Category: Art Notes 藝文談暢
談藝術，談創作，回顧周圍看向前望。Art reviews and art criticism. Review on reviews. Critique on the practice of criticism. Back story to a performance. Free associations with a novel. Observations on the current milieu of art and social life. …
Linda Lai / Critical Spectacles & Wandering Visions: videographic experiments as micro-narratives 凝神、界外：實驗錄像書寫作為微敘述
“Critical Spectacles & Wandering Visions: videographic experiments as micro-narratives / Linda Lai 凝神、界外：實驗錄像書寫作為微敘述 / 黎肖嫻 [This essay adapts from, and expands on, a curatorial statement I wrote for a 1-hour program on experimental videography for the EXiM 2015 (Experimental Film & Video Festival in Macau), themed “香港實驗影像活動 Hong Kong Experimental Video Festival in Macao.” It is […]
Vanessa Tsai / Dusty Bin Dreams (notes) 垃圾堆中的夢想
***This is Vanessa Tsai’s viewing notes of a documentary: Dusty Bin Dreams (Eriss Khajira, 55m58s, English Subtitles) by EO Documentaires on Vimeo Dusty Bin Dreams was shown in Taiwan at the 2015 Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival, 4 October 2015. [discussions and details… ] 垃圾堆中的夢想 / 蔡季妙 Vanessa Tsai 夢想，在熱情的音樂、開朗的笑聲中開始，場景始於厄蕊絲‧哈吉拉（Eriss Khajira） 導演充滿愉悅的大臉，故事始於東非的丹多拉垃圾場（Dandora dumpsite）。拍這部片， 哈吉拉從心審視了她生活周遭的一切，那些在她生活裡經歷的人、事、物。 東非丹多拉垃圾場有什麼特別的呢？該是有很多人依靠「垃圾場」過活吧！佔地六十英畝的丹多拉垃圾場，可以有什麼？什麼都有！有漫天飛舞的塑膠袋、色彩繽紛的 衣物、還有很多來此覓食的大鸛鳥，更有「教科書」（一位片中人物）最愛看的書！「就是很大的 […]
Andio Lai / 4D piano + No Bicycle Wheel @ WCH Assemblage #2: the idea of combining things
4D piano + No Bicycle Wheel / a work at WCH Assemblage #2 黃竹坑聚疊（二）/ on until 22 September 2015 @ Floating Projects I reorganized some of my tools for a future performance happening also in Wong Chuk Hang into a 4D piano. A main idea of Floating Projects is an ever-changing space and, for me, it is […]
CHEUK Wing-nam / 釣勝於魚的裝置遊戲 － 據點・句點
/ Wing 卓穎嵐 (participating artists at WCH Assemblage #2) 這是個意想不到的收穫。自從上次去過「據點．句點」（下稱據點）看到部鋼琴之後，已經有意思想向部老鋼琴埋手，改造成其他裝置。於是就向王鎮海(下稱海狗)問一下，能否改裝。他答最緊要肯來拆，不要問，做吧！ 對，我們很多時都有很多想法，想做這些想做那些，但因為各種藉口而推掉了。 於是，當我完成手上的展覽後，就開始和另一個據點藝術家黎仲民(Andio Lai)商討一下如何改裝這個鋼琴。這是一個平和的星期六下午，我去到那裡先拆掉外面的木架，露出鍵盤的機關。(其實，黃竹坑真的很近。現場即興的三日間，我由紅磡車站搭171到據點都只花半句鐘。)
Linda Lai / Curiosity of a young mind from 1999
/ Linda Lai I have been spending quite a bit of time digging up hidden waste to turn them into treasures for the Floating Projects — from my home, from my office, from my work studio… Happy to see the circulation of furniture and books and re-purposing of things accumulated through time. Last week, I […]
Winnie Yan / 那管只淨下我一人站在白牆前拿著紙筆咬手指 – 記於藝評與創作中的浮遊
廢紙箱又被堆滿了。「我寫不到。」反反覆覆地翻閱自己看Birdman後寫下的筆記，總覺得無論怎麼寫也是徒勞無功，寫出一段又一段自相矛盾的段落。儘管讀過Raymond Carver的書，察覺到當中那如從未停止拍攝的鏡頭，鼓聲、空間處理等諸如此類的技術細節，但即使我把這些元素都歸納總結好，so what? 那就可以令人感受到我在觀賞時得到的那種莫名奇妙的感覺嗎？我覺得那部電戲需要去看，去自我感受，既然我寫不出那種令人閱後有立即要去一看究竟的衝動，自己的討論又可能只停留在技巧的層面周旋的話，這就像自打嘴巴，告訴人家自己沒認真地去思考一些電影想引申的其他訊息。
Evans Chan’s ‘Two or Three Things about Kang Youwei’ 康有為二三事 (2012) & ‘Bauhinia’ 紫荊 (2002)
Press Screening: Friday, 7:00pm, April 13, 2012 @ Floating Projects Collective / 放映後設有酒會。 Press Screenings of 2 works by director Evans Chan 陳耀成 《紫荊》Bauhinia (2002) Hong Kong, color, drama, in Chinese and English, with English and Chinese subtitles. 50 min. Commissioned by RTHK/香港電臺電視台邀約作品 (*Hong Kong premiere香港首映) 紐約2001 年。一位洋名為「紫荊」（李珺）的香港女留學生，正製作一部有關中國一子政策的記錄片。9/11恐怖襲擊突然發生，她剪接室的窗下是巳夷為平地的世貿中心。而她剛有了身孕…夏威夷電影節的Christopher Claxton 形容此片「泯滅了虛構與記實，創造出一個同時魘着片中人及觀眾的時空，令這不加渲染的9/11後的紐約更貼近人的生存的困境」。 In the aftermath of September 11, […]
Documentary Animation ‘Ever-changing Monument’ by Lilian Fu
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 ****** 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 […]
Linda Lai / The Signature of Documentary – thoughts from Open City London Documentary Festival 2011
To Linda C.H. LAI, documentary is a total event that cannot be fully considered without taking into account the intention of the maker, relation between the maker and the documented, the use of the work in its life-span of distribution and circulation, the conversations it invokes, and ...
YIP Kai-chun /《慾望號快車》 — 餘韻的意義 “Crash” – The Meaning of the Aftertaste
– 葉啟俊YIP Kai-chun 平日在家看影碟，每隔廿分鐘就忍不住按停，喝水查電郵去廁所，其實都是耐性貧乏的徵狀。年多前看《慾望號快車》時便是如此，每隔三分鐘就停一停。看完過後 ，有「終於看完了」的快慰解脫。是看完爛/悶片的感覺。
