
Three works interpret American avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon, each visualizing a unique aspect of the film. 三個圖像,結構細節形骸有別,都是對準美國前衛名作《午間的網陣》,剖開不同層面的內部物質真相。

Agriculture and pandemics: from indeterminacy to solidarity — Would this summer be a ripe time to implement a dual power strategy? 農耕與大流行。這個暑假會是實踐雙重權力戰略的良機?

Connecting childhood: yours, mine and theirs. Fishing with Popo (2011) by Lilian Fu is among the artist-animator’s first experiments with documentary animation. Several young artists have responded… Two pictograms on this work, by William Phuong and Louise Chan, exhibited at The Ventriloquists…Thinking Narratively, 4-17 July 2020, are transmedia extension of Fu’s animated memories of her grandma.

夢。林建才手繪。英倫小城遙祭香港。2019年10月。劉清華組合選輯。”Dreaming,” Kin-choi Lam’s solemn thoughts on Hong Kong from Cambridge, UK. October 2019. Jess Lau selection.

Four works on a monitor… collage, montage, still and moving. Restless assertions. Inquisitive hypothesis… 動動象。打開動畫。自言自語。若有所失。

Eight projections on a flat service… collage, montage, still and moving. Restless assertions. Inquisitive hypothesis… 動動書。一個意象接另一個意象。8個投在小桌面上的思考流,隨你參詳。

Five Ventriloquists artists show their dreamwork created with their own audio-visual language. It all lies in the crevices, fractures and gaps between shots, between locations, between actions… 夢作業是人存在的無形證據,實在處在夢象與夢象之間,在夾縫中,在虛處,在結合之間的斷裂處,是眾數的斷層。《腹語系》創作者也參與構築夢的敘事語法。

The Hand comes in from everywhere. It interrupts, commands, dominates…; it is omnipresent, irresistible, almighty, dressed and decorated nonetheless mercilessly brutal.. Such is the condition of an artist who wakes up one morning to find his normal routine totally ruled invalid. 木偶藝術小子一覺醒來,伸伸懶腰又期待著新一天的開始。怎知道一夜間世界變透了。一隻無名的手,由溫柔禮待到強權粗暴,無處不在,無孔不入。

Twelve personal thought paths share the same space within a theatre box, each a unique stream of murmurs, together a torrent of existential quests. 十二串個性不同的思緒共享一個微型的小黑盒劇場,各有嗓音,合起來是洪流。態度的堅持,存在的疑問,主體的尋溯,無名渴求,生老病死。

On the eve of The Ventriloquists’ physical opening, … Adapting Ben Hjorth’s “Philosophies of Non-sense: Jan Svankmajer’s Jabberwocky”; Senses of Cinema, issue 71, 2014, Harmanjeet Singh pays special attention to Švankmajer’s object play.