Beyond Stage, Artist-in-Residence Programme, 2026
Score-Based Artistic Research / Documentation Installation, 2026Team: B-2
Programme: K-Arts × HKAPA Student-Led Artist-in-Residence
Location: Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Hong Kong
Period: October 4–13, 2026
Presentation: Documentation Film & Installation
01 — Overview
Beyond Stage: Intersecting Processes is a collaborative artistic research project developed during an interdisciplinary residency between emerging artists from Korea and Hong Kong.
Despite our different cultural and artistic backgrounds, we recognized a shared familiarity with outcome-oriented approaches to artistic production. From the outset, we agreed to shift our attention away from producing a finished performance and instead explore the process of making itself.
Our research took the form of score-based experiments, moving between imagined material conditions, bodily perception, and contrasting environments.
02 — Research Process
The project began with my previous research, Open Scores for Body and Ice, which explores the relationship between materiality and corporeality through physical encounters with ice.
Building on this inquiry, we shifted our attention towards corporeality, experimenting with how the body might sense and respond to materials that were not physically present.
We developed scores across two environments: indoors and outdoors.
Indoors, we imagined outdoor conditions—sunlight, noise, and other environmental sensations—and explored how these imagined conditions might influence bodily movement and perception.
We then continued the scores outdoors, where the body encountered environmental conditions directly.
Moving between these two situations allowed us to explore the relationship between imagined and experienced sensations, and how different conditions might shape bodily responses.
03 — Documentation as Practice
Throughout the research, an archivist and a choreogeographer accompanied our experiments, observing and documenting the process through video, drawing, and image-making.
Rather than treating documentation solely as a record of completed actions, we approached it as another way of interpreting and sharing the unfolding research.
These different forms of observation offered perspectives on the process beyond those of the participating performers.
04 — Installation
Rather than presenting a conventional performance, we shared our research through a documentation-based installation.
A documentary film, drawings, scores, and visual records were brought together to share the unfolding creative process.
The installation offered traces of our experiments, allowing the process itself to become what was shared.
Documentation Film (Edited Movement Documentation) ↗