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Clockenflap 
Location(s) Cyberport, Hong Kong; West Kowloon, Hong Kong Years active Since 2008 Founded by Jay Forster, Mike Hill Date(s) October Genre Multimedia, music, Indie rock, film, installation art, Electronic music, Website http://www.clockenflap.com Clockenflap Multimedia Arts & Music Festival, commonly abbreviated to "Clockenflap", is a music and multimedia arts festival held annually at Hong Kong's Cyberport. It incorporates international and local live music, film, installations, digital arts and animation.
The first Clockenflap was a one-day festival attracting an audience of approximately 1,500 people. The organizers used viral marketing techniques which included film trailers and street-level campaigns.
The second Clockenflap took place on 7–8 November 2009.
Clockenflap was founded and is organized by Jay Forster and Mike Hill who, as the principal members of the Robot collective, have been leading contributors to the Hong Kong new media arts scene since 1997. Their stated goals for the festival are to nurture the Hong Kong arts, music and film scene[1] and "put the city on Asia's contemporary media-arts circuit"[2]. The event strongly promotes environmental awareness. The organizers have a strict policy of carbon offsetting[3] and employ a team of dedicated "recycling wardens" to collect and separate all rubbish generated by the festival.
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The inaugural Clockenflap
The first Clockenflap festival was held on Saturday 12 January 2008. Some 1,500 people attended[4]. It was a peaceful festival: there were no noise complaints, arrests, or police interventions of any kind. The line-up included:
Musicians:
- The Young Knives *(UK Mercury Music Prize nominees 2007)
- Bizali (UK)
- Kid Carpet (UK)
- Waxed Apple (UK)
- Clementine is my Sunshine (HK)
- Uptown Rockers vs Robot (HK)
- DP (HK)
- My Little Airport (HK)
- Ray Dollars (HK)
- Snoblind (HK)
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Clockenflap Jan 2008
Film and animation:
- Amy Neil (UK, Award winning writer/director, BAFTA nominee, Scottish BAFTA winner)
- Warp Films (UK)
- Future Shorts (UK)
- I Shot Hong Kong (HK)
- Lindsay Robertson (HK)
- James Hacking (HK)
- Emma-Jade Li and Cassandra Chan (HK)
- Josh Evans (HK)
- Jay Forster (HK)
- Victor Pena and Digger T Mesch (HK)
Installation artists:
- ST/ART (HK)
- Stanley Wong (HK)
- Sam Chan (HK)
- Rob Luxton (HK)
Graphic artists:
- Tereza Tan (HK)
- Twocollect (DE)
- Jay Forster (HK)
- Claire Fawcett (UK)
The second Clockenflap
The second Clockenflap festival was held on Saturday, 7 and 8 November 2009.
Musicians:
- Blood Red Shoes (UK)
- Yacht (US)
- Hot Chip DJ set - Alexis Taylor (UK)
- Pet Conspiracy (CH)
- Uptown Rockers (HK)
- Poubelle International (HK)
- Snoblind (HK)
- Chochukmo (HK)
- Noughts & Exes (HK)
- Posin 'til Closing (HK)
- Songs for Children (HK)
- Bodhi (HK)
- Pimpin' (HK)
- Volt in Music (HK)
Film and animation:
- Amy Neil (UK, Award winning Writer/Director, BAFTA nominee, Scottish BAFTA winner)
- Warp Films (UK)
- I Shot Hong Kong (HK)
- Mandarin Film (CH)
- Pixel8 (HK)
Multimedia artists:
- Hanna Hoyne (AU)
- Carlow Architecture and Design - C:A+D (HK)
- Marc & Chantal Design (HK)
- Nadim Abbas (HK)
- Rob Luxton (HK)
- Outsign Lab (HK)
- ST/ART (HK)
- Redy and Xeme (Invasian) (HK)
- Big Mad (HK)
- GraphicAirlines (HK)
- Start From Zero (HK)
References
- ^ Clockenflap Multimedia & Arts Festival
- ^ HK Magazine 7 Dec 2007 pp44
- ^ HK Magazine Jan 2008 pp16
- ^ Beat Magazine Hong Kong, Feb 2008
See also
External links
Categories:- Music festivals in Hong Kong
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