Biometric Theatre｜Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Solo Exhibition Introduction

An immersive exhibition featuring artworks that make tangible human bio-signatures

Biometric Theatre is an immersive exhibition featuring seven interactive audio-visual installations by acclaimed artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. The works on view make individual biological signatures tangible and embodied, approaching the human body not as the receiver of stimuli but as an integral part of the artwork itself.

Using technologies to capture heartbeats, fingerprints, body heat and movements, Lozano-Hemmer creates intimate human landscapes. In Biometric Theatre, data is consensually crowdsourced, presenting an opportunity for such information to be used towards poetic and participatory ends, and allowing participants to witness the transformation of their personal signatures into connective, albeit ephemeral, works of art.

Biometric Theatre is Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong. It includes the Asian premiere of his acclaimed large-scale installation Pulse Topology (2021), a kinetic landscape of pulsating light bulbs and sounds reflecting the rhythm of visitor heartbeats.

Biometric Theatre also includes the following works:

• Thermal Drift (2022)
• Hormonium (2022)
• Vocal Folds (2019)
• Pulse Index (2010)
• Glories of Accounting (2005)
• Surface Tension (1992)

Sunday Performances:

On the afternoons of 19 and 26 February (Sunday), join us for two 45-minute live performance sessions with local dancers and musicians improvising in response to the dynamic installation Pulse Topology.

• Date: February 19 and 26, 2023 (Sunday)
• Time: 15:00-15:45 for the first session｜16:15-17:00 for the second session

Performers:

• Tsoi Ka-king (Dance)
• Zhang Qingyi (Dance)
• Zhang Yutong (Dance)
• Loisey (Electronics)
• Gill Mok (Percussion)

Exhibition Details

• Biometric Theatre｜Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Solo Exhibition
• Date: February 13-March 5, 2023
• Time: 12:00-20:00
• Venue:Xiqu Centre, Studios 1, 2, 3, West Kowloon Cultural District
• Address: 88 Austin Road West, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Ticket Details

• Free admission. Limited capacity on a first come, first served basis. Visitors are recommended to register in advance. On the day of your visit, please present your e-ticket and redeem an admission wristband at the ground floor Reception at the Xiqu Centre before entering the event space.
• A limited number of wristbands are available at the Reception for walk-in visitors on a first come, first served basis.
• The wristband is for admission to three programmes: Distributive Intelligence, Biometric Theatre and Team 9 x Milo Tse – “Word Game” Special Edition ‘A Practical Poet’.

Source of above information: West Kowloon Cultural District official website