Life with Elephant Online Performance (online link) (Completed)
Life with Elephant Online Exhibition (online link) (Completed)
(All activities conducted in Cantonese)

Project period: July 2021– July 2022

Curator/Artist：Kiwi CHAN
Curator: Emily LIU
Sound Artist: Cat CHAU, Sing Jantzen TSE

Please refer to the website of Star and Dust Collective

The Ensemble began to take shape in 2014, when Kiwi Chan read about the Urban Renewal Authority’s vision to integrate arts and cultural elements within To Kwa Wan.  She decided to curate a journey of sound and collaborated with sound artist Sing Jantzen Tse in Cow in the City, a project which not only explores and connects the local community but also relates to the district as its cultural texts.  Inspired by this project, in 2021 the Ensemble engaged community nurse Emily Liu and welcomed music therapist Cat Chau to the team for curating Life with Elephant, a sound mapping programme carried out in six areas in Hong Kong.

Life with Elephant aims at raising the awareness of physical and mental health of modern people by carrying out community sound mapping in six districts, viz.  Kowloon City, Kwai Chung, Sai Kung, Ma Wan, Lamma Island and Peng Chau.  “Elephant” refers to the idiom “the elephant in the room”, meaning an obvious problem that no one wants to discuss.  The programme wishes to use elephant as a precursor to go into the community and invite the general public to look into the invisible “elephant” (problems) together and find out “the willingness to stay behind”.  People in the neighbourhoods will be invited to participate in an audio-guided performance and the results will be gathered to organise a touring exhibition.