About the event
Unlock Dancing Plaza has invited multi-disciplinary artist Albert GARCIA to take part in a three-week “Overseas Artist-in-Residence Programme” at the year end of 2022. Born and raised in Macao with Filipino descent Garcia has developed his artistic practice focusing on the body politics of society’s relationship to the minorities and the complexity of an individual’s identity. This residency takes “Survival Guide in Mobility” as the main focus he will extend his research on “Survival Guide” through field study interviews filmmaking and workshops to connect different communities and learn from their experiences. At the end of the residency Albert would share his findings and expand his composition on “Survival Guide” in a Work-in-progress Presentation.
Unlock Dancing Plaza focuses on developing a diverse performing arts ecology from questioning institutionalized dance aesthetic to reimagining the relationship of performing arts with the society and every day life. The “Overseas Artist-in-Residence Programme” invites artists of different cultural backgrounds to Hong Kong to share their ideas creative strategies and interests in order to create discourses renew perspectives and provoke imaginations. During the residency a variety of events such as workshops sharing talks and work-in-progress presentation will be held to engage with the public from the interaction with local communities we hope to depict the potentialities of performing arts with revelance in the local scene.