@misc{9c7d631fce484b88a46a4bfb3a548ceb,
title = "The Once and Future",
author = "BIRMAN, {Eugene Alexander}",
note = "The Once and Future (2021) is both research project into accumulative art practices (the proposal presented for the successful FNRA (RC-FNRA-IG-18-19-ARTS-02) grant being that, in terms of framing public culture, one must approach the act of interdisciplinary creation by destroying the boundaries between disciplines entirely) and practice-led research resulting in an immersive film, A.I.-infused staging, and genre-bending live performance. The project initiated between myself and colleagues from Music and TIIS involves exceptional external institutional partners like the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Berlin Film Festival, and Sony CSL Paris. After the initial FNRA grant, the project attracted significant interest and support from the LCSD (over HK$2,000,000), Arts House Limited (a co-commission totaling over HK$2,000,000), and the Singapore National Arts Council (HK$150,000). In seeking to combine narratives of journey in terms of human and post-human travelogue, The Once and Future Man asks questions of what makes artificial intelligence {\textquoteleft}artificial{\textquoteright} and how our own humanity is defined in an age where technology increasingly defines our existence. The research and creative teams that I led also generated an interactive video curated by French art director Xavier Rey{\'e} (whose work spans music videos for Stromae and ads for Nike) that debuted on the LCSD{\textquoteright}s Renew Vision online platform, called Project Labyrinth, the first in a series of {\textquoteleft}video game{\textquoteright}-like spinoffs of live events where the audience member gets to direct the narrative flow. The live work itself premiered in Singapore as the signature event of the 2022 Singapore International Festival of Arts, where it was called “the most stunning and divisive work at the festival” (Business Times). It will next tour Hong Kong in 2023, and around the world subsequently in Beijing and elsewhere thereafter. [Info provided by Dr. Birman]",
year = "2023",
month = oct,
language = "English",
publisher = "Leisure and Cultural Services Department; New Vision Arts Festival",
address = "Hong Kong, China",
edition = "2nd",
}
