Category: Personally Speaking 私物語
發明你的字句，操練你的發聲，給未有名字的起個名，為碎片堆築一條路。Share it if we deserve it: thoughts on living and being, poetry, automatic writing… silences, speechlessness, noise, soundings… fragmentary thoughts in search of a path, elliptical sentiments, the unspeakable…
![Andio Lai / 4WD fragments 四驅的鎖碎記憶 [“Toy as Medium” count-down]](https://fpchk.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.comnull)
Andio Lai / 4WD fragments 四驅的鎖碎記憶 [“Toy as Medium” count-down]
FP member Andio Lai, Co-curator of “Toy as Medium” (opening 20 Nov 2016), recalls the meandering trail of his childhood events, code-named “Cyclone Magnum.”
![Lai Wai-leung / Military Miniature, My Toy, My Medium: A Maker’s Journal 軍事模型，我的媒體 ，我的玩具：玩家日誌 [“Toy as Medium” count-down]](https://fpchk.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/2016/11/Model-making02_RT-468x328.jpg)
Lai Wai-leung / Military Miniature, My Toy, My Medium: A Maker’s Journal 軍事模型，我的媒體 ，我的玩具：玩家日誌 [“Toy as Medium” count-down]
FP member Wai traces the making of his 15 pieces at “Toy as Medium,” revealing the mind of a devoted miniature maker whose obsession has a rational dimension. He finally came back to his “craft” after 35 years of no model-making.
![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?
![LAI Wai-leung / Long Time no see: TAMIYA-Tiger 1 再度重遇「你」: 田宮「虎一」戰車 [玩具之間 “Toy as Medium” count-down]](https://fpchk.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/2016/11/Wai_tigerin-snow-468x328.jpg)
LAI Wai-leung / Long Time no see: TAMIYA-Tiger 1 再度重遇「你」: 田宮「虎一」戰車 [玩具之間 “Toy as Medium” count-down]
FP Manager Wai crafted Tiger I in 2016 from a Tamiya model kit he aspired to have but couldn’t as a kid. Time changes many things. What does his lasting zeal tell us about the forgettable yet unforgotten of growing up in Hong Kong?
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.
Allison H. / Ocean Emotion #3: “Little Sound”
Ocean Emotion is Taipei-based young artist Allison H.‘s contribution to the Floating Teatime. Each of her poems about her everyday encounters will be matched with one image from her own personal photography archive. … “Little Sound” probes into living things in her kitchen… 2016.09.21
Winnie Yan / 距離的温度 The Temperature of Distance
Some works are to be sensed rather than comprehended… Winnie Yan finds a natural connection with Jess Lau and Kin-choi Lam’s duet — with their art pieces as much as the two individuals. …能找到兩位同伴會默默地感受一場雨…絕不容易。
