2006/01/04

 

mmk~political or socially engaged art是多是寡?

愈是和朋友談紐約,自己愈是覺得紐約無o野特別好睇,小小慰藉我的,從chelsea的Beuys的植樹,到soho幾十年無郁的Walter de Maria兩個室,這些dia的舊o野,我想大家都沒如我般感什麼興趣.
昨日友人提到Kathy High一次講座後留下的一堆links,我瞄了一下,見到了the yes men的名字,於是令我想起apex(http://www.apexart.org)這小空間還算不賴,在那裡看的if it's too bad to be true, it could be disinformantion,當中就包括了Dow集團自願就bhopal污染案賠償的假作新聞.
http://www.theyesmen.org/hijinks/dow/bhopal2004.shtml
(同展還有在美國似是頗紅的paul chan).類似的展不是沒有,但apex的其他展,也多帶有些社會性,甚至包括Arthur C. Danto也為他們策了個關於9/11的展覽.這持久性的關注方向才是我說apex有意思的意思.
Tobias最近就提到, It has been commented that the number of artists making political work {in Hong Kong} has deceased in the last few years. The number of exhibitions that exhibit political or socially engaged art doesn't reflect that fact.這或有其表面說服力,但無論以不以九七前的藝術中心作比較,香港的後九七政局才見真章,事態行先於藝術,和藝圈的前九七的先覺倒了頭.因此要更好理解當前現況,擱遲了仍未出爐的survey,或是個好方法,認識香港藝術家(以及策這些展的策展人)的真正想法.

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