Category: Seriously Speaking 大聲發表
心裡無雲，都總可以推理治情，開拓感知。水中有明鏡，明鏡在心中。又或者，有些事情你總是咬著不放。You deserve to be heard. Features, expository and argumentative pieces, in-depth commentary and research-based writing… … Our mind takes forms — thought paths, a statue, a floating object, a system of tales, …
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.
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.
Winnie Yan / 聲音觀察誌 Observing sounds…
Winnie Yan recounts her stagger towards appreciating sound-making that encourages the immediacy of exchange versus music for trained ears… 忻慧妍的聲音觀察誌 － 如何一步一步挨近聲音藝術。
Linda Lai / A constellation with dotted connectivity: why I made a dispersive monument
To make a monument that does not monumentalize… Linda Lai explains her conception of “Mnemonic Archiving” in which 19 new objects embody her videography to date at Pearl Lam Galleries-Singapore, 7 May – 3 July 2016.
LAI Wai-leung / 生有可戀: 香港的學生，曾經這樣過活的。Life worth living: HK students once upon a time
FP writer W.L. Lai asserts life worth living as he recalls HK students once upon a time
LAI Wai-leung / 這一夜，看不到黎明 This night, no dawn…
“This night, no dawn…,” FP writer W.L. Lai ruminates and asks, “What was it that took these young people to the street on a day when they could have been drinking, eating and fun-making?” 這一夜，看不到黎明 ／ 黎偉亮
WONG Chun-hoi /《十年》，二十日後感 Ten Years
Wong Chun-hoi pins down his critical parameters for the highly acclaimed “Ten Years” series … 《十年》，二十日後感 ／ 王鎮海
LAI Wai-leung / Wanchai 灣仔
FP writer W.L. Lai walks through Wanchai of the 1970s & 1980s in 2016… Gentrification and more… 灣仔 ／ 黎偉亮
Winnie Yan / 親愛的朋友呀你在想什麼
「其實我不明白甚麼是好的藝術，那些大師的作品嘛，很多地方都看不懂。」她說。大概是因為同學對她的作品都持有頗兩極的意見，她一下子招架不住了，需要一個「結論」。 每當看到意念非常前衛又或是視覺上不甚麼討好的作品，我總會開玩笑般跟朋友說：「但願我一生也看不懂藝術。」。其實無論怎樣努力，我都一定不會懂藝術的。可 是，即使我能擁有超能力，可以一夜間明白藝術也好，我也寧願它是本永遠也翻不完的書。看完一本耐人尋味的書，心裏總會有一點難纏的空洞。
LAI Wai-leung / 方興未艾的戰爭：創意／文化成產業 Creativity/culture turned industry, a brewing battle
[source of banner image: http://www.artsportagecounty.org/our-initiatives/creative-economy-inventory-project/] 『創意產業』，一個看似原創的名詞，初聽到時，口中唸著唸著，總有種怪怪的欠缺自然的感覺，感覺何來?我嘗試用普通常識、常人角度對這複合名詞說出常人一般的聯想。 創意：純大腦運作。建基於固有知識，源於生活並帶有改善生活的功能；亦可天馬行空，作前人之未作，純粹為解放固有觀念或思想。兩者皆以 social innovation為目的。 產業：牽涉土地運用、人力資源、融資、成本控制，旨在以最低成本謀取最高回報並尋求不斷的利潤增長。 啊…….. 彷然大悟! 這兩種東西之間原來存在著根本上的矛盾，硬把它們拉一起，甚至產生邏輯上的謬誤。 規劃化後的『創意產業』論述可又另一回事。
