Kapturing Kung Fu: Future Proofing the Hong Kong Martial Arts Living Archive

Chao, Hing; Delbridge, Matthew; Kenderdine, Sarah; Nicholson, Lydia; Shaw, Jeffrey

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-73817-8_13

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“…Hakka, literally “Guest Families,” refers to the descendants from central China who migrated to the Southern parts of China at a time of political unrest centuries ago (Chao et al , 2016). They live today in a wide range of areas including the provinces of Guangdong, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan and Fujian, and have their own dialect and martial art systems.…”

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Visualising and revitalising traditional Chinese martial arts

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how the emergent 3D interactive media technologies are used as a viable tool for enhancing visitors’ overall experiences at an exhibition entitled, 300 Years of Hakka Kungfu – Digital Vision of Its Legacy and Future (Hakka Kungfu Exhibition) – presented and co-organized by the Intangible Cultural Heritage Office of Hong Kong, International Guoshu Association and the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire survey in both online and paper-based formats was used for identifying visitors’ experiences in the interactions with the multimedia technologies. For this research study, a questionnaire, consisting of 26 items, was set out to measure the visitors’ experiences at the Exhibition. Since the Exhibition was about presenting a centuries-old Chinese cultural heritage, Hakka Kungfu via the use multimedia technologies, in the context of establishing a dialogue between the past and present, the researchers included questionnaire items that were devoted to enquire about the level of understanding, knowledge and enjoyment, and visitors’ new knowledge about Hong Kong history and culture was successfully disseminated to the respondents at the end of the questionnaire. Findings A total of 209 completed questionnaires were collected at this Hakka Kungfu Exhibition. The findings reveal that the exhibits did attract people at all ages. This Exhibition gave the visitors a sense of interest and wonder in the object and information presented in the Exhibition. Findings of this study also reveal that this Exhibition has successfully attracted a large number of female visitors, as well as visitors who have never taken any martial arts training. In addition, visitors’ Exhibition experience was found to be memorable, as well as enjoyable. Furthermore, visitors’ experience within the Exhibition suggested that it was entertaining, as well as educational. By creating a long-lasting impact on the minds of these Exhibition visitors about the connections between and relevance of traditional Chinese Kungfu, their collective cultural identity, as well as the contemporary society we live in. The Exhibition exemplified the successful integration of the presentation of Kungfu as a form of cultural heritage with engagement-creating technology, in which technology is unobtrusive but effective. Originality/value Although it is already a global trend for the museums to integrate multimedia technologies into their exhibitions, research on the situation and feedback of multimedia technology used in the museum exhibitions in Hong Kong is scarce as well as scattered. Findings of this study could help identify various factors involved in audience participation, thereby exploring the possibility of building a contact point/space for traditional Chinese Kungfu as an intangible cultural heritage, via the integration of the latest media technologies. In particular, the development of multimedia technologies has become increasingly important to museums, and museum professionals have been exploring how digital and communication technologies can be developed to offer visitors a more interactive, personalized museum experience. In general, despite the growing interest in deploying digital technology as interpretation devices in museums and galleries, there are relatively few studies that examine how visitors, both alone and with others, use new technologies when exploring the museum contents.

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“…Motion capture provides a continuous topological model that allows for easier retainment of the affective quality of physical movement. Motion capture has notably already been adopted for the transmission of performed cultural heritage, such as martial arts (see Channon and Jennings 2014;Chao et al 2018;Whalen-Bridge and Farrer 2011). Motion capture data is also used as a basic teaching aid in this context as it can serve as a prosthesis for social knowledge transfer in the absence of master teachers (Kenderdine andShaw 2017, 2018).…”

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Archery Rites: Remaking Confucian Rites

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Ritual archery has a long and vital history in Chinese civilization. This chapter examines the current reenactment and digital reconstruction of the specific tradition of the Archery Rites embedded in the Confucian tradition, ritual practice and cosmology of li, which suffered major decline in the twentieth century with modern China’s political upheaval and social shifts. In recent decades, scholars and practitioners in China have sought to revive the lost art of the Archery Rites. The most significant endeavor to date is the “Re-Making of Confucian Rites (RCR),” a major reenactment project based on the renewed philological study of the Book of Etiquette and Rites (Yili), which describes rituals recorded by disciples of Confucius in fifth century BCE. The RCR project is forging the fundamental means to reconstruct and build new archives for the embodied knowledge systems of Confucian rites, through the coupling of reenactment with advanced digital documentation forms, in conjunction with novel interactive and immersive media art experiences for their affective transmission. The approaches arising from this work are building a foundation for the renewed scholarship and societal practice of the Archery Rites, as well as a cohesive framework to address the challenges facing the wider revival of intangible cultural heritage in China today.

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“…It has been commonly adopted for biometric synthesis in sports training [39,160], in ballet performance [29], and in complex movements [30]. More recently, MoCap has become a key recording tool for movements or maneuvers of performative cultures, such as Cypriot folk dances [143], Southeast Asian traditional dances [119], contemporary dances [19,147], martial arts [28], combative sports [161], as well as reference gestures of traditional crafts [125]. There is also a contemporary trend to exploit MoCap as an extended interface for augmented performance [63ś65], real-time dance evaluation [11,74,101,139], embodied training and education [80,134], and human-computer co-improvisation [103].…”

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“…The archive encompasses a comprehensive strategy to document diverse aspects of martial arts knowledge comprising movements, rituals, traditions, histories, and stories of practitioners. While the archival formats cover videos, audio, photographs, drawings, texts, 3D reconstructions, creative visualizations, and motion-over-time analytics [28]. Such a diverse collation can form a complete inventory representing the whole-of-environment knowledge and nourish generous interfaces [154] for cultural dissemination.…”

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Digitizing Intangible Cultural Heritage Embodied: State of the Art

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Picca

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J. Comput. Cult. Herit.

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Intangible cultural heritage (ICH) as a field of research and site for digital efforts has grown significantly since the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Heritage. In contrast to tangible heritage, where cultural identities are manifested through physical objects, intangible cultural expressions are defined through tacit reliances and embodied practices. Such practices are usually bodily communicated, enacted, socially transmitted, and constantly evolving. Burgeoning trends in computational heritage and ICT applications have played a crucial role in safeguarding ICH as they produce versatile resources while making them accessible to the public. Nevertheless, most of the inventions are object-centric and cater to conserving material-based knowledge bases. Few endeavors thus far have fully supported the recording, representing, and reviving of the living nature of ICH. One of the challenges now faced is to find appropriate forms, together with efficient methods, to document the ephemeral aspects of intangible heritage. Another barrier is to find effective ways to communicate the knowledge inextricably linked to people. In response, recent efforts have embarked on capturing the “live” and “active” facets of the embodied cultures, which entails addressing technological and curatorial complexity to communicate the material and immaterial aspects within a meaningful context. Meanwhile, advancements in experimental museology have opened up new modes of experiential narratives, particularly through visualization, augmentation, participation, and immersive embodiment. Novel practices of cultural data computation and data sculpting have also emerged toward the ideal of knowledge reconstruction. This article outlines state-of-the-art models, projects, and technical practices that have advanced the digitization lifecycle for ICH resources. The review focuses on several critical but less studied tasks within digital archiving, computational encoding, conceptual representation, and interactive engagement with the intangible cultural elements. We aim to identify the advancements and gaps in the existing conventions, and to envision opportunities for transmitting embodied knowledge in intangible heritage.

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Kapturing Kung Fu: Future Proofing the Hong Kong Martial Arts Living Archive

Cited by 12 publications

References 27 publications

Visualising and revitalising traditional Chinese martial arts

Visualising and revitalising traditional Chinese martial arts

Archery Rites: Remaking Confucian Rites

Digitizing Intangible Cultural Heritage Embodied: State of the Art

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