Folie à deux
Sept, 2011
DV/ Color/ Sound/ 80min
時常問人最愛的書是哪一本，這一問成了我窺視他人時抄的小路。
把書讀出來曾經是我的日常。每天我們在課室裡讀課本，每個禮拜在教會裡圈坐著讀聖經，
又曾經有人為我讀我最愛的篇章，只那麼一次。後來這些一一成為絕不。現在的我不在他
人面前朗讀和歌唱，覺得太過赤裸。
就像看見山我就走過去。我邀請我身邊的人，或遠或近，都是我欣賞的讀者，明目張膽地
替我讀一篇他們最喜歡的文字。 一段文字比起一整書，更讓我看到他們是個怎樣的人。清
楚得有如把身剖開。無法消受下我叫他們別過臉去。
縱使一早知道那些字會帶我進入那個平常社交我怎麼也不會抵達的實底，我還是 訝異於它
們坦呈於我面前的。一個又一個像Vilhelm Hammershoi畫中人的背影，都讓我目擊了某種
命定和巧合。
Folie à deux是一種感應性精神病，指兩個關係親密的人分享的精神病。拍攝時，電話響了、
車在窗外吵、途人報以異樣的目光。朗讀並沒終止，相反他們一意孤行的讀著，我也如是聆
聽著。這其實也是我們在城市裡讀書的姿態，我們越過種種張牙舞爪的干擾，一直讀著書，
並從中找到了那能言說我們內在的篇章。這雙瘋其實就是讀者和聽者分享的一種偏執 。
何倩彤，一一年，九月
Ho Sin Tung’s new 80-minute video, Folie a deux, shows a sequence of 17 people reading a passage - from a book
they have chosen themselves, at different indoor and outdoor locations in Hong Kong, the mainland and Macau.
This deceptively simple video, however, has a psychological tension reflected in its title, folie à deux, a term describing
“a condition in which symptoms of a mental disorder, such as the same delusional beliefs or ideas, occur simultaneously
in two individuals who share a close relationship or association.” In Ho Sin Tung’s video, the intimate relationship is
between the reader and the on-looking viewer of her video, the audience. Each reading situation becomes an almost
confessional as the read passage reflects an intimate and potentially embarrassing part of the personality or ‘soul’ of the
reader. The viewer is drawn into the readers’ spoken passage, its significance, its meanings, and each reader’s viewpoint
appreciated, possibly even absorbed by the viewer.
Ho Sin Tung is a prolific reader herself and she often asks, as a type of opener to a conversation to better know a person,
“what books do you read?” This video evolved from memories of earlier times when she and her friends read aloud, at
school and church quoting favourite writings to each other – a situation of quiet intimacy between trusted friends. Older,
she now finds the act of reading aloud too revealing, too “naked”, too vulnerable, too much.
The 17 people in the video are all regular book readers, known and admired by Ho Sin Tung and each entirely allowed to
choose the setting in which they were filmed, except in one significant aspect: the reader has their back to the camera. This
detail purposely echoes the work of the Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershoi (1864-1916), an artist Ho Sin Tung knows well
and his discreet, minimal and carefully rendered domestic interiors.In busy cities, however, we tolerate interruptions to our
quiet reading time: telephones ring, traffic noise, loud nearby voices and their profanities, cats and passersby. Purposely
placed, face hidden, each reader unwittingly, partially answers Ho Sin Tung’s “what books do you read?” question to reveal
a little of who they are. Ho Sin Tung and we, the audience, sees the readers momentarily alone, caught naked-with-words in
the calm flicker of her video.
John Batten
Curator, September 2011
閱讀者及其書籍列表（順出場序）| List of readers and the books selected by them (in order of appearance)
1. 岑倩衡 / 《人間是劇場》宗薩蔣揚欽哲諾布 / 香港李寶椿聯合世界書院 / 廣東話
Iris Sham / "Life as Cinema" by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche / Li Po Chun United World College / Cantonese
2. 區華欣 / 《娃娃看天下》奎諾 / 旺角自由大廈 / 廣東話
Au Wah Yan / "Malfada" by Quino / Freedom Mansion, Mongkok / Cantonese
3. 劉錦紅 / 《真愛的功課》真空法師 / 大埔廣福邨 / 廣東話
Lau Kam Hung / "Learning True Love: practicing Buddhism in a time of war" by Sister Chan Khong / Kwok Fuk Estate, Tai Po / Cantonese
4. 梁穎君 / 《雷聲與蟬鳴》梁秉鈞 / 旺角太子 / 廣東話
Leung Wing Kwan / "The Thunder and Song go Chirping Cicadas" by Leung Ping Kwan / Prince Edward, Mongkok / Cantonese
5. 崔征 / 《異鄉人》卡繆 / 中國河北石家庄（線上拍攝）/ 國語
Cui Zheng / "The Stranger" by Albert Camus / Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China (Online) / Mandarin
5. (於第二次剪接代替崔征一段 / Replacement for Cui Zheng in the second-cut）
敖樹克 / 《玻利娜在１８８０年》 皮埃爾 ．讓 ．茹弗 / 天后 / 法語
Gérard Henry / "Paulina 1880" by Pierre Jean Jouve / Tin Hau / French
6. 羅家恩 / 《 沒有人是孤島》湯瑪士．梅頓 / 安全口畫廊 / 英語
Aenon Loo / "No Man is an Island" by Thomas Merton / Gallery Exit, Central / English
7. 何比 / 《疾病的希望》托瓦爾特．德特雷福仁、呂迪格．達爾可 / 旺角自由大廈 / 廣東話
t t Ho / "The Healing Power of Illness" by Thorwald Dethlfsen and Rudiger Dahlka / Freedom Mansion, Mongkok / Cantonese
8. 劉瑋 / 〈 法蘭西斯．麥康伯短促的幸福生活 〉 海明威 / 深圳南山區 / 國語
Liu Wei / "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" by Ernest Hemingway / Nam Shan District, Shen Zhen / Mandarin
9. 黃倩怡 / 《深河》遠藤周作 / 機場巴士 / 廣東話
Sindy Wong / "Deep River" by Shusaku Endo / Airport Express Bus / Cantonese
10. 區凱琳 / 《小團圓》張愛玲 / 火炭 〈薔〉 工作室 / 廣東話
Au Hoi Lam / "Little Reunion" by Eileen Chang / "Qiáng", Fotan / Cantonese
11. 李可穎 / 《一九八四》喬治．歐威爾 / 賽馬會體藝中學 / 廣東話、英語
Michelle Lee / "1984" by George Orwell / Jockey Club Ti-I College / Cantonese and English
12. 約翰．百德 / 《伊斯坦堡：一座城市的記憶》 奧罕．帕慕克 / 澳門白鴿巢公園 / 英語
John Batten / "Istanbul: Memories of a city" by Orhan Pamuk / Jardin de Luis de Camoes, Macau / English
13. 陳素珊 / 《錦繡藍田》楊學德 / 火炭818工作室 / 廣東話
Sushan Chan / "How Blue Was My Village" by Yeung Hok Tak / 818 Studio, Fotan / Cantonese
14. 何淑賢 / 《哭吧，親愛的祖國》/ 香港藝術中心 / 英語
Alice Ho / "Cry, My Beloved Country" by Alan Paton / Hong Kong Arts Centre / English
15. 劉美兒 / 〈 悲哀城 〉 馬家輝 / 尖沙咀美麗華商務印書館 / 廣東話
Eli, Lau Mei Yee / "City of Sadness" by Ma Ka Fai / Commercial Press, Miramar Hotel Shopping Arcade, Tsim Sha Tsui / Cantonese
16. 黃慧妍 / 《黑暗托馬》莫里斯．布朗修 / 南生圍 / 廣東話
Wong Wai Yin / "Thomas the Obscure" by Maurice Blanchot / Nam San Wai / Cantonese
17. 李以進 / 《男兒當入樽》 井上雄彥 / 富德樓藝鵠 / 廣東話
Li JoãoYe Chun / "Slam Duck" by Takehiko Inoue / aco, Fuk Tak Building, Wan Chai / Cantonese
1. 岑倩衡 / 《人間是劇場》宗薩蔣揚欽哲諾布 / 香港李寶椿聯合世界書院 / 廣東話
Iris Sham / "Life as Cinema" by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche / Li Po Chun United World College / Cantonese
2. 區華欣 / 《娃娃看天下》奎諾 / 旺角自由大廈 / 廣東話
Au Wah Yan / "Malfada" by Quino / Freedom Mansion, Mongkok / Cantonese
3. 劉錦紅 / 《真愛的功課》真空法師 / 大埔廣福邨 / 廣東話
Lau Kam Hung / "Learning True Love: practicing Buddhism in a time of war" by Sister Chan Khong / Kwok Fuk Estate, Tai Po / Cantonese
4. 梁穎君 / 《雷聲與蟬鳴》梁秉鈞 / 旺角太子 / 廣東話
Leung Wing Kwan / "The Thunder and Song go Chirping Cicadas" by Leung Ping Kwan / Prince Edward, Mongkok / Cantonese
5. 崔征 / 《異鄉人》卡繆 / 中國河北石家庄（線上拍攝）/ 國語
Cui Zheng / "The Stranger" by Albert Camus / Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China (Online) / Mandarin
5. (於第二次剪接代替崔征一段 / Replacement for Cui Zheng in the second-cut）
敖樹克 / 《玻利娜在１８８０年》 皮埃爾 ．讓 ．茹弗 / 天后 / 法語
Gérard Henry / "Paulina 1880" by Pierre Jean Jouve / Tin Hau / French
6. 羅家恩 / 《 沒有人是孤島》湯瑪士．梅頓 / 安全口畫廊 / 英語
Aenon Loo / "No Man is an Island" by Thomas Merton / Gallery Exit, Central / English
7. 何比 / 《疾病的希望》托瓦爾特．德特雷福仁、呂迪格．達爾可 / 旺角自由大廈 / 廣東話
t t Ho / "The Healing Power of Illness" by Thorwald Dethlfsen and Rudiger Dahlka / Freedom Mansion, Mongkok / Cantonese
8. 劉瑋 / 〈 法蘭西斯．麥康伯短促的幸福生活 〉 海明威 / 深圳南山區 / 國語
Liu Wei / "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" by Ernest Hemingway / Nam Shan District, Shen Zhen / Mandarin
9. 黃倩怡 / 《深河》遠藤周作 / 機場巴士 / 廣東話
Sindy Wong / "Deep River" by Shusaku Endo / Airport Express Bus / Cantonese
10. 區凱琳 / 《小團圓》張愛玲 / 火炭 〈薔〉 工作室 / 廣東話
Au Hoi Lam / "Little Reunion" by Eileen Chang / "Qiáng", Fotan / Cantonese
11. 李可穎 / 《一九八四》喬治．歐威爾 / 賽馬會體藝中學 / 廣東話、英語
Michelle Lee / "1984" by George Orwell / Jockey Club Ti-I College / Cantonese and English
12. 約翰．百德 / 《伊斯坦堡：一座城市的記憶》 奧罕．帕慕克 / 澳門白鴿巢公園 / 英語
John Batten / "Istanbul: Memories of a city" by Orhan Pamuk / Jardin de Luis de Camoes, Macau / English
13. 陳素珊 / 《錦繡藍田》楊學德 / 火炭818工作室 / 廣東話
Sushan Chan / "How Blue Was My Village" by Yeung Hok Tak / 818 Studio, Fotan / Cantonese
14. 何淑賢 / 《哭吧，親愛的祖國》/ 香港藝術中心 / 英語
Alice Ho / "Cry, My Beloved Country" by Alan Paton / Hong Kong Arts Centre / English
15. 劉美兒 / 〈 悲哀城 〉 馬家輝 / 尖沙咀美麗華商務印書館 / 廣東話
Eli, Lau Mei Yee / "City of Sadness" by Ma Ka Fai / Commercial Press, Miramar Hotel Shopping Arcade, Tsim Sha Tsui / Cantonese
16. 黃慧妍 / 《黑暗托馬》莫里斯．布朗修 / 南生圍 / 廣東話
Wong Wai Yin / "Thomas the Obscure" by Maurice Blanchot / Nam San Wai / Cantonese
17. 李以進 / 《男兒當入樽》 井上雄彥 / 富德樓藝鵠 / 廣東話
Li JoãoYe Chun / "Slam Duck" by Takehiko Inoue / aco, Fuk Tak Building, Wan Chai / Cantonese
