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. …
Edwin Lo / 存在於空氣與時間中的現在進行式文庫 Archival Records by Cedric Maridet, a review
Edwin Lo reviewed Cedric Maridet's site-specific spatialized sound installatiopn at the Asia Art Archive, 2009.11 to 2010.05.
Kimburley Choi / Walking fields & the critique of flâneuse – preview notes #6 for FPC’s 1st exhibition
Kimburley Choi's reading of Linda Lai's video tale of cities… Trespassing World Cities 《搖擺過路人》(2005) is a composite of Linda Lai’s tourist-video-style travelogues. Choi proposes the need to inscribe the term "flâneuse" to highlight a gender dimension that "flaneur" may slight.
Linda Lai / Minor histories… the poetic and the discursive / preview notes #5 for FPC’s 1st exhibition
– Linda C.H. Lai Voices Seen, Images Heard (2009), which will be shown for the first time in Hong Kong, tonight at FPC’s inauguration, has been shown in two different festivals in April, 2010. I have been most enlightened by the various ways audience, critics and curators communicated back to me about my work. […]
Jolene Mok / “Pianovel” – learning to learn and how I learned / preview notes #4 for FPC’s 1st exhibition
Jolene Mok What to learn? What not to learn? We have to learn how to learn. What if we don’t want to learn but, still, we have to learn? Do we learn if we don’t want to learn?
CHEUNG Yu-tsz / It’s dinner time — family matters before the dinner table / preview notes #3 for FPC’s 1st exhibition
In 喫飯啦 ﹣餐桌前的家, Cheung Yu-tsz searches through his childhood memories. Besides roaming around with her buddy friends, she finds dinner with her family leaving the strongest impressions. ...
Lilian Fu / Remembering, Recollecting, Animating, Enlivening… – preview notes #2 for FPC’s 1st exhibition
"Imagining My Grandmother” (Lilian Fu / 2010 / video-animation) 記起、回顧、賦形、喚生… To Lilian Fu , in many ways, animation and recollection have strong affinities and may form the most interesting assemblages.
HO Yue-jin / 靜音車廂與單車搖滾 Resisting in broadcast-free train cars, or intervening with roaming sounds?
Yuejin Ho contemplates on his aural and visual experience in the urban space of Hong Kong and wonders if we should just fall numb to what could be oppressive to our senses. ...
Linda Lai / Simplicity of form, economy of presentation, tenacity of concept – preview notes #1 for FPC’s 1st exhibition
至微的美學經濟／極盡的概念發揮 "Minimum aesthetic economy, maximum conceptual articulation." Linda Lai account for the count-down fortnight to FPC's inauguration exhibition (opening May 22).
Song Zheng / 我該如何讓你明白 L’avventura: Autistic Dialogues
Song Zheng makes sense of Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni's L’avventura [The Adventure 奇遇] (1960 / Italy / 143 min / b&w / 1:78). What is forgiveness? Does it always bring peace?
Jolene Mok / An ‘Aftermath’… after Para/Site brought Vito Acconci and Ai Weiwei to dialogue in Hong Kong
— lenelenejo What if one day you run into renowned contemporary artist Vito Acconci on a random street in the city where you live, what then? Option A: Get on to greet Acconci and introduce yourself. Option B: Follow Acconci until he enters a building or a private place, just like how he followed strangers on the streets […]
