness' in contemporary art. Mobile M+: Live Art, the 9th project in the acclaimed series prior to the opening of M+ in 2019, expands the definition of the work of art from a static object to a situation, where the main medium is the artist or performer's body and looks to voice, breath, movement and physical effort as channels of artistic expression. Set across multiple sites in Hong Kong and spread over 17 days from 4 to 20 December, the show will include 10 artists of different generations from Hong Kong and South China, as well as Korea, Singapore and the United States. "Mobile M+: Live Art will not only challenge the conventional practices of both exhibition and performance, but also reflects the increasingly boundary-crossing, multidisciplinary practices of contemporary artists, who have long expanded their art making beyond galleries and exhibition halls into theatrical stages and public spaces," said Doryun Chong, Chief Curator for M+ and Co-curator for this exhibition. Scattered throughout Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, live events and exhibition displays will be embedded in diverse neighborhoods. Encompassing staged performances in a theater setting, outdoor actions and interventions as well as displays of artworks doubling as performance documentation, Mobile M+: Live Art will feature a wide assortment of works dating from the mid-1990s to the present day. Venues: 1. Connecting Space Hong Kong (G/F, Wah Kin Mansion, 18-20 Fort Street, North Point, Hong Kong); 2. Multimedia Theater, School of Creative Media, City University (Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, 18 Tat Hong Avenue, Kowloon Tong); 3. Theater 2, Sunbeam Theater (423 King's Road, North Point, Hong Kong); 4. Tim Mei Avenue footbridge, Admiralty, Hong Kong (6.12) West Kowloon Cultural District (11&12.12); 5. Cattle Depot Artist Village (Unit 12, 63 Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon); 6. Exhibition Hall, Sheung Wan Civic Center (6/F, Sheung Wan Municipal Services Building, 345 Queen's Road, Hong Kong).

Website: westkowloon.hk/liveart