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Vanessa Tsai / 不麻煩的麻煩 Saving trouble, that’s trouble…
The sight of a wild animal turned convenient pet reminded Vanessa Tsai a questionable utilitarian attitude towards animals, and thus also self-justification in other areas of life. 蔡季妙目睹一隻狐獴成了寵物，驚覺實用功利價值為先的態度，灌滿了日常生活，扭曲了道德的邏輯性。
Linda Lai / Reading RAQS Media Collective: Manifesto 2 artists inspired: to be an artist by night? 「錄像宣言」的延伸閱讀：藝術勞工的景況：做個夜更的藝術家？
兩位參與「錄像宣言2」計劃的藝術家，在工作坊裡分享了一篇感動過他們的文章 -- RAQS Media Collective 的 Monica Narula 於 2012年寫的「如何做夜更的藝術家：藝術學院 [給21世紀的提案]」。為了快點分享給更多的藝術創作者，黎肖嫻以局部引述和中文翻譯去展示，並加以短論，望引來更多討論。Two Manifesto 2 artists share an article of impact on them in an artist's workshop session -- “How to be an artist by night. Art School (Propositions for the 21st Century)” written in 2012, by RAQS Media Collective’s Monica Narula. A series of selected quotes from the piece was assembled by Linda Lai here with Chinese translation and a short commentary.
Ryan Chung / let the mind speak 2: Do You See What I See? 「思維自說自話」2 – 你看見我所看見的嗎？
“Hopefully that’s not a boy’s answer.” Ryan Chung, graduated last summer with a Bachelor of Art & Science degree, allowed himself to follow what came by with utmost self-guarded curiosity. He is now a primary school teacher! In the closed laboratory of making the child for his future, he runs into a familiar boxing situation. 九個月不長也不短，卻足夠一個好奇而樂於隨機而伺的大學新鮮畢業生勘測四周。鍾樹仁沒想過會當上小學教師；面對孩童被模塑的場景，總是看到了多一點自己。例如：怎樣的答案才算是男孩的答案？何來這樣的問題？
Linda Lai / READING REPORT (2): To Zoom or not to Zoom: More Questions 「讀書報告」二：Zoom不Zoom？沒有純科技問題。
有關Zoom的激烈討論至今已冷卻，如今又聽聞中學生要求罷用Zoom作網上學習。為了趕得上，黎肖嫻以這文章的上下集用自己的經驗為Zoom的爭辯寫個讀書報告。沒有純科技問題。如何活在大數據時代？Linda Chiu-han Lai follows her own footprints of using and struggling with Zoom since mid-February, and turns it into an extended reading report to situate her thoughts. This is part 2 to complete: how to live in a big data milieu?
Linda Lai / READING REPORT (1): To Zoom or Not to Zoom: is that the question?「讀書報告」一：計算好，網上見。Zoom不Zoom？
有關Zoom的激烈討論至今已冷卻，如今又聽聞中學生要求罷用Zoom作網上學習。為了趕得上，黎肖嫻以這文章的上下集用自己的經驗為Zoom的爭辯寫個讀書報告。Linda Chiu-han Lai follows her own footprints of using and struggling with Zoom since mid-February, and turns it into an extended reading report to situate her thoughts.
Natalie Chao / the same old place, a poem (Wilderness Poems #1)
Video Manifesto 2 artist Natalie A. Chao's short poems with her own photography will appear in Floating Teatime: Personally Speaking over the next two months.
Siu Fei / 藝術場合, 藝術解決 — 回應《後#MeToo》藝術展覽公仔被露胸事件 “Like and…” at Post#MeToo Art exhibition. 2020.03.11-18
《後#MeToo藝術》一共有12個/組藝術家，16組作品，於賽馬會創意藝術中心L1藝廊和據點空間舉行。當中的小風波也許就是未來的大事件的思源。從2017年#Metoo 運動在國際間的廣泛傳播到一件作品的一件小事，在這裡我們分享的是參與藝術家温倩蘅（小肥, Wun Sin-hang Cynthia, aka Siu Fei）的筆記，在全景中帶著點睛作用，留給我們細味的空間。A docent at the Post #MeToo Art Exhibition found that the dolls' clothes were unbuttoned, their breasts of the dolls exposed; it felt like they were being sexually assaulted. Soon after the docent immediately buttoned up the dolls, artist Siu Fei installed a board to the doll set that says, "Don’t touch my body !!" Here's the artist's own notes on the incident.
Natalie Chao / Are We All Wilderness? – camera, image, ‘you’ and the becoming 我們都是荒蕪之地
In our recent video Manifesto 2 Artists’ Workshops, Natalie A. Chao said the camera was there to protect herself on the many street events in Hong Kong since 2019. She questioned the camera’s invasive nature and wonder how her camera thinks. Textualizing images she “gleaned” in writing is then a necessary part of the imaging event. Here is a set of notes Natalie wrote while reflecting on a film she made, Are We All Wilderness? (2019), revised this year.
Dorothy Wong / 站在「錄像宣言一」與「錄像宣言二」的邊界上：族群參與改變了創作座標 Crossing the Border: videography re-oriented since community engagement
2018-2019年，黃加頌以 art collective o!sland成員的身份參與台灣森人藝駐計劃，到台灣太魯閤族的社區生活，後被鳳甲美術館邀請到台北北投社進行關於平埔族的計劃。黃加頌為「錄像宣言一」（2018）的策劃成員之一。她道出創作歷程上的改變：「2016－2017 錄像和影像為技巧訓練、自我察覺、從遙遠處觀看世界的練習。2017－2019 錄像為與他人、社區和世界連結的觀看點、載體和回應。」Dorothy Wong's artist's residency with Taiwan's mountain communities changed her relation with videography.