Category: Art Notes 藝文談暢
談藝術，談創作，回顧周圍看向前望。Art reviews and art criticism. Review on reviews. Critique on the practice of criticism. Back story to a performance. Free associations with a novel. Observations on the current milieu of art and social life. …
Elliott Wan / HK’s Indie Music Scene (3): Hidden Agenda, legacy of a venue 香港獨立音樂場景系列之三
In the 3rd of his 10-part essay, Elliott Wan accounts for 5th-generation Hidden Agenda’s encounters to profile the shape of localism this live-house project has illustrated. 從 Hidden Agenda 衍化為 This Town Needs，2008-2020 並不是香港獨立音樂的完結篇。新冠肺炎從天而降，或是另一種生機的萌發。
Elliott Wan / HK’s Indie Music Scene (2): Hidden Agenda: rise and constraints 香港獨立音樂場景系列之二
How has HK’s independent music arena grown and sustained itself? What specific shape has localism taken since 2009? In the second of his 10-episode essay, Elliott Wan accounts for Hidden Agenda’s five-time threat of closure, which ironically was the result of an attempt to “(re-)vitalize” under utilized industrial space. 正是「活化」的果效，充滿活力的 Hidden Agenda 經歷了5次的關門。
Ventriloquists 2021 / 02-Individual Perspectives 2 腹語系之二：個人故事個人觀點（下）
Sofya Antonova continues Flynn Hadre’s discovery of individual perspectives to introduce personal stories told with intense photographic intervention. 有些作品值得看，就因為它是作者的個人經歷和生活的過程。繼 Flynn Hadre 的介紹，Sofya Antonova 察看到攝影和活動影像語言的震撼力；聲影不單說故事，更開創了個人經驗。
Ventriloquists 2021 / 01-Individual Perspectives 腹語系之一：個人故事個人觀點（上）
With the subject “Individual Perspectives,” Flynn Hadre discovers his fellow classmates’ works in Ventriloquists 2021 that tell an artist’s personal stories. 有些作品值得看，就因為它是作者的個人經歷和生活的過程。Flynn Hadre 從36個同伴的作品中挑出了三個可細聽細看的故事。
Ventriloquists 2021 / 00a-Thinking Narratively: all 36 works 36個聲影陳述，36個世界。
36 works are in dialogue at The Ventriloquists 2021 to explore narrative concepts in articulating our thoughts and sentiments. The full list of works are presented below. 三十六個作品，共同探索陳述的觀念，各自發聲，理念情感成為交流談話的起點。
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。
Elliott Wan / HK’s Indie Music Scene (1): Hidden Agenda’s history and formation (2009-2011) 香港獨立音樂場景系列之一
How has HK’s independent music arena grown and sustained itself? What are the major factors at work? What specific shape has localism taken since 2009? How did COVID-19 alongside many social circumstances invoke modal changes in music production and distribution? Elliott Wan, in 10 episodes, accounts for many such questions through literature research, field studies and interviews with stakeholders. 香港獨立音樂場景系列一：溫啟朗讓「據點一杯茶」分享其對香港獨立音樂的景況的觀察和考查，回顧前瞻，翻出一個專屬香港的獨立音樂故事，作為創意媒體本科畢業的總結。
Linda Lai / La Casa 3: The Apartments: moving, day-dreaming 房子一二三之三：搬家、夢遊（1996-2021）
La Casa 3: The Apartments records a series of apartments, from Manhattan to different parts of Hong Kong, where the artist and her partner took abode. A 18-minute exercise of the mind’s power to remember, from the most material to the unspeakable… 如何說自己的居所？只想為生活的內部節奏留些可歌可譜的痕跡，核心是白日的失神、晚間的夢魘、錯置、不明所以，走一步就是一步。作品，就在表達與木訥之間進行了一次18分鐘裹藏著的念力。
Linda Lai for FP / Fresh videos, in-depth transformation: 3 thoughtfully crafted journeys of the selves 三種深度轉化：三段不一的旅程
19 June 2021 六月十九日. Three video essays on living through time with one’s bodily presence. Tracey Ngai acts out her retrospection. Faith Monsod turns image objects into a passage to the infinite liminal. Pun Tsz-wai’s past resides in media artefacts and urban legends. Three fresh videos completed in May 2021, premiered at Floating Projects. 三個今年五月新鮮出爐的錄像文章。據點首次亮相。記憶是甚麼？我是誰？我的根是甚麼？用身體的實存與行動。魏芷軍演述；潘子懷在都市神話中設置自己；Faith Monsod 的主體盡在可翻開可啄蘑的聲影碎片中。
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？
