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Mr Danny YUNG

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Mr Danny YUNG

Chief Executive, Hong Kong Institute of Contemporary Culture, Hong Kong

(Related Website：http://www.hk-icc.org)

DANNY N.T. YUNG was born in Shanghai and moved to Hong Kong at the age of five. He studied Architecture at the University of California University, Berkeley, and Urban Design and Urban Planning at Columbia University.

In 1982, he founded Zuni Icosahedron, a Hong Kong art collective, and has been Artistic Director since 1985. His theatre works with Zuni have visited Beijing, Berlin, Brussels, London, Munich, New York, Singapore, Taipei, Tokyo and many other cities. In 2000, Yung organized an eleven weeks Festivals of Vision, a cross-cultural festival and conferences in Berlin and Hong Kong, involved 1000 artists and cultural practitioners from 35 cities in Asia and Europe.

Yung is a keen advocate of new art forms. His experimental films, video and installation works have been shown at festivals in Berlin, London, Rotterdam, Edinburgh, Tokyo, Los Angeles and New York. His artwork is included in the Inside Out: New Chinese Art in 1999. His one-person show "Tree and Man" opened at 1A Gallery in 2003.

Since 1987, Yung has initiated a series of public forums on cultural policies. In 1990, he organized the Cultural Policy Study Group that has since produced several influential reports. In 1993, he was appointed by the governor of Hong Kong to the 'Working Group' which in 1995 became the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, a statutory body. He was reappointed to the Council in 2000. From 1997, Yung has initiated several important arts network in Asia - Asia Arts Net, Chinese City to City Cultural Forum, Asia Pacific Performing Arts Network. In 2002, he co-organized World Culture Forum, and became Vice-president in 2003. He was a former part-time member of Central Policy Unit, a Hong Kong Government Think Tank.

Currently, he is the policy advisor to Hong Kong government on several important cultural matters such as Creative Industries, West Kowloon Cultural District, and Planning of Cultural Hub. He has collaborated with UNESCO in initiating Arts in Education Observatory and the Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage, and is the founder of the HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity in Hong Kong.