Hong Kong Exile

Hong Kong Exile Arts Association is an interdisciplinary arts company and registered non-profit organization based in Vancouver, Canada: the traditional, unceded, and occupied territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

The company is comprised of three artists: Natalie Tin Yin Gan, Milton Lim, Remy Siu.

Natalie Tin Yin Gan (she/her) is a contemporary dance artist specializing in improvisation and interdisciplinary collaboration. She lives and works on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples, land still referred to as Vancouver, British Columbia. Natalie has a double degree in Contemporary Dance and International Studies from Simon Fraser University. She continued her training with Modus Operandi for two seasons under Artistic Directors Tiffany Tregarthen and David Raymond. Her current practice is deeply influenced by mentor, Lee Su-Feh of battery opera performance.

Natalie has worked with and performed for battery opera performance, MACHiNENOiSY Dance Theatre, Mascall Dance, Dancers' Studio West (Calgary), fu-GEN Theatre (Toronto), La Pocha Nostra (San Francisco), Le Brothers (Vietnam), Amy O’Neal (Seattle), Daisy Thompson (UK), among others. Natalie pursues opportunities locally and internationally outside of dance contexts in an effort to hone a critical, decolonized approach to choreography. She has presented work in Vancouver, Toronto, Seattle, and Vietnam. She is a late sleeper, a late riser, a latecomer, a late bloomer, and a late-night snacker.

Milton Lim (he/him) is an artist based in Vancouver, Canada: the traditional, unceded, and occupied territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.

His research-based practice entwines publicly available data, interactive digital media, and gameful performance to create speculative visions and candid articulations of social capital. This line of inquiry aims to reconsider our repertoires of knowledge aggregation and political intervention in the contemporary context of big data and algorithmic culture. Often cheeky and audience/participant driven, his work challenges standard performance traditions including duration, linearity, and repeatability. He holds a BFA (Hons.) in theatre performance and psychology from Simon Fraser University.

He has created works for and performed in various international festivals and venues including PuSh International Performing Arts Festival (Vancouver), CanAsian Dance Festival (Toronto), Carrefour international de théâtre festival (Quebec City), IMPACT Festival (Kitchener), Seattle International Dance Festival, Risk/Reward Festival (Portland), Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires, artsdepot (London), soft/WALL/studs (Singapore), and Darwin Festival (Australia).

Performance credits include The Arts Club’s The Great Leap, Gateway Theatre’s King of the Yees at Canada's National Arts Centre, and Theatre Conspiracy’s award-winning immersive show: Foreign Radical at CanadaHub (Edinburgh Fringe). Milton's media works have been presented at the Vancouver Art Gallery, San Francisco State University, F-O-R-M, VIVO Media Arts Centre, and The New Gallery.

He is also one of the creators behind the performing arts economy trading card game culturecapital, an Artistic Associate with Theatre Conspiracy, and a core archivist at videocan. Milton was awarded the Ray Michal Prize for Outstanding Body of Work at the 2016 Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards.

He is currently an Explorer-in-Residence with The Theatre Centre, an Artist-in-Residence studying Artificial Intelligence with UKAI Projects, and a Sessional Instructor for Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts.

Remy Siu 蕭逸南 (he/him) is a composer and new media artist based in Vancouver, BC. Recently, his work has involved the construction of automated and variable performance apparatuses that employ light, sound, software, and the body. He is interested in creating friction and stakes between the performer, the interface, and the system through the use of game mechanics and failure. His output spans chamber music, dance, theatre, installations, and audio-visual work.

He actively creates with Mahaila Patterson-O’Brien (choreographer), and has worked with Vicky Chow, Turning Point Ensemble, Quatuor Bozzini, Centre A Gallery, Pi Theatre, Theatre Replacement, the Western Front, and others. 

His work has been presented internationally at the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival (Vancouver), Sonic Anchor (Hong Kong), CanAsian Dance (Toronto), UNO Fest (Victoria), Sonic Boom Festival (Vancouver), Dancing on the Edge (Vancouver), Centre for New Music (San Francisco), Constellation (Chicago), Seattle International Dance Festival, Vancouver Art Gallery, The International Symposium On Electronic Art (2015 Vancouver, 2016 Hong Kong), and more.

He has received a SOCAN Foundation Young Composers Award and an honourable mention in the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music (2016).

During 2017-2019, he will be one of two Composers-in-Residence with the National Arts Centre Orchestra (Canada).

We acknowledge the financial assistance of the City of Vancouver, the Province of British Columbia, and Canada Council for the Arts