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花了一百八十元買了張臨場票,竟是貼錢買難受,看了場打死也不願入的宗教佈道會.看進念的華嚴經,為的本是參與演出的伍宇烈.結果,對我而言,真是場爛的演出,視覺的眩,就是那麼的玄.還有于逸堯加林夕,第一次領教這種new age宗教大fusion.香港人卻真是前衛,受得到這種形式內容的自我祟拜式結合.看ccdc楊雲濤用matrix的Navras的音樂,原來也算是小兒科.
有線電視現正又再在播的,是柔道龍虎榜,這片對我而言,倒是套無得頂(而且又是使我再次唔認同小西所說杜琪峰沒有了編劇韋家輝後唔多得)的勵志片.救贖對現代人毫不便宜,不在於帕斯卡的賭注,而是宗教哲學的兩難全.人如何可能承受,活得精采.

兩篇2007年6月出街的10年回歸視藝文章

Selina Ho's
回歸十年前後話──香港視覺藝術歷史的織路
http://mycabinet.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/historywriting.pdf

Frank Vigneron's
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the handover …
http://www.aaa.org.hk/newsletter.html#dia

Got a email from a friend, who forwarded me the news of Rudolf Arnheim having passed away lately. (NYT obituary here) Yet he added a line: if I care to know. Well that's probably very true, for when Richard Wollheim died a few years old, I felt he has at least coined minimalism, but for Arnheim, I could only think of his Art and Visual Perception, and guess you all know that I hate to think of art in a visual way, but he did venture into visual as thinking beyond the stylistic, that's true.
Thomas Kuhn often for example refers to Gestalt theory in his idea of the paradigmatic shift. I on the other hand also learn one thing, and that is what is taught and passes on in the academy might not be as well rational as we like to think it is, and depends on what the teachers could offer, and what teachers are on offer (I guess Kuhn mentions it too, how one have to wait till all the professors in a certain paradigm is all dead, for the shift to be possible). As for my case, I took the last course in Anthropoplgy department on Structuralism, before the lecturer retired and went back to Taiwan. When no students pick this up and return to teach it, the acadmeic fashion of Structuralism is officially dead, as of a natural cause. That's however always stay as a part of me.

Author of "Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity" (1989), Richard Rorty passed away last week. Cos of talking over the end of art history, I recently mentioned the Taiwan Man Ray and his talks in Hong Kong for several times. Seldom do people know that he is also the translator for "Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity" into Chinese.

New rezoning request for the Central Waterfront

designinghongkong has applied for twenty-three amendments to be made to the Outline Zoning Plans for the Central Waterfront.
We consider the changes fundamental. They increase competition, improve vibrancy, create visual corridors, allow better air ventilation, reduce land for surface roads, extend the tram network to the waterfront and enable the Star Ferry Clock Tower and Queen's Pier to be put back in their original location.
It is critical to review the plans and not just the design, because without future reclamation this is the last chance to get the final harbour-front done right in Central.
We have broken up the two key sites: The groundscraper and the festival market. Not only does this create a better urban environment, it will make Central more diverse. Rather than having two developers control the area, our plan will allow at least five developers to own a part of the Central Waterfront and compete with each in attracting residents, businesses and tourists.
We acknowledge that the proposals reduce the overall gross floor area and premium income potential, and that the changes will require the Administration to revisit previous assumptions. However, this short term loss will be more than compensated for by the economic benefits of the improved quality of life in the long term.

In summary, the proposed amendments are:

Reduce maximum height of new buildings between IFC and the Ferry Piers;
Convert the Statue Square Corridor into a park.
this will also allow the Star Ferry Clock Tower to be returned to its former location;
Split the groundscraper into 3 separate smaller buildings;
Split the festival market into 2 separate smaller buildings;
Reduce the width of road P2;
Re-instate Queen's Pier and Edinburgh Place in their present location;
Convert the western section of the PLA barracks to open space;
Built a pier for the PLA to free up the harbour-front;
Reduce the size of the new buildings in front of the APA;
Reserve land for a tram along the waterfront.

Support Formhttp://www.designinghongkong.com/download_files/pdf/central_waterfront_amendment_support_form.pdf?

Click here for the English press
releasehttp://www.harbourdistrict.com.hk/enews/20070531/PR_Rezoning_Central.pdf?

Click here for the Chinese press releasehttp://www.harbourdistrict.com.hk/enews/20070531/PR_Rezoning_Central_c.pdf?

Designing Hong Kong is an alliance of four individuals, including Ms. Christine Loh, former Legislative Councillor and CEO of the non-profit think-tank Civic Exchange; Mr. Peter H. Y Wong, Chartered Accountant, Chairman of the Business and Professionals Federation of Hong Kong, and member of the Greater Pearl River Delta Business Council and the Executive Committee of the Commission on Strategic Development; Mr. Markus Shaw, Chairman of the Worldwide Fund for Nature, Hong Kong, and member of the Advisory Council on the Environment; and Paul Zimmerman, Executive Director of Jebsen Travel, Convenor of Designing Hong Kong Harbour District and Vice-Chairman of the Coalition on Sustainable Tourism.

http://www.040607.cyberrepublic.net/doc/on%20the%20way%20to%20harmony.pdf

ttp打電話來,說看到了明報篇文,我於是收線後攤出來看一次,發覺段落數目出了差池,本來打算一節8段一節9段,作為hidden的數字,那知現在9成了10,不知有沒有得就當是18周年紀念吧?
lc經常勸我做翻藝術家,但或者我一直都在做,只是掛了名就要有貨交.正在為talkoverhandover惆悵,目前想到一個提案,但自知並非有代表性的藝術家,於是也想,若大家不在參展之列卻又想參與的,我倒有興趣看可如何合作.

cause my article Luke asked me to write appeared on today's Ming Pao, I brought a copy. I seldom read it, even the Sunday pages with artists input. But as I went through the paper, and I found (yes, to my surprise) the entertainment section quite as cheap and vulgar as the other papers (or I shouldn't say so for they might probably be even worst?).

I left a protest note on
http://talkoverhandover.blogspot.com/2007/05/10-talkoverhandover-dialogues-on-hk-art.html

http://www.hkreader.com/

在六四晚會入口處見到梁家傑,
佢竟然口口聲聲說廿二名泛民議員,
對這個人真的失望.