“Money Supply” 《貨幣供應》 a show by Yasmine Huang, opened on a quiet Saturday on 11 May, to explore how art and social criticism may work together. The opening gathered a dozen of spontaneous visitors who readily turned her concern into ramifications of many burning questions of art beyond politics. 《貨幣供應》在晴朗溫煦的週末黃昏開幕,黃安瀾的四組作品是她對藝術創作與息息相關的生活、經濟課題可以如何銜接的策問,由研究出發,招引到場的來訪者恰巧都興致勃勃,把眼前的作品打開,引發各種與創作有關的閒談。
黎肖嫻談粵語電影通俗劇的操作,以至吳子昆於「文字機器創作集」第6輯「象裡有象:通電作影」之《全情定位漂浮系統》(2018年9月1日開幕)的媒體分解遊戲 | notes by Linda Lai on melodrama’s nature and Kwan’s treatment in [G]Local Empathy System (opening 1 September 2018, curated by Lai), the first of a 3-exhibition series, “Cinema Expanding: Visualizing the Unseen,” the Writing Machine Collective 6th edition.
In the 4th piece of his “Just Around You” series, FP writer/manager Wai reconstructs a shared HK experience from 15 years ago, which is also a lament for loss…「總在你身邊」要說的是這個地方普通人的故事,其中人物的名字或故事情節容或杜撰,但角色的處境及遭遇皆為我所知所遇所見所聞,志在刻劃現實。系列的第四篇較為特別,重塑15年前的集體經驗,也是一篇悼文。
FP writer Wai-leung Lai turned his sentiments for the thick urban space of Hong Kong into fictional encounters in a serial. Part 3 seems to be a story of the person next door, whose emotions spill over three kinds of coffee-drinking. 黎偉亮寫實、描述、虛擬。是認知、理解世界的滾軸過程。說是故事其實是鄰家的她或他,沒有對錯,難分悲喜。真正的故事,始於敘事結束之後… …,唯一實實在在的是可點可喝的咖啡。
A series of stories on glimpses of everyday street life in Hong Kong, from FP writer Wai-leung Lai’s eye-witness, starting with a bowl of rice with BBQ pork… 據點作者黎偉亮一連串有關本地街頭日常點滴的短篇,由一碗叉燒飯開始。
FP member Wai traces the making of his 15 pieces at “Toy as Medium,” revealing the mind of a devoted miniature maker whose obsession has a rational dimension. He finally came back to his “craft” after 35 years of no model-making.
Photographer Vicky Do reviews “What Do You Want For Tomorrow” (2016.08.10-2016.09.26, HK Heritage Museum) curated by Wong Wo-bik and Stella Tang. She finds this 12-woman art event more than a photography show or one that tokenizes women.
To make a monument that does not monumentalize… Linda Lai explains her conception of “Mnemonic Archiving” in which 19 new objects embody her videography to date at Pearl Lam Galleries-Singapore, 7 May – 3 July 2016.
FP writer W.L. Lai asserts life worth living as he recalls HK students once upon a time
[FP EXHIBITION REVIEW) Josef Bares discusses Lee Kai-chung’s strategy of rendering public records to “becoming private,” “expressing some things and feelings too nuanced to be expressed in words.”