Exhibition
Professional Designers
Hong Kong
Cheuk Wah Chan
I HATE THEREFORE I MARRY (恨嫁家族)
Selected Category: Lighting Design
Category: Lighting Design
Design Statement
Marry or not? I Hate Therefore I Marry is a story about four sisters, their mother, their men and their lackings.
Teal enhanced the ex-boyfriend’s jealousy; lavender embodied the innocent romance of the third sister and the violist; blood red sprayed the space with sisters’ tangly struggles of love and hate, with the ex and the seducer. Enraged by the revenge from the ex, the light tightened on the elder sister like a curse; moments later, she was running wild in the big pool of light to ease her anger, but seems getting lost into the void gradually.
Lighting space isn’t merely physical space. It purifies and sublimates the emotions. The house was created by some geometric forms of lights, it’s also a metaphor to mentally imprison the characters. Lighting opens up aesthetics, dramatic, psychological and conceptual spaces, wandering around characters and times, and becoming another performing role.
Teal enhanced the ex-boyfriend’s jealousy; lavender embodied the innocent romance of the third sister and the violist; blood red sprayed the space with sisters’ tangly struggles of love and hate, with the ex and the seducer. Enraged by the revenge from the ex, the light tightened on the elder sister like a curse; moments later, she was running wild in the big pool of light to ease her anger, but seems getting lost into the void gradually.
Lighting space isn’t merely physical space. It purifies and sublimates the emotions. The house was created by some geometric forms of lights, it’s also a metaphor to mentally imprison the characters. Lighting opens up aesthetics, dramatic, psychological and conceptual spaces, wandering around characters and times, and becoming another performing role.
Gallery
<Photo Credit> photo by CHAN Cheuk-wah
<Photo Credit> photo by CHAN Cheuk-wah
<Photo Credit> photo by CHAN Cheuk-wah
<Photo Credit> photo by CHAN Cheuk-wah
<Photo Credit> photo by CHAN Cheuk-wah
Video/Audio
Cheuk Wah Chan
Billy graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, School of Technical Arts in 1996, majoring in theatre lighting design. Major designs including Yuri & CCDC "Love On Sale", Edward Lam Dance Theatre "Design for Living" & "L’ emperur du Chant."
He started collaborating with Edward Lam Dance Theatre in 1997 with the production of "Hong Kong is Not a Place for Love" and went on to recent works like "I am Not Sherlock Holmes and This Is Not a Pipe", "What is Sex?", "I Hate Therefore I Marry" and "Arts School Musical".
Recent lighting design including the Hong Kong Ballet production of "Pinocchio" & "Don Quixote"; "A Midsummer Night’s Dream", "God of Carnage" & "Equus" by Dionysus Contemporary Theatre; the chamber opera "Datong - The Chinese Utopia" by Hong Kong Arts Festival 2015; Choreographer Duncan Macfarland and Taiyuan Dance Troupe "Wild Geese"; the musical "Sing High" that was produced in conjunction with the 15th anniversary of the Macau Cultural Centre; "the Rose of the Name" and "Tele-Love" by Trinity Theatre. He is one of the two curators of the Hong Kong Theatre Design Exhibition 2013-15: PARALLEL SPACE and the Hong Kong Exposition in the 13th Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space.
Recent lighting design including the Hong Kong Ballet production of "Pinocchio" & "Don Quixote"; "A Midsummer Night’s Dream", "God of Carnage" & "Equus" by Dionysus Contemporary Theatre; the chamber opera "Datong - The Chinese Utopia" by Hong Kong Arts Festival 2015; Choreographer Duncan Macfarland and Taiyuan Dance Troupe "Wild Geese"; the musical "Sing High" that was produced in conjunction with the 15th anniversary of the Macau Cultural Centre; "the Rose of the Name" and "Tele-Love" by Trinity Theatre. He is one of the two curators of the Hong Kong Theatre Design Exhibition 2013-15: PARALLEL SPACE and the Hong Kong Exposition in the 13th Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space.
Email Address: maybelxcanhelp@gmail.com
Theatre Company EDWARD LAM DANCE THEATRE
The Premiere Date of Production 2014-01-24
The Premiere Space of Production AUDITORIUM, KWAI TSING THEATRE, HONG KONG
Author WONG WING SZE
Director/ Choreographer EDWARD LAM
Set Designer NIL
Lighting Designer BILLY, CHAN CHEUK WAH
Costume Designer KARY, KWOK KA CHI
Sound Designer CHUNG CHAK MING
