Media. AM730
Date. 2008-11-03
Page. 26
Author: admin
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Anonymity 不知名
My first solo exhibition · 1–19 November 2008
Artist Commune, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong
Curated by Susie LAW Wai-shanAnonymous encounters connect the works in Anonymity: strangers passing through a lift, people meeting online, and the exchanges through which an emerging artist tries to enter the art world. Photography, video, installation and performance test the uncertain boundary between public space and private experience.

Opening of Anonymity, Artist Commune, 1 November 2008. Opening Performance
Live video and projection during the exhibition opening · 2008
As guests ate at the opening, a person holding a video camera filmed them. The live video feed was projected onto a large wall, bringing the visitors’ activity into the exhibition as it happened.

Opening Performance, Anonymity, Artist Commune, 1 November 2008. Live projection of guests eating. Art Map
Business cards, display panels and signing · 2008
Business cards collected at art events are arranged on panels corresponding to those events. The card owners are invited to sign beside their cards when the work is exhibited. See Art Map.

Art Map: collected business cards and event invitations. 
Stolen Times for Sale
Video installation and performance · 2008
Lift journeys interrupted for a few seconds become recordings offered for sale. The exhibition brings the encounters, their prices and the act of purchasing time into the same room. See the work and video documentation.


When the Door Opens
Video · 2008


Inside / Outside
Four photographic light boxes · 2008

Inside / Outside and Surveil the Strangers, installation view. Surveil the Strangers
Weblog and computer installation · 2008

At the opening

Original exhibition introduction · English
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.
繁體中文 · 原展覽簡介
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。
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Inside/Outside 裡/外
2008 · Light boxes · 37.5 × 25 cm each · Set of four
Who, is in a strange place, tracking someone.
Exhibited in Anonymity – The Debut Solo Exhibition of Silas Fong, Artist Commune, Cattle Depot Artists Village, Hong Kong, 2008.
繁體中文
裡/外
2008 燈箱
37.5厘米 × 25厘米(一組四件)誰在一個陌生地方,跟蹤着誰。
展覽:《不知名》方琛宇首個個人展覽,牛棚藝術村藝術公社,2008
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Current – 視覺藝術院畢業展 2008

近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:2008年6月20日(星期五) 下午6時
展 期:2008年6月21日(星期六)至 7月20日(星期日)
時 間:星期一至日 上午10時至晚上6時
地 點:香港浸會大學視覺藝術院 觀塘道51號 (地圖)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, 2008Flow 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。
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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
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Surveil the strangers 跟蹤陌生人
http://www.silasfong.com/strangers/
2008 Weblog/ Computer Installation
Dimension variableExhibited 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。

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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 chin3h























