日頭彌留 | Don't Shoot the Messenger
何倩彤首次個展
First Solo Exhibition of Ho Sin Tung
漢雅軒畫廊
Hanart TZ Gallery
7 - 31 Dec 2010
「展覽源自一個日常的場景：想見一個人，但那人已經不在。不論是死別還是生離，都日復一日地遙遠非常。
今次繪畫的對象，有早逝的演員，有書本裡死去的人，有天災戰患裡罹難的眾人。
曾經他們或者成為容器，承載過切身的喪失經驗，但今天他們不但替我命名那些不能宣之於口的名字，他們自己也成為哀悼本身。」---何倩彤，2010
"An exhibition inspired by one of life's common situations: the desire to see some one, but that person is nowhere around. No matter whether they've been taken by death or, though alive, have simply moved on, they remain forever distant. The subjects of my painting include actors who died young, fictional characters who perish in novels, and all those who have been killed by natural disaster or on the battlefield. Perhaps they once carried within them the grief of personal loss, but today they are not only my substitute for those whose names will never be spoken, they themselves have become the subject of mourning." ---Ho Sin Tung, 2010
今次繪畫的對象，有早逝的演員，有書本裡死去的人，有天災戰患裡罹難的眾人。
曾經他們或者成為容器，承載過切身的喪失經驗，但今天他們不但替我命名那些不能宣之於口的名字，他們自己也成為哀悼本身。」---何倩彤，2010
"An exhibition inspired by one of life's common situations: the desire to see some one, but that person is nowhere around. No matter whether they've been taken by death or, though alive, have simply moved on, they remain forever distant. The subjects of my painting include actors who died young, fictional characters who perish in novels, and all those who have been killed by natural disaster or on the battlefield. Perhaps they once carried within them the grief of personal loss, but today they are not only my substitute for those whose names will never be spoken, they themselves have become the subject of mourning." ---Ho Sin Tung, 2010
有你無我 | You are Here, I am Not
呂振光：有你無我 從何兆基到鄺鎮禧
Lui Chun Kwong: You are Here, I am Not - From Ho Siu Kei to Kong Chun Hei
觀塘奧沙畫廊
Osage Kwun Tong
19 Sep - 7 Nov 2010
策展人：潘蔚然
參展藝術家：
萱寧，區凱琳，區華欣，阿三，陳軒蒨，陳曉筠，陳素珊，鄭家榆，鄭淑宜，張耀華，張君恆，張愷棋，蔡鈺娟，周 淑芬，周俊輝，周煦卓，朱卓慧，覃偉業，鍾靜雯，霍秀霞，霍采兒，何兆基，何文聰，何遠良，何倩彤，何寶容，許翠紅，洪強，高少康，高倩彤，鄺鎮禧，江康 泉，鄺志偉，江耀榮，關尚智，郭佩齡，鄺美倫，賴宛珊，黎卓華，賴雅如，林東鵬，林天惠，林嵐，林玉蓮，林曉東，林耀謙，林瑩瑩，劉星雨，劉彥韜，劉建 華，羅玉梅，李傑，李國泉，李可穎，李繼忠，李俊峰，梁嘉賢，梁靜雯，梁文豪，梁志慧，梁御東，梁綺明，梁志和，李尤猛，李天倫，李紫蘭，凌展騰，盧君 賜，勞麗麗，呂振光，呂朗婷，馬智恆，文鳳儀，巫凯儀，莫一新，吳珈蔚，吳雪瑩，吳家心，吳鋌灝，魏永康，白雙全，Samuel Adam Swope，石明慧，冼紈，冼雍博，蘇綽玲，司徒凱玲，鄧國騫，鄧民亮，鄧紹南，杜綺明，湯映彤，曾翠薇，曾建華，謝炎安，謝淑婷，謝振聲，謝小華，徐惠 玲，董永康，尹麗娟，黃慧妍，黃志恆，王天仁，黃照達，王宗美，黃國沛，黃進曦，黃倩怡，活化廳，胡偉寬，邱小菲，楊宇靈，楊詠嘉，嚴瑞芳，葉小卡，葉麗 嘉，葉麗雯，余皓文，元潔心
「昔日我引你入門，今日你帶我出門」
師生之間的信賴關愛顛覆背叛，如此種種構成師生間千絲萬縷的關係。在不同的師生關係中，藝術的老師與學生，二者的期許與衝突尤其深刻。藝術是關乎個人這個說法相信一般人都會認同，師生間滲雜「你與我」的關係，在各自的創作軌跡中產生微妙的變化。《有 你 ∙ 無我》以呂振光的作品為骨幹，展出百多位本地藝術家的作品。呂氏在香港中文大學藝術系任教二十餘年，應邀參展藝術家全部為中大藝術系畢業生。昨日老師與學 生的交往，今日藝術家與藝術家的共同實踐，要脫離自己一貫的創作模式，進入他人的藝術思路，對於每一位參展藝術家而言，也是對自身創作的審視。
Curator: Vivian POON
Artists:
AMA, AU Hoi Lam, AU Wah Yan, CHAN Sai Lok, Cindy CHAN, Casper CHAN, CHAN Sushan, CHENG Ka Yue, Eastman CHENG, CHEUNG Yiu Wah, Kelvin CHEUNG, CHEUNG Hoi Ki, CHOI Yuk Kuen, Josephine CHOW Suk Fan, CHOW Chun Fai, Cheryl CHOW, Margaret CHU, CHUM Wai Yip, Gwen CHUNG, FOK Sau Ha, Joyce FOK, HO Siu Kee, Homan HO, HO Yuen Leung, HO Sin Tung, Carmen HO, HUI Chui Hung, HUNG Keung, KO Hong, Kitty KO, KONG Chun Hei, KONG Kee, KONG Chi Wai, KONG Yiu Wing, KWAN Sheung Chi, KWOK Pui Ning, KWONG Mei Lun, Elise LAI, Sarah LAI, Alice LAI, LAM Tung Pang, Cass LAM, Jaffa LAM, LAM Yuk Lin, LAM Hiu Tung, LAM Yiu Him, Carrie LAM, Alannala LAU, LAU Yin To, LAU Kin Wah, LAW Yuk Mui , LEE Kit, Woody LEE, Michelle LEE, LEE Kai Chung, LEE Chun Fung, LEUNG Ka Yin, Castaly LEUNG Ching Man, Stephen LEUNG, LEUNG Chi Wai, LEUNG Yu Tung, LEUNG Yee Ming, LEUNG Chi Wo, LI Yau Mang, Otto LI, Jessica LI, Parry LING, LO Kwan Chi, Natalie LO, LUI Chun Kwong, LUI Long Ting, MA Chi Hang, MAN Fung Yi, Vinci MO, MOK Yat San, Gloria NG, Shirley NG, NG Ka Sum, Roy NG, NGAI Wing Hong, PAK Sheung Chuen, Samuel Adam SWOPE, Zoe SHEK, SIN Yuen, SIN Yung Pok, Zon SO, Emily SZETO, TANG Kwok Hin, Raymond TANG, TANG Siu Nam, TO Yee Ming, TONG Ying Tung, TSANG Chui Mei, TSANG Kin Wah, TSE Yim On, Sara TSE, TSE Chun Sing, Florie TSE, TSUI Wai Ling, TUNG Wing Hong, Annie WAN Lai Kuen, WONG Wai Yin, Sara WONG, WONG Tin Yan, Justin WONG, WONG Chung Mei, WONG Kwok Pui, Stephen WONG, Sindy WONG, Woofer Tan, Gladys WU, Sylvia YAU, Yolanda YEUNG, Olivia YEUNG, YIM Sui Fong, Karr YIP Siu Ka, Rebecca YIP, YIP Lai Man, Queenie YU, YUEN Kit Sum
"I led you in yesterday, you lead me out today."
Issues of reliance, solicitude, subversion, and treachery underscore the complexity of a productive and meaningful relationship between teacher and student. In different teacher-student relationships, the expectation and conflict between art educators and their students are especially profound. While most will agree that art is about individuality, the insertion of the teacher-student dynamic into the relationship between ‘You’ and ‘I’ complicates it and results in subtle transformations to their artistic trajectories.
Lui Chun Kwong’s artworks serve as the backbone of You Are Here, I Am Not. The exhibition consists of works by more than 100 Hong Kong artists. All the participating artists are graduates of the Fine Arts Department at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where Lui taught for more than twenty years. Through this fellowship of past teacher-student relations and their collaboration as artists in the present, this exhibition will act as a platform to differentiate from their usual mode of thinking and working, and will also serve to examine the artistic practices of each artist in the exhibition.
Lui Chun Kwong (b. 1956) attended art courses under the Department of Extra-mural Studies at The University of Hong Kong and The Chinese University of Hong Kong before he studied in the Fine Arts Department of the National Taiwan Normal University. He joined the Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1985 and further gained an MA degree from Goldsmiths College, under the University of London in 1994. He also founded The Hong Kong Modern Art Society of Watercolours with his fellow artists in 1988 and chaired the society for the first three years. Between 1998 and 2002, he served as the Chairman of the Hong Kong Visual Arts Society. His recent exhibitions include Legacy and Creations: Ink Art vs Ink Art at the Shanghai Art Museum (2010) and Beyond the Image: Liang Quan, Lui Chun Kwong, Yan Shan Chun at Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong (2009). He is currently an honorary museum advisor to the Hong Kong Leisure and Cultural Services Department.
參展藝術家：
萱寧，區凱琳，區華欣，阿三，陳軒蒨，陳曉筠，陳素珊，鄭家榆，鄭淑宜，張耀華，張君恆，張愷棋，蔡鈺娟，周 淑芬，周俊輝，周煦卓，朱卓慧，覃偉業，鍾靜雯，霍秀霞，霍采兒，何兆基，何文聰，何遠良，何倩彤，何寶容，許翠紅，洪強，高少康，高倩彤，鄺鎮禧，江康 泉，鄺志偉，江耀榮，關尚智，郭佩齡，鄺美倫，賴宛珊，黎卓華，賴雅如，林東鵬，林天惠，林嵐，林玉蓮，林曉東，林耀謙，林瑩瑩，劉星雨，劉彥韜，劉建 華，羅玉梅，李傑，李國泉，李可穎，李繼忠，李俊峰，梁嘉賢，梁靜雯，梁文豪，梁志慧，梁御東，梁綺明，梁志和，李尤猛，李天倫，李紫蘭，凌展騰，盧君 賜，勞麗麗，呂振光，呂朗婷，馬智恆，文鳳儀，巫凯儀，莫一新，吳珈蔚，吳雪瑩，吳家心，吳鋌灝，魏永康，白雙全，Samuel Adam Swope，石明慧，冼紈，冼雍博，蘇綽玲，司徒凱玲，鄧國騫，鄧民亮，鄧紹南，杜綺明，湯映彤，曾翠薇，曾建華，謝炎安，謝淑婷，謝振聲，謝小華，徐惠 玲，董永康，尹麗娟，黃慧妍，黃志恆，王天仁，黃照達，王宗美，黃國沛，黃進曦，黃倩怡，活化廳，胡偉寬，邱小菲，楊宇靈，楊詠嘉，嚴瑞芳，葉小卡，葉麗 嘉，葉麗雯，余皓文，元潔心
「昔日我引你入門，今日你帶我出門」
師生之間的信賴關愛顛覆背叛，如此種種構成師生間千絲萬縷的關係。在不同的師生關係中，藝術的老師與學生，二者的期許與衝突尤其深刻。藝術是關乎個人這個說法相信一般人都會認同，師生間滲雜「你與我」的關係，在各自的創作軌跡中產生微妙的變化。《有 你 ∙ 無我》以呂振光的作品為骨幹，展出百多位本地藝術家的作品。呂氏在香港中文大學藝術系任教二十餘年，應邀參展藝術家全部為中大藝術系畢業生。昨日老師與學 生的交往，今日藝術家與藝術家的共同實踐，要脫離自己一貫的創作模式，進入他人的藝術思路，對於每一位參展藝術家而言，也是對自身創作的審視。
Curator: Vivian POON
Artists:
AMA, AU Hoi Lam, AU Wah Yan, CHAN Sai Lok, Cindy CHAN, Casper CHAN, CHAN Sushan, CHENG Ka Yue, Eastman CHENG, CHEUNG Yiu Wah, Kelvin CHEUNG, CHEUNG Hoi Ki, CHOI Yuk Kuen, Josephine CHOW Suk Fan, CHOW Chun Fai, Cheryl CHOW, Margaret CHU, CHUM Wai Yip, Gwen CHUNG, FOK Sau Ha, Joyce FOK, HO Siu Kee, Homan HO, HO Yuen Leung, HO Sin Tung, Carmen HO, HUI Chui Hung, HUNG Keung, KO Hong, Kitty KO, KONG Chun Hei, KONG Kee, KONG Chi Wai, KONG Yiu Wing, KWAN Sheung Chi, KWOK Pui Ning, KWONG Mei Lun, Elise LAI, Sarah LAI, Alice LAI, LAM Tung Pang, Cass LAM, Jaffa LAM, LAM Yuk Lin, LAM Hiu Tung, LAM Yiu Him, Carrie LAM, Alannala LAU, LAU Yin To, LAU Kin Wah, LAW Yuk Mui , LEE Kit, Woody LEE, Michelle LEE, LEE Kai Chung, LEE Chun Fung, LEUNG Ka Yin, Castaly LEUNG Ching Man, Stephen LEUNG, LEUNG Chi Wai, LEUNG Yu Tung, LEUNG Yee Ming, LEUNG Chi Wo, LI Yau Mang, Otto LI, Jessica LI, Parry LING, LO Kwan Chi, Natalie LO, LUI Chun Kwong, LUI Long Ting, MA Chi Hang, MAN Fung Yi, Vinci MO, MOK Yat San, Gloria NG, Shirley NG, NG Ka Sum, Roy NG, NGAI Wing Hong, PAK Sheung Chuen, Samuel Adam SWOPE, Zoe SHEK, SIN Yuen, SIN Yung Pok, Zon SO, Emily SZETO, TANG Kwok Hin, Raymond TANG, TANG Siu Nam, TO Yee Ming, TONG Ying Tung, TSANG Chui Mei, TSANG Kin Wah, TSE Yim On, Sara TSE, TSE Chun Sing, Florie TSE, TSUI Wai Ling, TUNG Wing Hong, Annie WAN Lai Kuen, WONG Wai Yin, Sara WONG, WONG Tin Yan, Justin WONG, WONG Chung Mei, WONG Kwok Pui, Stephen WONG, Sindy WONG, Woofer Tan, Gladys WU, Sylvia YAU, Yolanda YEUNG, Olivia YEUNG, YIM Sui Fong, Karr YIP Siu Ka, Rebecca YIP, YIP Lai Man, Queenie YU, YUEN Kit Sum
"I led you in yesterday, you lead me out today."
Issues of reliance, solicitude, subversion, and treachery underscore the complexity of a productive and meaningful relationship between teacher and student. In different teacher-student relationships, the expectation and conflict between art educators and their students are especially profound. While most will agree that art is about individuality, the insertion of the teacher-student dynamic into the relationship between ‘You’ and ‘I’ complicates it and results in subtle transformations to their artistic trajectories.
Lui Chun Kwong’s artworks serve as the backbone of You Are Here, I Am Not. The exhibition consists of works by more than 100 Hong Kong artists. All the participating artists are graduates of the Fine Arts Department at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where Lui taught for more than twenty years. Through this fellowship of past teacher-student relations and their collaboration as artists in the present, this exhibition will act as a platform to differentiate from their usual mode of thinking and working, and will also serve to examine the artistic practices of each artist in the exhibition.
Lui Chun Kwong (b. 1956) attended art courses under the Department of Extra-mural Studies at The University of Hong Kong and The Chinese University of Hong Kong before he studied in the Fine Arts Department of the National Taiwan Normal University. He joined the Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1985 and further gained an MA degree from Goldsmiths College, under the University of London in 1994. He also founded The Hong Kong Modern Art Society of Watercolours with his fellow artists in 1988 and chaired the society for the first three years. Between 1998 and 2002, he served as the Chairman of the Hong Kong Visual Arts Society. His recent exhibitions include Legacy and Creations: Ink Art vs Ink Art at the Shanghai Art Museum (2010) and Beyond the Image: Liang Quan, Lui Chun Kwong, Yan Shan Chun at Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong (2009). He is currently an honorary museum advisor to the Hong Kong Leisure and Cultural Services Department.
對畫：臺北 | Drawing Out Conversation: Taipei
台北南海藝廊
Nanhai Gallery, Taipei
2010.06.20 - 2010.07.24
策展：陳玲娜 Curator
參展：江元皓 Iuan-Hau CHIANG（臺灣／Taiwan）
簡俊成 Chun-Cheng CHIEN（臺灣／Taiwan）
劉文瑄 Mia Wen-Hsuan LIU（臺灣／Taiwan）
邵樂人 Larry SHAO（臺灣／Taiwan）
何倩彤 Sin-Tung HO（香港／Hong Kong）
曾凱群 Kai-Qun CHUN（新加坡／Singapore）
邱慧強 Huey-Chian KHIEW（新加坡／Singapore）
唐大霧 Da-Wu TANG（新加坡／Singapore）
陳玲娜 Ling-Nah TANG（新加坡／Singapore）
Minette Lee MANGAHAS（美國／U.S.A.）
開幕：06.20 Sun. 14:00 Opening
座談：06.20 Sun. 16:00 Artists' Talk
來賓：黃海鳴，國立臺北教育大學文化產業學系主任
Guests-of-Honour: Hai-Ming HUANG, Director,
Department of Culture Industry, National Taipei University of Education
何謂繪畫？甚麼又是畫作？為什麼藝術家還在畫畫、還在思考繪畫的意義？
在本展覽中，藝術家不只是把繪畫視為表達情感、概念的媒介，更誓言表現藝術家與繪畫之間的多重關係。繪畫是靈感的泉源，是思考的工具，也可以是透過雕塑、動畫、表演和裝置等創作媒介來重新加以詮釋。
本展覽《對畫：臺北》延續了 2008 年在新加坡 FOST Gallery 所舉辦的《對畫》，2009年在香港舉辦的《對畫：香港角》。此次轉換場地至臺北展出，除了期望透過藝術家的作品，探討當代『畫』，也希望各國藝術家能進行交流與觀眾『對話』。因此，展覽期間會舉辦藝術家講座和工作坊。
What is drawing? What is a drawing? Why do artists still make or think about drawing?
Beyond presenting drawings as a primary medium of expression, this exhibition explores artists’ multi-relationships with drawing as a muse, a thinking tool or a subject to be revisited in other art forms such as sculpture, animation, performance and installation.
Drawing Out Conversations was first presented at FOST Gallery, Singapore, in 2008, and then in Hong Kong in 2009 as Drawing Out Conversations: Hong Kong Leg. Now in Taipei, it continues to explore what contemporary drawing encompasses, and hopes to encourage dialogues among artists and audience. Thus, there will be artists’ talks and workshops during the exhibition period.
展覽相關網站 Website:
www.drawingoutconversations.com/taipei/
查詢 Contact:
陳玲娜 Ling-Nah TANG
activatedcstudio@gmail.com
主辦單位 Main Organizer：
炭索工作室 activated C studio
協辦單位 Co-organizer:
國立臺北教育大學 南海藝廊 Nanhai Gallery National Taipei University of Education
資助單位 Supporters：
新加坡國家藝術理事會 National Arts Council Singapore
新加坡國際基金會 Singapore International Foundation
在本展覽中，藝術家不只是把繪畫視為表達情感、概念的媒介，更誓言表現藝術家與繪畫之間的多重關係。繪畫是靈感的泉源，是思考的工具，也可以是透過雕塑、動畫、表演和裝置等創作媒介來重新加以詮釋。
本展覽《對畫：臺北》延續了 2008 年在新加坡 FOST Gallery 所舉辦的《對畫》，2009年在香港舉辦的《對畫：香港角》。此次轉換場地至臺北展出，除了期望透過藝術家的作品，探討當代『畫』，也希望各國藝術家能進行交流與觀眾『對話』。因此，展覽期間會舉辦藝術家講座和工作坊。
What is drawing? What is a drawing? Why do artists still make or think about drawing?
Beyond presenting drawings as a primary medium of expression, this exhibition explores artists’ multi-relationships with drawing as a muse, a thinking tool or a subject to be revisited in other art forms such as sculpture, animation, performance and installation.
Drawing Out Conversations was first presented at FOST Gallery, Singapore, in 2008, and then in Hong Kong in 2009 as Drawing Out Conversations: Hong Kong Leg. Now in Taipei, it continues to explore what contemporary drawing encompasses, and hopes to encourage dialogues among artists and audience. Thus, there will be artists’ talks and workshops during the exhibition period.
展覽相關網站 Website:
www.drawingoutconversations.com/taipei/
查詢 Contact:
陳玲娜 Ling-Nah TANG
activatedcstudio@gmail.com
主辦單位 Main Organizer：
炭索工作室 activated C studio
協辦單位 Co-organizer:
國立臺北教育大學 南海藝廊 Nanhai Gallery National Taipei University of Education
資助單位 Supporters：
新加坡國家藝術理事會 National Arts Council Singapore
新加坡國際基金會 Singapore International Foundation
民間地圖志 | Shifting Topography
HANART SQUARE，香港葵涌 Kwai Chung, Hong Kong
2010.5.28 - 2011.6.30
參展藝術家 / Participating artists
周俊輝 Chow Chun-fai / 何倩彤 Ho Sin-tung / 何兆基 Ho Siu-kee / 林東鵬 Lam Tung-pang / 劉學成 Lau Hok-shing, Hanison / 李鴻輝 Michael Lee / 梁志和 Leung Chi-wo / 梁巨廷 Leung Kui-ting / 黃琮瑜 Wong Chung-yu / 王無邪 Wucius Wong
民間地圖志
張頌仁，2010
香 港人對方位、地形、佈局等空間觀念得天獨厚，富於想象。此無它，這裡無論上班賦閒，香港人的談資都不離地產房價，所以每一寸空間都被人端詳過，掂量過，夢 過恨過。要了解香港，弄懂此地經濟，必須知道空間的價值如何被營造，拜物癖怎樣被開啟。所以要潛進香港文化的臟腑就不得不探討空間的各種使用方法，從公共 空間使用到私隱見不得光的私用，正式付諸實用或夢想慾望的空間。因為在這裏才能看清楚香港的核心價值。
香港思維中印鑴了各種藍圖，包括股市走勢圖，商場的物慾分佈圖，街區的童年生活記憶圖。這些圖是各人規劃世界，認識世界的藍圖。此外，在香港，風水學已被領入大廈單位內，以便升斗小民都能夠分辨凶吉，避剎求福。所以要觀察龍脈氣運，即使不登扯旗山不遊獅子山亦無傷大雅。
香 港人的樓居眼界是被間格成方塊的，因為這些懸空不沾地氣的空格子都談不上歷史掌故，只是數目編號，沒有立體的故事。空間價值必須有待於想象的故事，所以市 民只好忍受地產廣告的肉麻貴族生活大話。對空間價值的建立，文化界的創意和想象更具體更真實。藝術家驅使天馬行空的力量重新佔領和描述這個都市。他們有的 採用遊覽的策略來打開想象世界的路線和網絡，有的以假想的藍圖來樹立地標和據點。其實每人皆無法逃避的是如何設法逃避這種被資本投資邏輯所網羅的複製社區 與被刷洗的時空記憶。
參展藝術家在作品中提示了多種策略和思維方式，可供日常生活中用以打破常規並進行內觀反省。不過這些個案只可作為參 考樣品，因為要好好地介入和了解我們的都市尚有無數的方法。這些街道隱藏了層疊的秘密藍圖，遮掩了各類未被揭露的陰謀，慾望，暗角，等待空間的"用家"發 揮各自的能耐。只有廣集眾力，才能把蘊藏空間裡的能量發揮，以便從呆板的建築裡找到個性，以致累積功德，構築故事，集散句為鴻編，制圖測地，而成就多個民 間的歷史，民間的地理志和堪輿學。
Shifting Topography
Chang Tsong-zung, 2010
In a city where real estate prices dominate all social discourse, and acquiring private space is the principal goal of every person reporting to work, there is a constant obsession about the potential value of every square inch, and fantasies about myriad possible uses. How this value system works, and how it gets fetishised, are central to understanding our economy. Exploring the possible uses of space, from the public to the secret and clandestine, opens an undercover entry into the cultural heart of Hong Kong. It is here where Hong Kong’s core value lies.
The mapping of the stock index, the pattern of street-grids encasing childhood memories, and the floor plans of malls tracing commodity-desire – all have become rooted in the Hong Kong imagination. They are blueprints for making sense of our world. Here the old science of geomancy has also been brought up to date for mapping positions of energy in simple offices, so as to plan positions of defense and channel paths of good will. We do not need to climb Lion Rock or ride on the Peak Tram to see how the spirit of the ‘feng-shui’ dragon is re-materializing in this city.
At home, our imagination is compartmentalized by boxed-in spaces. Almost invariably these are artificial ‘places’ without stories (histories), identifiable only as numbers; standardized ‘units’ removed from the ground. They need fiction to maintain their value: hence the embarrassing hyper-fictions of European highlife in Hong Kong real estate advertising. This helps to explain the strong urge among many Hong Kong artists to discover ‘true’ stories, to take back imaginative possession of their city. Some adopt the strategy of navigation by delineating tours and paths; some claim visual possession by fixing landmarks and making imaginary maps. There is no escape from the passion to escape from the monotony of repetitiveness and loss of memory to which we are being condemned by capitalist logic.
Artists in this exhibition have developed tactics and working methods that may be used to illuminate and transform the daily routine of urban life, but these represent only a small reserve of the countless ways to access the city. It is up to each one of us living here to discover for himself the hidden pattern of the matrix: the intrigues, the desires, the secret passages and links. By bringing a true imagination to bear, we can identify the wells of untapped energy and the possibilities for constructing a character from the materials of characterless structures, in order to build stories and topographs that will eventually become history, and a citizen’s topology of the city.
香港藝術雙年展二零零九 | The Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Awards 2009
香港藝術館
Hong Kong Museum of Art
2010.5.21 - 2010.8.1
唇 | Labium
香港安全口畫廊
Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong
2010.2.27 - 2010.4.3
Gallery EXIT安全口畫廊將舉行《唇》，展出巴塔耶式的色情作品，包括何倩彤(香港)、黃箏(北京)、梅子嘉(廣州)、村田兼一(日本)、徐世琪(香港)、及山本タカト(日本)的作品。
蘇珊．桑塔格曾說道：「巴塔耶懂得何謂色情文學，畢竟它不是有關性，而是有關死亡……是針對那種特殊尖銳的性慾形態變化，即『淫穢』的作品，它是有關死亡的快慰，這是更超越性愛所得到的滿足，也是淫穢真正的訴求。」
Gallery EXIT presents Labium, a visual exploration in Bataillean obscenity featuring the works of HO Sin Tung (Hong Kong), HUANG Zheng (Beijing), MEI Zijia (Guangzhong), Ken-ichi MURATA (Japan), Angela SU (Hong Kong), and YAMAMOTO Takato (Japan).
Susan SONTAG wrote, "Bataille understood that what pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death…Only works dealing with that specific and sharpest inflection of the themes of lust, "the obscene", do. It's toward the gratifications of death, succeeding and surpassing those of eros, that every truly obscene quest tends."
伙炭工作室開放二零一零 | Fotanian Open Studio 2010
火炭環球工業大廈八樓十七室「覓絲米地亞」
"MiSiMiDiYa" Room 17, Floor 8, World-wide Building, Fotan
2010.1.16,17,24,25
參展藝術家 / Participating Artists:
蔡珏娟 Bouie Choi Yuk Kuen / 何倩彤 Ho Sin Tung / 高倩彤 Kitty Ko Sin Tung / 賴宛珊 Elise Lai / 蘇綽玲 Zon So /
謝振聲 Tse Chun Sing / 胡偉寛 Gladys Wu Wai Foon
http://fotanian.com
從客家漁村、工業區、住宅群、到創意工廈，火炭這一隅之地，隨著香港的城市發展經歷了滄海桑田的變化。十年前，幾位藝術家在這裡開拓工作室，逐漸更多各種創作人士遷入，然後誕生了「工作室開放計劃」，成就了「伙炭」這個名字。加上政府和商業機構的支持，本計劃為每年之始增添數個駱驛不絕的日與夜，為工業區冷清的週末增添氣息，給香港的文化月曆補上幾道活筆。
2010的「伙炭」是盛況空前的一年。來自59個工作室的224位藝術家將會打開門戶，讓觀眾一訪他們的創作空間，並作相互交流。展覽媒介紛陳，包括繪畫、雕塑、陶瓷、版畫、混合媒介、攝影及錄像等。此外，由信和集團合辦、鄧凝姿策展的特備展覽＜如果你停泊在這裡＞，聯同八位藝術家，在沙田商業中心與觀眾探索從空間到權力的種種問題。本計劃今年更與亞洲藝術文獻庫協合作，邀請本地知名藝壇人士，呈上＜講座系列＞和＜藝術家對談系列＞，從藝術版圖到創作交流，碰撞出連串討論的文化火花，引發大家的思潮。今年亦特設錄像放映會，送上兩套有關藝術、人生和年青藝術家的記錄片，對照你所見證的及導演眼中的藝人生涯。
「伙炭」是一幀只能夠在香港釀造的人文風景，歡迎新知舊雨到訪。你將會享受走訪每個工作室，發現你鍾愛的藝術品，遇上令你難忘的人和事。
感激各位對「伙炭」的支持。
From a Hakka fish village to an industrial estate, residential area, and nowadays a creative cluster, Fotan, a neglected district of Hong Kong, has been transformed drastically in the last century. Ten years ago, a few artists rented a flat in one of the industrial buildings in Fotan and use the space as their working studio. As word spread among friends, people from different creative disciplines start moving into the empty flats of buildings in the area. Soon after, the name Fotanian was introduced, following the first Open Studio event. With growing support from the government and commercial sectors throughout recent years, the annual Fotanian: Open Studio event gives life to the silent weekends of a remote industrial area and turn it into a vibrant, festive art celebration.
Fotanian: Open Studio 2010 is packed with excitement and enthusiasm. 224 artists from 59 studios are opening their doors giving visitors a glimpse behind the art scene and explore the cluster of lively studios and creative industries in Fotan. You are invited to a world of varied art form, including paintings, sculptures, ceramics, mixed media, printmaking, installations, photography and video, etc. To foster the sharing and exchange of ideas, visitors are encouraged to engage in open dialogue with the artists in an approachable and friendly atmosphere.
The special exhibition , curated by Stella TANG Ying-chi , co-presented by Fotanian and Sino Group’s ‘Art in Hong Kong’, is going to transform one of the shoping Unit of Shatin Galleria into a delightful art venue. It features 8 distinguished artists in Hong Kong, exploring the question of dynamism and coexistence of powers. We are also glad to launch the Symposium & Screening Series in cooperation with Asia Art Archive this year. A convergence of sparkling speakers including scholars, curators, critics, government officials, gallery owners and artists create an intellectual platform to share thoughts and knowledge, and generate new ideas for future progression. The documentaries films shown in the screening session will address the theme of young artists in Hong Kong and how artists live with art throughout their life.
Whether you are familiar with Fotanian or this is your first encounter, prepare yourself for a completely new experience you have never seen before. We wish you a enjoyable time touring around the studios, discovering your favourite artwork and making many wonderful memories here.
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