2023
Supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and
the School of Everyday Life, this landmark project was dedicated to creating opportunities for multidisciplinary artists to develop their own growth.
This tripartite project comprised intensive work considering ways teaching informs artistic output: Teaching As Research; four discussions with five internationally based arts practitioners and scholars about methodologies, creativity, and education in collaborative arts: a Series of Online Dialogues; and the creation of an Original Piece of Collaborative Artwork involving Literature Research, Creative Media and Music.
Teaching as Research
Bringing together a team of artists who are interested in experimental teaching methods, this aspect of the project provided methodologies to enhance teachers as artists through the discipline of teaching. Each artist was provided with an individualised research question, related to how teaching informs and directs their own artistic development. Over the course of the project artists taught over 150 hours of class and met in several in-person colloquia to discuss their progress and future plans.
Throughout, the participating teacher-artists created journals to catalogue their thoughts. The journals are published on this website and contain visual, written and audio materials as a time capsule of the project.
By teaching others, artists were enabled to give back to the community and developed their abilities through observation, discussion, research and documentation.
Artistic Director: Priscila Chu
Teaching Artists: Priscila Chu, Gabbie Chan, Cherry Leung, Nina Chiu, Katherine Kwok, King Yau
During the “Teaching as Research” phase, Arts Platform worked as one of the experiential learning partners with Compassionate Children Program. CCP is a collaborative project involving children and teachers at local schools. It aims at developing a compassion-based life education curriculum that can be integrated into a variety of school subjects and a student’s daily life.
Artists' Journal
Dialogue with Teaching Artists
Online Dialogues
We invited five prominent practitioners for a series of online dialogues to discuss aspects of collaborative arts covered in AP’s mission. Artist and Composer Manos Tsangaris will talk to us about his creativity behind his non-traditional stage work and the ways he has developed over the years as an artist. May Ng will talk to us about the values of aesthetic education and the importance of arts in mainstream education. Greg Klerkx will share his successful experiences of contributing his skills and ideas in different fields, including arts production, publishing, and education.. Finally, Ho Ying Fung and Vivian Ting will discuss different methodologies of artistic research and also recap the birth of the program “As flower, as mother, as water” Artistic Research Project, which has also inspired the revamp of Arts Platform.
Collaborative Arts
By Manos Tsangaris
Values, Arts & Education
By May Ng
Creativity, Arts & Community
By Greg Klerkx
Practice as Research
By HYF & Vivian Ting
Collaborative Artwork
This collaborative artwork began with Vivian’s research on changes in one Hong Kong landscape over the years. A collection of postcards exhibited the changes and led to a deeper investigation of Hong Kong’s development, and the deeper meaning behind that development, including some legends and myths. The collaborators utilised the initial research materials and developed a triangular yet reiterative creative process. The Artist of Creative Media created an initial animation that informed and inspired the writing of a music composition and several corresponding prose works. The music provided the tempo and other changes for a revision of the animation. A character from the prose provided additional depth of story for the revised animation. Meanwhile the music and prose inspired each other for the final work’s overall tone, much like a conversation between the artists. The work hopes to create a new aspect for the audience to view the historical change of a corner of Hong Kong’s landscape.
Literature Research
Vivian Ting
Creative Media
Wong Sin Han
Music
Priscila Chu
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