sinokultur im Salon 
Concepts on the Move: Wong Chi-yung 
24 May 2024; 18:30 - 21:30 (CET)
Location: Sinokultur, Zürich  
Organizer: Sinokultur

Subject:

Hong Kong cross-disciplinary artist and artist-curator Wong Chi-yung will talk about experiential installations, lighting installations, and creative education, emphasizing the communication between arts and sciences. He will explain how he wanders between art creation and scientific research, and then responds to his exploration with art creation. How to stimulate cooperation, creation, and research through the exploration of cross-disciplinary collaboration, and promote public awareness of mental health.

Wong Chi-yung lives in Zurich and Hong Kong. In the past four years, Chi-yung has actively promoted artistic and academic exchange. His collaborators include: Theatre of Liege, Belgium, West Kowloon Cultural Authority District, Hong Kong Arts Center, ETH Zurich, and the Artists-in-Labs Program at the Institute of Cultural Studies of Zurich University of the Arts, the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, etc. Recently, he was selected as one of the Art Fellows 2020 by Yale University in the United States, where he developed arts and mental health projects.