Going Offstage

Three artists push creative boundaries by staging productions in unconventional venues—this month, an immersive percussion concert about the rain in a service reservoir

By Zabrina Lo

Tucked away in the foothills of Lung Fu Shan Country Park and hidden behind the University of Hong Kong campus in Pok Fu Lam is a grey-washed, rectangular structure, the Western Salt Water Service Reservoirs. The reservoir is very seldom open to anyone other than engineers; once, in 2012, its minimalistic aesthetic and dark corridors and staircases lent an underground bleakness to Aaron Kwok’s crime thriller Cold War (2012), but most of the time, it remains closed, storing saltwater for the city’s flushing system. But three artists—percussionist Louis Siu and new media artist Keith Lam from Hong Kong, and Singaporean composer Jia Yi Lee—believed the space had greater potential and would be exactly the right kind of venue for their performing arts show After the Rain, an immersive, multimedia percussion…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2024

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