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. …
Ventriloquists 2021 / 06-Fairy Tale Pictograms 腹語系之六：神話仙圖
誰需要童話、仙境？成年人。童話用美麗的外貌包裝著似謊話非謊話又不能盡言的現實碎片。五個作品，仙境是引入，內部內裡又一個世界。圖像解構，就是為了把外貌與內涵的勾連表達出來。Fairy tales are not just for children, nor are animation pictures. The works in this post seek to reveal appearances of fairy tale that hide the flip side of magic which could be horror.
Ventriloquists 2021 / 05-Dream Narratives 腹語系之五：夢敘事
Dreams are a place for the human brain’s sub- and unconscious; they are a space beyond the boundaries of reality and the everyday, but are the vibrant forces impregnating several works in The Ventriloquists 2, as Elizabeth Biek introduces them. 「夢」是我們的潛意識和下意識的彰顯，繪形繪聲，卻與現實和日常不同領域。這裡所介紹的幾個「腹語系」作品看來甚為日常，夢的流量卻溢滿、迴旋。
Ventriloquists 2021 / 04-Complex Narrative Pictograms 腹語系之四：「圖像資訊分析」，繁複世界繁而不雜
Six more works from The Ventriloquists II exhibition (2021.08.18-09.13), shows two kinds of pictograms that interpret existing moving image works: those that unravel complexity, and those that detail the process, Sofya Anatova observes.
Ventriloquists 2021 / 03-Cut-up moving images: how I see the world 腹語系之三：「拼貼」，我這樣看世界
Collage and montage are well known genres in art, impregnated with subversion and revisionist intentions by playing with established cultural meanings; and the latter highlights not only clashes of images, but also juxtaposition, sequential ordering and more, calling our awareness to our existence as temporal and spatial beings. and art beyond making copies of our world. A few serious exercises of such intentions… 拼貼（單幅圖像）和蒙太奇方法有別，語法上、態度上、意識的探索上，都具創新的意向。拼貼顛覆文化符號的意義；蒙太奇說我們的存在是時間的存在、空間的存在以至創造。幾個有這種視野的小習作…
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。
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。
