2025.12.13. Unfolding Histories: Being Micro Narratives 「翻開故事的皺褶：歷史的微敘事」

Unfolding Histories: Being Micro Narratives 「翻開故事的皺褶：歷史的微敘事」
13 Dec @ Floating Projects

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EVENT 1｜Why Micro Narratives, a Critical Agenda 反轉「微敘事」
Talk by Dr. Linda C.H. Lai 黎肖嫻博士一小時分享
🕒 3:00–4:00pm
💛 Suggested donation to support Floating Projects 建議捐贈，支持「據點」：50 HKD

”Micro Narratives” is an umbrella term Linda Lai coined in 2003 to articulate her conceptual-critical exploration of moving image creation. As a research agenda, it is also closely linked to her history-writing experiments that seek to unfold the textures of everyday life. While history and the past are typically conveyed and passed on through narratives, Lai questions the conventional narrative methods that are partial to monumental history and grand discourses. Lai uses the “micro” to speak of the ”small“ in everyday life, which is impregnated with concrete doings and purposes left out in accounts of regime history and economic success stories.

Micro-narratives are about retraining our attention to embrace the complexity of our existence. What is micro and small in fact more powerfully points to the grand, revealing the many almost visible and invisible linkages that form the network of contemporary global living. The micro-histories of the everyday are paths to reveal our agency or the lack of it. Nothing “micro” or small is trivial. And what is the place of sight-and-sound creation in all of this?

「微敍事」是黎肖嫻進行歷史書寫和創作實驗的理念載體，以敍事模式為起點，着重「微」多於「大」，更微的敍事，還是可以充滿排序和厚度的。從歷史書寫的角度，「微敍事」擱置碑誌式的史觀和大論述，全神貫注於日常的細活、個人經驗，朝代政權更替以外的存在；「微」也能觀照出「大」，也比由「大」俯瞰多了一份觸得到的仔細實在。着重日常生活眾多的「微」，我們也連線到紛繁而若隱若現的「大」歷史，重新梳理歷史，調較如何日常造作，如何活下去。一切其實無小事。那麼，聲影創作和歷史書寫有甚麼關係？是歷史書寫的一種嗎？「微敘事」的聲影創作又會是怎樣的呢？

EVENT 2｜My Micro Narratives: what is on my 3-years-3-places c.v. slip? 我的微敘事: 我的長條白卡片說了些甚麼故事？
a tea gathering with story-telling 請來茶聚，談談你的個人故事。
🕓 4:00–6:00pm (Free walk-in)

Thank you for generously leaving your 3-years-3-places ”personal c.v.“ at the exhibition ”Folds, Wrinkles and Crevices of the Everyday.“ The white cards are now assembled, in need of your narration in person to complete the narrative. Please visit Floating Projects (4-6pm): a tea gathering is awaiting you to pick up your c.v. or, even better, to exchange it with new friends with whom you may find a special connection.

Personal stories are constructed narratives; years and places together offer hints of the milieu in which we have lived. Another way to experience how “micro narratives” connect with the “big.”

你在「橫紋皺折」展覽的牆角慷慨留下的個人簡歷，正等待你來講述。請來「據點。句點」取回你的白卡條，又或找有連線可能的朋友互相交換，翻開3個年份和地點摺疊的故事。「據點。句點」群體將提供小點：下午4-6時，過個特別的下午。

三個個⼈認為標誌性的年份，三個地點。這不失為彼此溝通的開始。個人故事沒有謊話，把經過選擇的事實細節並置，這是敘事化最基本的建構力量。