Asia Art Archive welcomes Natalie Lo Lai Lai and Wong Hin Yan to our Residency Programme.

Using dialogue as method, Natalie Lo Lai Lai and Wong Hin Yan explore AAA’s Hong Kong collections to examine cross-disciplinary collaborations in Hong Kong’s visual arts, independent music, and theatre scenes since the 1990s. Their research findings will feature visual and textual works that highlight the friction between the individual and society.

Natalie Lo Lai Lai is a PhD candidate at City University of Hong Kong’s School of Creative Media. A former travel journalist, Lo’s interests span food, farming, fermentation, surveillance, and meditation. Her farming practice uses photography, video, and installation as a means to interact with nature. Lo has exhibited in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin, London, Naha, Dresden, Basel, Johannesburg, Yogyakarta, Taiwan, Beijing, and Shanghai, and is participating in Lahore Biennale 03 (2024). Lo received the WMA Commission Grant (2018–19) and was the Gold Award recipient of the Media Art Category of Hong Kong Art Centre’s 26th ifva Award (2021). She received an Honorary Mention in Ars Electronica Festival (2024)’s State of the ART(ist). Lo is collected by Uli Sigg and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Lo received her BFA and MFA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Wong Hin Yan is an independent musician and actor. Since 2005, Wong has composed music for stage productions and been involved in scoring for theatre, feature films, and documentaries. In 2021, his work on the film Drifting was nominated for Best Original Film Score and Best Original Film Song at the 58th Golden Horse Awards and the 40th Hong Kong Film Awards. The next year, he won Best Original Film Score at the 59th Golden Horse Awards for The Narrow Road. In 2022, he released his third solo album, Falling into Oblivion. Recent acting performances include theatre productions The Phenomenon of Man: REFLECTOR (2016); The Phenomenon of Man: REVOLVER (2017); Waking Dreams in 1984 (2020); To Dye, or Not to Dye (2022); as well as films such as Drifting (2021) and I Want to Be a Plastic Chair (2023), among others.

This residency is part of the project Recalling Disappearance: Hong Kong Contemporary Art which is financially supported by the Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The content of this programme does not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.