About the programme
CREATIVE AND PRODUCTION TEAM
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POET
許立志 XU LIZHI COMPOSER / DIRECTOR / PERFORMER /
CO-PRODUCER 楊光奇 NJO KONG KIE ENGLISH TRANSLATION
關顯揚 DEREK KWAN SPACE / LIGHTING DESIGN
馮國基 FUNG KWOK KEE GABRIEL FILMMAKER
歐陽永鋒 AO IEONG WENG FONG |
VIDEO DESIGN (TEXT)
余志力 NICHOLAS YEE SOUND DESIGN
RYAN MCNABB MOVEMENT COACH
楊漢源 WILLIAM YONG VOCAL COACH
STACIE DUNLOP PRODUCTION CO-ORDINATOR /
CO-PRODUCER 鄺華歡 ERIK KUONG WA FUN |
In 2010, fourteen workers committed suicide at the Shenzhen complex of Foxconn, a major contract manufacturer of electronics for many of our digital devices. In 2014, 24 year old Xu Lizhi, working at the same plant, did the same. Xu was also a poet, known as one of the most promising young poets in China’s worker-poet literary movement, comprised of young labourers writing about the working class.
With straightforward language, nuanced poetic sensibility and astounding imagination, Xu gave us a vivid glimpse of life on the assembly line and reminds us how global and inter-connected our lives are. Whether near or far, there are innumerous people, unseen, unheard and forgotten, that contribute to our day-to-day comforts.
With straightforward language, nuanced poetic sensibility and astounding imagination, Xu gave us a vivid glimpse of life on the assembly line and reminds us how global and inter-connected our lives are. Whether near or far, there are innumerous people, unseen, unheard and forgotten, that contribute to our day-to-day comforts.
ABOUT CREATORS
XU Lizhi (1990-2014)
was born in the rural area of Guangdong province. After high school, like millions of other young people, Xu went to the cities to look for work. At age twenty, Xu landed a job in the assembly line of Foxconn in Shenzhen, making electronic parts for digital devices. In a span of four years, Xu wrote close to 200 poems, many of them about the life of migrant factory workers. Xu gained recognition as one of the best in China’s worker-poet literary movement.
was born in the rural area of Guangdong province. After high school, like millions of other young people, Xu went to the cities to look for work. At age twenty, Xu landed a job in the assembly line of Foxconn in Shenzhen, making electronic parts for digital devices. In a span of four years, Xu wrote close to 200 poems, many of them about the life of migrant factory workers. Xu gained recognition as one of the best in China’s worker-poet literary movement.
Njo Kong Kie
A picnic and ping pong enthusiast, Kong Kie is also a composer for dance, opera and theatre. Works include concert-theatre Picnic in the Cemetery (Canadian Stage) and music theatre Mr. Shi and His Lover (SummerWorks, Tarragon and the National Arts Centre). Kong Kie has created soundtrack for several contemporary dance production worldwide and was the long-serving music director of La La La Human Steps. Works in development include: The Year of the Cello, a play with solo cello music set in Hong Kong in the 1920s and The Futures Market, an opera exploring the complex moral dimensions of the trade in human organs.
A picnic and ping pong enthusiast, Kong Kie is also a composer for dance, opera and theatre. Works include concert-theatre Picnic in the Cemetery (Canadian Stage) and music theatre Mr. Shi and His Lover (SummerWorks, Tarragon and the National Arts Centre). Kong Kie has created soundtrack for several contemporary dance production worldwide and was the long-serving music director of La La La Human Steps. Works in development include: The Year of the Cello, a play with solo cello music set in Hong Kong in the 1920s and The Futures Market, an opera exploring the complex moral dimensions of the trade in human organs.
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