While many of the events in this month’s festival will be en français, local company Mon-Café Theatre have taken the cultural exchange even further by performing in French, English, Cantonese and Putonghua. Written by Maxime Elgue and directed by William Yip and Emilie Guillot...
In 1962 Barry Bates bleached his hair, changed his name and became the conceptual artist Billy Apple. Taking his brand one step further, he has recently created his own company, Billy Apple Limited. You can see – and take home – posters of his work at “Free New Zealand Art,...
HK Magazine: You’ve been playing together since 1999. What keeps it going all these years, even though you all have other jobs?
Tsang Hing-ling: It would be a great pleasure to play music full time, but you’d be labeled a useless one by your family. Up to uni graduation, my whole life...
HK Magazine: There are a million things to do in this city. Why bother writing poetry?
Vinson Lam: Simply because of the fact that there are too many things to do in Hong Kong. Too many people are “drunk” with their social obsessions and material gain. There are those who are in bad...
HK Magazine: We've heard you like to “engage your audience in witty repartee.”
Earl Okin: Witty repartee? That sounds like I’m trying to be funny. Really, I’m first and foremost a singer-songwriter. I have this stage personality where I wear a three-piece suit, spats and...
HK Magazine: Your work has toured all over the world. How have other cultures reacted to your sensual images of children and adolescents?
Deborah Paauwe: Amazingly, feedback has been incredibly positive. However, when I was in a group exhibition at the Bangladesh Biennale in 2004, they chose not...
Helluva party for a helluva cause. Aids Concern launches their Red Ribbon Angels Campaign with a “Harley’s Angels”-themed party at Red. Free-flowing cocktails, shooters and dinner delights are all on offer, while the entertainment includes dancers, DJs and “smoking hot biker...
Favorite HK noise:
Don: The man shouting down the road selling tofu desert... Tofuuu Faaaaaan!
Adrian: Sirens in the distance... if they're too close, that can't be good.
In your pockets:
A: There was an old tissue in my back pocket. Pretty gross.
Stupidest trend:
A: That dressing up like a...
