Josef Bares / Wong Chun-hoi’s “Hardworking Burning Electricity”
[FP EXHIBITION REVIEW] Josef Bares makes sense of an assemblage of cables and switches in Wong Chun-hoi’s solo show — electricity personified…
LAI Wai-leung / 這一夜，看不到黎明 This night, no dawn…
“This night, no dawn…,” FP writer W.L. Lai ruminates and asks, “What was it that took these young people to the street on a day when they could have been drinking, eating and fun-making?” 這一夜，看不到黎明 ／ 黎偉亮
Vanessa Tsai / 圓圈。圈圓圓 Circle of Life
***This article is the author’s personal response to a Taiwan-made documentary <生命的圓圈> (Circle of Life) by 許慧如 about a teenage single mother. 隨風盤旋的風箏，會飛向何處？
Linda Lai / 12 Manifestos on Videography from 12 Young Video Artists on 18 Concrete Videos 《12個宣言。錄像書寫為何。關連的18個塑形錄像作品。》
These manifestos are to accompany the 18 works in the Concrete Videos program to be screened at Floating Projects, 4:00-6:00pm, 9 January 2016, produced and curated by Linda Lai. +The project described here was partially supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No. 9042111 […]
WONG Chun-hoi /《十年》，二十日後感 Ten Years
Wong Chun-hoi pins down his critical parameters for the highly acclaimed “Ten Years” series … 《十年》，二十日後感 ／ 王鎮海
WONG Chun-hoi / Look at that picture! – a synchronized winter, alas, after 3 years 看圖識事：三年後，同步過冬
This is a scene captured on camera some time around 18th July, 2012, in an industrial building in Kwai Chung. A few of us were in the studio of Fiona Lee’s (Left 1) that day. She was preparing her light bulb sound performance <<delight>> for an upcoming exhibition in Korea. We went there to […]
LAI Wai-leung / Wanchai 灣仔
FP writer W.L. Lai walks through Wanchai of the 1970s & 1980s in 2016… Gentrification and more… 灣仔 ／ 黎偉亮
Winnie Yan / 親愛的朋友呀你在想什麼
「其實我不明白甚麼是好的藝術，那些大師的作品嘛，很多地方都看不懂。」她說。大概是因為同學對她的作品都持有頗兩極的意見，她一下子招架不住了，需要一個「結論」。 每當看到意念非常前衛又或是視覺上不甚麼討好的作品，我總會開玩笑般跟朋友說：「但願我一生也看不懂藝術。」。其實無論怎樣努力，我都一定不會懂藝術的。可 是，即使我能擁有超能力，可以一夜間明白藝術也好，我也寧願它是本永遠也翻不完的書。看完一本耐人尋味的書，心裏總會有一點難纏的空洞。
聚疊遊戲－在工場走後門看天空 The ‘assemblage’ game: a piece of ceiling on the floor
「據點。句點」 成立了快半年，玩了三次聚疊遊戲，以現成物作為材料去「堆砌」一個「展覽」。我想在這裡中途總結一下至今的一些浮面的潛在規則。 0。身處展場，或用你的方法去存在於此 1。只能用你在時限內得到的材料，可以是撿拾的，可以是自己帶來的，總之不要浪費金錢 2。接受同場發生的任何事，並善用它，改變它，也必需接受展出期間的任何後期聚疊（即別人後加的改變或再創作）
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 […]
