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. …
Here we have recorded thoughts that could only be preserved and shared in words, from FPC members, including those just arriving and departing, between FP 1.0 and FP 2.0. 「據點。句點」1.0 與 2.0 之間,新成員、舊成員、離開了的成員,都用上了時間去勾畫這片據點。
/文美桃 manmeito | artist Man Mei-to traces the many strands of everyday living conjoining in her recent show at FP (Apr-May 2018), “Distance of Space.”
展覽 《彼岸之地》(2018.04.14-05.06),記錄著文美桃由讀書時期到畢業後三年這段時期的創作方向。展覽中沒有張狂的議題,沒有政治的走向,更沒有話語權的指向。一切都沒有指向的答案呈現給了觀眾。
黎肖嫻談粵語電影通俗劇的操作,以至吳子昆於「文字機器創作集」第6輯「象裡有象:通電作影」之《全情定位漂浮系統》(2018年9月1日開幕)的媒體分解遊戲 | notes by Linda Lai on melodrama’s nature and Kwan’s treatment in [G]Local Empathy System (opening 1 September 2018, curated by Lai), the first of a 3-exhibition series, “Cinema Expanding: Visualizing the Unseen,” the Writing Machine Collective 6th edition.
A visit to Gwangju Biennale alerted FPC member Lee Kai-chung to the possibilities of doing an artist’s residency in Seoul to study archiving practices for art, which he did and shared upon his return to HK in “Can’t Live Without.” 「這次駐場計劃是基於第一次在光州雙年展後到訪過MMCA作資料搜集的經驗出發的。那時其實並不知道有駐場計劃可以申請,只是純屬對一個藝術館的好奇…」
Several visitors — Evelyn Char, Yang Yeung and Eddie Cheung — have preserved precious impressions for Man Mei-to’s recent 3-week solo show “the Distance of Space” at Floating Projects.
A note on Live Animation Performance + Concert “Swire Classic Insights -70 Years of Polish Animation” from Winnie Yan.
FP writer/editor Winnie Yan reflects on her visit to the Taichung International Animation Festival (13-17 Oct 2017) and finds “concepts and theories” less learned in class. Traversing through works across generations and continents, she asks, “What is it that makes us willing to condense our life into a short string of images?” 忻慧妍問:是什麼令我們願意把自己的生命濃縮成一小段影像呢?
Stock-taking at Floating Projects. Model-mania. Please insert. 據點打開門,點子上倉。模型經。偉師傅起頭,歡迎插入。
On 22 July 2017, seven FPC members and friends participated in Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie’s 16mm workshop with two Bolex cameras. Using “reverse printing” method, we were able to “develop” two rolls of films made in the Shamshuipo neighborhood the same day and view the outcome at the end of the day with great excitement. […]
Linda Lai elaborates on a video art program she recently presented at the EXiS 2017 (Seoul) to map a trajectory of practices in contemporary video art in the Asia Pacific.