Tuesday, Oct 13, 2009 6:44PM / Members only
::(last) intervention::
10.10.2009–29.11.2009
Opening reception: 09.10.2009
Artists: Kingsley Ng and Samson Young
(last) intervention presents new works by Kingsley Ng and Samson Young, two of Hong Kong's emerging generation of tech-savvy multi-disciplinarians.
Kingsley Ng is known for his intensely subtle poeticism, while Samson Young's work is typified by schizophrenic juxtaposition of rich darkness and child-like imageries; yet, both share a concern for the deployment of sound in immersive multi-media experiences. The pair takes ‘Now or Never’ as a carte blanche, a call-to-arms to make art like there's no tomorrow, and an opportunity in historicising the Now and the Here.
Focusing on the rapidly-disappearing Kwun Tong as a site of social intervention and creative meditation, the pair will create contrasting pieces that seek to re-define ‘intervention’ as an act of remembering, an act of inscribing time, a way of participating in Being, and a way of negotiating competing claims for justice and acts of witnessing.
《（最後的）介入》
10.10.2009–29.11.2009
開幕酒會：09.10.2009
參展藝術家：伍韶勁、楊嘉輝
《（最後的）介入》展出兩個新進香港跨媒介藝術家伍韶勁及楊嘉輝的最新作品。
伍韶勁最為人熟識的是其極為精細的詩語詞韻，而楊嘉輝的最新作品則再次展示其典型精神分裂式創作風格，將黑暗與稚氣的意象相並列；然而，他們均對多媒體藝術經驗中的聲音調度問題有著獨特的見解。他們以「機不可失，時不再來」為創作動機，以「沒有明天」為創作訓令，希望將「此時此境」寫入歷史。
他們為「拾月當代」所創作的新媒體作品焦點落在觀塘 ── 一個正在迅速消失的社區，一個帶有強烈社會干預意味、卻又能誘發創作與沉思的地方；他們二人創作出對比強烈的作品，試圖將「介入」重新定義為記憶的行為、時間的刻畫、存在的參與方式、和一種跟司法主張和見證行為相抵觸的談判方式。
>>>Urban Palimpsest: a twilight sound -- walk by Samson Young<<<
Date: 17 October 2009
Time: 7am
Samson Young will lead participants through a sonic excursion of Kwun Tong at sunrise. A small group of walkers will be guided through an intimate tour to discover little-known spots in Kwun Tong, while listening to modified environment sounds / electronic compositions streaming from portable listening devices. Urban Palimpsest is a meditative inquiry into the connection between urban spaces and our collective sonic imagination, an exercise in distrusting the ears, and a momentary disruption of sonic judgement. The sound-walk will last for 45 minutes.
Registration & Enquiry: (852) 2793 4817 or info@oaf.cc
>>>Urban Palimpsest: a twilight sound-walk -- 楊嘉輝<<<
日期: 2009年10月17日
時間: 上午7時正
藝術家楊嘉輝將帶領參加者遊走於清晨的觀塘，耳聽以意創造的環境聲音，尋找鮮為人知的城市景點；圍繞觀塘、經驗聲音、探索城市空間。《Urban Palimpsest》讓我們反思城市空間跟集體聲音想像之間的聯繫，教人質疑自己的耳朵，並暫時推翻一切有關聲音的判斷。全程約為45分鐘。
報名及查詢: (852) 2793 4817 或 info@oaf.cc
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Tuesday, Oct 13, 2009 6:43PM / Members only
::A Blow to the Everyday::
10.10.2009–29.11.2009
Opening reception: 09.10.2009
Curator: Yuko Hasegawa
Artists: Chim↑Pom, Hiroki Kehara, Meiro Koizumi, Masayoshi Koyama, Kenichi Ogaiwara, Yukihiro Taguchi, Tadasu Takamine, Wah
A Blow to the Everyday signifies a call to transform and awaken everyday awareness by embroiling people in collective fantasies and horrors and other provocative documents. It also implies questioning, through the practice of contemporary Japanese artists, the kind of involvement the individual activities of artists can have with communities and society at large and the kinds of communication and imagination they can stimulate in late-finance capitalist Japan.
A Blow to the Everyday is also the story of the survival of the artists concerned, as well an attempt to recall the reality of a different life through involvement with situations and people in the city. Their projects are nonsensical and absurd and may at times even appear to resemble the actions of the mythical figure Sisyphus. However, they also represent an earnest exploration of the possibilities of the only exchanges possible in the context of the actuality of the here and now.
::A Blow to the Everyday::
10.10.2009–29.11.2009
開幕酒會: 09.10.2009
策展人: Yuko Hasegawa
參展藝術家: Chim↑Pom, Hiroki Kehara, Meiro Koizumi, Masayoshi Koyama, Kenichi Ogaiwara, Yukihiro Taguchi, Tadasu Takamine, Wah
A Blow to the Everyday象徵著一種召喚 ──它試圖將人民捲入集體幻想、恐怖和其他挑釁行為的混亂當中，從而喚醒和改變人民對生活覺悟。同時，它又通過當代日本藝術家的藝術創作，對藝術家的個人活動跟社區以至整個社會的連繫，及他們如何在日本這個後資本主義經濟型社會激發溝通和想像提出質疑。
A Blow to the Everyday是一個關於這些藝術家在藝術世界求存的故事，同時亦試圖透過城市中不同的人物境況以提醒我們這些藝術家同時亦過著截然不同的現實生活。他們的創作是荒謬可笑的，有時甚至可能會出現Sisyphus等神話人物。然而，他們也代表了一種認真探索：探索在這種現實的語境下，在「此時此境」唯一可能發生的交流。
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