Remanence: The (Un)erasable - Moving Image + Lecture Performance
Experimental & Expanded • UK Premiere
3 Oct 2026 (Sat) • 18:30 • Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)
A programme of experimental documentary, artists’ moving image and lecture performance explores voices as both fragile and impossible to fully erase. Traces endure as bodies, images and technologies become sites where histories and memories are reactivated against systems that seek to silence them.
Runtime is approximately 90 minutes: 45 minutes of screening then 45 minutes of interactive lecture performance.
Followed by in-person conversation with Rico Wong and Winnie Soon, moderated by Sun Park, Programme and Communications Manager at LUX.
Confidential Records: Execution
Hong Kong | 2019 | 4’ | Colour
In English with Chinese and English subtitles
Dir.: Vvzela Kook 曲淵澈
UK Premiere
A sci-fi reimagining of the demolished Kowloon Walled City, utilising old memories and scientific prediction to build a fantasized underground city for the defence of human beings.
Credit: Still image from Confidential Records: Execution, 2019,Vvzela Kook, courtesy of the artist
Compact Disc
Hong Kong, UK | 2026 | 38’
In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles
Dir.: Rico Wong 王樂堯
UK Premiere
After years of silence, the director and his friends return to fragments of a shared youth shaped by imprisonment, friendship and pixelated images that refuse to settle, searching for how to live with what remains.
Winner of the CPH:DOX 2026 New:Vision Award and the TIDF 2026 Visionary Award Grand Prize.
The Singing Fern 蕨之歌
Hong Kong | 2026 | 3’ | Colour
No Dialogue with Chinese and English subtitles
Dir.: Au Wah Yan 區華欣
UK Premiere
Beginning as a fictional fern-hunting party, rooted in Victorian pteridomania, the hunt turns inward — for undertone voices, unsettling emotions, and the unconscious mind.
Lecture Performance：The Poetics of the Unerasable
Artist: Winnie Soon 孫詠怡
Extending earlier inquiries into digital hiding (Unerasable Characters Series and Hiding Characters with Code), this lecture performance unfolds a poetics of the unerasable — framing erasure not as absolute deletion, but as a generative act that leaves behind persistent echoes, glitches, and residues.
As algorithmic curation and social conditions habituate us to online erasure, we navigate the boundary between enforced censorship and internal self-censorship — routinely hiding, encoding, and rewriting our words for safety, survival, or play. Examining how obscured data continues to inhabit the digital landscape, the session closes with a tactile participatory book-binding action, inviting the audience to physically assemble a collective book from these lingering traces.
