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Linda Lai / To Anna Chim, a late reply on videography…
An accidental death in February (?) 2018 ended young artist Anna Chim’s barely started exciting journey of creative adventures. While revisiting principles of economizing in image-making in film and art history in preparation for my teaching, I accidentally returned to this saved message Anna sent me.
六顆子彈 6 Bullets, an exchange
FPC dialogues… Jess Lau wrote a poem and shared it with Linda Lai, who wrote a poem in response. The exchange develops into that of images. 劉清華隨心寫了一首詩，分享了給黎肖嫻。黎回了另一首詩。後來這個對話由文字推至圖像。
Linda Lai / 方寸之間。氣流。你在牆上留了個暗號。Love in the Time of COVID-19. You’ve left a mark at the foot of the wall. (a poem)
她（黎肖嫻）寫了一首別人的情詩。已沒有話可述說愛情，只知道「想」之際自覺存在多一點。找文學對愛情的書寫，總覺女作家和男作家的視野不盡相同。沒有性別基要主義。只是好奇。想聽讀者們的回贈，讓她不落入自說自話的荒涼。Linda Lai wrote a poem contemplating the phenomenology of being in love and losing it. Great quotes from the internet were grabbed in search of the male protagonist’s voice, says she. Let’s have a conversation!
Linda Lai / The Ventriloquists 00. Free imaging 2020 | 腹語系：微敘思考。需要多些自由的影像。
腹語系：微敘思考 “Thinking Narratively… the Ventriloquists” | video dreamworks, thought paths as montage sequences, sight-and-sound data visualization of well-known moving image works | 63 works by young artists from the School of Creative Media’s BA program. Why do we install so many voices into Floating Project’s limited space? | 夢式敘事。影像／圖像蒙太奇。聲影數據圖像分析名作 | 63 個創意媒體學院文學學士課程的年青創作者的聲影訴說。為何在此時此地在「據點」有限的空間群星匯聚？
Linda Lai / remembering a free flâneuse, Joey Luk, a poem 讀了好些有關你的，懷緬的詩，給漫遊者。
Permanent youthfulness — a thought of no comfort at all! No certainty about the words I have, but those moments spent with Joey, a lasting imprint. Combining Joey’s writings she had shared in class with faint, ineffectual words I could barely utter, I post this buried poem today as a ritualist container for infinite nothingness. 這首詩是由我的文字和陸姵妏生前在我的文字創作工作坊裏分享過的作業的片段混合而成的。在黃花綠影之間虛實無分，是一個人？兩個人？多少種心情？精神思想記憶都漫飛無涯，涓湧成氣。除此，我對她的思念無以啟齒。十七年過去了，比我先行的學生還有幾個。…我總是為過去了的人寫詩。懷緬詩注定就是跟死亡手牽手的。奈何。
Linda Lai / PUSH: the Quest for a Voice, in Search of a Body. 「推」∶ 探索嗓音、設置身體
An unpublished text by Linda Lai as an observer’s soliloquy on a 12-part interactive sight-and-sound sequence she created with Theresa Junko Mikuriya at the HK Art Biennial 2003.11-2004.01. Lai’s attempt to make sense of their automatic creation… Not an annotation, but an extension in the form of automatic writing describing what she sees on screen, an assertion of narrativity. 一篇於2003-04年香港藝術雙年展隨作品出現過卻重來沒有發表的文字，與組織緊扣卻多處留白的聲畫流隔岸對話。不假思索，想像眼前碎斷的畫面背後的世界。是延伸創作，推開無限可能的下一個小步。
Linda Lai / 第三十一個五月卅五日。只想留個標記。The 31st year, 35 May 2020, thoughts and words gathering …
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。
Linda Lai / PUSH – scary stories 「推」：怕怕故事
Push: Scary Stories is a story about story-telling in Linda Lai’s childhood, her land of fear and fascination co-created with her Grandma before bedtime. 「推」，推開了神秘的門，領進魔幻之地。《推：怕怕故事》推開了作者童年時候床頭說書的外婆伴著編織的幻想世界。這門，不過是眾多要推開的門的一道。
Linda Lai / A certain state of mind… poems from automatic writing (1) 不假思索 – 喃喃自語（一）
Push! And a door will open. Push is a special charm to Linda Lai, a magic word she has used for several of her artworks, “PUSH Push – automatism” shares glimpses of her mind-scape, an enigmatic zone with strides of montage and poetry.「推」，推開了神秘的門，領進魔幻之地。《推。推。不假思索》推開了作者某幾個時刻的紛繁思潮世界。斷、折，又絲連。是詩與蒙太奇的步履。
Linda Lai / Reading RAQS Media Collective: Manifesto 2 artists inspired: to be an artist by night? 「錄像宣言」的延伸閱讀：藝術勞工的景況：做個夜更的藝術家？
兩位參與「錄像宣言2」計劃的藝術家，在工作坊裡分享了一篇感動過他們的文章 — RAQS Media Collective 的 Monica Narula 於 2012年寫的「如何做夜更的藝術家：藝術學院 [給21世紀的提案]」。為了快點分享給更多的藝術創作者，黎肖嫻以局部引述和中文翻譯去展示，並加以短論，望引來更多討論。Two Manifesto 2 artists share an article of impact on them in an artist’s workshop session — “How to be an artist by night. Art School (Propositions for the 21st Century)” written in 2012, by RAQS Media Collective’s Monica Narula. A series of selected quotes from the piece was assembled by Linda Lai here with Chinese translation and a short commentary.
