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傅詠欣 Lilian Fu’s latest work Ever-changing Monument is a documentary animation funded by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council (ADC).
Public Screening:
November 26, 2011 7:00p.m. at FPC
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Ever-changing Monument
7 minutes / 2011 / Hong Kong/United Kingdom
A work of animated documentary by Lilian Fu 傅詠欣
In this project, I want to explore the process of changing states of mind and memories through animation. The concept is to reproduce images of a video frame by frame interceded by paintings, inserts of texts and sounds.
A video-recorded interview with my grandmother in 2007 was part of an early exercise in visual ethnographic research. Ever since she died two years ago, other than her talking head footage, there has not been much left for our recollection of her, be it objects, photos, or other video documents. Hence there are many gaps …
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- Lilian Fu
Inspired by Czech animator Jan Švankmajer and other absurdist artists like Kafka and Bruno Schulz, the Brothers Quay has a long lineage with surrealism and the use of puppet stop-motion. The duet remains two of the unsurpassed animators in the world for its original vision and techniques.
You would not find it easy to catch a clue about exactly what is happening no matter how many times you watch Brothers Quay’s The Street of Crocodiles (1986). However, the riddle of the world in this work is not difficult to solve because all answers are hidden elusively in objects and gestures. The artists’ ‘camera work’ penetrates beneath the surface of everyday life and the façade of ordinary objects. Rusted stews, dust, ruined dolls, …
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“Imagining My Grandmother” (Lilian Fu / 2010 / video-animation)
記起、回顧、賦形、喚生…
- Lilian Fu
In many ways, animation and recollection have strong affinities and may form the most interesting assemblages. The initial meaning of the word ‘animation’, which comes from its Latin root, anima, is to give life to a dead object. Memory in a way shares the same function of animated pictures. When we talk about or commemorate a person, we are ‘giving life’ to him/her in new ways through imagination, filling in the missing parts by making up new stories or adding in new elements from hearsay.
The similarities between animation and recollection give my project, Imagining My Grandmother (2010), a bit of irony because to some extend, I am giving a new life to my grandmother who is no longer alive, by …
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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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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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