Curated by Christina Brandt Jensen | Presented by After Sunset
Wednesday 26th March 5 – 9 pm
Whatever touches the soul, a sound, skin on skin, a look from afar, drags us out further into open water. Connecting beyond the border that once defined us. Every touch cutting through the lines of breaking waves like a river flowing out to sea.
Partly inspired by the book “A Single Man” (1964) by Christopher Isherwood, this durational performance for two dancers explores the essence of lack of closeness. Metaphorical layers and layers of cloth, dressing and undressing. Covering and peeling, so as to find their best fit into their misfit. Christine He and Jonathan Hung will use their bodies to build a site-specific conversation with the Central Theatre specially for Night Central 2025.
We hug into form, hug into a shape; hug onto skin, pore to pore sinking in.
We hug into the void, just to fill up the holes. May it block all the leakages, just to make our hearts whole. Squeezing veins so tight; the heart only remains.
We are alone together, moulding layers of forever.
Image: Christine He and Jonathan Hung, After Sunset Festival, 2023. Photographed by Wong Wei Him. Courtesy of After Sunset
Departing from Hou Lam Tsui & Wong Pak Hang’s experience of wandering through a Sham Shui Po shopping mall filled with old CCD cameras and DV camcorders, the artists revisit their personal sticky memories through outdated, malfunctioning, and low-pixel electronic devices. They attempt to piece together fragments of the past, present, and future while tracing the idea of death amid the virtual, digital dimension, rethinking the impossibility of nostalgia.
Join artist-investigator Wong Ka Ying (KY) for a provocative deep dive into the intricacies of the Hong Kong art market. Blurring the line between corporate presentation and experimental performance, “Hong Kong Art Market Overview, Analysis, and Forecast” (2025) offers an incisive yet playful take on market dynamics. This live event combines sharp market analysis, fortune-telling elements, feng shui applications, and a fearless dismantling of prevailing myths—all brought to life with A.I.-generated visuals that revel in their own absurdity and irrelevance.
As an artist renowned for her wit and critique of capitalistic systems, KY delivers an engaging, no-holds-barred presentation—complete with take-home handouts—designed to equip attendees with unconventional insights into navigating the competitive art world. The session will conclude with an open-floor discussion, inviting spirited debate and diverse perspectives on the future of Hong Kong’s art market.
Join artist-investigator Wong Ka Ying (KY) for a provocative deep dive into the intricacies of the Hong Kong art market. Blurring the line between corporate presentation and experimental performance, “Hong Kong Art Market Overview, Analysis, and Forecast” (2025) offers an incisive yet playful take on market dynamics. This live event combines sharp market analysis, fortune-telling elements, feng shui applications, and a fearless dismantling of prevailing myths—all brought to life with A.I.-generated visuals that revel in their own absurdity and irrelevance.
As an artist renowned for her wit and critique of capitalistic systems, KY delivers an engaging, no-holds-barred presentation—complete with take-home handouts—designed to equip attendees with unconventional insights into navigating the competitive art world. The session will conclude with an open-floor discussion, inviting spirited debate and diverse perspectives on the future of Hong Kong’s art market.
Shavonne Wong’s talk isn’t about AI as technology. It is about us, our instincts, our attachments, and how AI is quietly replacing moments of human connection. The lecture-performance is an art experiment that explores what happens when we start turning to machines for comfort, conversation, and understanding. Everyone talks about what AI can do, but few ask what it is doing to us. Why do we treat AI like it is real, even when we know it is not? What does it mean when an algorithm starts to feel like a confidant? Through Eva, we will examine the psychology behind our interactions with AI, the ethical and emotional questions they raise, and what this shift reveals about who we are becoming in a world where the line between human and artificial connection is starting to blur.
Shavonne Wong’s talk isn’t about AI as technology. It is about us, our instincts, our attachments, and how AI is quietly replacing moments of human connection. The lecture-performance is an art experiment that explores what happens when we start turning to machines for comfort, conversation, and understanding. Everyone talks about what AI can do, but few ask what it is doing to us. Why do we treat AI like it is real, even when we know it is not? What does it mean when an algorithm starts to feel like a confidant? Through Eva, we will examine the psychology behind our interactions with AI, the ethical and emotional questions they raise, and what this shift reveals about who we are becoming in a world where the line between human and artificial connection is starting to blur.
The legacies of queerness and horror films are insatiably intertwined. In her newly commissioned performance for Art Central 2025, IV Chan draws inspiration from the campy formalism of B-movies, particularly within the genre of horror comedy, to explore its grotesquerie while reflecting on the figures of vampire and motherhood in the Chinese cinematic landscape.
The legacies of queerness and horror films are insatiably intertwined. In her newly commissioned performance for Art Central 2025, IV Chan draws inspiration from the campy formalism of B-movies, particularly within the genre of horror comedy, to explore its grotesquerie while reflecting on the figures of vampire and motherhood in the Chinese cinematic landscape.
The legacies of queerness and horror films are insatiably intertwined. In her newly commissioned performance for Art Central 2025, IV Chan draws inspiration from the campy formalism of B-movies, particularly within the genre of horror comedy, to explore its grotesquerie while reflecting on the figures of vampire and motherhood in the Chinese cinematic landscape.
The legacies of queerness and horror films are insatiably intertwined. In her newly commissioned performance for Art Central 2025, IV Chan draws inspiration from the campy formalism of B-movies, particularly within the genre of horror comedy, to explore its grotesquerie while reflecting on the figures of vampire and motherhood in the Chinese cinematic landscape.