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Pianovel: I play the piano to play you a song / an ADC funded project by Jolene Mok

August 8, 2011 (Monday) / 7:30 – 9:00 pm @ FPC

Pianovel: I play the piano to play you a song (30 mins / 2011 / Jolene Mok)

“Through looking into the learning path and practice process of five children, I (re-)study piano playing from an alien angle, to see, through the camera, in what ways piano is being played.”

The screening of the video work will be followed by discussion and sharing.

*This project is supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council’s Emerging …

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“Pianovel” – learning to learn and how I learned / preview notes #4 for FPC’s 1st exhibition

- Jolene Mok

"Untitled" (2010, Jolene Mok)

What to learn? What not to learn? We have to learn how to learn. What if we don’t want to learn but, still, we have to learn? Do we learn if we don’t want to learn?

All of the above are the questions I had in mind when I started this visual ethnographic project.

To me, learning is always a problematic process. Apart from standard schooling, I was lucky to have had the chance to learn ballet, squash, table tennis and piano-playing in my childhood years. I had been, continuously, learning all these skills for more or less 10 years. However, for the past decade, I have not kept any of these practices and have, in fact, avoided contact with any of them.

With all the time I spent, all …

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Simplicity of form, economy of presentation, tenacity of concept – preview notes #1 for FPC's 1st exhibition

至微的美學經濟／極盡的概念發揮

– Linda C.H. Lai

During the count-down fortnight to our inauguration exhibition (opening May 22), the FPC team had a series of studio meetings, dubbed ‘Studiologue’, in which we went through issues of artistic rigor of individual works, logistics, communication plans, display arrangement and so on, to the last possible details.

On May 11 (Tuesday), we met in the studio to get a general preview of the artworks each of us would present, matching concepts, purposes, display strategies and construction procedures. After that, I proposed the following guiding principles:

*simplicity of form, economy of presentation, tenacity of concept
*leave no component that is not integral to the concept: remove anything that is decorative and distracting …

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“Archiving Fingers, Hands, Faces & Anonymities” – FPC’s 1st exhibition coming soon

FPC’s grand opening exhibition on May 22, 2010 (Saturday – 6:00pm) will showcase the latest works-in-progress of its core members Linda Lai, Lilian Fu, Jolene Mok and Cheung Yu-tsz.

拾荒。偵探。遊戲。定位。

FPC’s 1st exhibition_May22, 2010 (pdf)

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Pianovel: I play the piano to play you a song / an ADC funded project by Jolene Mok

“Pianovel” – learning to learn and how I learned / preview notes #4 for FPC’s 1st exhibition

Simplicity of form, economy of presentation, tenacity of concept – preview notes #1 for FPC's 1st exhibition

“Archiving Fingers, Hands, Faces & Anonymities” – FPC’s 1st exhibition coming soon

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