SILAS FONG

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  • Opportunities

    Highlights
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    Upcoming

    Past
    Celeste Prize 2009 Entry Form
    30 June 2009

    Videoholica 2009
    20 June 2009

    OK Video COMEDY     – 4th Jakarta International Video Festival 2009
    15 June 2009

    Bloomberg Emerging Artists Programme 2009
    11 May 2009

    Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Awards 2009 (香港當代藝術雙年獎 2009) Chin Eng
    3 May 2009
    Application form Chin Eng

    Rhizome, New York, US
    2 Apr 2009

    Ars Electronica 2009, Linz, Austria
    6 Mar 2009

    The Rijksakademie Residency 2010, Amsterdam
    1 Feb 2009

    The Cartier Award 2009, London
    5 Jan 2009

    Second Young Writers’ Debut Competition, HK (年輕作家創作比賽)
    20 Dec 2008 First Round
    18 Apr 2009 Final

    Singapore International Film Festival
    20 Dec 2008

    Cinema du Reel, France
    30 Nov 2008 for registration, 30 Dec 2008 for submission
    Submission

    OPEN e v+ a 2009, Ireland
    28 Nov 2008, delivered to Ireland on or before

    Asia Cultural Council – Fellowships and grant, Hong Kong
    15 Nov 2008 (Extended)

    International Film and Video Awards, HK
    14 Nov 2008

    80+1 A Journey around the world
    31 Oct 2008

    Live Herring, Finland
    – digital animation
    – net art
    20 Oct 2008

    Design your sac competition, Hong Kong
    13 Oct 2008 (Extended)

    Inaugural Exhibit Artist Submissions, NYC
    1 Oct 2008

    Augen-Blick 2.0 – Mirroring China, Berlin (德國 “視界 2.0 – 鏡像中國”)
    26 Sep 2008
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    Call for entries/proposals/artists:
    Artistsonline.biz
    Art Deadlines List
    Asia Art Archive
    Film Festival World
    Public Art News Taiwan
    鏡像中國 Sinoreel.com (Chinese)
    VAAA Art Blog

    Artist Residencies:

    Belgium – Air Antwerpen, Antwerp
    Germany – Follow Fluxus, Wiesbaden    (By Nomination Only)
    Japan – S-Air, Sapporo
    Korea – Gyeonggi Creation Center, Gyeonggi-do
    The Netherlands – De Atelier, Amsterdam
    The Netherlands – Rijksakademie, Amsterdam
    Taiwan – Taipei Artist Village, Taipei

    Res Artis
    Artist Residency Program Directory by Hong Kong Art School
    Grants:
    Asian Cultural Council
    The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

  • Stolen Times for Sale 販賣偷來的時間

    2008 Video Installation/ Performance
    Exhibited in
    《Move On Asia 2010 Single Channel Video Art Festival》(Touring Exhibition)
    Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong; Tate Modern, London  Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea;
    《Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Award 2009》
    Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
    《The 14th ifva (Interactive Media Category) Finalist Works Exhibition》
    4/F, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, 2009
    《Anonymity – The Debut Solo Exhibition of Silas Fong》
    Artist Commune, Cattle Depot Artists Village, Hong Kong, 2008
    《New Trend 2008》Artist Commune, Cattle Depot Artists Village, Hong Kong, 2008
    《Current》    Graduation Exhibition, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University, 2008

    We are merchants
    Everyday we purchase
    Time for money     Money for time

    I sell the stolen times
    For reasonable price

    Silas Fong is the first merchant in Hong Kong, for giving customers outstanding value for money, the highest quality in fresh time.

    The performer steals time from strangers through pressing the button of elevators. The stolen times are recorded as video and are being exhibited in a gallery. Visitors can purchase and take away these times, which are extracted into a CD with money from the performer. According to the duration, number of people involved, their approximate age, appearance and response, prices for stolen times are different. The video sequences once sold are replaced by “SOLD – XX SECONDS FOR $XXX”, and are being shown together with the unsold ones.

    販賣偷來的時間
    2008錄像裝置/行為

    展覽
    第十四屆ifva互動媒體組入圍作品展，香港藝術中心四樓包氏畫廊, 2009
    《不知名》方琛宇首個個人展覽，牛棚藝術村藝術公社, 2008
    《出爐2008》大專藝術畢業生群展，牛棚藝術村藝術公社, 2008
    《    Current》畢業展，香港浸會大學視覺藝術院畫廊, 2008

    我們都是商人
    每天賣時間    、買時間

    我以合理的價錢
    販賣偷來的時間

    方琛宇是全港首位致力為顧客提供價錢至抵、高質素新鮮時間的商人。

    透過升降機的按鍵，陌生人的時間被偷走，這些偷來的時間被攝成錄像在畫廊中展出。參觀者可自由選購時間，表演 者將它放進光碟隨顧客帶走。被偷來的時間根據長度、片中人數、他們的年齡、外貌及反應，價格各有不同。而己售的時間片段，即時被換上“已售 – XX秒 XXX元” 的字樣，與還未被出售的錄像繼續播放。

    Catalogue for stolen times


    above: Silas Fong selling time

  • Upon the escalator 在扶手電梯上

    2009 Digital Video
    HDV/ Color/     13′ 50″

    In the space with high pedestrian flow in the city, there is full of delicate communication between people. Artist reconstructs the relationship upon the escalators and the story of people by 3 video channels abreast.

    Different numbers of people, movements, and ups and downs are strewn at random through time and space. Strangers that never met are arranged to stare at and pass by each other in the overlapping space. This highlights the artist and audience, staying aloof but being in the story at the same time.

    With a dramatic arrangement, the artist shows his imagination of the cityscape and reflection on interpersonal relationship in the public.

    – Chan Yeuk Ming

    2009 數碼錄像
    高清/彩色/    13′ 50″

    城市之中有許多高人流的空間。當中充滿了人與人之間的微妙交流。藝術家藉由並排三組凝視電梯的片段，重塑當中的人物關係。

    不同人數和長度的停動、上落形成時空錯落。並未相遇並不相識的人在安排之下，於重疊的空間中曖昧對視，擦身而過。同時又突顯了旁觀的藝術家和觀眾，以孤獨的姿態冷眼旁觀但又置身其中。於戲劇性的鋪排下，藝術家展示了個人對城市風景的想像和公共空間中人際關係的玩味。

    – 陳曰明



    A preview of the video (please watch in HD mode and full screen)

  • In some seconds 轉眼

    2009 Dual screen video installation
    HDV/ Color/ 16’44”, 16’41”
    A video is shot on a bus towards the street on passers-by.

    In a populous city, a specific person could only be captured in a random manner whenever the bus stops, not before or after, and just for some seconds.

    I chose a lane I travel weekly for shooting. The footages, taken in different time are sequenced into two 16:9 videos with slightly different duration and order, being back projected on two screens facing each other. In such way they are hung to create a narrow “moving” space/path to embrace the audience in between, and an experimental cinematic space for the encounter between the audience and the people in each of the two screens.

    Exhibited in
    《Some rooms》Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong, 2009

    轉眼

    2009     雙屏幕錄像裝置
    高清/彩色/16分44秒,16分41秒
    在繁囂的城市裏，坐在巴士上想遇上車外街上的某路人，只能隨巴士慢駛或停下，分秒不差，也只能維持數秒。

    我選擇了經常乘搭的巴士路線進行拍攝，將拍攝得來的影片剪輯成兩段長度和次序接近的16:9錄像，背投到兩個面對面的屏幕上，造成一個狹窄的“流動”空間/通道將觀眾包圍，讓觀眾及兩個屏幕中的人在這個實驗電影空間中各自相遇。

    展覽
    《Some rooms》奧沙畫廊,香港  2009


    Screenshots of the video



  • Art Map 藝術地圖

    2008 – Present
    Performance/ Business cards     Dimension variable

    Exhibited in
    《Anonymity – The Debut Solo Exhibition of Silas Fong》
    Artist Commune, Cattle Depot Artists Village, Hong Kong, 2008

    Since March 2008, I always attend art events and exhibitions’ opening. I have collected many business cards and witnessed numerous magnificent events in the Hong Kong art scene. I try to draw a map of ecology relating to art by selecting some events and their corresponding cards.

    Each panel represents an art event, contains the cards of the people I know and I meet. There is only one copy of the card collected from the owner when I first met. The others are all colour copies. The card owners are invited to sign on the panel at their corresponding cards when Art Map is being exhibited.

    2008 – 現在
    名片 尺寸不一

    展覽
    《不知名》方琛宇首個個人展覽，牛棚藝術村藝術公社, 2008

    我經常出席藝術活動和展覽開幕酒會，因為我喜歡收到很多不同的名片。
    自零八年三月，我收藏了數十多張名片，見証了多件香港藝壇盛事    。

    在其中我選了一些不同的代表活動，嘗試以名片繪出一幅和藝術有關的生態圖。

    每個展板代表一個藝術活動，展示着我己認識及初相識的人的名片。
    而在整件作品中，每款名片只有一張是從初相識的人手中得來，其餘的都是彩色複印。
    在<藝術地圖>被展出其間，出現在地圖上的名字的人都會被邀請出席，並在    展板上其名片的位置簽署。


    The overview of Art Map
    in ‘Anonymity – The Debut Solo Exhibition of Silas Fong’ at Artist Commune


    Janet CHAN was signing on her business card


    LEE Chun Fung was signing on her business card


    Details of Art Map
    Each map contains cards representing people that the author knew or just met in a particular event.

  • False Public Space – In a poetic/private tone

    Leung Mee-ping

    Concerning the works of art on public spaces, there are numerous example in which private spaces are intervened in order to discuss its publicness. Recently there is an artists’ group ‘hijacked’ various local public spheres, redefining the spaces which have been ‘privatized’ by commercial organizations. This literally involves art into our living spaces, but also counteracts the power and changes the reality. Being art or not for such kind of public art no longer makes any significance as it is already a part of the serious yet relaxing livelihood.

    Similar to the young artists of his generation, Silas Fong begins with scenes from his daily life. To a certain extent, he engages into public space by works like ‘Stolen Times for Sale’, ‘Surveil the Strangers’, ‘When the Door Opens’ and ‘Opening Performance’. These works portray the people, known and unknown, he encountered in his public life, but the people inside did not appear as the same individuals as in the reality. If we define the publicness of his works with references to those who interferes the public spaces, he seemed to be distanced from the real life. The characters in the public space he focuses on or plays with might only be their shadows. Therefore the interpretation of his work is wide-opened while his position, when dealing with space politics, remains vague. For me, his engagement into public space in fact reflected/created his private space of existence. Inside, he slowly tastes his poems, just like the tone he talks in the actual life.


    – Published in “Anonymity – The Debut Solo Exhibition of Silas Fong”, Exhibited from 1-19 November 2008

  • 偽公共的空間 － 私/詩人的語調

    梁美萍

    探究公共空間的作品，常以私人空間作為切入點，辯證公共空間的公共性概念。例如早前有藝術家群「騎劫」本土各類公共空間，把原本是屬於「公共」卻被商販 「私有化」佔用的空間重新詮釋，真正地引發了藝術介入現實生活的空間，作出抗衡，改變現實。如此的公共藝術，是否藝術已不再重要，因為它已成為既認真又輕 鬆的生活本身。
    像許多年輕一代的創作人，方琛宇亦以身邊的日常生活現象為切入點。可以說，他的作品大部份都介入了公共的空間，如《販賣偷來的時間》、《陌生人網誌》、 《當門打開》和《開幕表演》，作品中呈現了他個人在公共生活中接觸過的人，有認識的或不認識的，這些人物卻沒有在他的作品中展現個別現實的面貌。如果以介 入公共空間的創作來定性他作品的公共性的話，似乎他與現實生活隔了一層。他注意的或者把玩的，也許僅是公共空間人物的影子。既然是影子，他作品的詮釋開放 性則較大，因而，一般同類創作可能引起的空間政治，在他的作品中並不明確。在我看來，他藉介入公共空間反而體現 / 創造了其私人的存在空間。在裡面，他慢慢嘴嚼他的詩，一如他現實生活中講話的語調。

    – 刊於”不知名 – 方琛宇首個個人展覽” 場刊,  展期為2008年11月1日至19日

  • ‘Silas Fong’ an anonymous person

    Media. Wen Wei Po 文匯報
    Date. 2008-11-15
    Page. A21
    Text & Photo. 嚴豔芳

    About Anonymity - The Debut Solo Exhibition of Silas Fong
    About Anonymity – The Debut Solo Exhibition of Silas Fong
    About Anonymity – The Debut Solo Exhibition of Silas Fong

  • Hello, Stranger!

    Media. HK Magazine
    Date. 2008-11-14
    Page. 34
    Text. Winnie Chau

    About Anonymity - The Debut Solo Exhibition of Silas Fong
    About Anonymity – The Debut Solo Exhibition of Silas Fong

  • The Aesthetics of Surveillance

    Media. SingTao Daily 星島日報
    Date. 2008-11-06
    Page. E7
    Text & Photos. Jan Wong