Artist Talk: Danny Yung | Borderless Stage
Thu Jul 17, 2025 | 2–3 PM
Portrait of Danny Yung, Courtesy of the Artist
Join us for an artist talk, featuring a selection of video presentations, that offers a retrospective look at Danny Yung’s moving image and theatre works from the past fifty years. This event highlights Yung’s extensive practice in cross-disciplinary and experimental art, exploring the boundaries of performance—on and off the stage.
Hong Kong has served as both the base and backdrop for Yung’s five-decade creative journey, one deeply engaged with artistic, social and historical contexts.
“If an artistic action can be viewed as an alternative narrative of history, then art documentation and editing represent a re-examination of that history. Both artmaking and critique are often personal and open-ended processes, and both are essential to the evolution of the arts.” —Danny Yung
This program invites dialogue and reflection, encouraging audiences to reimagine Yung’s body of work through the lens of his creative motivations and lived experiences—capturing the spirit of an extraordinary half-century.
This talk is free for Experience Members and above and ticketed at the reduced price of $5 for Ideas Members and $10 for Access Pass Holders. For non-members, the talk will be $10 in addition to the cost of Gallery admission.
Seating is first come, first served. Doors will open at 1:30 PM.
If cost is a barrier to you or if you have any access requests for this event, please reach out to learn@vanartgallery.bc.ca or call 604 662 4700.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Danny Yung is a pioneering experimental artist and Co-Artistic Director of Hong Kong’s iconic Zuni Icosahedron. A highly influential cultural figure in Asia, Yung’s work spans theatre, installation, curatorial practice and cultural policy. Over the past five decades, he has initiated groundbreaking cross-disciplinary platforms such as One Table Two Chairs Cross-Cultural Exchange Platform, City-to-City Conference and Asia Arts Net, fostering dialogue between traditional and contemporary art forms across Asia and beyond.
Yung’s work has toured internationally from the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C., to the Grotowski Institute in Poland, and he has collaborated with master artists and emerging talents across regions. His projects often integrate heritage arts, urban discourse and experimental theatre, as seen in Interrupted Dream, Meeting of Gods and Flee by Night.
Among his many honours, Yung received the Merit Cross of the Order of Merit from Germany (2009); the Fukuoka Arts and Culture Prize (2014); and the Hong Kong Arts Development Council’s Award for Outstanding Contribution in Arts (2022).
