Date:	20 March 2025 (Thursday)
Time:	2:30pm
Venue:	Board Room, 12/F, WKCDA Tower, West Kowloon Cultural District, No. 8 Austin Road West, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Agenda (Open Session)

•  Chief Executive Officer’s Report

A high-energy audiovisual experience with real-time motion capture, live performance and virtual avatars in Hong Kong and Sydney

Shanghai-based new media artist Lu Yang premieres the live motion capture performance DOKU, The Binary World as a real-time collaboration between dancers in Hong Kong and Sydney. Interacting in a shared virtual environment, the dancers and avatars at Freespace and the Sydney Opera House shuttled simultaneously through multiple binary realms.

The high-energy audiovisual experience draws on Buddhist philosophy, club culture, video games and the aesthetics of anime. Embodying the avatar forms of Lu Yang’s genderless digital reincarnation Doku – Dokusho Dokushi, “We are born alone, we die alone” – the dancers present binary combinations of deities from the six realms of Buddhist reincarnation: Heaven and Hell, Human and Animal, Hungry Ghosts and Asura (Jealous gods). 

Lu Yang’s work has been presented around the world, and was featured in The Milk of Dreams show at Venice Biennale 2022.

Core Team:
Artists: Lu Yang
Musician/Composer: liiii
Production and Development (Sydney): Exhibitionist
Production and Development (Hong Kong): MetaObjects
Hell Environment 3D Design: Extreme John

Live Performance Team, Hong Kong:
Producer: Dr Ashley Lee Wong
Technical Lead: Andrew Crowe
Technical Assistant and AV Coordinator: Edwin Lo
Choreographer and Dancer: Kenny Leung
Videographer: Moving Image Studio

Live Performance Team, Sydney:
Producer: Mathew Spisbah
Motion Capture Technician AV Coordinator: Dr Sam McGilp
Choreographer: Harrison Hall
Dancer: Taiga Kita-Leong

Film Team, Sydney:
Director of Photography: Tyron Seeto
Steadicam Operator: Ginski Jermolajew
First Assistant Camera: Andy Diep
Gaffer: Vivian Duong
Editor: Cristobal Olguin / Tyron Seeto
Colourist: Sebastian Reategui

Panel Discussion
This programme includes Panel Discussion: Beyond Binaries: Digital Performance In a Post-COVID Era, in which we discuss the form of performance in a post-pandemic era and reveal the now and future of the avatar form – DOKU, as long as offering insight into the creative process of Lu Yang’s art piece.

Shanghai-based new media artist Lu Yang premieres the live motion capture performance DOKU, The Binary World in 2022 as part of the West Kowloon’s Phygital D dance programme. Collaborating with dancers and production teams spread across Hong Kong and Sydney, they utilise real-time Motion Capture technology to demonstrate how to control multiple digital avatars in bizarre shared virtual environments.

Watch the full performance

Lu Yang remotely joined a pre-performance panel discussion in conversation with Karen Cheung, Ex-Acting Head of Contemporary Performance, Performing Arts Division, West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, Stuart Buchanan, Head of Digital Programming at Sydney Opera House, as well as other guest speakers from our co-producing partners, to discuss the form of performance in a post-pandemic era and reveal the now and future of the avatar form – DOKU, as long as offering insight into the creative process of Lu Yang’s art piece.

Date and Time:
28 September 2022 (Wednesday)
7:00pm–9:00pm

Venue:
Online and in-person at Eaton HK

Language:
This event was conducted in English

Speakers:
Lu Yang, Artist
Karen Cheung, Ex-Acting Head of Contemporary Performance, Performing Arts Division, West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (Hong Kong)
Stuart Buchanan, Head of Digital Programming, Sydney Opera House (Australia)

Moderators:
Matthew Spisbah, Artistic Director, Exhibitionist, Producer of DOKU, The Binary World (Hong Kong)
Ashley Lee Wong, Artistic Director, MetaObjects, Producer of DOKU, The Binary World (Hong Kong)

Our second Freespace Jazzfest has wrapped up! Thank you to everyone who came along and created such a wonderful musical experience! These four dazzling jazz nights were truly delightful and full of excitement!

The hype and vibe are beautifully captured in this video for you to feel the passion again! Remember to keep an eye for our upcoming festival!

HKT x WestK PopFest has come to an end! We appreciate all the music parties and audiences that participated, the energy from everyone made these four days incredibly enthusiastic and lively, making it a music festival never to be forgotten!

Let's reminisce about the wonderful memories of HKT x WestK POPFEST. Stay tuned for the next music festival!

Date:	16 January 2025 (Thursday)
Time:	2:30pm
Venue:	Board Room, 12/F, WKCDA Tower, West Kowloon Cultural District, No. 8 Austin Road West, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Agenda (Open Session)

•  Chief Executive Officer’s Report

Date:	21 November 2024 (Thursday)
Time:	2:30pm
Venue:	Board Room, 12/F, WKCDA Tower, West Kowloon Cultural District, No. 8 Austin Road West, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Agenda (Open Session)

•  Chief Executive Officer’s Report

Date:	13 September 2024 (Friday)
Time:	2:30pm
Venue:	Board Room, 12/F, WKCDA Tower, West Kowloon Cultural District, No. 8 Austin Road West, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Agenda (Open Session)

•  Chief Executive Officer’s Report

TechBox is an experimental platform jointly established by WestK’s Performing Arts Division and the School of Theatre and Entertainment Arts at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Launched in 2021, the platform brings together media artists, theatre designers, as well as academy faculty and students to focus on research, exploration and experimentation.

It aims to provide maximum creative freedom to explore the integration of materials, senses, scenography, spatial arrangements and conceptual ideas in theatre aesthetics.

TechBox 2023: The Travellers and the Listeners is the platform's first full-scale production. Departing from the traditional director or scriptwriter-led creative process, the creative team devised this performance within a technological context, developing a unique, cross-disciplinary creation model.

Led by principal artist Samson Young, the Techbox team* combined artificial intelligence systems with live, impromptu sound and visual interactions in a 2022 work-in-progress presentation. In 2023, inspired by Walter de la Mare's poem The Listeners, Young’s music composition and videos creations’ music composition and videos creations guided the design team in creating the theatrical elements — the set, lighting, sound, and projections allow further space and these were then integrated with musicians and performers to complete the production.

This video traces the artists' creative journey over the past year, including workshops and the various stages in the production of The Travellers and the Listeners.

*Team members include teachers, students and alumni from the School of Theatre and Entertainment Arts at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Theatre team, Technical and Production team from Performing Arts Division of West Kowloon 

Date:	20 June 2024 (Thursday)
Time:	2:30pm
Venue:	Board Room, 12/F, WKCDA Tower, West Kowloon Cultural District, No. 8 Austin Road West, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Agenda (Open Session)

•  Chief Executive Officer’s Report