FEATURE EXHIBITION

Unlearn / Relearn\

Get what I mean? Is communication the only function of language?

Just as we spend much time looking at information through a smartphone daily without looking at the appearance and construction of the smartphone itself – we speak Cantonese and read words in Traditional Chinese characters every day in Hong Kong without spending much time to learn and to take a closer look at the language and the characters.

What if we look at a Chinese character as just a character, and listen to the pronunciation of a word as just a sound? What if symbols are completely disconnected from the usual way we form words into comprehensible sentences?

Unlearn / Relearn\ challenges us to step back and detach from our entrenched understanding of how language works by deconstructing the very structure of language, and presenting an alternative way to experience rebuilding words with sound.

Exhibition by
Composer
Vanissa Law

Vanissa Law is a composer who is passionate about interdisciplinary art practices with a wide repertoire of artistic output from traditional acoustic compositions to multimedia theatre collaborations.

Classically trained in her early years, Law focused on electroacoustic music composition whilst studying for her Master’s degree at Ball State University in the US. Her doctoral research was on the use of gestures in electroacoustic music, where she translated everyday gestures into sounds and images in her work. A recipient of the 2014 Fulbright Research Scholar Award, her research culminated in the Soft Instruments Project to help people with developmental disabilities make music more safely.

Natively from Hong Kong, Law has lectured on music technology, interdisciplinary design and music composition. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at Queen’s University Belfast working on a sound art performance project funded by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

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