The Works：Cultural Masseur Festival 2022, Cordelia Tam@HKVAC & in the studio: chamber choir NOĒMA

The Hong Kong Arts Centre’s Cultural Masseur Festival is divided into two phases, each of which lasts for three months. The first finished in June and the second began in September. Among the themes and ideas explored in the programme are arts and mentality, participatory drama, and mathematics and semiotics. The Works went along to find out more about two of them.

Another artist who is using multi-media to examine the relationship between human brings, urbanization and nature is Cordelia Tam. Her solo exhibition “So Close, Yet So Far” is on show at the Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre of vA!. Tam conveys the flow of nature and time by combining handmade paper, projection, sound, machinery, animation, and light to respond to the architectural features of the Cassels Block of the former Victoria Barracks before it was repurposed for artistic use.

A poem by novelist, poet, and singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, “There Are Some Men” is the inspiration behind the title and the programme for local chamber choir NOĒMA’s inaugural concert at the University of Hong Kong this Sunday. Artistic director and founder Sanders Lau is here to tell us more about how the poem’s subject matter relates to the show.