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, …
The Ventriloquists 19. on nonsense in Svankmajer’s Jabberwocky (1971) by Steven Tsang 有關「物件」的動畫，打開怪趣無釐頭之門，打開文明歷史規範的一些「真相」
An assembly line of human figures grinding human figures for food, dolls feed dolls, doll eats dolls. Ironing, flattering, being dressed, being cut up, being tamed… Beyond Svankmajer’s dramatization of carnivorous acts, Steven Tsang sees the politics of nonsense, which the animator structured against the paradigm of human civilization. The animator wants us to see differently, and asks a different sort of questions in following a narrative unique to his use of stop-motion animation. 看到喂小娃娃的大娃娃就知道是女的，看到舞動的水手裝就自動知道是男的。再看下去，人吃人，有血有肉的黑貓時不時推倒積木，一面是歷史砌圖，另一面是迷宮的路線…最終，它被鎖在籠裏動彈不得。屋子裡一個「人」也沒有，卻充滿了人類的活動。物件長年累月吸收了人類強加它們身上的「用途」、「價值」，也穿背著人類的規範，像鬼魅的模仿著我們的「正常」活動。曾俊良看到歷史、文明、性別的社會結構。能看到，因為看穿了動畫大師史文梅耶以物件為本的獨特敘事結構和跨媒想像。
Michael Leung / ON LAND 11: Internal Power 「在地」十一：內部能量，內化了的創傷
Prolonged and internalized trauma yields internal power, not so much hidden as unnameable emotions, but exteriorized as solidarity, against evacuation in the name of progress, and transcending national boundaries… Hong Kong, France. Wang Chau, Notre-Dame-des-Landes.
Michael Leung / Agriculture and pandemics: from indeterminacy to solidarity (ON LAND 10) 農耕與大流行 – 從不確定性到齊心團結 (「在地」十)
Agriculture and pandemics: from indeterminacy to solidarity — Would this summer be a ripe time to implement a dual power strategy? 農耕與大流行。這個暑假會是實踐雙重權力戰略的良機？
The Ventriloquists 03. On Švankmajer’s Jabberwocky (1971) by Harmanjeet Singh 「物件」變「東西」。現在進行式傳真。定格動畫。
On the eve of The Ventriloquists’ physical opening, … Adapting Ben Hjorth’s “Philosophies of Non-sense: Jan Svankmajer’s Jabberwocky”; Senses of Cinema, issue 71, 2014, Harmanjeet Singh pays special attention to Švankmajer’s object play.
SHIN Gyung Jin / Art and Power: Tracing the Figure of the Artist in Korean Art History (4) 藝術與權力 – 韓國藝術史中藝術家身份形象的遞變（四）
Nam June Paik (Paik Nam-June) represents Korean contemporary art, but only becoming a solid case in the 1980s, 34 years after he lived away from his home country. Artists and their fame are often appropriated to be subsisted to political agendas. The story remains, unveiling the story of globalization, what is missing, and what voices are never recorded, in the mainstream discourse of Korean art history? 白南準離開本家韓國34年。他的蜚聲國際把他「送回」南韓，成為1980年代及往後國內全球化策略下的國際級大節慶紅人。白南準的藝術地位和貢獻不可置疑。問題是，著眼於他這樣級數的藝術家的同時，我們失卻了甚麼？誰的主體性被泯滅？那些有關藝術的實存被滅聲？這不單是寫藝術史的人的問題，是每一個人如何存活與政治機器中要關注的。
SHIN Gyung Jin / Art and Power: Tracing the Figure of the Artist in Korean Art History (3) 藝術與權力 – 韓國藝術史中藝術家身份形象的遞變（三）
In response to continuous authoritarian governments, anti-traditionalist Monochrome Painting versus pro-social participatory Public Art were born. The irony is that dictatorship incited economic growth which subsequently created a new class of art consumers: art galleries were born, inciting a growing demand for new species art and younger artists of promise. 韓國南北割裂之後，獨裁政府的持續在藝壇導致兩種不同的反應。抽象藝術的出現以反傳統、反具象、反日本影響為目標；而民眾藝術則伴隨民主運動，把創作帶到街頭，強調藝術的社會參與的面向。同時，獨裁統治催生經濟，新的財富階級打開了藝廊的潮流，藝術商品投資化令藝術品種類擴大，發現新進藝術家的需要亦由此而起。
Michael Leung / ON LAND 08: Dream 「在地」八：夢
It’s a dream! Wuhan, Coronavirus, mum, art, Noam Chomsky. 夢就是這樣的。武漢 – 新冠狀肺炎 – 媽媽 – 藝術 – 語言學家及社會批判學者喬姆斯基。
SHIN Gyung Jin / Art and Power: Tracing the Figure of the Artist in Korean Art History (2) 藝術與權力 – 韓國藝術史中藝術家身份形象的遞變（二）
Korea’s 35-year long colonial history as Japanese occupied territory (1910-1945), followed by domination of the US and other powers which turned the country into the battlefield of a long Cold War, has every step of the way imprinted the legitimacy of art, thus also the relaxing and tightening of the circle of entitlement to artists. 2nd of a 4-part essay 繼朝鮮皇朝近二千年的「宮廷畫師」至深受中國宋明影響的「文人畫家」，辛庚珍進入一個歷史斷層，由日佔35年的殖民時期到戰後的冷戰時期韓國分裂為南北，藝術的存在價值以及藝術家入圈的合法性，看來都不是純粹的藝術問題。全文四部之二。
SHIN Gyung Jin / Art and Power: Tracing the Figure of the Artist in Korean Art History (1) 藝術與權力 – 韓國藝術史中藝術家身份形象的遞變（一）
Define an artist. This is no easy question. It could be more productive to change the question to “Who is an artist?” or “Who has proven him-herself to be an artist?” PhD candidate researcher Shin Gyung-jin adopts a discourse analysis approach to trace the different meanings and usage of “the artist” at specific moments of history. How is the idea of an artist produced? Regimes of knowledge are questions of power control. Her archaeology focuses on Korea, on and off in relation to Chinese art history. 博士候選人研究員辛庚珍受福柯的考古思維啟發，重回多個世紀的「現場」去重新凝視不同時代建構「藝術家」的論述和權力效應。藝術家的定義的問題，變為「誰身體力行符合了特定時空的標準藝術家？」又或…。全文分四次發表。
Michael Leung / ON LAND 07: Pandemic-Thinking 「在地」七：大流行的思維
What is “inter-disciplinary thinking”? Michael Leung crosses the threshold: what about econolandscapes and cultural virology (Rob Wallace), plant thinking (Michael Marder), multispecies perspectives (Anna Tsing) and so on, to culminate in what is called “pandemic-thinking”?…「跨界思考」不算新鮮，卻遠遠未達日常生活的廣泛應用。梁志剛超前一步，引述近年回應「人類紀」危機而出現的學者的論述，如植物思維、多／跨物種思維、經濟景觀、文化的流行擴散…等，構成大流行的思維。
