PAPAY – Monks Island, from old Norse. Papa – monk. Ay – island
GYRO – the mythical giantess of Orkney Islands, also known as Gygr, Gryla, Grylur, Grøleks in another Nordic countries
NIGHTS – dressing up as a Gyro, chasing children in the full Moon night and whipping them up till they scream

PAPAY GYRO NIGHTS ART FESTIVAL is a multimedia project / video art, sound art, experimental film, music and architecture / exploring place, rituals, folklore and trans-disciplinary interactions. The festival is taking place in two contrasting environments: on the small and remote North Atlantic island Papa Westray (with population only 70 people) and in Hong Kong, and also curating touring programmes which were presented in Iceland, Norway, Serbia, Faroe Islands, Sweden and around the UK
Rather than focus on pure art forms we like to explore the limits, boundaries and in-between spaces where unexpected may take place

2016 theme: ARCHITECTURE – the search for a new vernacular in the age of displacement. Nomadism. Bordercrossing. Invisibility

Live Lab
(Experimental music, sound art, av performance)
Date: 8, 14, 16, 29, 30 April, 2, 6 – 7 May 2016

Screen Lab
(Video art, experimental film, screenings, installations, curators/ artists talks)
Date: 8 April – 8 May 2016
Time: 12pm – 7pm
Venue: Videotage

JUHA VAN INGEN: AS Long As Possible (ALASP) – a 1000 year long GIF animation
Date: 7 May 2016
Time: 6pm

Poetry
(Cantonese + Faroese + Swedish + Digital + Other + Necropastoral + Translation as regressive process)
Date: 30 April 2016
Time: 4pm
Venue: The House of HK Literature

Date: 1 May 2016
Time: 10pm
Venue: SENSE99

Frog King Foundation
(The launch of FROG KING KWOK FOUNDATION to promote new developments in calligraphy and to support art exchange between Hong Kong and The North Atlantic)
Date: 19 April 2016
Time: 4pm
Venue: Robert O’Brien Studio, Cheung Chau

New Film Production
(building film set, working with 16mm and performing on camera)
Date: 18 – 27 April 2016
Guest: Katrin Olafsdottir

Residencies
(Performance art residencies – new works)
Date: 9 – 14 April 2016
Artists: Gustaf Broms, Niclas Hallberg

Transdisciplinary University
Date: 12 April 2016
Time: 1pm
Venue: HKU

Date: 15 April 2016
Time: 7pm
Venue: HKU

Date: 5 May 2016
Time: 4pm

Date: 7 May 2016
Time: 7pm
Venue: The Cattle Depot