No major personal drama. But the recurring scenario of 30 years of witnessing the changing relation between a country and a city thickens as the annual ceremonial spectacle is about to transfigure… — Episode 8 of FP writer Wai’s “Just around You.” 紀念的景觀儀式或不永恆… 一個成長於香港的女孩,在維園外試圗尋找多年來的恆常足跡 — 那串一年復一年,從無間斷,自己踏出來的足跡。
「異托邦」:我們都活於空間的時代。異托邦是論述的空間,網絡的空間,社會的空間,思維的空間,效率操控的空間…卻絕對不是單一、單向的空間。 In 3 parts, Rodriguez’s reading report traces the centrality of space cutting through Michel Foucault’s corpus through the concept of “heterotopia.”
In January 2020, FP artist Jess Lau took residency in Kyoto; in the three months she spent there, she finally found the time and space to realize a much awaited work on a river, and made The Cinema of Walking: Airship on the Kamo River, to her, a unique glimpse of freedom. 2020年1月 Jess 到京都駐留三個月,有機會到訪鴨川,突然可以做關於河川的作品,《步行電影院:飛翔的氣球》遠距離一口氣完成拍攝,劉清華看著路人一步一步踏過跳石,片刻看到自由的模樣。…
An ordinary day with a haircut in Lyon put Michael into a confessional mode of reflexive reconnection with his double citizenship … To what kind of privileged access does it entitle him? And what doors has opened to him? 梁志剛的雙重國籍或公民權對他的漂流歷程有何在地的挑戰?又打開了一些甚麼的門?
The 31st year, 35 May 2020, thoughts and words gathering … 如何說香港?從上世紀的呼蘭河到此時此刻的香港。
街上的人。林建才在英倫小城隔岸想香港。2019年10月。劉清華組合選輯。”People on the streets.” Kin-choi Lam’s Hong Kong in his mind’s eye while he’s away in the UK. October 2019. Jess Lau selection.
In his diary as a curious young teacher, Ryan Chung recounts the many problems he has encountered teaching children on-line during the COVID-19 homestay period. The question shifts: from how to make an interesting video lesson to what fuels the desire to learn. 當上小學老師不久,鍾樹仁遇上了 COVID-19 給他的考驗 — 如何製作好玩而花枝招展的錄像教案應付網上教學?很快,他知道要問的是另一種問題。
Quotidian Diversions – Kin-choi Lam’s drawing series on HK to launch on Floating Teatime’s “Personally Speaking” 4 June 2020: 6 groups of drawings in 6 weeks on Thursdays 林建才手繪連載:「流水革命10月天」六月四日起每周四連載共六輯。
FP writer, Emilie Choi’s analysis continues on the question of art labor in Hong Kong. In part 2 of her report, she asks, “what should an artists’ union do?” 據點成員蔡倩怡進一步思考藝術勞動的光景四年來沒有甚麼變動,且客觀環境越來越嚴峻。她問:「工會該如何保障藝術家?」
FP writer, Emilie Choi, former journalist for Ming Pao Weekly’s cultural page, recalls an investigative feature she did four years ago on the question of art labor in Hong Kong, and is dismayed that not much has advanced other than the many growing aggravations in the city. With a new introduction, she puts back in the spotlight realities we may have forgotten. 《「錄像宣言」的延伸閱讀:藝術勞工的景況:做個夜更的藝術家?》在「據點一杯茶」網上發表後,據點成員蔡倩怡不禁記起四年前她還是記者時所做過的專題訪問,驀然發覺時間過去了,藝術勞動的光景沒有甚麼變動,且客觀環境越來越嚴峻。她很想舊事重提,面對現實。這裡是翻新後的發表。