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. …
![Kel Lok / 那些玩具 Those Toys [“Toy as Medium” count-down]](https://fpchk.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/2016/11/Kel_04_16x9-468x328.jpg)
Kel Lok / 那些玩具 Those Toys [“Toy as Medium” count-down]
FP member Kel Lok tells the tales of “those swords,” “those soldiers,” “that house” and “that model,” which embody moments of his life, his temperaments and his persistence that are best presented as toys in TOY AS MEDIUM, opening 20 November 2016 at Floating Projects.
![WONG Fuk-kuen / 我跟彈珠人有一種緣份。We’ve got a connection… [“Toy as Medium” count-down…]](https://fpchk.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/2016/11/featureImage_cropped-468x328.jpg)
WONG Fuk-kuen / 我跟彈珠人有一種緣份。We’ve got a connection… [“Toy as Medium” count-down…]
FP member Wong Fuk-kuen’s long-lasting fascination with B-Daman finds way to his art practices today. What’s going to be “B-Daman art”?
Jess Lau / 玩具展 – 下雨天的城堡 A Castle for the Rainy Days: toy show “Toy as Medium”
FP member Kelvin Lam’s “castle on rainy days” and Jess Lau’s “pirates’ boat,” “extreme environments” and “ET arriving” mark many HK children’s fantasy play with space or the lack of it. To reproduce these childhood experiences in FP WIP opening 20 Nov 2016, what are they going to show us?
![CHEUK Wing-nam / Gundamzeta [玩具之間 “Toy as Medium” count-down]](https://fpchk.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/2016/11/DSCF5483R-468x328.jpg)
CHEUK Wing-nam / Gundamzeta [玩具之間 “Toy as Medium” count-down]
FP member Wing tells us her personal gendered history with toys. Meet Gundamzeta in FP’s upcoming show “toy as medium.”
Andio Lai / Toy as Medium: artistic passion, self expression and the circuits of cultural artifacts 玩具之間：（再）創造熱情、表述、聚疊…以外
A casual chat in a summer afternoon among 3 FP members ignited childhood passion and intellectual curiosity, leading to a toy show in November. “Wai and Kel’s model making involves intense concentration and techniques that parallel … art making,” Andio Lai discovers.
Evelyn Char / 走過泡菜大地（二）：韓國光州、1980…2016 Gwangju’s ACC: site of revolt transfigured
Evelyn Char explores South Korea’s biggest state-own Asia Culture Center, which archives art historical documents from various countries in Asia. She discovers that this new national monumental sits right on the former site of the 10-day long Gwuangju (Kwangju) Uprising in 1980 (aka May 18 Democratic Uprising, UNESCO), or Gwangju Democratization Movement.
Vicky Do / Space | power | IDENTITIES: a Review of the image exhibition, “What Do You Want For Tomorrow”
Photographer Vicky Do reviews “What Do You Want For Tomorrow” (2016.08.10-2016.09.26, HK Heritage Museum) curated by Wong Wo-bik and Stella Tang. She finds this 12-woman art event more than a photography show or one that tokenizes women.
WONG Fuk-kuen /《現在進行》一思再思 Present Continuous: still thinking…
Critique, review, critique, self-discovery, artistic experimentation, critique, articulation, self-discovery… Wong Fuk-kuen finds himself in this recurrent routine Floating Projects highly values. Extreme modes of artistic exploration of things in our physical world often push us (him) in the direction of science… Danger, Wong finds, is the unique interface he generates in his exploration.
Evelyn Char / 走過泡菜大地（一）：韓國光州及首爾的藝旅勾描，光州雙年展以外 Art in Gwangju and Seoul beyond the biennales
A deliberate dual emphasis on domestic artists and international stars, the care for documentation and criticism as regular agenda items, and growing experiments on alternative independent art-space models from within the art community… Evelyn Char notes her observation in a recent art tour to Gwangju and Seoul.
Hugo Yeung / “But art is ambiguous.”
Hugo Yeung accounts for what his first solo show, What Death Tells Me, tells him about cinema. Shuttling between sound, image and story, the drifting open-ended journey amounts to a narrative mode and experience afforded only by digital data and computational cinema.
