HK Magazine: “Don Juan in Chicago.” Do you sing “All that Jazz”?
Scott Sauer: No, we just use Chicago as a habitat. Don Juan makes a deal with the Devil, Mephistopheles, in 1599. He gets immortality, but has to sleep with a different woman every night. By the time we meet...
HK Magazine: Why give up painting to pursue performance art?
Li Wei: Because performance art is a better tool to transmit my ideas than painting is. It’s not simply a mirror to what I’m thinking – it’s not just a line on a canvas – it’s using the body as a way of...
People laugh at my nerdy look. But that’s my style. I don’t care if people laugh at me or not because everyone takes me differently. I just want to be myself.
I already gave my best, and 'I have no regrets at all. This is the quote that made me famous. It just came out of my head. I...
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HK: Why are you so focused on death?
GB: Death is just a part of life. You just have to live with it and it can’t be that bad, because what follows death is peace. People are very fearful of death. So that’s why I want to create a platform in which people can discuss death.
HK: How did...
HK Magazine: Tell us a joke.
James Dowdeswell: I’m not really a joke teller. I know it sounds odd for a stand-up comedian to say this, but it’s true, really. I know it sounds bizarre, but I tell stories and do impressions, not tell jokes.
HK: What does your family think of your...
Favorite Hong Kong noise: False Alarm, League of Heroes, An Id Signal, 22 Cats and GaYamYan.
Favorite audience: An audience that's a bit drunk or stoned.
On HK audiences moshing: Of course they can. One of our good friends was sent to the hospital after moshing too hard at a show.
On groupies: We...
HK Magazine: Your name, Circle, is unusual.
Circle Lo: My Chinese name is Lo Yuen. “Yuen” means “Origin,” but sounds the same as “Circle”. I went to a Buddhist school, and I like the idea of circularity and things not having a beginning and end. I played in the...
HK Magazine: How do you keep yourself occupied on these long trips? What do you think about?
Marc Progin: As far as I’m concerned, there are two trips: One is the physical trip and the other is the “mind trip” – this is the most important for me. What I’m trying to do...
HK Magazine: Who is Ray Sharp?
Eric Stone: In the first book, he’s a journalist working for a business magazine in Hong Kong. In the second book, he works for a corporate investigations firm, also based in Hong Kong. It’s a little silly for a journalist to always be getting involved in...
