Music flows along with time Images freeze moments from the continuum

This boundary-breaking show sees composer and media artist GayBird team up with award-winning film director in multiple international film festivals Tsai Ming-liang. Intermingling artistic vocabularies to highlight their individual art form’s similarities and differences, the duo set out to build a multi-faceted view of human interaction amid urban life.

Foregrounding ‘1’ and ‘0’, which form the basis of computer language, GayBird examines the relationship between technology and city dwellers, weaving the two digits into a depiction of life’s joys and sorrows and at the same time adding a human touch to cold science through the limitless power of music to reach into the beyond.

Tsai’s lingering images call on viewers to consider previously unperceived emotions and desires while drawing out the space-time conundrum of the visual arts. Slow and contemplative, they summon forth primordial purity, resurfacing a minimalist state where only ‘1’ and ‘0’ exist.

This cross-disciplinary collaboration features a special interactive format, where members of the audience move among music, visual images and space. Enveloped by an endless flow of sounds, they will travel through layers of moving images in search of ‘1’ and ‘0’ – the clarity and profundity that ultimately reveal the essence of humanity.

One Zero was premiered in the Hong Kong New Vision Arts Festival in 2016.