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  • Anonymous Random Aesthetics

    Media. AM730
    Date. 2008-11-03
    Page. 26


  • Anonymity 不知名

    The Debut Solo Exhibition of Silas Fong  方琛宇首個個人展覽

    年輕藝術家方琛宇在日常生活中擅用匿名者的角色探究各種人與人之間的關係,其着眼點在於表現公共與私人之間的拉鋸。方氏靜靜地攝取了位於實在與虛擬空間中不確定而又隨機的美學特質,表現於攝影、錄像、裝置及行為藝術中。

    不知名:未知或陌生的狀態或特性。當此詞出現在眼前或浮現在腦海時會有甚麼感覺?匿名地接觸其他人或被其他人接觸的感覺又是怎樣?到底是未知引發好奇心還是好奇心促成更多的未知?我們每天上班上學、到餐廳用膳甚或瀏覽網站途中,總會遇上許多過路人。於我們來說,他們都是沒有名字、陌生又遙遠的。這是否意味著我們跟這些人就沒有相互關係?正因為地點及身分均不熟悉,一些不知名的感覺與關係隨之而生。從另一方面理解「不知名」就是不著名,亦是方氏對其作為新晉藝術家於本地藝壇地位的一種解讀。

    Young artist Silas Fong Sum-yu is making good use of being anonymous in his everyday life to investigate the relation between people, focus on the tension between public and private. Silas Fong silently captured the aesthetics features of uncertainty and randomness in tangible places and intangible spaces. Silas Fong shows his disillusions through investigation in the form of photograph, video, installation and performance.

    Anonymity: the quality or state of being unknown or unacknowledged. What is the feeling of approaching someone or being approached anonymously? Does anonymity induce curiosity or curiosity generates anonymity? Everyday when we are going to work, eating in restaurant or surfing on internet, we would come across hundreds of strangers, they are nameless, unidentified and incognito. Does that mean we have no connections with them? Anonymous feelings and relations are being generated when location and people are unidentified. The artist takes an anonymous role in the local art scene, suggesting his state of emergence and not being well-known.

    開幕表演|Opening Performance: 1 Nov 2008, 4:30pm
    展覽結束|Exhibition ends 19 Nov 2008
    免費入場|Free Admission
    策展人|Curator: 羅偉珊 Susie LAW Wai-shan

    藝術家簡歷 | Artist Biography :
    方琛宇於香港成長及接受教育,2008年畢業於香港浸會大學視覺藝術系。除藝術創作外,他亦有志於從事研究,行政,策展及評論等不同藝術範疇。方氏常以混合媒介、攝影及裝置等媒介進行創作,透過介入各種關係進行探索,特別關注日常生活、感知、時間、金錢、陌生人及大眾媒體等題材之相互關係。最近以錄像、行為藝術及超媒體進行一系列試驗。

    Born and based in Hong Kong. Silas Fong received his BA (Hons) Visual Arts from the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University in 2008. Fong worked on mixed media, photography and installation. He is especially interested in daily life, perception, time, relationship, money, strangers and the mass media. His research bases on his engagement into social and personal relationships. Recently, he experiments ideas through video, performances and hypermedia. http://www.silasfong.com


    Stolen Times for Sale 販賣偷來的時間
    2008 Video installation/ Performance 錄像裝置/行為

    Surveil the Strangers 跟蹤陌生人
    2008 Weblog/Computer installation  網誌/電腦裝置

    查詢 | Enquiry: +852 9602 1229 (Ms. Susie Law Wai-shan)
    電郵 | E-mail: Lawai3@gmail.com
    活動 | Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=30587928550

    場刊 | Catalogue:
    http://silasfong.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/anonymity_catalogue_web.pdf

    媒體報導 | Media coverage:
    2008.11.14 HK Magazine – Hello, Stranger!
    2008.11.06 SingTao Daily – The Aesthetics of Surveillance
    2008.11.03 AM730 – Anonymous random aesthetics

    相關連結 |  Related Link
    Apart
    Artist Commune

  • Inside/Outside 裡/外

    2008 Light boxes
    37.5 cm x 25 cm  (4 in a set)

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

    Who, is in a strange place, tracking someone.

    裡/外
    2008 燈箱
    37.5厘米 x 25厘米 (一組四件)

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

    誰在一個陌生地方,跟蹤着誰

  • Current – 視覺藝術院畢業展 2008

    60位首屆香港浸會大學視覺藝術院畢業生將於英式歷史建築啟德校園展出多方面的學習和探索,由繪畫、雕塑、設計、裝置、陶瓷、玻璃、至互動媒體等多範疇的作品。

    開 幕:2008620(星期五) 下午6
    展 期:2008621(星期六) 720(星期日)
    時 間:星期一至日 上午10時至晚上6
    地 點:香港浸會大學視覺藝術院 觀塘道51 ()

    網 頁:http://va.hkbu.edu.hk/current
    查 詢:2353 5627/ va@hkbu.edu.hk
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  • When the door opens 當門打開

    2008 Digital Video
    Colour & Sound 7′50″

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

    Flow of time and spatial transformation.
    A long take in the platform of an MTR (metro) station at the doors with people going in and out.

    Time goes fast and slow. Space are integrated and separated, dense and loose.
    The relation of time and space interact with people weaves a symphony of city life.

    當門打開
    2008
    數碼錄像
    彩色和
    聲音 7′50″

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

    時間流動和空間轉化
    地下鐵月台幕門前
    長鏡頭內人來人往時間快慢交接空間結合散落,時密時鬆
    人潮與時空編織出一曲城市生活的交響樂


  • 5 May 2008

    Two decades ago you came from glory hole
    I was told, the story of highs and lows
    you my little snow, melt me from the coast
    from the void I didn’t know
    you my little dear, my little pear
    hear, the May is chanted, the day has come
    the fish is swimming, chewing gum
    and we are kissing, tongue to tongue

  • Surveil the strangers 跟蹤陌生人

    http://www.silasfong.com/strangers/

    2008 Weblog/ Computer Installation
    Dimension variable

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

    Because you are curious, because you feel excited
    Around you, there are people that you don’t even know, that you have never seen, that you are not familiar with, that you are curious of, that you have watched for some time. Surveil them, forget your sense of guilty, follow your curiosity, share what you know about them like everyone does.

    跟蹤陌生人
    2008 網誌/電腦裝置
    尺寸可變

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

    因好奇.為刺激
    在你的身邊,有一些你從不認識的、未見過的、不熟悉的、令你有興趣的和你監視已久的人來來往往。偷窺他們,忘記你的罪惡感,跟隨你的好奇心像其他人一樣去分享對他們所知的。

  • 5 April 2008

    The little face looks afraid
    The little dress flows overr the shadow
    The lips stick up
    with kisses
    The drop runs out
    from eyelids
    The shinning crystal in your face
    drown me in sympathy and hate
    The babysitter is not safe
    A scissor sister came from grave
    lost a jade, burnt her face
    yelling in the darkness, at the place
    I was, with my eyes bleeding
    pray for grace

  • 4 April 2008

    Wake up in the scream
    I feel like steamed
    In the dream
    The glass pour me in
    Finger tips on skin
    Warmth on your little chin

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