Performance Art Education Programme by Monique Yim :

Performance Art and Interdisciplinary Art Education Programme

行為藝術及跨媒介藝術教育

[cross-disciplinary arts of performance art, visual arts, video art, puppetry]

[themed on dreams and life goals]

“The Hong Kong Jockey Club Community Performing Arts Biennale 2016 – Ignite”

“賽馬會社區表演藝術雙年展 2016－藝·花火”

“We Are Unique” Performance Art x Puppetry”

“《獨一遇無二》行為藝術 x 戲偶”

Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation

香港青年藝術協會

Tseung Kwan O Government Secondary School (Students from F.1-3)

將軍澳官立中學 (學員為F.1-3學生)

International Social Service Hong Kong Branch (Students were ethnic minorities)

香港國際社會服務社 (學員為少數族裔學童)

City Contemporary Dance Company Dance Centre Jockey Club Dance Theatre

香港城市當代舞蹈團舞蹈中心賽馬會舞蹈小劇場

Performance Art and Interdisciplinary Art Programme Organizer, Workshop Instructor, Showcase Instructor

行為藝術及跨媒介藝術課程策劃人、工作坊導師、展演導師

Lecture, Workshop and Student Showcase (approx. 20 hours)

課堂、工作坊、學生成果展 (約20小時)

“We are unique and diverse, but we are united and always supporting people around us". Hong Kong is a very diverse city. Kids and teenagers of different ages and races are our future and hope. Their voices, thoughts, talents are unique, too! Teenagers from Tseung Kwan O Government Secondary School, and kids from International Social Service Hong Kong Branch - HOPE Support Service Centre for Ethnic Minorities, came together and express themselves by two ways, Performance Art, which is the reflection of real life, and Puppetry, which is beyond imagination. The two different communities tried to tell the audience their own dreams and stories after they had participated in the two workshops respectively. In the workshops, the two groups even shared and exchanged their dreams and stories in forms of art expressions and creations to each other. Through merging, sharing, interacting of thoughts and art in the process, and as a result they produced the crossover jamming part under the idea of two-way giving and gift exchanging by both parties. They were using their own performances to benefit and support each other. Gathering individual and collaborative power, they could build not only interactive art work, but also energy and life, and perspectives seeing the world, including the unique but united, diverse but supportive, positive and optimistic side. These all could inspire creative thoughts about life and indefinite possibilities.

The two groups of “We Are Unique” young people have never had public performance or experience in creation. All they had was the workshops for learning and exploring inspirationally how art can be used for self-expression and to see the world in different ways, and thus, creating their own wonderful pieces! In the first part of the Sharing Session, teenagers from Tseung Kwan O Government Secondary School created their own and unique individual pieces of performance artworks to tell the audience about their future dreams, together with video screenings of clay doll presentations which are created by them too, following by kids from HOPE Support Service Centre using puppets to react to their dreams; as in the second part, HOPE Support Service Centre representatives created a collaborative puppet show to presented a story chosen and told by them, while the Tseung Kwan O Government Secondary School students reacted by using an array of visual art forms and materials to create a mixed media live drawing collaboratively, visualizing “WE ARE UNIQUE”.

在香港這多元的國際城市，不同國族和年齡的年輕人都是我們香港的未來和希望！而他們每個人的體內，都有他們獨一無二的夢想和看法，才華和創意。將軍澳官立中學的青年，及香港國際社會服務社的南亞裔小朋友，分別透過參與行為藝術及戲偶工作坊，嘗試用一種反映生活真實、一種表現天馬行空的兩種藝術形式，表達自己正能量的夢想和聲音。然後兩個群體以藝術互動分享和交流，碰撞生命火花和生活能量。最後雙方更以創意作禮物，互贈回應、交換支持對方。

“獨一遇無二” 的兩群青少年從前並沒有公開表演或藝術創作的經驗！他們只用工作坊學習和探索的啟發性過程，就創作出今日屬於自己的作品！公開分享會上，上半部分由將軍澳官立中學的青年，創作個人獨特並帶有互動性的行為藝術作品，及輕黏土錄像，表達各人未來的夢想，而香港國際社會服務社的小朋友，則以小組戲偶表演，贈出簡單舞蹈動作來回應；下半部分由香港國際社會服務社的小朋友，創作群體的自選故事戲偶表演，共同表達他們的聲音，而將軍澳官立中學的青年，則每人以不同視覺藝術形式及物料，現場即時合力創作跨媒介繪畫，贈出 ”WE ARE UNIQUE” 創意字畫來回應。