2007/09/30

 

沒有遠見?

一個自稱阿四級的文化官僚在ampost說到:
文化界的同寅最需要的是團結,把西九加速上馬的訴求,清楚地一致地告訴全人類.
我毫不能代表文化界的一致意見,但我對西九的訴求,我可以清楚地告訴全人類.
不要動工!我什麼m+也不需要!

2007/09/25

 

對於[歷史城]的我思

香港人和歷史

可能因為香港於近代史的時空位置和角色其實頗為獨特,香港人和歷史的關係,也不是那麼易於處理。然而一地的文化身份位置,若有若無,歷史的論述,在過去重視歷史的時代,無疑起著一個很關鍵的作用。歷史書寫的背書,可說是肯定對象在文化歷史上的一種價值,甚至是確立主體性的重要手段。但若果香港長期以來的所謂主體性,正是在於其對大環境下大歷史、大論述的逃避,它的歷史主體書寫會是如何?或還是根本不會出現?

雖然香港文化工作者對大歷史論述有所保留,卻大概未至這般極端。回歸十年後的今天,連串的保育事件,是否意味著香港人對歷史意識的重新重視?談保育、談去殖,近年香港人也不是不熱衷於整理自身歷史,但「又喊又笑阿婆」的「口述歷史」、「環頭環尾」的「私檔案」、「一人一故事」劇場,最後如何匯成歷史?香港人對大歷史的抵制,會否正也是在要求一種別於過去、期望帶出眾數主體的(高難度/若非自我矛盾的)歷史書寫的方法?

期待香港人寫的香港藝術史?

繼外藉作者Petra Hinterthuer於1985寫成其Modern Art in Hong Kong後,內地學者朱琦也於2005年底出版了其《香港美術史》。前後20年間,一英一中的香港藝術史論述,(湊巧地?)同樣非出自港人的手筆。

其實,由誰來撰香港藝術史,本不特別重要,重要的是每本論著代表著一種對於香港藝術史的認識和理解,而我們在尋求多角度理解事物及歷史時,香港本土的聲音又怎可以缺席?這個缺席本身,會否反映出一些香港文化上的現象、或是本地促進藝術史發展的建制上的某些缺陷?這些問題無疑同樣富有意思。

[海外的華人藝術史學者高名潞就在2003年的《香港雙年展》場刊(頁57)就提到「絕對個人化的身份意識提倡得過多,它也會成為一種抵觸建構鮮明的、有凝聚力的香港藝術的獨特語言和方法論系統的負面力量…更容易將自己消解掉…文化身份不是多種個人身份的相加。」]

然而對於實際的香港人,「究竟要到什麼時候才會有由香港人執筆的香港藝術史?」的問題,癥結每每還是研究條件欠奉,支撐撰寫論著工程的前期準備資料不足,對比如《今天》「香港十年」談到香港文學史的問題無疑更是嚴重,只能靠個別的人物、分散的組織、無協調的機構來努力,一切離認真的動筆寫一本香港藝術史似乎還有一大段距離。

[藝術史書寫中的香港]

香港藝術書寫-中國現代歷史
香港近代的歷史性首要大事件,當然是九七回歸。但這個政治主權的回歸以外,香港的文化、藝術的身份位置,究竟有何意識/現實的變更,這無疑並非是香港人能單方面自我決定的。但若朱琦的《香港美術史》論著不過是王伯敏的《中國美術通史》計劃中遺留下的「邊界美術史」一章,那呂澎在其《20世紀中國藝術史》的〈前言〉提到其將〈台灣和香港的藝術〉獨立章節調整為〈繼續推進的現代主義〉,無疑就有一種把香港納入中國現代藝術史的視角調整。雖然這是章節名稱上的改變而已,但到底有一種從中國的全盤現代藝術歷史發展看香港的眼光在其中。當然,作為邊界,往往更也是文化交流的橋頭堡,對於引進現代性,其在引進的角色,或也可以扭改整個中國的現代藝術歷史發展為主導的論述,不過這些理論當然要有考證的支撐才不是理論空話。比較高名潞及何慶基各為今屆文件展的「is modernity our antiquity?」問題的不同切入,就或可見兩地對現代性和現代主義理解上的歧異。

[藝術史書寫在香港]
我們教與學的是什麼樣的藝術史?
(我們在再生產的是藝術史/藝術歷史/藝術史書寫?)

在香港,藝術史作為香港史的一部份這說法好像比較少聽,藝術史作為藝術教育的一部份則比較多,但藝術史作為(研究藝術歷史的)專科,實際的價值意義在那裡?藝術史作為研究藝術歷史的一門學科,在中大和港大藝術系所佔比重不輕,加上如新辦的香港藝術學院、浸大視覺藝術學院,甚至中學課程的引入,故此藝術史在香港當刻,似有相當長足的發展和普及。然而藝術史僅是藝術歷史?藝術的發展史,來到當代被受質疑,傳統的藝術史方法論(風格學、圖像學等)更被指未能顧及當代藝術的「(後歷史)發展」。事實上,藝術史若是一種知識的書寫,而非一種從處理過去藝術歷史而提煉出來的既定方法,能不著的更生,那好些「藝術史之終結」的論點也就不能成立。但藝術史的書寫,跟藝術理論、藝術批評的界線,到時候就可能同樣會變得乏晰。未來西九文娛區的m+標榜的視覺文化,在嶺南大學將成為獨立學系,又究竟是傳統藝術史的當代延伸,還是對傳統藝術史的挑戰?

 

Synopses from Speakers

Synopses from speakers of the roundtable have been and/or will be posted onto the blog as soon as we recieved them.
http://mmkprojecthkah.blogspot.com/
do join in the warm up round of discussion, and set together the agenda for the roundtable, it is suppose to be everyone's event.

 

HistoriCITY Roundtable Symposium

- Art Historical Writing in and On Hong Kong

Lecture Hall (B/F), Hong Kong Museum of Art,
10 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong
29 September 2007 (Sat), 2:00-6:00pm

Presented by Asia Art Archive and mMK and supported by Hong Kong Museum of Art

Session 1
Art Historical Writing on Hong Kong
(to be delivered in English and Mandarin)

Speakers:
CHANG Tsong-zung (Director, Hanart TZ Gallery)
LU Peng (Art Historian and Critic based in Chengdu)
WAN Qingli (Director, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University)Christina Chu (Former Chief Curator, Hong Kong Museum of Art)
KOON Yee Wan (Assistant Professor, Department of Fine Arts, The University of Hong Kong)
Pamela KEMBER (Lecturer Art History & Theory Hong Kong Art School)
Frank VIGNERON (Professor, Department of Fine Arts, Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Session 2
Art Historical Writing in Hong Kong
(to be delivered in Cantonese)

Speakers:
Jack LEE (Vice Chairman, Hong Kong Art History Research Society)
Andrew LAM (Curator, MOST)
LEUNG Po Shan (Cultural Worker)
Linda LAI (Assistant Professor, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong)
Victor LAI (Associate Professor, Department of Creative Arts and Physical Education, The Hong Kong Institute of Education)

Moderators: Wen Yau (AAA Researcher for Hong Kong), Jaspar LAU Kin Wah (mMK conceiver)

Presented by: Asia Art Archive and mMK
Supported by:Hong Kong Museum of Art
Enquiry/Reservation: Janet CHAN at AAA (2815 1112 / janet@aaa.org.hk)

 

歷史 - 城 - 香港藝術史書寫 圓桌座談會

2007年9月29日 (星期六) 下午二時至六時
香港九龍尖沙咀梳士巴利道10號
香港藝術館演講廳 (地庫)

亞洲藝術文獻庫及mMK 主辦/香港藝術館協辦

第一節
在藝術歷史書寫中的香港

(以英語及普通話進行):

張頌仁 (漢雅軒總監)
呂澎 (藝術史學家、藝評人,現居於成都)
萬青屴 (香港浸會大學視覺藝術學院總監)
朱錦鸞 (香港藝術館前總館長)
官綺雲 (香港大學藝術系助理教授)
Pamela Kember (香港藝術學院藝術史及理論講師)
Frank Vigneron (香港中文大學藝術系教授)

第二節
藝術歷史書寫在香港

(以廣東話進行):

李世莊 (香港藝術歷史研究會副主席)
林漢堅 ( MOST館長)
梁寶山 (文化工作者)
黎肖嫺 (香港城市大學創意媒體學院助理教授)
黎明海 (香港教育學院體藝學系副教授)

主持:魂游 (亞洲藝術文獻庫香港研究員)、劉建華 (mMK策劃人)

主辦機構:亞洲藝術文獻庫及mMK
協辦機構:香港藝術館
查詢或留座:亞洲藝術文獻庫 陳靜昕(2815 1112或janet@aaa.org.hk)

2007/09/24

 

trumphet u


 

on the door of Amy Cheung's work

Stayed in Lyon for just the two days preview, then headed to Venice, which the place to stay got no internet connection. Finally back in Paris for the remaining couple days in the trip.
Here is what I found in the HK Star Fairy, a tale not working.


2007/09/16

 

witte de with

know about this WdW in Rottendam since Catherine David move to there after the Documenta X, finally able to give it a visit, but it is already under a new directorship of N. Schafhausen.
The exhibition ongoing is bodypoliticx (which however is not a N.S. curated show), which is a really serious, mostly over the top hardcore show, that's why there is that last line, noting that the show is only for 18 and above.

2007/09/15

 

little less than half minute

did an improvised little piece with Erwin Wurm poster.

It is supposed to be half minute long, but I could not find the video editor software I used to work with, and the one I finally used here could not turn the whole clip 90 degrees but also compressed it after me adding in the caption. anyhow, here it is. maybe I should just come up with another title instead.


 

Where has all the terrorism gone?

After visiting the outstanding Van Abbemuseum at Eindhoven yesterday, headed this morning to the small town of Sittard where Shenzhen artist Chu Yun is staying for his residency. In this museum Het Domein, there is a Erwin Wurm show going on, other than some of his 1 minute sculpture pieces, there is works playing on Beuys, this is one of them, which I also reference to in my 1a room in the handover/talkover show.
Do hope you all know which work he or me is referring to.



2007/09/13

 

Being Chinese?


last night when tobias was not with us for the first time, we went eating at the wok, eating sort of chinese fried rice and noddles. today on our way to the temporary Stedelijk, after visiting de Appel in Amsterdam, we came upon this, as if we are in shatin or aberdeen! Then on our way to the theatre, we walked past not just "those" cafes, but also chinatown, and they bought some cup noodles as the meals to come.

2007/09/12

 

Hijacking space (for Luke)

did a series of spontaneous clips on my plane trip today on the 11th Sept of 2007 from Istanbul to Amsterdam. Here is just my inexciting trailer.


2007/09/11

 

An artist book over No Time


2007/09/10

 

Manray Hsu

In 8 Sept Panel discussion at Sanrralistanbul
Pluralism and Multiple Modernitiies in the Global Art
man ray did a wonderful comment on the discussion on art relation to sociology/politics.

p.s. heard that he has actually wrote an article on informal economy for the Istanbul Biennial catalogue.

2007/09/08

 

Hou Hanru

Hou Hanru on why involving Chinese artists in the press conference for Istanbul Biennial.

2007/09/07

 

05 Sept 07

Opening of the Time Past Time Present at Istanbul Modern, a show on previous Istanbul biennial co-curated by David Elliot

see if you could spot the two hk artists involved in the biennial.
hint: I said HK artists, not local artists. by them is a Hong Kong based curator, not a local curator. You probably now rather I give you hints on their clothes colour?

2007/09/06

 

Istanbul


here all, I am now in Istanbul, so don't call me via the phone, or you could get in touch with Tobias who got my phone for he has forgot his. email me instead.

will try to report on the journey if the hotel has the internet connection back (yes, I am stealing signal from elsewhere again).


2007/09/01

 

Time After Time exhibition

just setup a blog
http://mmk-tat.blogspot.com/
for sharing with the artists aboard.

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