Lingnan Hung-Kuen Across the Century: Kung Fu Narratives in Hong Kong Cinema and Community
The Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre
7A Kennedy Road, Central, Hong Kong
6th to 25th September 2017
The ” Lingnan Hung Kuen Across the Century: Kung Fu Narratives in Cinema and Community” exhibition is a portal to observe Kung Fu’s dual aspects as physical culture and inspiration/ subject-matter for media and film. Using Hung Kuen, one of the most important and enduring Chinese martial art systems with over a hundred years of history in Hong Kong, as a focal point of the exhibition, visitors will follow the parallel history of two of the most influential martial art families in Hong Kong – Lam Sai-wing 林世榮and his descendants on the one hand, who have played a critical role in modernizing and systematizing traditional martial arts in South China, and are responsible for creating one of the first truly globalized Kung Fu systems; and Liu Zhan劉湛and his lineage (including his son, the actor and director, the late Lau Kar-leung, aka Liu Chia-liang劉家良) on the other, whose contribution and impact on Kung Fu cinema remained unexcelled with the exception, perhaps, of Bruce Lee – to investigate how the development of Kung Fu as practice and media criss-cross and influence each other.
Throughout the exhibition, visitors will find themselves comparing the Lam and Lau families in a diachronic manner and by the end of the exhibition, coming to a realisation of how Kung Fu practice and media representations converged with the birth of mass media in Hong Kong in the early 20th century, even continued to fuel and influence each other’s development through the “golden age of Kung Fu” in the 1970s up to the mid-1980s. An ample collection of digital stimulations and 3D visualization, including animation of the late master Lam Sai Wing and 3D adaptation of selected scenes from Lau Kar Leung’s Kung Fu Classics, will also help visitors to better understand the essence of Kung Fu.
| Opening Hours: | 10am - 9pm on Monday, Wednesday to Sunday |
| Closed on Tuesday |
Hung-Kuen Fundamental Class
Class Details:
- Warm up Exercise
- Hung Kuen Fundamental – Deui Chak
- Deui Zao
- Cool Down
| Time: | 3:00pm to 4:00pm |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre |
| 7A Kennedy Road, Central, Hong Kong | |
| Tutor: | Mr. MOK Chun Wai |
| Language: | Cantonese |
| Number of participants: | 12 |
| Target: | 5 Years Old or above |
| *Participants aged 15 or below are accompanied by parents |
Remarks:
Please wear sportswear and prepare water and anti-mosquito
Inclement Weather Arrangements:
If the Yellow Rainstorm Warning or above is issued before 12:00noon,
If Tropical Cyclone Warning Signal No. 3 or above is issued before 12:00noon,
The event will be cancelled without piror notice.