Echoes and Imagery
A Soundscape Installation by Peter Wong Tsz Kin
12.01.2025 - 26.01.2025
What Echoes Beneath the City's Drowning Sound?
Sound artist Peter Wong Tsz Kin began collecting the urban sounds of Hong Kong in 2021, traversing various locations to listen, setting up recording devices to capture, edit, document, and upload—systematically and digitally recording sounds to create a sound map and archive.
After four years, Wong has become increasingly aware of his discomfort with the city's noise, the chaos of streets and sounds, and the daily bombardment of excessive auditory information, leading to a growing internal conflict with his identity as a field recordist.
This soundscape installation will incorporate selected segments of previously collected field recordings, a spatial audio system, virtual city sounds, and the juxtaposition of generative images alongside the artist's live interactions. It aims to deepen auditory experiences through the sedimentation of time, reinterpreting urban soundscape in a space that reflects profound internal contradictions, constructing a sound utopia where audiences can collectively experience and contemplate the possibility of finding tranquillity amidst the noise.
Venue｜1a space
Date｜12 - 26/1/2025
Opening Hours｜12 - 7PM (off every Wednesday)
Free Admission, you are recommended to spend 20-30 minutes for the complete experience
Artist: Peter Wong Tsz Kin
Curated and produced by: WAVINCITY - Hong Kong Urban Soundscape Recording Project
Visual Design: Belle Lao
Lighting Design: Le Dinh Dat
Video Collaborator: Gary Chan
Producer: Becky Keung Wong
Collaborated by: 1a space
Graphic Design: Belle Lao
Curated and produced by: WAVINCITY
Supported by: Hong Kong Arts Development Council
Collaborated by: 1a space
Hong Kong Arts Development Council supports freedom of artistic expression. The views and opinions expressed in this project do not represent the stand of the Council.
Instagram: @wavincity @peterwongtszkin
'What Movements Can Tell' x 'DANCE DANCE EVER!' Duo Exhibition
08.02.2025 - 16.02.2025
A statement of tracing musical embodiment
and a playground filled with amusing wonders
Trained in classical music since a child, Larry Shuen has however chosen a different path to the traditional musical system. Now he is rather known as a sound and media artist or the sound designer in theatre productions. Cheng Nga Yan with the cross-disciplinary background, has found her passion in dance and performance in school and stepped her foot in the theatre since.
The two with very different backgrounds came together in the theatre and came up with many unusual and unique ideas from brainstorming and sharing. Through ten months of research and development, the two artists re-imagined the relationship among sound, technology and body; and try to search for answers to their questions: the subtle relationship between audience and performance; the connection between themselves and the art-forms; or the perspectives of viewing bodies as an artist or a living human in the generation when human might possible be replaced by technology at any time.
Exhibition Information
Venue｜1a space
Date｜ 8 – 16／2／2025
Opening Hours｜11 – 7PM (closed on every Monday)
Free Admission
Artists:
“What Movements Can Tell” by Larry SHUEN
“DANCE DANCE EVER!” by CHENG Nga Yan
Performers:
“Stolen Ears; Muffled Bell” by CHAN Wai Lok & Larry SHUEN
“It's not in the music, but it's in the music, or not.” by Larry SHUEN
“DANCE DANCE EVER!” live demonstration by Kerry CHEUNG
Producer: Hin HON
Lighting Design: Bie LAI
Space Design: CHAN Wai Lok
Production Manager: Nickole LI
Photography: Ray LEUNG
Videography: HUI Hong-nin
Visual Design: CHENG Nga Yan
Collaborated by: 1a space & ngau4 gat1 dei6
Equipment Supported by: Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong
Supported by: Hong Kong Arts Development Council
Hong Kong Arts Development Council supports freedom of artistic expression. The views and opinions expressed in this project do not represent the stand of the Council.
Instagram: @goin.goin.studio @larry.shuen @ngangangayan
i(n)s(pace) :___ 1a space Art Residency and Exhibition Programme
20.02.2025 - 30.03.2025
1a space proudly presents 'i(n)s(pace) :___', an Art Residency and Exhibition Programme. The title 'i(n)s(pace) :___' is not just a playful typographic exercise; it is an open invitation.
The blank space symbolises the potential for new ideas, methodologies, and perspectives in art education. It invites artists and viewers to fill this void with their interpretations, experiences, and visions.
6 selected artists - Andy Chan, Andio Lai, Cassandra Lau Po Yan, Lawman, Wong Suk Yin Elaine and team, and Rico Wu - bring diverse practices and perspectives to this residency as educators. Our gallery space becomes their classroom, studio, exhibition and performance space - a fluid environment where the boundaries between these functions blur and reshape.
The blank space in 'i(n)s(pace) :___' is not a void to be filled with a single answer, but a realm of infinite possibilities. We invite you to join us in this exploration, to question, to learn, and to fill in the blank with your own vision of what art education and art space can be.
Residency Date｜20.2 - 30.3.2025
Residency Location｜1a space, Cattle Depot Artist Village
Artists｜
Andy Chan @kong_hung
Andio Lai @andiosound
Cassandra Lau Po Yan @cassandra_ahpo @cassandra.lau @artasvessel
Lawman* @law.man1
Wong Suk Yin, Elaine and team @miss_elainewong (Buddeemee Surachet, Ben @bullyme_surecheck, Chan Wing Yiu, Aile @aiillle & Kan Wang Yip @felixkwy)
Rico Wu @ricochet_ensemble
*As HART artist-in-residence
Venue & Promotion Support｜HART
Proper Panda Headset｜Yasmina Viale-Fraine from altelierYVF @atelier.yvf
Photos｜3, 9: Photos by Helen Leung @untitledblue_;6, 13, 15: Photo credit: @chrislaicf
Street Bill
Exhibition Date｜26 - 30.3.2025
Exhibition Location｜1a space exhibition booth, Level 1 Concourse, HKCEC
Soul Crossings in the Liminal Space
05.06.2025 - 21.06.2025
Soul Crossings in the Liminal Space brings together four artists raised in Hong Kong—Liu Sin Tung
(Cheryl), Judy Kong, Ka Yan So, and Yeung Sun Wai Wise—who share layered experiences of living in Melbourne. Through installation, video, sound, sculpture, drawing, photography, and ceramics, the exhibition examines belonging, displacement, and memory in the threshold between cultural landscapes. Curated by Liang Jing, the exhibition reflects on “liminal space” not just as a physical in-between, but as an emotional and cultural state in flux—where identities are negotiated and meanings are suspended.
Each artist approaches this transitional realm from distinct yet interwoven perspectives. Their works
traverse the intimate and the collective, the material and the ephemeral. Through fragmented memories and embodied gestures, they propose a quiet resistance to erasure: an insistence on presence amid absence.
Soul Crossings in the Liminal Space ultimately offers a shared inquiry into presence, memory, and
becoming. Through deeply personal lenses, each artist extends an invitation to dwell within the instability of in-betweenness. In their collective gestures, the exhibition becomes a vessel for quiet resistance—a space to remember, reflect, and reclaim.
Featured Artists｜
Liu Sin Tung (Cheryl) @sixof.cups
Judy Kong @judy.kong
Ka Yan So @blueclvb
Yeung Sun Wai Wise @wise_ceramics
Curator｜Liang Jing @jing.archive
Venue｜1a space
Opening Hours｜11:00-19:00 (Closed on Mondays)
Opening Reception｜7 June 2025, Saturday, 15:00-18:00
Artist Tour｜8 June 2025, Sunday, 15:00-16:00
If there is a garden, where would I be?
24.08.2025 - 28.09.2025
“If there is a garden, where would I be?” is a visual and spatial art project in which a “garden” is created for viewers to stay, explore and enjoy.
Though gardens relate to the nature, all gardens are indeed artificial. Nature within the garden is a human projection with layers of mediation. This Garden consists of two areas: “In the Shade” and “In the Garden”. Allowing one to be temporarily isolated from daily life, this Garden is on one hand a physical space where one could stroll, stay and spend time in, with tangible artefacts as elements positioned within; and also a mental landscape which connects us with the intangible— the light, the shadow, the air, the trajectory of the moon, the disappearance of things. Composed of multiple materials, this Garden is an oeuvre that blurs the distinction between subject and background. Within this Garden, viewers are free to open up their sensibility to see and to feel, so as to consciously recalibrate the self in this space of otium.
This collaborative project is conceived and constructed by AU Hoi Lam and CHANG Hoi Wood. Their dispositions and aesthetic values are merged into this Garden. AU uses handicraft to express ideas and emotions, embodying the relationship between the individual and the world. CHANG focuses on the exploration of the emotional power of space through the articulation of geometry, and the innermost sentiments evolved and encountered in such experience. In this project, they explore further the themes of being as an individual: retrospection, contemplation, otium, vigilance, soothing and cultivation. Gardens allow viewers to stroll, introspect and reorganise oneself. Gardens connect the individuals to the world. Gardens craft landscapes on earth and in mind.
Artists｜AU Hoi Lam, CHANG Hoi Wood
Exhibition Period｜24.08 - 14.09.2025
Opening Hours｜11:00 am - 6:00 pm
Venue | 1a space
Exhibition Period Extended
(New) Exhibition Period｜Till 28/09/2025
Opening Hours｜Tue – Sun, 12:00 – 6:00pm (Closed on Mon)
Opening｜23.08.2025 (SAT) 2:00 - 6:00 pm
Artist Talk｜30 August 2025 (Saturday) 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Guided Tour (8 sessions)｜31 August 2025 (Sunday) & 13 September 2025 (Saturday)
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm; 2:30 pm – 3:00 pm; 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm; 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Workshop｜
Poetry and Symbol (Day), 6 September 2025 (Saturday) 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Full Moon and Night Garden, 7 September 2025 (Sunday) 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Poetry and Symbol (Night), 12 September 2025 (Friday) 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Garden, A Reading Group｜14 September 2025 (Sunday) 2:00pm – 3:30pm