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Press Release 9 January 2012 Attention Arts and Features Editors For immediate release LiFeast 11.1.2012 – 22.1.2012

Opening reception: Friday 25 November 6pm Artist: Patricia CHIU, Alok / ahshun aka bjornho / Oetzi.P / Shelf-Index / Wong Chung-fai, Jamie JIM, LAM Tim Wai, Wilson TSANG, Moodless.

“Food is art to our body, art is food to our soul” - LiFeast is a two-week art and food festival packed with exhibitions and performances. As a part of the Osage Sigma Projects, LiFeast is created to bring great sound, visual and performance art together with delicious food to Hong Kong audience, in the heart of the city. This event supports emerging artists and cutting-edge art forms from Hong Kong and the region.

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ABOUT LiFeast

Artist:

Patricia CHIU, Alok / ahshun aka bjornho / Oetzi.P / Shelf-Index /

WONG Chung-fai, Jamie JIM, LAM Tim Wai, Wilson TSANG,

Moodless.

Venue: Osage Gallery, Soho

Address: 45 Caine Road, Lower Ground Shop 1, Cnr Old Bailey St, Soho

Central, Hong Kong

Tel: (852) 2537 0688

Exhibition Duration: 11 January 2012 - 22 January 2012

Performances details:

Movement Experimental (Patricia Chiu) 11-18 Jan Free Admission

Zen Ensemble II (Alok / ahshun aka bjornho / Oetzi.P / Shelf-Index / Wong Chung-fai) 13(Fri) & 14 (Sat) Jan 7:30p.m.-9:00p.m. Admission Fee: $120/80*

La Voix Humaine: the sound of the Viola da Gamba (Jamie Jim, Lam Tim Wai) 14(Sat) & 15(Sun) Jan 11a.m. to 2p.m. Admission Fee: $120/80*

Traces of Entanglement (Wilson Tsang) 19 (Thu) Jan 7:30p.m.-9:00p.m. Admission Fee: $120/80*

Moodless: The yearning for a retrieval from repressed creativitiy 20 (Fri) & 21 (Sat) Jan 7:30p.m.-9:00p.m. Admission Fee: $120/80*

Sonic Kitchen (Alok, Wong Chung-fai) 21 (Sat) Jan 11a.m. to 2p.m. Admission Fee: $120/80*

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APPENDIX A: ABOUT THE ARTIST

APPENDIX A: ABOUT THE ARTIST

Born in Hong Kong, Patricia Chiu has always had a fascination and love for movement and the performing arts. Currently studying a Masters of Fine Arts in choreography, she strongly believes that the arts provide a platform for people to explore ideas, issues, thoughts and feelings as well as empower themselves by finding a voice to express themselves. Working as a freelance performer, director and choreographer as well as a yoga teacher, Patricia is dedicated to creating evocative experiences for people - stimulating their minds, awakening their hearts and feeding their souls.

Patricia Chiu

Wong Chung-fai, an idiosyncratic improviser, sonic junkie, live-visualist, micro-curator and free-lance writer from Hong Kong. Also co-founder of the experimental imprint Re-Records and member of the electro-acoustic duo No One Pulse. Being a veteran writer of the legendary Hong Kong alternative music magazine MCB (Music Colony B-Weekly), his writings had influenced a wide spectrum of experimental musicians and listeners. While not writing as a pseudo-music critic elaborating his esoteric worldview, in the same idiosyncratic fashion, he spends much of his time hacking and sculpting sonic materials with his laptop and various non-standard electronic gears. With his on-going experimentation embracing improvisation, noise, errors, chaos and randomness, he has been re-visioning an unorthodox sound-making process expressed in extreme dichotomies, and driven by intuition and direct experience. He had offered performance and creative work for concert, sound installation, workshop, audio-visual and theatrical performance. He had taken part and performed in events such as HK Sound and Vision Festival (2003), Get It Louder (2007), Hong Kong & Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (2007, 2009), Architecture is Art Festival (2009), Notch Festival Guangzhou Station (2009), MILK+ (2010), and Whisper Music Festival (2010).

Wong Chung-fai

Alok sound artist, guitarist and bassist. In 2002, he set up his own record label Lona Records, and started working as a producer. From the end of 2002 to 2009, he released 5 albums and 5 cd singles. He has played and participated in more than 100 shows and experimental events / projects in Hong Kong and China. Phon°noir was also invited to take part in the remix album <Counting Raindrops: The Remixes> of Phon°noir, an electronica German artist. Selected Show: International Film Festival Closing Party (2002), Mondialito Live in HK (2005), AGF Live in HK (2005), Get It Louder (2007), Emmanuel Mieville Live in HK (2007), Red / Red_Shift: A Sound Exhibition & Perfromance For The Red Compilation in HK / Shenzhen (2009), Street Music West Kowloon (2010), The Listening Room 4 (2010), Rebuilding Haiti (2010).

Alok

As an active cellist and viola da gamba player, Jamie Jim enjoys playing a wide variety of musical genres. She performed in different chamber groups and orchestras such as the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble and Hong Kong Sinfonietta. While she was living in San Francisco Bay Area, she was a member of San Francisco’s Magik*Magik Orchestra (playing fusion and contemporary music). Finding her passion with jazz and improvisation, she was the principal cellist of Oakland’s Resonance Jazz Ensemble. She performed with baroque cello and viola da gamba in workshops and festivals, including the Amsterdam Early Music Summer School, Berkeley Festival, Conclave Viol Workshop and the American Bach Soloists Academy. She is frequently invited to perform the viola da gamba in Hong Kong and Macau.

Jamie Jim

Lam Tim-wai is one of the numbered viola da gamba and viola d’amore players in Hong Kong. Lam studied viola da gamba with Tina Chancey and Jay Elfenbein. Lam, as the first local viola da gamba player, performed Bach St. Matthew Passion and St. John Passion with the Hong Kong City Chamber Orchestra. Lam performed in various Baroque concerts and performances, included the viola d’amore solo in Vivaldi Nisi Dominus by Michael Chance with the Hong Kong City Chamber Orchestra, Bach

Sonata No.2 for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord, Cantata No.160, Abel Solo Sonata in D Minor, Vivaldi Concerto in A Minor for Viola d’amore and Strings with the Hong Kong Academy Early Music Ensemble, etc. Recently, Lam and Jamie Jim was invited to perform at the Macau Military Club. Lam graduated at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts with Master of Music Degree (Performance) on viola.

As a singer, musician, poet and painter, with words, sound and images, Hong Kong independent music veteran Wilson Tsang will be presenting his solo works, and also performing as a trio with Alok and Wong Chung-fai (aka Sin:Ned).

Wilson Tsang

Moodless is an installation performing art by a group of young and emerging artists. It aims to seek feelings out, through the craving of senses, towards the crack of “emptiness”, nurtures the sentimental palpitation.

Moodless

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