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#DesignTrustFuturesFestival 2025 “Sea Garden”:

#DesignTrustFuturesFestival 2025 “Sea Garden”: Design Trust Ideas Lounge features site-specific and interactive installations that include Prototype of Utensil Acoustic Enhancement Development, The Wave, and The Club Special Edition for Design Trust Futures Festival 2025 by Chaklam Ng (Design Trust Feature Grant recipient).

Design Trust Feature Grant research ”Utensil Acoustic Enhancement Development“ is an innovative research project that challenges the way we experience dining by designing utensils from an acoustic harmony perspective. The prototype displayed shows the potential of the enhanced utensils to produce harmonious sounds, elevating the dining experience to new heights of enjoyment. Responding to the rich soundscape of the coastal context, “The Wave” blends of technology and artistry allowing visitors to experience profound and transformative sound immersion, where the resonance of the crystal bowls transports them to a state of deep relaxation and heightened consciousness. ”The Club“ is an interactive musical instrument design that explores the concept of productivity within gaming. The work utilizes a nostalgic pinball machine, each gameplay—from the initial launch of the ball to the interactions with the bumpers—generates a unique rhythm that has never been heard before. The Special Edition for Design Trust Futures Festival 2025 responds to the existing spatial setting of Murray House inviting the visitors to play and interact. Visitors can experience the work every Saturday afternoon 3:30 - 5:30pm at the festival under guidance of exhibition staff.

Design Trust Futures Festival 2025: “Sea Garden”: Design Trust Ideas Lounge
Prototype of Utensil Acoustic Enhancement Development, 2023, Mixed media
The Wave, 2024, Mixed media
The Club Special Edition for Design Trust Futures Festival 2025, 2025, Mixed media
Designer: Chaklam Ng (Design Trust Feature Grant Recipient)

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#DesignTrustFuturesFestival 2025 “Sea Garden”:

#DesignTrustFuturesFestival 2025 “Sea Garden”: Design Trust Ideas Lounge, features film entitled “A Thousand Layer of Stomach” by Alexander Groves and Azusa Murakami of A.A.Murakami (Design Trust Futures Studio 2019 mentors, Design Trust Arts Prize Dynamic Duos recipients 2024), that serves as a striking juxtaposition between evolution of nature, with the rapid adaptation of culture, industry, and urban living. Amidst the looming threat of climate catastrophe, the designer-duo explores the reliance on the natural world by consumers of seafood through film. The film harnesses three distinct elements—the lurid glow of neon signs, the mathematical patterns of shellfish, and the billowing clouds of steam—and transforms them into artistic mediums. Through this filmic lens, the seafood restaurant blooms into a series of contemplative spaces, each beckoning viewers to reflect on the spiritual mysteries of the cosmos, the nature of existence, and the existence of nature. The work responds to the existing spatial setting of the former restaurant at the historic Murray House, while expanding the discussion on the larger ocean ecological context.

Azusa Murakami (JP) and Alexander Groves (UK) are the artists behind experimental design practice Studio Swine.They participated in Design Trust Futures Studio 2019 as mentors for the ”Heritage is Innovation“ curatorial programme, and received Design Trust Arts Prize Dynamic Duos 2024, and kindly loan this film as part of exhibition public programmes of Design Trust Futures Festival.

Design Trust Futures Festival 2025: “Sea Garden”: Design Trust Ideas Lounge
A Thousand Layer of Stomach, 2024, Film
Artist: Azusa Murakami and Alexander Groves

[3-6] Film images courtesy of Azusa Murakami and Alexander Groves.

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Exhibition Opening Dates and Hours:
March 29th – June 18th 2025
Wednesday – Thursday: 2 – 6pm,
Friday: 2-9pm,
Saturday: 11am-9pm, Sunday: 11am- 6pm
Closed on Public Holidays unless announced for special programmes. Please refer to the website for more details.

#DesignTrustFuturesFestival 2025 “Sea Garden”:

#DesignTrustFuturesFestival 2025 “Sea Garden”: Design Trust Ideas Lounge features Wang Xin’s “Hamster Wheel”. Generously loaned by DE SARTHE Hong Kong, Wang Xin’s “Hamster Wheel” (2016) presents a whimsical commentary that is both humorous and dystopian. The interactive installation manifests as a functional, bright pink, humansized hamster wheel that visitors may enter. As visitors walk, they are faced with a scrolling video displaying motivational slogans about becoming a successful artist - entering a session of self hypnosis as well as exercise as the hamster wheel spins around in place. The critical playfulness of the work responds to the existing restaurant space overlooking the sea and the curatorial theme of Sea Garden.

Wang Xin was born in 1983 in Yichang, Hubei, China. She graduated from China Academy of Art with a B.F.A. in 2007 and graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (M.F.A.) in 2011. Wang Xin‘s artworks take the form of installations, moving images and new media. Unconsciousness, art world systems, and posthumanism are key features in her creation.

「未•信言節2025」在赤柱廣場美利樓2樓「海洋花園：Design Trust Ideas Lounge」展出由香港德薩畫廊特別借出展覽，王欣的《倉鼠輪》（Hamster Wheel ）（2016）呈現了一種既幽默又充滿烏托邦色彩的詼諧式評論。這件互動裝置呈現一個具功能性、鮮粉紅色的人型大小倉鼠輪，讓觀眾可進入其中。當觀眾行走在倉鼠輪上，前方滾動的視頻播放著關於成為成功藝術家的勵志標語——隨著倉鼠輪持續旋轉，觀眾不僅進入自我催眠的環節，更進行了一場運動。作品的批判趣味性回應了俯瞰大海的現有餐廳空間和海洋花園的策展主題。

王欣於1983年出生在中國湖北省宜昌。她分別於2007年及2011年獲中國美術學院學士學位及芝加哥美術學院碩士學位。作為一名曾經的持証催眠師，其創作具有某種使人著迷的力量，令人能夠產生強烈的情緒反應。裝置、影像及新媒體是王欣作品的主要形式。

Design Trust Futures Festival 2025: “Sea Garden”: Design Trust Ideas Lounge
Hamster Wheel, 2016, Metal pipe, steel pipe, light bulb, LCD television, wire
Artist: Wang Xin
Generously loaned by DE SARTHE Hong Kong

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