PC: Garry Trinh
Ports: from kowloon to kamay
“The program represents the kind of Australia I had long dreamed of being part of.”
— Greg Schiemer, electronic music composer
A site-responsive concert performance responding to local and international waterways and personal stories of place, PORTS: FROM KOWLOON TO KAMAY integrates live music, projection art, poetry, and dance to explore migration and inter-sensorial memories as sites of connection.
A cross-cultural and interdisciplinary ensemble performance, Ports features three newly, intermedial commissioned works and live improvisation, experienced through immersive sonic and visual landscapes.
Drawing on the lived experience of migration, Ports reflects on how memories of a real or imagined homeland persist as people make a new home in Australia. By tracing a conceptual journey between ports—Kowloon, Kamay, Malacca, Port Darwin, and Port Albert, the work reveals an entanglement of cultures, histories and waterways, inviting fresh reflections on place-making, belonging and multicultural experience.
Artists
JOCELYN HO – curation, artistic direction, composer, piano, voice
NICHOLAS NG – composer, Chinese instruments, voice
MARK OLIVIERO- technical direction, composer, electronics, voice
SI YI (IRIS) SHEN – interactive video projection art
Responses to PORTS:
“Ports: from Kowloon to Kamay is a powerful example of how contemporary performance can deepen understanding, connection and cultural dialogue within our diverse community.”
-Bayside Mayor, Edward McDougall
“A wonderful cultural journey”
-Councillor Christina Curry
“Brought together an unlikely combination of musical and visual resources in ways that became more than the sum of its parts… the program represented the kind of Australia I had long dreamed of being part of.”
-Greg Schiemer, electronic music composer
Presented by Bayside Council, Chapel Nights Performance 2026 at St Matt’s Church Botany. Proudly sponsored by Theme and Variations.
Acknowledgements: The University of Sydney, Australian Institute of Music, Bayside Council Arts and Culture Specialist Patrick Cremin.
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