In response to ZKM's invitation to speak at their Media Art 21 (MA21) Forum to take place in Hong Kong during the Art Basel period, Linda Lai outlines the reflection on her 25+ years of journeying in tiny steps towards a paradigm of (new) media art that answers HK's local needs as well as bears a future-oriented vision for media art education. 因應德國 Karlsruhe 的新媒藝術中心 ZKM 的邀請,我動筆勾劃了以下的大綱,值此追溯我在過去這二十多年來詢問有關(新)媒體藝術的種種而自行編出的細步,會在它們於巴塞爾藝術節樹起的香港論壇 MA2 分享。
Linda Lai, upon the School of Creative's 25th year, articulates her long-standing aspiration: rather than just producing artistic labor for the industry, we are nourishing enlightened future audience, including parents(-to-be), to keep art an open space.
[Mending Years 縫補歲月] Domestic Moonlighting (2023) adapts a work commissioned for the 9th Shanghai Biennale (2012-13). In the current iteration, Linda Lai highlights domestic moonlighting by women and children in HK in the 1960s-80s, estimated to value at postal volume of 57.5 million kg for RMB94.7 million, sent from Hong Kong to China. 《家居副業》(2023)。黎肖嫻的郵政考察顯示出上世紀六十到八十年代期間,香港婦女和小孩的家居副業從香港向中國支援,投遞了約五千七百五十萬公斤的小郵包物資,郵資總值九千四百七十萬人民幣。還有...
Linda Lai answered a question that MFA students at the School of Creative Media posed to her... 創意媒體學院的藝術碩士生向老師提問。黎肖嫻回答... ...。
11 new zines created in 2023 plus more by Floating Project members and friends initiated a new phase of growing existing resources into more points of sharing. 據點對小誌文化的集體實驗,從手做書、詩話、散文,到嚴肅生活和創作議題的結集,於大館書展4月28-30日與大眾見面。
The second of FP's 2-day intervention-insertion-installation-production performance at Asia Art Archive's new reading room concludes with a show window filled with “live” traces of FP players, friends and on-site visitors. … Another attempt to capture the rich diversities of the happenings, the author's attempt to preserve her own personal glimpses at least.
Between 2000 and 2020, a 6'38" single-take video footage has been turned into a generative series of art moments crossing artistic genres -- from videography, vocalization, sound collage, performance, sound sculpture, back to videography -- all manifesting automatism as a principle, and improvization as a main artistic method. Only the maker Linda Lai herself could elaborate on this secret history of emergence.
Assemblage at Floating Projects (FP Assemblage) started with two personal stories. Initiation of the Assemblage events are documented here in writing, on 14 July 2015, on the eve of FP1.0’s Grand Opening… (this version: updated May 2022 for D-Normal/V-Essay issue 5)
29 short pieces of videography by 24 young makers enacting their presence, human-tool assemblage, and the making of experiences from fragments of attentive moments ...
*An interactive video archive installed at Floating Projects, 3-19 December 2022. (All videos subtitled in English) *Video Forum, 10 December 2022 (3:30-5:30pm), will feature Kimburley Choi and Fei-pang Wong, hosted by Linda C.H. Lai (conducted in Cantonese).