Assignment No. 2

Rethinking the possibilities of Body

Few weeks ago, being inspired by the Art Exhibition on Sexuality and the seminars given in this year’s Sex and Cultural Festival (2011), I made a printmaking work the represent some of my thoughts on the issues of sexuality, justice, even body.

After watching Pina Bausch’s stage performance recording in the lesson of Adaptation, Theatre and Culture, I have thought more about “body” per se, and have got some more reflection of the work I have made.

The printmaking that I made was concerned with the unequal treatment being faced my some sexual minority in Hong Kong nowadays. For example, local law is actually harsh to some groups of people, such as LGBT, in Hong Kong. I was totally shocked when I learnt that person who sexually rapes a transgendered person can never be legally charged with “rape” in Hong Kongbut “indecent assault” only. For instance, what I tried to bring out in this artwork is that everyone in this world is born equal so that should not be discriminated or treated unjustly.

I put it on the wall of a lane in Yau Ma Tei which is one of the most crowded places in Hong Kong. Many of the people crossing this lane are comparatively young, trendy, modern, and (perhaps) open-minded. I want people passing through there to aware the printmaking and then rethink more about what they have been accustomed to in everyday life.

Assignment No. 1

抗爭的藝術──術抗爭的子論》中藝術抗爭
記「我愛我家‧馬屎埔粵曲迎新歲」音樂會

(同時載於香港獨立媒體)

兔年的大年初十一，天下著雨，像在抽泣。一群年輕人很早便在這濕冷的天氣中營營地勞動起來。那邊在菜園村瓦礫中綻放的「新春胡士托‧拆到爛晒音樂嘉年華」與「廢墟藝術節」剛「完滿」落幕，這邊同樣是非原居民本地農村的粉嶺馬屎埔村則辦起粵曲音樂會來，吸引了不少在附近居住的長者居民來觀賞，當中甚至有菜園村的村民到來支持。雖然在菜園村的頹垣敗瓦中，我們已經可以預視，這條寧靜的小農村──就如所有本地非原居民農村──的悲劇命運，但是我們期待這些藝術工作者在人們心中種下的種子就像馬屎埔田地裡所種的果樹與蔬菜那般，會於寒冬後萌芽成長，最終修成正果。

馬屎埔村位於粉嶺馬適路旁、梧桐河沿岸，亦是政府「新界東北三合一新發展區（NDAs）」中受影響的農村之一，村中大部分農地已被恆基兆業及其他相關地產公司收購，大約兩至三年回園村境將全不復再，反之會建成像一路之隔的綠悠軒、帝庭軒等大型私人屋苑。

一群年輕人眼見仍在馬屎埔村過著簡樸務農生活的村民被地產商無理迫遷而感到憤慨非常，為尋求公義，同時保護香港僅存的田園生境，於是組成了「土地呼吸」，希望能以藝術形式為村民發聲，並以此引起香港人對自己腳下土地的反思。於是，繼去年十一月舉辦「土地呼吸‧馬屎埔音樂」得到空前成功後，他們再接再勵，繼續連同港青創意藝術教育計劃和馬寶寶社區農場，舉辦「我愛我家‧馬屎埔粵曲迎新歲」音樂會。「土地呼吸」發言人指出，希望透過音樂會，告訴在附近居住的居民，甚至馬屎埔村中仍未太了解現今事態的的村民，自己的「家」正在蘊釀怎麼樣的巨大變化。

『陳腐了就必須毀壞。記憶抑或存在，都在這裡終止。

──黃碧雲，《血卡門》 』

〈世紀末暑假〉（金子修介，1988）

記得早前，bc Sunday曾經重映金子修介的〈世紀末暑假〉（1988），惟當時因事忙而錯過了。近日，想買DVD回家看，怎知Kubrick的店員卻告知此片的影碟已絕版（！），此故事教訓本小姐「錢非萬能」的道理。然而，上天憐恤，九天前竟然有人把此片（中文字幕版）上載到土豆網。強國萬歲！

電影甫開始，便被導演鏡頭下的唯美影像緊緊攝住。湖光山色、森林裡的宿舍、青春、盛夏、少年胴體、熾烈不安、令人窒息的欲望、異色、曖昧、蠢蠢欲動、煙火、沒有成年人的自由世界......一堆唯美得好像只能夠存在於回憶中的詞彙不斷在腦海中湧現。現實殘酷而醜陃，唯美便往往源於不現實。於是，現實世界中常常被視為導致遺憾產生的源頭，例如：時間、空間、身份、性別、生死，在電影中均被刻意模糊掉，而造成一幅美輪美奐，沒有遺憾的圖畫。