The Works：Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now@M+ & in the studio: Transience Music Festival

It's time to say goodbye to 2022 and welcome in 2023. Spearheaded by guitarist Teriver Cheung, “Ensemble Transience: Composition & Improvisation – Encore” is a two-year project that involves a diversity of music, art forms and activities. The culmination of that project is an outdoor festival on the first Saturday of 2023 at the Zero Carbon Park in Kowloon Bay. Later, guitarist Teriver Cheung & co-curator of the festival, Sheeta Ng will be here to tell us about the first Transience Music Festival happening on the first Saturday of the new year.

For Yayoi Kusama, art is a not just a vocation, it's a necessity. She says she began painting as a child, at about the same time she began experiencing hallucinations that often manifested as fields of dots. She has described herself as an “obsessional artist”. She's 93 now, and her career spans more than seven decades. Her works include painting, sculpture, performance art, and installations. At M+ Museum until May, you can visit the largest Asian retrospective of Kusama's work outside of Japan.