5 performances and art shows to see in Hong Kong this weekend, November 8-10
Digital art, the annual India by the Bay festival, choral concerts and a post-apocalyptic musical are among the highlights for arts fans
From an original musical about climate change to a 360-degree, immersive presentation of a monumental 19th-century Swiss painting, a diverse range of cultural offerings in Hong Kong this weekend present new ways of seeing past, present and future.
1. Gen Last
Gen Last is a new musical by the Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation and is set in 2055, when the world has become a post-apocalyptic wasteland. A group of young people with special powers are drawn together from different corners of the globe.
Called the Crystal Children, they confront the consequences of our failure to heed the warnings of climate change, hopeful that they can rebuild civilisation from the ashes.
WestK x HKYAF: Miller Performing Arts – Gen Last, The Box, Freespace, WestK, Nov 7-9, 7:30pm, Nov 9, 2:30pm. Performed in English with Chinese and English surtitles. Tickets available from https://www.tickets.westk.hk/
2. 360⁰ Terapixel Panorama of the Battle of Murten
In 1893, the German artist Louis Braun painted a monumental painting 10 metres by 100 metres (33ft by 330ft) depicting the 1476 Battle of Murten, a historic Swiss victory over Charles the Bold of Burgundy.
Using cutting-edge digitisation techniques, a 1.6 terapixel digital image of the painting has been produced by a team led by Professor Sarah Kenderdine at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, offering viewers unprecedented detail and immersion.
This weekend, it will be presented in 360 degrees at Hong Kong Baptist University’s Visualization Research Centre, which will hold a symposium on November 11 covering the latest trends in digital conservation, data science and immersive technologies.
