about Artist's Village in Hong Kong, also features JCCAC, Fu Tak Building

HONG KONG A DÉJÀ DISPARU?

SANDRA LOURENÇO

2008-12-02

Hong Kong as a space of disappearance shows how the city dealt with dependency by developing a tendency toward timelessness and placelessness, a tendency to live its own version of the ‘floating world’ without the need to establish stable identities. It is almost impossible to get any sense of its urban space through the merely visible. It is as if it were necessary to hold on same familiar for reassurance that the city is real.

Ackbar Abbas, Culture and the Politics of Disappearance, 1997....

  前段時間收到廣州維他命空間的郵件，才知道香港藝術家白雙全在廣州開展。一時間想起好多熟悉的藝術家似乎近來都少在香港露面，但上網一查，才發現大多在國外頻繁參展。

　香港藝術家難道也像候鳥一般到處遷徙？其實，遷徙不一定是壞事，出走也並不代表家鄉一定「窮山惡水，難以生存」。只不過和幾位時常「飛來飛去」的藝術家聊過，發現背後也透露不少香港藝術環境的有趣現象。其中一大怪異現象，就是香港藝術家一旦「出走」，哪怕在外面功成名就，也似乎從香港的空氣中蒸發……

There is an ambivalence in Lam’s method of depicting images of wildlife staged in seemingly unusual environments...

看膩了顏色光鮮得刺眼、政治符號重複得令人生悶的中國普普藝術，林東鵬在漢雅軒展出輕巧帶童趣的塑膠彩畫，對觀眾無疑是一帖清涼劑。這系列新作的靈感源自藝術家年初到德國柏林動物園的感受：本應自在地活在大自然中的動物，卻被飼養在模彷自然的人工的環境之中的荒謬感...