Overview
The “Cultural Masseur Talking Heads Podcast Series” serves as a free space for conversations and curious hearts. Our hosts together with guests speakers from all walks of life, will invoke interdisciplinary conversations to explore on topics from the up and coming trendies rise of NFT (Non-Fungible Token) to the most ancient question of the body and self relationship.
The podcast is a bi-weekly podcast hosted at the Hong Kong Arts Centre. The latest series is “Corporeality vs Virtuality” , and we will explore where humanity is heading towards with the rise of the ‘metaverse’. Does the physical world still matters when almost everything today can go virtual? Will immortality come true?
Get ready for a mind-blowing journey with us at Cultural Masseur Talking Heads Podcast!
The Metaverse is not a new concept. Since the dawn of civilisation, humans have been living in multiple imagined realities in a culture-nature duality. But with the rise of the metaverse, do these ancient imaginations come true? In this episode, Cultural Masseur Talking Heads Podcast Series will take out the speculative tokenomics undertones of the Metaverse and explore its various dimensions starting with the philosophical lens.
Date: 14 Apr 2022
In this episode, Cultural Masseur Talking Heads Podcast Series will feed everybody with the most fundamental concepts about the Metaverse, such as the blockchain technology and its applications. We will shed light on how this technology is going to revolutionise our today and our future.
Date: 28 Apr 2022
The rise of the Metaverse begs the question of whether the human body still matters in the future. Indeed the Metaverse is opening up a world of infinite possibilities where only your imagination is the limit. But then does it mean that we can just leave behind our corporeal existence? What significance does our body then left with?
Date: 12 May 2022
Featuring: Nahum Romero
What would Earth say if she has a voice?
Come sit around our first Fireside chat with Nahum Romero, an artist, a musician, a poet as well as an advocate for an interdisciplinary space narrative.
Date: 19 May 2022
In a time where NFT value is decreasing, this episode of CM Talking Heads discusses different stakeholders’ perspectives and the recent Trial and Error’s controversy on producing their own NFTs. With an unpredictable value change of NFT, would you still take risks and buy it?
Date: 26 May 2022
Featuring: Ray LC
Are sensorial experiences seemingly lost in the Metaverse? Scientists are now working to rewire human sensations by developing wearable tools for people to explore performative brain waves to control elements virtually. How exactly is the experience like when we venture into the Metaverse?
Date: 08 Jun 2022
Featuring: Meimei
How do we recentre eastern forms of knowledge again? As our second Fireside Chat with Ikebana assistant, Meimei, we learn about her self institute project titled ‘Our Paths Cross Again’. Meimei is not only an accomplished Ikebana practitioner, but also is a food experimenter, permaculture lover and artist.
Date: 16 Jun 2022
Meme is defined as “an image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by internet users, often with slight variations”. The transmission of memes often carries a prophetic nature and reveals to us what humanity is heading towards. What then, do memes have to say about the Metaverse?
Date: 23 Jun 2022
Featuring: Erich Wong (Head of Growth(HK), SANDBOX)
Having discussed so many different aspects about the Metaverse, we will turn our attention to its implication on creativity. Does the seemingly ‘free’ world ignite more creativity or will the opposite prevail? This episode will be taking place in a form of the Metaverse itself.
Date: 28 Jul 2022
Featuring: Chester Wong, Ho Mingyan, Amy Cheung
Ever wondered why your psychology test always falls short; or ends up in self-fulling prophecy? Perhaps the genie in the bottle is trapped within your false-self.
Featuring: Yeung Tung@Rock Hill Street, Marstn@Rock Hill Street
Like a rising star from the ashes of the universe, it is the duo who released《石山派》(School of Rock Hill), Rock Hill Street. Since then, Ladder Street has a new electronic-inspired energy. Bringing with them an explosion of Ibiza-inspired energy, the pair, Yeung Tung and Marstn, will bring their infections energy to the Shouson Theatre for an inaugural audiovisual concert with Spaceartist NahumRomero
This episode we will dig deep with Yeung Tung about her experience studying 6901, also with Masrtn and his process of reflexive daily self-reflection and improvement. The two also shares about the cosmic vision to create poetry of, and with, our mother earth!
*Conducted in Cantonese
Date: 18 Aug 2022
Time for something practical, everyday, lifestyle or more in the Metaverse! Our hosts will share some on-going projects in the metaverse that attempt to solve problems in the real world today. How far can we go?
Date: 08 Sep 2022
Featuring: Tang Kwok Hin, Donald Chung Siu Hei
Tang Kwok Hin’s practise often explores the absurdity of everyday life. When reality is too absurd, meeting theatre-maker and dramaturg Donald Chung Siu Hei is cultivating a community of sheltering together under the downpour of reality. Their upcoming experimental theatre piece, Sunshower, is a space for all to stop, be still, and breathe for a moment. The pair invites everyone to come to the Shousen Theatre to join in, share space and engage in this latest piece. Experimental Theatre: Sunshower
*Conducted in Cantonese
Date: 22 Sep 2022
Featuring: GayBird
0 X Anything = 0?
When there are too many uncertainties in our daily life, how can we find our own rhythm in this world of chaos? Composer and media artist, GayBird will share with us how art and music serve as an anchor of hope in humanity in the midst of turbulence.
*Conducted in Cantonese
Date: 30 Sep 2022
Featuring: Catherine Tsui
Even when Netflix sales is slowing down, and as we swipe through Instagram influencer’s shorts and tiktoks, shifting to the post-pandemic reality, is there any entertainment which truly entertains?
This episode we invite playwright Catherine Tsui to share how she was inspired by the Neil Postman’s 1985 book titled ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business’ to develop her upcoming play ‘Y.L.S.L. (show business has already died) Self-Rescuing Amusement Package’.
Instead of wallowing alone, why not be enchanted together? Let show business die first, to save ourselves and live for the future~
*Conducted in Cantonese
Date: 06 Oct 2022