FP writer W.L. Lai asserts life worth living as he recalls HK students once upon a time
[FP EXHIBITION REVIEW) Josef Bares discusses Lee Kai-chung’s strategy of rendering public records to “becoming private,” “expressing some things and feelings too nuanced to be expressed in words.”
[FP EXHIBITION REVIEW] Josef Bares makes sense of an assemblage of cables and switches in Wong Chun-hoi’s solo show — electricity personified…
“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
***This article is the author’s personal response to a Taiwan-made documentary <生命的圓圈> (Circle of Life) by 許慧如 about a teenage single mother. 隨風盤旋的風箏,會飛向何處?
These manifestos are to accompany the 18 works in the Concrete Videos program to be screened at Floating Projects, 4:00-6:00pm, 9 January 2016, produced and curated by Linda Lai. +The project described here was partially supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No. 9042111 […]
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
This is a scene captured on camera some time around 18th July, 2012, in an industrial building in Kwai Chung. A few of us were in the studio of Fiona Lee’s (Left 1) that day. She was preparing her light bulb sound performance <<delight>> for an upcoming exhibition in Korea. We went there to […]
FP writer W.L. Lai walks through Wanchai of the 1970s & 1980s in 2016… Gentrification and more… 灣仔 / 黎偉亮
「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。