Installation
installation

"The Tides of Time"

Presented by Leisure and Cultural Services Department
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2025.11.07 - 2025.12.12
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12nn - 10pm
(Every Tue - Sun) 
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beats
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Free

  • This immersive audio-visual installation runs on a continuous 20-minute loop.
  • Suitable for all ages.
  • Free-seating.
  • The programme contains different lighting effects, facilitated by dimmed lighting.
  • Participants are free to enter and exit The Beats during the programme.
    • Comfortable clothing is recommended.
       
      Artist Wong Chi-yung’s The Tides of Time is a scenographic installation that explores the fundamental nature of time. Inspired by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls, the artist draws on personal experiences of loss and life’s cyclical rhythms. Using the imagery of tides, Wong poetically alludes to the dialectical relationship between nature’s eternal rhythm and the fleeting impermanence of human life. Within the installation, thousands of fine threads are woven into a complex network, symbolising that all things have no clear beginning or end. Through a highly poetic and immersive spatial design, the work invites viewers on a dream-like artistic journey to contemplate: in the current of human experience, how do we reflect on time, memory, and the subtle.



      The presenter reserves the right to substitute artists, change the programme and programme opening hours should unavoidable circumstances make it necessary 

      The content of this programme does not represent the views of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department 
      Installation Artist / Artistic Director / Co-Producer / Co-Production Manager /
      Lighting Designer: Wong Chi-yung

      Co-Producer:  Hung Wai-min, Anne

      Co-Production Manager: Ngai Yuen-yee, Gloria

      Creative Technologist: Kong King-sin, James

      Assistant Creative Technologist: Chung Sze-lok, Fanny

      Sound Designer: Chung Fong-ting, Soloan

      Assistant Lighting Designer: Chiu Ching-yi

      System Specialist: Ho Sai-hang, Jose

      Production Electrician: Ting Kwan-pui, Brian
       
      Artist's Sharing

      Date & Time: 2025.11.07 (Fri) 12nn
      Venue:
      The Beats
      Speaker: Wong Chi-yung
      Fee: Free Admission. Walk-in is welcome.
      Remarks: In Cantonese


      Guided Tour

      Date & Time: 2025.11.07 (Fri) 2:30pm
      Venue:
      The Beats
      Fee: Free Admission. Walk-in is welcome. 
      Remarks: In Cantonese
       

      Artist Wong Chi-yung’s The Tides of Time is a scenographic installation that explores the fundamental nature of time. Inspired by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls, the artist draws on personal experiences of loss and life’s cyclical rhythms. Using the imagery of tides, Wong poetically alludes to the dialectical relationship between nature’s eternal rhythm and the fleeting impermanence of human life. Within the installation, thousands of fine threads are woven into a complex network, symbolising that all things have no clear beginning or end. Through a highly poetic and immersive spatial design, the work invites viewers on a dream-like artistic journey to contemplate: in the current of human experience, how do we reflect on time, memory, and the subtle.



      The presenter reserves the right to substitute artists, change the programme and programme opening hours should unavoidable circumstances make it necessary 

      The content of this programme does not represent the views of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department 

      Installation Artist / Artistic Director / Co-Producer / Co-Production Manager /
      Lighting Designer: Wong Chi-yung

      Co-Producer:  Hung Wai-min, Anne

      Co-Production Manager: Ngai Yuen-yee, Gloria

      Creative Technologist: Kong King-sin, James

      Assistant Creative Technologist: Chung Sze-lok, Fanny

      Sound Designer: Chung Fong-ting, Soloan

      Assistant Lighting Designer: Chiu Ching-yi

      System Specialist: Ho Sai-hang, Jose

      Production Electrician: Ting Kwan-pui, Brian
       

      Artist's Sharing

      Date & Time: 2025.11.07 (Fri) 12nn
      Venue:
      The Beats
      Speaker: Wong Chi-yung
      Fee: Free Admission. Walk-in is welcome.
      Remarks: In Cantonese


      Guided Tour

      Date & Time: 2025.11.07 (Fri) 2:30pm
      Venue:
      The Beats
      Fee: Free Admission. Walk-in is welcome. 
      Remarks: In Cantonese