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, …
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。
LAI Wai-leung / 這裏 Here (at Floating Projects)
FP writer, manager and barista Wai-leung Lai speaks of his 3-month experience at Floating Projects as a non-artist. 「據點」作者、場地經理、咖啡師黎偉亮從藝術圈局外人的觀點談「據點」籌備至開幕的三個月的所見所聞。
Winnie Yan / 那管只淨下我一人站在白牆前拿著紙筆咬手指 – 記於藝評與創作中的浮遊
廢紙箱又被堆滿了。「我寫不到。」反反覆覆地翻閱自己看Birdman後寫下的筆記，總覺得無論怎麼寫也是徒勞無功，寫出一段又一段自相矛盾的段落。儘管讀過Raymond Carver的書，察覺到當中那如從未停止拍攝的鏡頭，鼓聲、空間處理等諸如此類的技術細節，但即使我把這些元素都歸納總結好，so what? 那就可以令人感受到我在觀賞時得到的那種莫名奇妙的感覺嗎？我覺得那部電戲需要去看，去自我感受，既然我寫不出那種令人閱後有立即要去一看究竟的衝動，自己的討論又可能只停留在技巧的層面周旋的話，這就像自打嘴巴，告訴人家自己沒認真地去思考一些電影想引申的其他訊息。
Lilian Fu / Animating subjective facts: The reasons and methodologies of exploiting animation in documentaries.(Part 3)
written by Lilian Fu 2013 ** this version is slightly amended for internet publication. Various reasons and methodologies in animation documentary CASE STUDIES Silence (1998/Sylvie Bringas and Orly Yadin) Silence has an alternative approach as a documentary which narrates a damaged orphan’s childhood against the background of the Holocaust during Second World War. It proposes comprehensive strategies […]
Lilian Fu / Animating subjective facts: The reasons and methodologies of exploiting animation in documentaries.(Part 2)
written by Lilian Fu 2013 ** this version is slightly amended for internet publication. Various reasons and methodologies in animation documentary CASE STUDIES Animation is an art, a stance, a record of psychological and emotional memory, a technique, a concept. ~ Paul Well (1) Animation, like paintings and drawings, was once conceived as a pale representation of […]
