HK Magazine: Were you born into a musical family? What do your parents do?
Skratch Bastid: My father is a real estate agent from Canada, and my Trinidadian mother raised four children. There was always music playing in our house and my father was a small-time music collector who DJ’d a few...
HK Magazine: The play is written by playwright Candace Chong. How did she approach you to direct it, Olivia?
Olivia Yan: We didn’t know each other personally, but had seen each other’s work. I remember she called me when I was driving, and I was very surprised and had to pull over. The...
HK Magazine: How did you get the name ‘Porigami’?
Tereza Hradilkova: “Pori” is a nickname my sister gave me when we were kids and “gami” means paper in Japanese. “Porigami” is like Pori’s paper—they are my designs.
HK: When did your...
HK Magazine: Are your family members musical? Did you start pursuing a musical career early in life?
Peter Moore: It’s funny that neither my father nor my mother was musical. My father was a bricklayer then a salesman, a very typical hard-working Australian; and my mother was a swimmer. I...
HK Magazine: How is the residency project going to work?
Wilson Shieh: I’ll stay for the whole of February, working here five days a week. Every day I’ll come and make artwork from morning till evening, until the gallery closes. I’m a painter. I used to work with a Chinese medium...
HK Magazine: Were you born into a musical family?
Dr. John: Yeah, my family was musical. My aunt played the piano and taught me how to play. My mother played a little bit, my sister sang with bands and played all kinds of instruments, and my father sold records. I was around all kinds of music.
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HK Magazine: Your current work looks more lighthearted and playful compared to your earlier works. Did you set out to purposefully change your style for this exhibit?
Sonya Fu: I used to have a darker style. People even asked me if I’m a “gothic girl” [laughs]. I really don’...
HK Magazine: When and how did Hungry Ghosts come together?
Luke: Paul is a great guitar player and a good friend of mine, so we thought of forming a band together back in 2007. Then we got Tiff and Mike to join us; both mutual friends of ours. It’s not really an exciting story…
Paul:...
HK: How did you first get into origami?
SM: Actually, it was paper airplanes. I used to make them as a kid, and I really enjoyed folding them. I kept folding them until I was 19 or 20 years old. I wanted to design original paper airplanes, so I started doing origami, thinking that it would help...
HK Magazine: I heard that your parents are both scientists? Are they musical as well?
Gil Shaham: Yes, I have scientist parents. My father passed away long time ago, and my mother is still working at the genetics lab. They’re both music lovers; my mother played the piano and my father played...
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