Hong Kong Exile
Hong Kong Exile Arts Association is an interdisciplinary arts company based in Vancouver. The company is made up of three contemporary artists: Natalie Tin Yin Gan, Remy Siu, and Milton Lim. Hong Kong Exile is committed to creating vital and innovative art through collaborative, interdisciplinary investigation. Hong Kong Exile aims to contribute to a thriving, diverse and critical arts community. Through work that provokes discourse and new perspectives, they advocate for art’s importance and its relevance in society.
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In development: was it the smell of solitude
was it the smell of solitude is Hong Kong Exile’s newest large-scale multimedia performance project led by choreographer Natalie Tin Yin Gan and currently in working phase.
Featuring fourteen performers, fog, powder, and intricate light choreography, solitude investigates Chinese funerary and ancestral tradition in a contemporary digital era. How do these performances around the afterlife intersect and communicate with the diasporic experience and imagination today? Through attempted ritual, object duets, and rhythmic dance compositions, solitude maps the transitions of grief, honour, and evolution. It shares stories that range from the profound to the profane, reckoning with the ever-shifting contradictions of the diasporic experience.