New Vision Arts Festival 2021 : "HKACT! Act 10 Daedalus Drones" by Ken Ueno

Invention: To dream ourselves out of a dark place?
Daedalus: inventor and architect in Greek mythology who broke through barriers.

Apart from baths to dance floors, masts and sails, Daedalus also built a labyrinth for King Minos of Crete to entrap the Minotaur. When Daedalus found himself imprisoned in his own labyrinth, he used feathers and wax to craft a pair of wings and took flight.
In today’s technologically advanced world, flying is no longer a pipe dream.
The Asia Society Hong Kong Center is transformed into a labyrinth, as maverick composer Ken Ueno recasts physical gestures into sounds, inventing his own vocal technique amplified through a megaphone, with drones and movable speakers in the role of a dance corps along with a chorus of sound artists and percussionists creating a unique “Sounding Architecture”. Together they comment on our complex, labyrinthine relationship with technology.

Date: 21/11-28/11
Time:  5pm; 6:30pm & 8pm
Venue:  Asia Society Hong Kong Center
Progamme details: https://www.nvaf.gov.hk/programmes/3/

About the Artist
Ken Ueno
Composer / Performer
Rome Prize and Berlin Prize winner Ken Ueno is a composer, vocalist, and sound artist. His music has been performed at venues and festivals around the world. As a vocalist, Ueno invents bespoke techniques and performed as soloist in his vocal concerto with orchestras in Boston, New York, Warsaw, Vilnius, Bangkok, Sacramento, Stony Brook, Pittsburgh, and North Carolina. His installations have been featured at MUAC (Mexico City), Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Urbanism\Architecture Bi-City Biennale (Shenzhen), Telfair Museums, and Art Basel. Ueno holds a PhD from Harvard University and his bio appears in The Grove Dictionary of American Music.