柔軟的齒輪 往 臺中國際動畫影展 2018 札記 Notes on TIAF 2018 (Taichung International Animation Festival)
FP Writer and Artist Winnie Yan's glimpses of the TIAF 2018 highlights how seeing differently in animation is rooted in the technology that evolves around and generates the art form. To some animation artists, the single frame, as opposed to the shot in live action film/video, is the basic unit of experimentation, or that all innovative animation works are intermedia in nature. Either way, the persistence of vision makes our eyes unique apparatus connecting to the world of the unknown imaginary.
through eyes, we wander / through hands, perhaps speak and sing 若然透過眼睛游離，以手說話唱歌
FP writer Winnie Yan's thoughts on the unique, interchangeable place of the artist's hands and eyes, and the pro-musicial quality of moving image streams, were provoked in her visit at the EXiS 2018 while contemplating the works of montage masters such as Stan Brakhage and Robert Breer, and recently fuelled by her direct encounter with 16mm filmmaking. 「據點」作者忻慧妍遊訪首爾的實驗電影與錄像節2018，眼前眾蒙太奇大師如Stan Brakhage 和 Robert Breer 的作品，加上個人近期親身「落手」的16釐米電影拍攝經驗，勾起了各種對活動影像的迷思：手與眼的結合，影像流的近音樂性等等。
Document as medium, archive as structural framework 檔案作為一個媒介 | 檔案庫作為一個架構: 李繼忠韓國藝術駐場研究之旅
A visit to Gwangju Biennale alerted FPC member Lee Kai-chung to the possibilities of doing an artist's residency in Seoul to study archiving practices for art, which he did and shared upon his return to HK in "Can't Live Without." 「這次駐場計劃是基於第一次在光州雙年展後到訪過MMCA作資料搜集的經驗出發的。那時其實並不知道有駐場計劃可以申請，只是純屬對一個藝術館的好奇...」
黑色的音符，黑色的顏料，透明的邊界：《港樂太古樂賞－波蘭動畫70年》札記
A note on Live Animation Performance + Concert "Swire Classic Insights -70 Years of Polish Animation" from Winnie Yan.
白色的時間－往 臺中國際動畫影展 札記
FP writer/editor Winnie Yan reflects on her visit to the Taichung International Animation Festival (13-17 Oct 2017) and finds "concepts and theories" less learned in class. Traversing through works across generations and continents, she asks, "What is it that makes us willing to condense our life into a short string of images?" 忻慧妍問：是什麼令我們願意把自己的生命濃縮成一小段影像呢?
hot cakes / hard kicks
"...I am still not very used to carrying a camera. Scenes captured in the footage do not have little similarity with what I actually saw on the spot." Winnie Yan, curator for "Back & Forth," recalls her videography one year ago.
談畢業展、實驗、語言和影像 – <大頭落山：畢業作品放映會> 放映札記 Graduation show, being experimental, language and images: “be the rolling stones”
"Be the rolling stones," an alter graduation art show, ignited discussions on experimental actions and moving images as the makers' unique connection with the lifeworld. Winnie Yan interviewed some of the participating artists...
距離的温度 The Temperature of Distance
Some works are to be sensed rather than comprehended... Winnie Yan finds a natural connection with Jess Lau and Kin-choi Lam's duet -- with their art pieces as much as the two individuals. ...能找到兩位同伴會默默地感受一場雨...絕不容易。
聲音觀察誌 Observing sounds…
Winnie Yan recounts her stagger towards appreciating sound-making that encourages the immediacy of exchange versus music for trained ears... 忻慧妍的聲音觀察誌 － 如何一步一步挨近聲音藝術。
記錄 六月 Writing June
Winnie Yan, Personally Speaking. 「記錄 六月」。忻慧妍喃喃自語用文字擺放21天的游離與躲藏...