Nature Unseen: A City’s Hidden Waves
Nature Unseen: A City’s Hidden Waves
A Site-specific participatory experience
Is the city always in opposition to nature? In a modern building with vast glass windows and concrete walls, does nature simply stand at the threshold, unable to enter? Or has it always been present, only in a different form?
People move through invisible networks of digital waves, WIFI signals, and streams of data that remain unseen. This participatory art experience incorporates nature’s equations into generative visuals, revealing the nature hidden in the city, and creating a bridge between the world of physical and the immaterial.
Artist Lam Lai uses the acoustic characteristics of space through auditory and visual installations, using art to reveal the relationship between sound, architecture and perception.
This participatory experience offers a multi-layered encounter where reality, nature, and digital existence intersect. The audience is invited to expand their senses and recognize the quiet, persistent presence of nature inside the city and between our ears.
Sound Art Installation
From July 5 to 13, the foyer and Atrium of Hong Kong Arts Centre will turn into a giant vessel of sound. The sound and visual installation will make the hidden sound and light become obvious. Everyone passing by the foyer and the famous spiral staircase at HKAC can listen, observe, and sense the nature embedded within the building.
Venue: G/F – 4/F Jockey Club Atrium, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Time: 10:00am - 8:00pm
Free Admission
Soundwalk
The soundwalk begins in the lobby of the Hong Kong Arts Centre and leads participants through its spiral staircases. Along the way, immersive sound and visual installations reveal hidden natural forces within the architecture. Using a wearable sound-altering object, participants hear the building’s natural acoustics transformed—shifting how they perceive space and environment.
The entire experience takes about 20 to 30 minutes.
| 5 July (Sat) | 12:00pm | 3:30pm | / |
| 6 July (Sun) | 12:00pm | 3:30pm | / |
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7 July (Mon)
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/ | 3:30pm | 6:45pm |
| 8 July (Tue) | / | 3:30pm | 6:45pm |
| 9 July (Wed) | / | / | / |
| 10 July (Thu) | / | 3:30pm | 6:45pm |
| 11 July (Fri) | / | 3:30pm | 6:45pm |
| 12 July (Sat) | 12:00pm | 3:30pm | 6:45pm |
| 13 July (Sun) | 12:00pm | 3:30pm | 6:45pm |
Venue: G/F Lobby, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Fee: Free admission
**The Soundwalk may be photo and video recorded.
Registration: https://wkf.ms/43bJouF
About the Artist
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Lam Lai received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Composition and Electronic Music at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and further studied at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. She has been expanding the meaning and properties of performance by employing various elements of theatre as she works on the concept of music, exploring a place where different concepts of the listening experience can coexist and advance towards a balance with other art forms. Her areas of interest as a composer are not limited to instrumental music, but also encompass multidisciplinary works predominantly featuring electronic sounds and performative elements. She also collaborates with theatre directors, choreographers, actors and visual artists, exploring indoor, outdoor and virtual performance spaces. She has worked with music theater company de Veenfabriek (Leiden, The Netherlands), ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and Hong Kong New Music Ensemble. She has participated in art festivals such as the Munich Biennale, Stuttgart DIE IRRITIERTE STADT, Linz Ars Electronica and Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong’s Sonic Anchor series.
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