Category: Seriously Speaking 大聲發表
心裡無雲，都總可以推理治情，開拓感知。水中有明鏡，明鏡在心中。又或者，有些事情你總是咬著不放。You deserve to be heard. Features, expository and argumentative pieces, in-depth commentary and research-based writing… … Our mind takes forms — thought paths, a statue, a floating object, a system of tales, …
Ventriloquists 2021 / 00-Narrative as processes, systems and organized randomness opening 17 August with 36 works 《腹語系。微敘思考。2021》繼續開發陳述的藝術
Why is narrativity a relevant artistic concept in a data-driven milieu? An exhibition with 35 works speak — as videos, photomontage, installation, pictograms, creative writing and game plans, by BA students at the School of Creative Media. The Ventriloquists 2021.《腹語系。微敘思考。2021》繼續開發陳述的藝術：層層推理。逐步走，慢慢說，用豐盈的小節。
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NGAI Tsz-kwan / A Trip to “There” — an indefinite journey that fuels itself 在記述的軌道上作內部連結：《我在追憶，我在追，我在》
It is perhaps a maker’s natural obsession to narrate oneself, deliberately or not, but through one’s life-time. A Trip to There, Tracey’s graduation thesis, is in a way a monumental push to enter this journey in flux. Embracing all she can, there also always seems to be void to fill. Traces of her having been there are as concrete with a forensic rigor. 每個創作者都曾經 — 以至窮盡一生 — 有意識或不自覺的記述自我。年青藝術創作人魏芷軍很用力的穿過這甬道，滿滿的收穫，卻又惘然若失。實在的卻是用時間和身體鑄出來的創作道途。愛看（錄像）作品的朋友們：這裡，你會讀到一個認真地記下來的寶貴創作歷程。潛進後，我們會對藝術的耕耘多一份敬意嗎？
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John Batten / Andio Lai: having an audience makes an artwork complete 黎仲民堅信觀眾可以令藝術作品變得完整。
黎仲民的藝術方式通常都悠閒愉快，且以觀眾為主；他堅信觀眾可以令藝術作品變得完整。Lai’s approach to art is generally care-free and audience centred. Andio Lai’s art brings a playful happiness to viewers and exhibition participants; he believes having an audience makes an artwork complete. John Batten spoke with Andio Lai.
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Martha Hatch / Urban Hijack: The Reproduction of Urban Space from the Lens of the Hong Kong Art Scene 騎劫城市：從香港藝術界的角度來看被重塑的城市空間
Martha Hatch detected a shift within the art scene in some shows she visited late last year. A new form of resistance? A new way to stay alive? An attempt to preserve a Hong Kong spirit? Hatch in in her final semester researching on art and urban space for her BA graduation thesis.
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Sam Chan / 從《三毛流浪記》#10 讀到變天的時刻 The denouement of Three Hairs’ Wanderings: anticipating a new habitat
2020年5月，陳顯宗從黎肖嫻手裡拿走了共10冊，於1974-76改編並重發的 1947-49年上海《大公報》連載的《三毛流浪記》的最後一集。時值文革尾聲。為何此時重新整理流浪記？有何逼切性？是「創傷性黑暗時代後價值觀」的重新建立？重新尋找容身之地的時代？ Reading the final of the 10 volumes 1976 adaptation of the wanderings of Three Hairs of 1930s-40s, Sam Chan asks if the denouement of the series is also a form of closure to the Cultural Revolution, in search of the ethos and pathos for China’s own post-trauma reconstruction.
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Vennes Cheng / THINK-PAD series 04: Constellation 「書寫作為思考」筆記系列四：聚合群
Constellation According to Oxford online dictionary, constellation refers not only, as a cosmic term, to a group of stars forming a pattern, but also a group of associated or similar people or things. Appropriating the concept of constellation, in this sense, has two connotations: on one hand, cosmic notion of constellation refers the regular arranged patterns […]
\nLinda Lai / Reading notes: Ah, again! on Black-boxing and proletarianization
This research paper sets out to problematize a specific mode of contemporary living that surrounds the question of blackboxing pervasive in technological and media art culture, characterized by the concealment of the machine processual core of such works, leading to the illusion of technological literacy and competence. Such an alienation state has many names in […]
\nLinda Lai / Reading Notes: sciences for facts (nature) Vs the humanities for values (culture)? Breaking the dualism…
This think-piece is partially from a paper titled “Taxonomy of Technics: a Compendium for Living and Action in Art” I presented at the conference Living in the Age of Convergences: Affect, Affordance, Agency, at NUS (…), in which I call for the need to revamp existing art curriculums within a critical theory paradigm. Speaking to “integrate” […]
\nLinda Lai / Reading Notes: where sciences, humanities and arts may meeti
Ontologies refreshed: the Manifest Image Vs the Scientific Image “Thing” power Thing-power materialism endows inanimate things with vitality, namely the ability to produce effects on other beings including human. (Bennett) Assemblage theory Cyborg 人與物的新結連 /Donna Haraway: “A Cyborg Manifesto” (1984) The late twentieth century is a mythic time: The boundaries between human and […]
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Michael Leung / ON LAND 12: Pre-existing Conditions 「在地」十二：既有狀況
In these COVID-19 days, “underlying conditions” undermine those with chronic diseases in fighting the virus. Rather than a sheer physiological condition, Michael Leung quotes Rene Gabri: what are considered pre-existing conditions are “those imposed on people by capitalism and the state, making some more vulnerable than others (during the pandemic).” What are the possibilities of being immune not just a personal matter but a collective act?「本有」狀況？「既有」狀態？還是「固有」狀態？梁志剛在英回顧法國行程的經驗，體悟藝術家 Rene Gabri 的申述：既有狀態其實是資本主義和國家政府加諸我們身上的，其結果是有些人總比另一些人「脆弱」，例如在疫情高漲的時候。如是，「既有」的，因政策管治的上綱下達，便成了「固有」的境況。往下想，「免疫」或「免疫系統」的出現，是否可以超越「個人」層面而成為「協作」的、社區群體的？
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