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展覽日期： 二零零九年二月二十五日至四月二十五日
地點： 寄隅於中環漢雅軒， 香港皇后大道中5號2樓
黃榮法以他大澳家火災後剩下的木柱，透過聲音藝術裝置重現因大火摧殘而被遺棄的棚屋。
黃透過此作品表現他對他的家及傳統家庭觀念的懷念。被燒過的木柱象徵著被摧毀的家，以及因家中長輩逝世而變得疏離的家庭關係。透過讓觀眾體
會去世的人回到自家聆聽家人的日常生活，藝術家以觀眾完成了整件作品，從而令人重新思考「觀眾」與「作品」是否兩個獨立的個體。
黃榮法（生於1984年）是一位香港媒體藝術家。他曾獲第13屆香港獨立短片錄像比賽（單螢幕互動媒體類別）銀獎。他的作品亦曾展覽於香港藝術
館及於台北南海藝廊舉辦的第9屆台北詩歌節。
http://art.wongwingfat.com
Sound installation: “Once You Were Here”
Exhibition date: 25 February – 25 April, 2009
Venue: Para/Site Central, Hanart TZ Gallery, 2/F., 5 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong.
With a sound installation built with the remnant of his fire-damaged house in Tai O, a fishing town in Hong Kong, Morgan Wong Wing-fat recreates
the scene of an abandoned and burnt stilt house.
The work is a representation of Wong’s nostalgia for his home and traditional family value. The charred wood symbolizes the demise of a house
rampaged by fire, as well as the collapse of family relationships that follows the deaths of senior family members. The audience completes the work
by empathizing with the dead who returns to the ruins of their home and listen to the everyday life of their family members. The involvement of the
audience in the completion of the work also questions the conventional notion of “audience” and “artwork” as two separate existences.
Morgan Wong Wing-fat (b. 1984) is a media artist based in Hong Kong. He received a Silver Award in 13th ifva (Single Screen based Interactive
Media Category, the Hong Kong Independent Film & Video Awards). His works have been showcased in Hong Kong Museum of Art and the 9th
Taipei Poetry Festival in Nanhai Gallery,Taipei.
http://art.wongwingfat.com
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A special lecture on rule-based art and mathematics by Dr. Felipe Cucker (CityU-Applied Mathematics) will take place 7:00-9:00pm tomorrow (Friday) at Experimenta. Please join Linda or call her for enquiries.
Address:
89-95 Hollywood Road, Lower Ground Floor
http://www.experimenta-space.net/
(Linda)
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Following from the news posted a few days ago on the government’s selection of SCAD to “enliven” the North Kowloon Magistracy, a group of concerned scholars, artists and cultural activists had organized a petition to be read at the Legco TOMORRW (!) for discussion.
If you are interested, please read the petition in the following link and sign before 6:00pm TODAY.
薩凡納進駐北九的三個疑點和問題
http://www.petitiononline.com/3Qhkscad/petition.html
Here’s a brief explanation from the initiators:
1) the petition is the first step — first to raise questions and it’s somehow the best way because many things are unclear
2) for tomorrow legco meetings so more attention from the public and press to the issue against latest simple and narrow ways of reporting in the general mass media
3) after seeing how they respond, there will be a second stage of action, e.g. a talk for the public and involve more people especial from the other field.
4) English version will be on the way later today…
(Linda)
Saturday 28 February, 2009 / 2:30pm
Agnès b. CINEMA!, Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong
Presented by Para/Site Art Space
For over a decade, exhibition maker and curator Jens Hoffmann has developed a very particular style of exhibition that sits between cultural history, theater, author theory and contemporary art. Hoffmann has used his knowledge as a director to articulate his unique approach to curating. His exhibitions have highlighted the actual staging of the experience—ranging from the design of the space and installation, the conceptualization of the catalogue and related programming, to the attention paid to the performance of the work itself. The ‘stage-set’ or rather the exhibition space, site, or geographical location is itself an important factor in the development of his ideas which respond to both time and place. Hoffmann concerns both the larger historical and socio-political context in which an exhibition takes place as well as the relevant curatorial or art historical relationships pertaining to a project. Using the ideas and strategies of artists, in particular conceptual art, and applying this approach to a curatorial idea of the author is a defining characteristic of Hoffmann’s work and results in a personalized exhibition history reflective of a creative development not dissimilar to that of an artist. In this lecture Hoffmann will talk about some of his key exhibitions to elaborate further on his concept of the ‘curator as creator.’
ABOUT THE SPEAKER… Jens Hoffmann is a curator and writer based in San Francisco. He is Director of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art and senior lecturer at the Curatorial Practice Program of the California College of the Arts. He has curated over three dozen exhibition since the late 1990s and is currently co-curator of the 2nd San Juan Triennial in Puerto Rico (opening in April 2009). Hoffmann is also the Curatorial Director of the 101 Collection in San Francisco. He is co-curating with Harrell Fletcher the 1st People’s Biennial, organized by Independent Curators International, New York, opening in 2010. Since 2004 Hoffmann has been a faculty member of the Creative Curating program at Goldsmiths College, University of London and since 2005 a guest professor at the visual arts department of the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan. From 2003-2007 Hoffmann was the Director of Exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. He has published numerous books most recently PERFORM, co-authored with Joan Jonas (Thames & Hudson, 2005) and is currently working on Show Time, forthcoming with DuMont in 2010. His writing has appeared in numerous museum publications and exhibition catalogs as well as in art periodicals such as Artforum, Frieze, and Parkett.
轉載：《信報》2009年2月19日
1989年，除了發生震驚全球的六四事件外，在北京還上演了另一場「鎮壓」行動。
時為2月5日，第一個由中國人舉辦和參與的《中國現代藝術展》在中國美術館舉行。這個在中國當代美術史上當記一筆的展覽，在歡呼聲中把中國「85新潮美術」推向高潮，卻戛然而止於兩聲槍響下。[read more...follow the link below]
http://artcriticismscm.wordpress.com/
See posting on February 20.
The announcement of the HK Government’s “Revitalising Historic Buildings Through Partnership Scheme” on the selection of the final 6 proposals is likely to be a hot topic in the news in the coming days.
You may refer to the following press release:
http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/200902/17/P200902170111.htm
One of the sites would be given to the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) from the US to start a new degree-conferring institution in Shamshuipo. Refer to:
http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/200902/17/P200902170215.htm
OR visit:
http://www.scad.edu/hongkong/
(Linda)
a photo project by SCM photography instructor Leung Chi Wo
亞洲國際都會 / 梁志和攝影展
20.2. – 21.3.2009
Goethe-Gallery, Goethe-Institut Hongkong (HK Arts Centre, Wanchai) 香港歌德學院歌德藝廊
Meet the artist at the exhibition opening:
7:00pm 20.2.2009 (Fri)
Where is Asia’s World City? Despite the branding of Hong Kong by the HKSAR government since 2003, the indistinct slogan intrigued the artist’s serious quest for its meaning of “Asia”, “World” and “City”. In February 2008, over 70 people responded by email to the artist’s call for making wishes for the “Asia’s World City”. A wish list was compiled, in which twelve were chosen as “unaccomplished” wishes to appear on the “Asia’s World City” banners along Hollywood Road in Central as a public space installation for the Hong Kong ArtWalk 2008. For this exhibition at the Goethe-Institut Hongkong, a new series of large format photographs will be made as the artist’s interpretation of a few selected wishes from the list, in addition to the only remaining original banner saved from the street, a wall text-installation and photo-documentation.
A poster for the “Asia’s World City” exhibition is available for visitors to this exhibition.
For details:
http://www.goethe.de/ins/cn/hon/en4098103v.htm
(Linda)
「牛下開飯─告別徙置生活展」”Open Rice at Ngau Tau KoK”
An exhibition about the life and feelings of the last resettlement public rental housing at Lower Ngau Tau Kok (II)
by SCM/CIL students and graduates
Opening ceremony at 1:00p.m. on 1 March 2009 (Sun)
Curated by Yiman Fok
For details: http://hkhulu.com.hk/NTKopenRice
OR contact SIU Wai Hang (CIL year 2 student) at 96335762
(Linda)
