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Magical illusions have existed as a form of entertainment for almost as long as human civilisation itself \u2013 think Tales of Khufu and the Magicians<\/em> from ancient Egypt \u2013 but despite its long tradition, why do so few consider it a performing art?<\/p>\n Zenneth Kok is a professional magician and mentalist seeking to change Hongkongers\u2019 general perception of his craft with a 70-minute interactive mind-reading show titled The Memory Wall<\/em> this weekend.<\/p>\n Kok, who has more than 20 years\u2019 experience in the international magic industry, acknowledges that his show is niche in a city like Hong Kong, but hopes it will be the first of many such performances around the world. Magic is, after all, more than meets the eye.<\/p>\n He tells the Post<\/em>: \u201cHere\u2019s the thing about magic: the more I do it \u2013 especially in close-up performances \u2013 the more it feels like a display of skills and abilities.<\/p>\n \u201cI can create a surprise and a moment of astonishment. But I started to feel like, \u2018Why don\u2019t I try to learn more about my audience?\u2019 Not just \u2018look, here\u2019s what I can do\u2019, but \u2018what do you think?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Kok got his start in the magic community by watching local gambling films from the late 1980s and 1990s, such as Wong Jing\u2019s God of Gamblers<\/em>, starring Chow Yun-fat and Andy Lau Tak-wah.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.scmp.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Magical illusions have existed as a form of entertainment for almost as long as human civilisation itself \u2013 think Tales of Khufu and the Magicians from ancient Egypt \u2013 but despite its long tradition, why do so few consider it a performing art? Zenneth Kok is a professional magician and mentalist seeking to change Hongkongers\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2220744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[389483,429447],"class_list":["post-2220743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-magic-show","tag-zenneth-kok"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/How-a-Hong-Kong-magician-and-mentalist-is-changing-perceptions.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2220743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2220745,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220743\/revisions\/2220745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2220744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2220743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2220743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2220743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}