Catalogue

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Performance Season 2026:

2026 includes a wider range of activities that extend beyond performance-making, focusing on our research on the ecology of the Hong Kong pearl, Inter-Asia mermaid myths, and deep sea mining in the Pacific. We will present our in-progress board game Abyssal Abundance at George Town Festival: a cooperative multiplayer game, where players work together to fight deep sea mining. Players are encouraged to collaborate with other human players and non-human companions to stand against the extractivist machines ready to wreak havoc in the Pacific Ocean and beyond. We are building our mermaid dance performance in residency in Japan, and deepening our reflections on method and making through the form of lecture performances.

• Global Classroom (Utrecht/ Gdansk/ Hong Kong): Once Upon a Time in the Pearl of the Orient, Utrecht University, The Netherlands (June 2026)
• Performance Studies international conference, Jakarta, Indonesia: Sailing with the Pirate Queen: In search of archipelagic methods in artistic research (July 2026)
• George Town Festival/ Asian Boardgames Festival 2026, Penang, Malaysia: Abyssal Abundance (play-testing) (August 2026)
• Toyooka Theatre Festival Fringe, Residency and Presentation, Japan (August/ September 2026)

Performance Season 2025:

The project was under the Young Arts Tech Talent Residency Scheme by Hong Kong Arts Development Council to develop its next performance, Beyond the Shore: The Future of Memories. It won 2nd Prize in the Federation for Asian Cultural Promotion Clare C. and Friends Fellowship 2024.

• HKADC Young Arts Tech Talent Residency: The Future of Memories, Hong Kong Arts Centre (2 March 2025)
• LCSD Community Cultural Ambassador Scheme: Untold Stories of Salt and Pearl in Hong Kong (Tuen Mun and Tai Po Chronicles) (Fall 2025)

Beyond the Shore: The Future of Memories is a speculative science fiction immersive theatre production. Set in the distant future when humanity has been wiped out by a great flood after climate collapse, the audience enters a floating digital archive left to be discovered at sea. An AI bot and hologram performers guide them through a meditative journey, accompanied by live music, multimedia, and movement. Discover the forgotten voices of female oceanic legends and reconnect with their potential histories through this multi-sensorial immersive experience. More details can be found here.

Performance Season 2023-2024:

• Itoshima International Art Festival, Itoshima, Japan (Oct 2023)
• Inter-Island Festival, Peng Chau, Hong Kong (Nov 2023)
• ICAS Conference-Festival, Surabaya, Indonesia (July 2024)

Inspired by the Hong Kong mermaid “Lo Ting” and the pirate queen Cheng Yat Sou (Zheng Yi Sao), the performance series centres mythology, history, and gender. We think through the role of feminised bodies of Lo Ting and Yat Sou in their representations of the oppressed water-dwelling ethnic minority (Tanka people), and figurations of traumatic histories of war and conflict in Southern China. We turn to forgotten legends in the margins of official historical records to recuperate ocean-centric historical narratives as new historiographies of the Southern China coast.