A Tree to be Found
- painting / sculpture + performance + video installation
(中文新聞稿)

30.5.2003 - 20.6.2003
Opening Party & Performance: 6 - 8 pm, Fri, 30 May, 2003
Gallery Hours: 12 - 7 pm, Wed to Sun
(Closed Mon & Tue. Open on Dragon Boat Festival)
Performances: 30 May & 20 June 2003 (7pm)
6 & 13 June 2003 (12-7pm - 7 hours nonstop)
Free admission
Location: Para/Site Art Space, 2 Po Yan St, Sheung Wan, HK
(near 224 Hollywood Road).
Participating artists: Seeman, Hoichiu, Camkam, Amy Chan, Peter Suart

Beginning with text, Seeman continues her respect and concern for Man and Nature. Using paper-sculpture, wood-sculpture and painting, she composes A Tree to be Found. Hoichiu, Chan Yu-wan, Peter Suart and Camkam are the artists giving their support by contributing performance, lighting, music and video, creating a multimedia project.

A Tree to be Found is the story about a tree and the characters that inhabit it. "On the ninth day of July, he climbed up a tree and dressed himself in odd clothing. Stories upon stories unfold on top of Mother's kitchen table, covered with food that has been genetically-engineered. - a story about moths and fireflies; another about squirrels and skunks; one about a horse and a sheep; and a story about him and her……I can only dig a hole under the tree to bury my melancholy and despair with her love. What will grow out from the soil again?" Seeman's characters are forever allegorical and tragic. By focussing on our attitudes towards consumption, A Tree to be Found questions the relationships between Man and Nature; the respect and care among people; and the pursuit of the Meaning of Life. There are no moralizing lessons here, instead the mythic quality of this 'cautionary' tale is open to our imagination.

Seeman will transform Para/Site into a backdrop for her story, a place where her audience can step into her fabulous world. Influenced by the legend of the "Hell Scroll", her characters and stories transcend time and space to come. The dazzling colourful 3-D paper sculptures evoke a world of adult nightmares.

Catalogues available upon exhibition opening. Limited special editions are offered only at Para/Site.
For more information, please contact Para/Site Art Space: Emily Ko or Leung Po-Shan at Tel: (852) 2517-4620 / e-mail: parasite@netvigator.com. School tours will be held before each performance. For reservations, please call Ms. Sin, tel: 9499-5649.

Text and Project Idea: Seeman
A sweet terrorist, Seeman graduated from the Polytechnic University with a degree in Design in 1999, before devoting all her time to her own productions, which included nurturing her senses and emotions. She has been a participant for various theatre productions, films, videos and animation projects, as well as being an illustrator of comics. She has also contributed illustrations for Mingpao, Sing Tao Daily, Eastouch, Cheez, Oxfam, and Association Concerning Sexual Violence Against Women. Works include: Girl Meets Raindrop (1999); Girl Meets Snowflake (2000); Witch-bake Plastic Flowers (2001); Two Girls (2002); and The Circus of n_n and v_v (animation, 2000).

Performance: Hoichiu
Yip Kam-chiu (a.k.a., Hoichiu) graduated from the Academy for Performing Arts, majoring in props production. He has actively participated in theatre productions and performances, specializing in mask-making, puppet shows and illustrations. Hoichiu, who is the administrative executive at the Hong Kong Puppet Centre, is the founder of the Well Drama Club, and a freelance actor. He is devoted to promoting education and the development of masks and puppets in Hong Kong.

Recent shows include: WAVE 2002 Well Drama Club - Metamorphosis since 89, Well Drama Club; ID Generation - Agogo: Citizen Super, organized by the On and On Theatre Workshop; Between Life and Death, organized by No Man's Land; Taiwan WAC Festival; Yulan IV, Old Ladies' House Art Space; and Playback Theatre Performance by Well Drama Club。

Video: Camkam
Camkam is an artist actively involved in video, film and theatre. He graduated from the Psychology Department at the Chinese University. Films include: Let's Love Hong Kong, which received the Best Drama award at the Figueira da Foz, Portugal. Video works include: Mother (Director / Photography / Editing, 2002) (IFVA (Screening); King and I (Script-writing / Director / Photography / Editing, 1999); Period (Script-writing / Director / Photography / Editing, 1999); Women dreamed good dreams, (Photography / Editing, 1998) (IFVA, Good Work); Red Faces (Script-writing / Director / Photography / Editing, 1997), screened at the Hong Kong International Films Festival, the Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, and the IFVA (Consolation Prize). Home Sweet Home (Script-writing / Director / Video); Buddha Saves the Queens (Script-writing / Director / Video); Theorum (Installation). Time is Sick, a video-drama is currently in progress.

Lighting: Amy Chan
A big fan of the theatre, Chan is currently studying a certificate course in Theatre at the School of Continuing Studies at the CUHK, as well as attending theatre studies at the HKU SPACE. She has been responsible for lighting various shows including; Go! The Sea Conquerer, organised by Amity Drama; Called Short, Calling Short and Falling Leaves, by Arts with the Disabled Association Hong Kong; The Never Neverland, by Zero Drama Club; Shit, Piss, Fart and Flowing Sentiments, by Come-on Theatre; The End, by the Hong Kong Theatre for the Deaf (screened in Czechoslovakia and Hong Kong); Two Girls from Ngu Tau Kok, by Well Drama Club in 2001. Chan is currently the executive of Well Drama Club and the chairman of Zero Drama Club.

Music: Peter Suart
Suart is a painter, writer, musician and an actor. He formed The Box, a music group, with Kung Chi-shing and the group will be performing Beauty & the Beast in May. Also in May, his new book The Secret of the Universe will be published in Hong Kong. A frequent speaker at music and philosophy seminars, Suart is also a children's storyteller.