TK Pok
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His live art has manifested in interactive-durational-public performances, These quasi-therapy works Kino Klinik, where audiences enter a short life-coaching session that is blended with film analysis (gently retro-citing Jung 101 through Joseph Campbell’s notion of the hero’s journey). and Karaoke Massage. On screen, he has appeared as the titular character in Alvin’s Harmonious World of Opposites, a feature film by Platon Theodoris who won a Director’s Choice Award at the Sydney Underground Film Festival in 2015.
His most recent stint has been in Playwriting Australia, the national company for new play development, constructing access, mentoring pathways and eventual production opportunities for emerging playwrights of diverse cultural backgrounds. Formerly a committee member of CAAP (Contemporary Asian Australian Performance) and with whom he collaborated on Lotus, an initiative focused on enabling the production of Asian-Australian theatre-makers on the Australian mainstage.
He was a regular contributor to RealTime, one of Australia’s leading contemporary performing arts journals for 25 years and has recently graduated from NIDA’s inaugural MFA Cultural Leadership cohort (2016-2018)
As a performer, he appeared in Stories East and West directed by William Yang and Annette Shun-Wah.On screen, he was featured in Corrie Chen’s short feature Happy Country (MIFF 2009, Flickerfest 2010, La Mirada Film Festival 2011) as the Dance Instructor in Deborah Kelly’s award-wining Tank Man Tango , which was a viral video memorial and live art project.
Something Unique
Teik-Kim has combined karaoke and massage into a single artwork known as karaoke massage!