Manifesto 2 artists have started to meet on-line to examine the what, why and how of their videographic practices as ways to remember. This is the first of a series to report on the artists’ conversations. We kick off with team-members’ words from Linda Lai, Winsome Wong and Elaine Wong on how they envision the project. 「錄像宣言2」的創作者的在線對話已經啟動,將在此園地陸續發表。首先,團隊成員的其中三位 – 黎肖嫻、黃慧心、黃淑賢 — 先來道出這次計劃點滴心思與憧憬。
“Levitated Potentiality 2019,” presented by FP at the FLAME Festival HK, gathers video works that connect with the experimental tradition, highlighting the narrative intricacy of the very process of an image discourse unfolding in time. 8 artists shows 14 video works.
Ding Cheuk-laam’s notes from the 1st discussion forum of Have a Balanced Diet 3: Home-Making (11 July 2019) 丁卓蓝於7月11日「日常飲像影食3: 間房要唔要牆?」第一次放映和討論會後有所發現。
In “Home Making” (“Have a Balanced Diet” #3, 2019.07.12-26) FP member Ding Cheuk-laam and 14 other artists/researchers extend the quest for experimentation as a general attitude of life to home-making. What kind of habitats do we seek to create? How have we actually constructed our home via artistic imagination?「 間房要不要牆? 」是FP成員丁卓藍發起的《日常飲像影食》系列的第3部,連同14為創作和研究者繼續堅持實驗(性)作為一種整體的生活態度,並以房子這個熟悉而具體的日常空間為前題,看如何因著創作的行動,人的主體與媒體技術的互相啟發,「家」、房子就成了發聲運動的起點。
Once again, what is “micro narratives”? Micro narratives is about stepping down from ,,, Some pieces you’ll never see because they stand for the struggle to push boundaries…
「我們需要少些完美的電影,但需要多些自由的電影。」Jonas Mekas 這話道出了《微敘事 2019: 在這,仍在,現在》的的根底。” We need less perfect but more free films.” Jonas Mekas’s words articulate the ethos and pathos of “Micro Narrative 2019: Right Here, Left Now, Out There”…
Zach McLane “returns” to FP with a new video work and expanded notes after his last and first visit to Hong Kong in September 2018. In renewed confidence of his own language, in words or images, Zach turned a strip of trashed 35mm film found in a backyard creek into the preserved evidence of an unknown yet concrete history. A documentary impulse of his pushed physical marks, scratches and patterning into the materialization of an absence now surfacing as perceivable forms and motions.
Zach McLane and Susan Lin, two fresh graduates from USC, visited the Floating Projects and activities associated with FP members all over Hong Kong a weekend in late September. Zach returns with a “dedication” to mark the brief moment of his trip which seems the new beginning of many things to come. And what about videography?
An epilogue written on 22 June 2018 by Linda Lai for Videography. Micro Narratives. Temporal Beings. Our Manifesto / 2018]***黎肖嫻為《我們的錄像宣言》(2018)寫於2018年6月22日的「結語」。
To those who have watched his apparently uneventful video Morning screened at the recent Fresh Wave 2017, Don Tsang unravels the “thick and dense” thoughts underlying the work. 曾旭熙說《無念》:平淡的家常”細藝”背後的密集思考…