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Four Quadrants of the Sky Exhibition Opens 14th Sept

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Four Quadrants of the Sky 四大神獸 completes the second cycle of Performing Identities, an expansive collaborative project that reimagines diasporic East and Southeast Asian [ESEA] identities through contemporary myth-making. A new immersive video installation with sound scape, together with the costumes will be on exhibition at Bloc Projects, Sheffield from 15th Sept - 14th Oct 2023 with a launch  event on Thurs 14th Sept 6-8pm. This cycle explores versions of Hong Kongness through the newly devised characters, Wok Hei, The Navigator, Lo Ting and Hybridiy.

Made in collaboration with:

Performers Clara Cheung, Angela YT Chan and Tala Lee Turton
Choreographer Jan-Ming Lee
Costume & Set Designer Christine Ting-Huan 挺歡 Urquhart
Costume Assistant Thu Truong
Cinematographer Jim Wraith
Focus Puller Ai Narapol
Gaffer Anh Do
Costume & Set Assistant Shania Simpson
Make-Up Kinga Dwornik
Curated by Sunshine Wong
Production still by Juan de Leon-Padmore

Four Quadrants of the Sky builds on last year’s Hong Kong Future Diaspora, collaborators of which also included Anna Chan, Franco Ho, Jonathan Tang, Dr Wayne Wong, Shan Ray Cheung.

Supported by Bloc Projects, Necessity, Centre for Equity & Inclusion at University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University.

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