{"id":88313,"date":"2026-09-27T17:09:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T09:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=88313"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:09:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T09:09:04","slug":"hong-kong-rocker-janice-laujan-on-her-dark-disturbing-but-tender-debut-art-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=88313","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong rocker Janice Laujan on her dark, disturbing but tender debut art show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/09\/25\/e05c23bb-92f5-4e77-9bf0-752e3fee80e0_1c07afa8.jpg?itok=NAWAH5Rl&amp;v=1790308842\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The grimy basements of underground punk music and the pristine white walls of contemporary art galleries are usually opposing forces of the creative world, but to Janice Laujan \u2013 the screaming, growling frontwoman of Hong Kong cult band David Boring \u2013 they are simply different mediums through which she gets to \u201chave a public breakdown\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cPerformance is the only time I can be completely honest about something and project a very intense part of my personality,\u201d says the Hong Kong artist. \u201cIt\u2019s saying something very f***ed up publicly, and everyone will just have to watch. There\u2019s something very cathartic about [expressing] this taboo, heavy s*** that no one wants to hear about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Janice Laujan \u2013 who used to go by Janice Lau but is reincorporating her Chinese first name into her stage persona \u2013 has been David Boring\u2019s lead vocalist and lyricist since 2014.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In August 2026, Laujan opened her first art exhibition, \u201cMemory &amp; Punishment\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/arts\/article\/3368266\/hong-kong-rocker-janice-laujan-her-dark-disturbing-tender-debut-art-show?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The grimy basements of underground punk music and the pristine white walls of contemporary art galleries are usually opposing forces of the creative world, but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1501,4583,2535,925,3569,30705,5231,30706,30704,616,9074],"class_list":["post-88313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-art","tag-dark","tag-debut","tag-disturbing","tag-hong","tag-janice","tag-kong","tag-laujan","tag-rocker","tag-show","tag-tender","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}