New Vision Arts Festival 2021 Ivanhoe Lam “Report ii : the illegal i”

Ivanhoe Lam “Report ii : the illegal i”
 

Today, how vulnerable are the ideals of liberty and equality when humans stop at nothing to get what they want?
Let’s see what our REPORT has to say.
Inspired by Franz Kafka’s A Report to An Academy, this production follows the struggles and transformations of apes who attempt to become human in order to obtain the freedom they long for.
Drawing inspiration from Kafka’s text, boundary pusher Ivanhoe Lam and his team did a site-responsive performance at the Prison Yard of Tai Kwun, Hong Kong in early 2019.
This new edition is set in an indoor theatre space where the audience are taken on another experiential journey to the allegorical “Academy”. It investigates how the oft-espoused values of liberty and equality really operate in the contemporary world, and how easily they can be compromised. The team also go further to explore how institutional forces, for their own benefit, manipulate one’s sense of self and purpose. The new edition is devised from the personal experiences and perspectives of a cross-cultural team of performers. An experiential theatre performance that integrates creative text, movement, music, rap, narrative, video and participatory spatial design.

Date : 29-31/10 (Fri to Sun)
Time: 3pm & 8pm
Venue: Studio Theatre, Hong Kong Cultural Centre
Progamme details: http://www.nvaf.gov.hk/programmes/1/

About the Artist
Ivanhoe Lam
Having received a Diploma in Drama and Dance (Contemporary Dance) from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Lam furthered his studies and obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Codarts, Rotterdam majoring in Choreography.
Lam’s works have toured Shanghai, Dusseldorf, Zurich, Guangzhou, Beijing, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht and Amsterdam. His recent creations have appeared in New Vision Arts Festival, i-Dance Festival, Hong Kong Arts Festival’s Hong Kong Jockey Club Contemporary Dance Series, and more.
In spring 2015, invited by Connecting Spaces, Lam curated and created a multidisciplinary performance, Odd Couplings with ten Swiss artists during his three-month artist-in-residence at Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK) in Zurich. He also does staging direction and movement design for productions by Edward Lam Dance Theatre, Chan Fai-young x Women’s Choir, Yat Po Singers, Hong Kong Repertory Theatre, SingFest, etc.