McaM Youth Theatre丨SPOKEN / UNSPOKEN

The works of the exhibition SPOKEN/UNSPOKEN are brought together by current participants and young artists from the pioneering international graduate semester programme Transcultural Collaboration. Its main working method is practical cross-disciplinary collaboration including all art and design disciplines from music to performance, fine arts and design. It was initiated in 2015 by Zurich University of the Arts incollaboration with six art universities from Asia. Its general focus is on transcultural topics, such as traditions, identity, genealogy of the present, values, different forms of life, globalization processes in general and between Europe and Asia in particular. 

Transcultural Collaboration, 2016, Hong Kong

According to the head of Transcultural Collaboration Daniel Sp?ti, "encountering and debating cross-cultural issues is essential for young contemporary art and design practitioners to be optimally prepared for their future professional life. In this programme graduates have the chance to build the knowledge and skills needed to produce and present their work in a dynamic transnational environment."

Transcultural Collaboration, 2017, Hong Kong

In the two-week exhibition SPOKEN/UNSPOKEN, 36 artists from different cultural settings as well as from a wide range of artistic backgrounds present their collaborative explorations of the spoken and unspoken, the tangible and intangible, as well as the revealed and concealed. The performances andexhibition consider and display questions of language, cultural codesand artistic strategies dealing with implicit and explicit expression. 

This international group of young artists will present a vibrant opening event on 20 October with installations and performances taking place at different time slots between 2pm and 5:30pm. On 21 October, the discussion panel "The Art of Hybridization" hosted by renowned Shanghai artist Zhao Chuan invites to a debate on the new artistic energies with young generations of academic power.

Transcultural Collaboration, 2017, Hong Kong

In the last years, the results of the programme have been presented in the art space Connecting Space Hong Kong and at partner institutions in Hong Kong. This year, Transcultural Collaboration will be shown in McaM. Daniel Sp?ti said, "Shanghai is one of the most exciting cities and most relevant hot spots in today’s art world. It’s a great experience and unforgettable moment for the participants and an important step for Transcultural Collaboration."

Transcultural Collaboration, 2017, Hong Kong

“Youth Theatre” is a brand project of Ming Contemporary Art Museum. It provides a platform for young art practitioners such as art students, university theatre groups and white-collar theatre groups. It encourages young non-professional artists to express their imagination and passion for art via theatre, dance, sound, video, painting and other art forms, which complements the gaps in the art industry.

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Transcultural Collaboration Team:

Daniel SP?TI, Head of Transcultural Collaboration

ZHAO Chuan, Guest Expert

Nuria KR?MER, Curator, Member of the Leading Team Transcultural Collaboration

Simon DIETERSDORFER, Exhibition Assistant

Stephanie LEE, Exhibition Assistant

Franziska Esther MEIERHOFER, Documentation Transcultural Collaboration

Partner Universities of Transcultural Collaboration:

China Academy of Art (Hangzhou)

The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts

Taipei National University of the Arts

School of Creative Media, City Universityof Hong Kong

LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore

Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong BaptistUniversity

Zurich University of the Arts (Switzerland)

Artists:

Mayumi ARAI

Yuanyang BAO

Simona BISCHOF

Vivian CHAN

Peitao CHEN

Keng CHEN

Florian GEISSELER

Max HANISCH

Diego KOHN

Silas KUTSCHMANN

Wen Qing KWEK

Mengying LI

Jiaming August LIAO

Sijia Star LIU

Wen-Chi LIU

Yu Rainie LIU

Xiaoli LIU

Jeremy NEDD

Mei Ting Spencer POON

Nikolai PRAWDZIC

Dino RADONCIC

Claudio RAINOLTER

Joel SCHOCH

Leonard Kai Fung SO

Marco SPITZBARTH

Nathalie STIRNIMANN

Stefan STOJANOVIC

Anbang WANG

Nina WILLIMANN

Mei Yan WONG

Sir Meng YAU

José Eduardo YEPEZ PINO

Ingjerd YTTERDAL HOLTEN

Jingying ZHANG

Xinyun Juliana ZHU 

Discussion Panel Guests：

Shi Ke

Kai Tuhumenn

Yang Xiaoxue

Nuria Kraemer

McaM Related Team:

Li Songjian, Ling Feifei

Qiu Zhijie

Yang Yue

Chen Yanwei

Dai Zhiyu

Jue Duo

Intern: Pang Yuyang, Jiang Ke