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Young People Meet-Up:
Exploring Multifaceted Identities through Masquerade

Details
Type: Workshop
Language: Cantonese
Audience: Young People
Location: The Forum
Accessibility: Wheelchair

Young People Meet-Up:
Exploring Multifaceted Identities through Masquerade

This workshop is for participants aged 16 to 24. Please bring valid ID.

The workshop ticket will include same-day access to General Admission exhibitions (excluding Special Exhibition). Please retain a copy of your ticket to facilitate your entry to the galleries.

Guided by the artist Holok Chen and using masquerade as a creative medium, you will design and shape multifaceted identities.

A few years ago, Holok Chen resonated with characters from a sci-fi film and has since masqueraded as an alien, bringing an extraterrestrial perspective to observe and learn from life in Hong Kong and redefining the meaning of living in the human world. Whether you are curious about masquerades but don't know where to start or want to understand the concepts behind it, this workshop provides room for exploration and sharing with the artist and other participants. Through visual symbols and associations, you will take the first step in creating your masquerade persona and expressing your multifaceted self.

Before the end of the workshop, an M+ Educator will lead you on a visit to the photography exhibition Yasumasa Morimura and Cindy Sherman: Masquerades, allowing you to learn more about two artists who also expressed themselves through masquerade and to understand the inspirations and expressions behind their works.

The Young People Meet-Up series encourages young people to explore and exchange their perspectives of the everyday through regular workshops, conversations, and talks.

About the Instructor

‘Once upon a time, there were a group of alien wandering around across the universe, hidden between the cracks…’

Holok Chen’s discourse surrounds the ideas of precarious life, displacement, and dysphoria through speculative fabulation and void punk. Their past works include the Coming Society; Wrong Side Cafe; VeryMK Rooftop Farm; Pride at Eaton 2024 opening performance and workshop; 20,000 Ways to Die in Yau Ma Tei tour and exhibition, and the poetry Surviving Natality (2021). They take inspiration from sci-fi and circus performers, expressing a profound sense of loss and sadness.

‘Omnia mea mecum porto; per aspera ad astra.’ (‘I carry all that is mine with me; through hardships to the stars.’

Portrait of Holok Chen. Photo: ofaistheta

Related Exhibition

Image at top: Image courtesy of artist Holok Chen

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