On Stage

Solstice to Solstice (2011)

audiovisual performance by Nerve (Steve Hui) + npool (Jamsen Law)

Multi-Media Theatre, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, Lok Fu, Hong Kong

Seasons of distinct rhythms, seasons also with volatile forms, sounds, scents, tastes and sensations.

Seasons as a cycle, yet there is never the same spring.

Transformation is the evidence of passing time, but time is invisible.

We only discover it at the moment being reminded by the changes of our surroundings.

Nerve digitally synthesized environmental sound as the four seasons, and modulate the representational sound into music as the three intervals in between. Jamsen created four installations displaying "living images" of seasonal scenery/system with fish tanks, juxtaposing with "moving images" of extreme close-ups of the artificially arranged aquatic plant designs in oversized HD projections in order to create the alienation effect for imagination of natural landscapes. In addition of generating associations and reconnecting memories of seasons, the work also led audience to another perspective of reality.