Category / FieldNotes 考察中
研究生的考察範圍、指向，是世界的未來的形骸，新知識的風向計，對現今時代的把脈。起家立說之前，往往是轉瞬即逝的珍寶 — 直覺、對問題的「肚腹」般的反應。我們要好好留著。完整的辯說，碎片，靈光一閃，大小故事，所見所聞，理念層次的穿線連點結網…。「在地」、「尋檔」、「書寫作為思考」等陸續有來。A network of ideas from doctoral researchers whose tentative thinking may value as much as well formed writings. Hear their voices. Michael Leung’s “ON LAND,” Vennes Cheng’s “THINK-PAD,” Lim Yeon-kyung’s “ACTING OUT” and more are arrivals…
Jess Lau / 藉水而流的家族故事 Family stories along the flow
眼前的一切像多年的堆積，與之共存的是看不見的已被拆毀的家族過去的小節的餘韻。說到家族，也不是家國大族的堂煌，而是一張具體的網，連接、輸送、維繫，有個物理的據點。據點藝術家劉清華的「田野」訪談，拖出了「生存」的問題。如何活？我們如何從過去走到當下？過去的可以延伸下去，因為我們記得，而且還（用方法）記住。A community art project opens the door to a street of rich family stories in To Kwa Wan (Kowloon) for FP artist Jess Lau, thus also an old family story she has not dared to touch until now. Unlike tycoon stories of a growing empire, ordinary family stories are full of "holes" irreparable yet holding together those who refuse to forget.
Linda Lai / Video Essays as a Minor Literature 《平地數碼》。平地素馬，塵埃落定透微言。
Minority or majority is not about numbers. Majority practices could often be the conventions set by the minority few whereas what is broadly held may not be represented as "majority" positions. Being in the minority is not being weak. A "minor literature," to Deleuze, is a strategic position whereby "de-territorialization" begins. 多數或少數與數量無關；多數人奉行的操作可以是少數人所決定的，而大部分人視以為閒常的，未必為主導主流所涵蓋以至突顯。特勒茲論述中的「少數文學」是個可用的據點，是語言表述活動的「反山頭主義式佔領」的開始。
Linda Lai / From “Essay Film” to “Video Essay” 2: an expanded history of presentational immediacy and causal efficacy 從「散文電影」到「錄像文章」二：表達的即時性與因果功效的追求
The video essay is an expanding category, from the "film essay" named in the 1960s, generally considered non-fiction, to possible renewal of late 19th-C traveling lecture events which embraces pedagogic as much as fun purposes. Video essay is a form of "direct action" for the here and now, a critical response to the crisis of moving image as mnemontechnics (memory machines) that undermines our agency. 據點的《平地數碼》（2020年11月只2021年6月）志在翻開「散文電影」的系譜溯源，通過延伸的想像，擴大今時今日「錄像文章」的可用性以至成為如何活在當下的據點，對知識的守護和創造採取直接行動。請留意11月5日錄像文章比賽的正式發佈。
Linda Lai / From “Essay Film” to “Video Essay” 1 : Challenging classifications 從「散文電影」到「錄像文章」。破格，融合。
Invoking the term "video essay," Floating Projects advances into a new experiment – to generate a new virtual community through sharing thoughts and sentiments as short videos, a tactical move in our milieu of media convergence. The video essay competition is an experimental action about naming and renaming, and how to survive contemporary society in which personal articulation is more often shut off and short-circuited than encouraged, wherever we are.
Andio Lai / Analog Tapes and Digital Files: A U D I O_ a pop-up exhibition 錄音帶和數碼檔案:《音》，一個即興展
10月10-25日在據點現場發生的即興展／演《音》，是句點成員黎仲民的又一次實驗。新冠狀病毒期間可以搞怎樣的展覽？聲音的表演和展覽可以如何結合？取來的素材，是黃竹坑時期的 FP1.0 表演的翻新，以及石硤尾年頭的 FP2.0的表演紀錄，那會產生的是甚麼新活動？On site on 10-25 October at Floating Projects, A U D I O, a pop-up, is another one of FPC member Andio Lai's experimental events of impromptu nature. With raw material from performances of FP1.0 (Wong Chuk Hang) and FP2.0 (Shek Kip Mei) as they were documented in different formats, what would be the outcome of the integration of sound, performance and exhibition?
FPC / Return Flight: MEL<---->HKG, after a year, the making of…
FPC members participated in an cross-ocean exchange of image and text with artists in Melbourne as the third and final episode of Elizaveta Maltseva's curatorial project, in collaboration with the Melbourne-based literary journal Going Down Swinging. One year has passed since the show Return Flight: MEL <---->HKG met the public in Melbourne (August) and Hong Kong (September) respectively. This short video looks back on our exchange conversation. 《回程機：墨爾本<---->香港》18個兩地創作人的圖文交流轉眼已是一年前的事。存留的檔案為我們抓住了一些神髓。
Michael Leung / 農業與全球瘟疫：如何在動蕩中找到團結？(ON LAND #10 Chinese version)
農耕與大流行。這個暑假會是實踐雙重權力戰略的良機？Agriculture and pandemics: from indeterminacy to solidarity -- Would this summer be a ripe time to implement a dual power strategy?
Michael Leung 梁志剛 / 集體 The Collective (「在地」中譯 1)
Michael Leung’s “On Land” series is now readable in Chinese translation. 集。群。體。正因為個別的不同，個人自主受到尊重，所以，能一起前進，共負一軛，沿途照應，你是我的地圖，我是你的另一張地圖。每個人都各自是一個索引目錄。 **feature image: kitchen floor during cooking, 8 February 2020 (Michael Leung) 集體，是指一群在解放的道路上互相選擇並找到對方的人。他們下定決心要自主地生活，遠離以各種方式壓迫和控制他們的政府。[1] 這個集體一起生活和耕種，建築小屋和釀酒廠、撿柴生火、備餐時間總在廚房內邊跳舞邊煮食。他們永遠都歡迎其他人，在他們的空間生活，吃他們的農作物，讀他們書架上的書，使用他們的無線網絡——並且完全不要求回報。他們會說：你想留多久就留多久吧。 這個集體是根莖，每個成員透過各種姿態和交流，增加所有不同集體（一個群集）的適應能力，例如每週出行一次去幫助其他集體、種植和分享茶葉（請不要再喝工業茶了！）、給對方送上一盒盒有機薯仔或一箱箱有機蘋果汁等。集體共享所有事物，以及他們所認識的每個人。每個成員都是耕種、手足、鬥爭和戰術等方面的流動指南。我們不斷互相學習，在這些交流裡面，我們在大家一起使用、一起建立、一起創造的一切當中，共同存在。 集體提醒我們要記得擁抱對方——就像你重遇中學畢業後幾年未見的死黨那般。就如他們，集體就是遍佈世界各地的大家庭。 2020年2月14日，星期五，T. www.tinyurl.com/lecollectif …
Linda Lai / [Put away] The Kid on the Street, a prototype in HK Cinema 街童上樓：大排檔、公屋，香港電影的民間典型
Linda Lai crafts the histories of Hong Kong's everyday interiority, a zone in which the fictional and social-political-economic realities are implicated. The kid on the street is at once a fictional construct and a nodal point bringing together the problematization of the social-cultural. The kid on the street is also a story of space as behavioural and moral containment. 如何安置街上無所事事、遊蕩闖禍的孩子是一個瞭解香港內部生存歷史的軸。街童是通俗電影和漫畫的恆久想像， 當中牽扯著各種心靈情緒身體鬥爭以至社會資源分配管治上的得失 ... 等人口管理問題。黎肖嫻以近乎田野報告的短文，去實踐一個新唯物的歷史視野，把人、地與物視為互動相成的歷史辯證體。
Michael Leung / ON LAND 13: There’s No Need to Add Oil Anymore (a fictional story)「在地」十三：不再需要加油（虛構故事）
Is it a dream, nightmare, mind escape, or transcendent float in time-space? It takes a fictional moment to fully embody Michael Leung's many episodes of intergalactic traversal, to regain the potency to enter a boundless performative space. 虛擬不一定是逃脫，反而是全情貫注的為跨界、跨域、跨族類的慾望賦予實質、形骸，以至可在其中遊蕩潛行，延展無邊際的演述空間。