LAI Wai-leung / 不是影評。從光華迸發到日暮星沉，由舊戲「英雄本色」說起 A Better Tomorrow and beyond, not a film review
In an extended roll call of local made movies, FP writer Wai-leung Lai tells an integrated story of his history of local film viewing, an assertion of the right of a serious non-expert viewer’s voice to be heard. After, popular cinema is a specific way to connect with the ordinary people on the level of living. And after all, Readership Theories have covered much ground in film and media studies in the past 30 something years in the academia. 黎偉亮一個人睇戲的故事，追述多年來看港產片的心跡，說明了用心看戲也就是用心活著。一個用心的觀眾絕對有權在「影評」的建制圈外肯定表述的聲音。
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Ryan Chung / let the mind speak 5: Loneliness is a Cry for Nothing「思維自說自話」5 : 孤單是無端而吶喊
Finding an ensemble of words to give form, thickness and density to flickering thoughts and fleeting sentiments is Ryan Chung’s persistent experiment in his “let the mind speak” series — speaking for its own sake, this time, “loneliness” must imprint its presence… What is the vocabulary of our own loneliness? 表述是為了堅守表述自由的維度。孤單是怎樣的？孤單的語彙是怎樣的？說了就是。鍾樹仁的思維自說自話。
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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 […]
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Michael Leung / ON LAND 13: There’s No Need to Add Oil Anymore (a fictional story)「在地」十三：不再需要加油（虛構故事）
Is it a dream, nightmare, mind escape, or transcendent float in time-space? It takes a fictional moment to fully embody Michael Leung’s many episodes of intergalactic traversal, to regain the potency to enter a boundless performative space. 虛擬不一定是逃脫，反而是全情貫注的為跨界、跨域、跨族類的慾望賦予實質、形骸，以至可在其中遊蕩潛行，延展無邊際的演述空間。
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Linda Lai / 方寸之間。氣流。你在牆上留了個暗號。Love in the Time of COVID-19. You’ve left a mark at the foot of the wall. (a poem)
她（黎肖嫻）寫了一首別人的情詩。已沒有話可述說愛情，只知道「想」之際自覺存在多一點。找文學對愛情的書寫，總覺女作家和男作家的視野不盡相同。沒有性別基要主義。只是好奇。想聽讀者們的回贈，讓她不落入自說自話的荒涼。Linda Lai wrote a poem contemplating the phenomenology of being in love and losing it. Great quotes from the internet were grabbed in search of the male protagonist’s voice, says she. Let’s have a conversation!
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The Ventriloquists 21. Coda. Highly appraised works at “The Ventriloquists…Thinking Narratively” 《腹語系》佳作選出，展覽放映研討圓滿結束。
Seven artists are selected winners of the various awards. The 63-work exhibition “The Ventriloquissts…Thinking Narratively” plus two screenings all completed… 《腹語系。微敘思考》63個作品的展覽及兩場放映已圓滿結束。七位創作者的作品獲獎項嘉許。
\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 […]
\nNatalie Chao / Wilderness poems #5: “the land of logs”
Wilderness Poems #5, image & text by Manifesto 2 artist Natalie Chao 錄像宣言2創作人趙芷妮《荒野詩》系列作品 5.
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