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Learning Curves/Shing Mun River by Alessandro Carboni

The new stage of Learning Curves takes place in Hong Kong and focuses on the Shing Mun River. The project intends to focus the research on the transformation of the landscape caused by major land reclamation that irrevocably changed the Shatin area.

The dramatic human activity around the Shatin area, which started at the beginning of the 1970s due to land reclamation and extension over the sea, transformed the villages into the biggest residential urban agglomerate in Hong Kong. Alessandro Carboni spent two months studying, through an interdisciplinary approach between visual arts, geography and architecture, the Shing Mun River as a place of contact between the two points – the natural landscape and the urban and cultural landscape.

Installation “Sound Topography – diary of body mapping around villages and estates, Shatin”
5.4.2013 (Fri) | 11.00am – 7pm
6.4.2013 (Sat) | 10am – 6pm
@ open area near Pai Tau Village, Shatin
*Two days only!

Performance “Dialogue on Maps”
6.4.2013 (Sat) | 10.30am – 12.30pm
@ Shatin Rural Committee, 248 Pai Tau Village, Shatin

About Alessandro Carboni
Multidisciplinary artist Alessandro Carboni addresses his research paths that consistently involve multiple domains and draw from both theoretical and practical studies. His experience, gained as a visual artist and performer, focuses on the body and its relationship with space. He taught and collaborated with School of Architecture of the Chinese University of Hong Kong , Central Saint Martin’s University of Art in London, Naba in Milan and the Faculty of Architecture of Cagliari. He recently began a collaborative research project Complex Body Networks with Department of Physics of the University of Cagliari.
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聲音圖書館藝術家駐留計劃
Alessandro Carboni“探索曲線﹣城門河”

70年代初，由於填海及海岸擴展，大規模城市化令沙田由鄉村搖身一變而成香港最大的住宅群，而當地人文活動亦因而有著戲劇性的變化。

經過兩個月考察，透過田野錄音及影像搜集、Alessandro以跨界手法包括視覺藝術、地理、建築去審視城門河這個文化及自然環境的交匯點，並研究因填海工程對沙田地域造成的不可逆轉的變遷。

裝置作品：“聲音地誌－身體與沙田屋村及鄉村之對照日記”
5.4.2013 (Fri) | 11.00am – 7pm,
6.4.2013 (Sat) | 10am – 6pm
@ 沙田排頭村對外空地
*只限兩天!

演出：“地圖對談”
6.4.2013 (Sat) | 10.30am – 12.30pm
@沙田排頭村248號沙田鄉事委員會

關於Alessandro Carboni 
Alessandro Carboni，跨界藝術家，專注自身與空間的關係，以理論及實踐並重的多樣手法進行各項研究。他曾與香港中文大學建築學院、Central Saint Martin’s University of Art in London、Naba in Milan and the Faculty of Architecture of Cagliari、Department of Physics of the University of Cagliari.合作。
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