香港是一座當代美術館
——N個關鍵詞
Hong Kong Is a Contemporary Art Museum
——Some Key Words
日期：3月24日至26日
Date: 24-26 March2016
開幕：3月24日晚上7點30分
Opening: 24 March, Evening 19：30
地址：香港九龍上海街716號3樓
Venue: 2／F， 716 Shanghai Street, Kowloon, Hong Kong
策展人：夏芝然
Curator: Cat Ha
藝術家：宋兮、高展毅
Artists: Song Xi、 Siu Go
項目策劃：untrou-art ﹠宋兮
Project Planner: untrou-art & Song Xi
創作夥伴： sans 、catleap、今朝風日好、uas hk
creative partner: sans、catleap、One Fine Day、uas hk
策展人語
Curator Statement
夏芝然
Cat Ha
仍無從獲知是在哪一刻，那麼確定香港就是一座當代美術館。曾經尋找證明、答案，但是，尋到的卻是更多的開放式疑問。香港的未定性，它的風格就是未定性。如當代藝術。一個充滿隱喻的地方。那這個藝術項目是什麼呢？它有很多急欲表達的思維與情感，但越是嚴肅地陳述，其精髓卻越流走。離「靈光」越遠，卻越接近大而無當。
I am still not sure since when I am sobelieve that Hong Kong is a contemporary art museum. I try to find evidencesand answers, but all I get are more open-ended questions. The style of HongKong is undefined, just like the contemporary art, a place with lots ofmetaphors. Then what this art projectabout?It has a lot of thoughts and feelings to express, but if there are more seriousdescription, the less essence left. It will be far away from the 『inspiration』,but just large and impractical.
唯有用N個關鍵詞去敘述這個發生於香港舊唐樓（室內）和九龍街道（室外）的藝術項目，是的，這是最好的方式。關鍵詞，是給予觀看者與被觀看者之間的聯想空間，而非下絕對性的定調。
This art project , which is held in oldTong Lau ( indoor ) and Kowloon Street ( outdoor ) only can be explained withsome key words, it is the best way. Key words, offering imaging space for thespectators and artist, these words are not absolute definition.
當代
Contemporary era
當代，狹義解釋，當下的時代。即刻。在發生中。未有結論。
Contemporary era, in narrow definition,means in the present time. Now. Happening. Without conclusion.
美術館
Art Museum
美術館，沒有事件沒有發生沒有時間沒有地點，是一個空無一物的空間。它沒有自身的屬性，它附生於藝術展覽的舉辦，它才被賦於意義。它是個被橫空而下的，局部地呈現藝術品的空間。它可以是藝術作品的舞臺。 它有別於創作的場所。
Art Museum, there is no events, nothinghappened, no time, no location, it is just an empty space. It has no selfnature, only if exhibitions are held, it will make sense. It is a space topresent art partially. It can be a stage for art, differ with the space forcreating.
當代美術館
Contemporary ArtMuseum
當代美術館，它該指向更多可能性。無論是當代或後當代，它既可以不在傳統裡，也可以不在未來裡，但它必然有過去的歷史文化的痕跡，也有未來的隱喻，它該是開放性，流動，變幻，沒有明確的定義。這種不確定，將引來更多過度詮釋的危險，然而，也因為這樣，它是容納另類/隱默/自由/孤獨/未曾有的藝術事件發生的場所，而非又成為製造強硬(既得利益者)話語權的空間。
Contemporary art museum, it should havemore possibilities. No matter it is contemporary or post-contemporary, it isnot just for the tradition, or the future, even there must be some historicaltraces and the metaphors of future, it should be open, flowing, unsettled, andwithout specific definition. The uncertain conditions will lead to the dangerof over explanation, but, with this kind of danger, it will bear all placeswith different/hidden/free/lonely/brand new art events. It is not another spacefor the beneficiary to build up strong voice again.
場所
Place
在場，所在。事情發生的地方。存在的憑證。
On the spot, is there. Where the thingshappened. The evidence of existence.
香港
Hong Kong
香港每個場所，透過影像、光影、異鄉人、交易、廣告、複製、對話、摩登大樓、唐樓、聲音、網際網路、過客等各種形式各種媒介，讓事情在發生中。而這種發生，源頭來自於形形色色的人，無意識地在探索「我是誰？」生活方式塑造了文化地貌，文化地貌又塑造人的特性 ，因此，港島、九龍、新界、離島，折射出來的面貌，因其內在性的異樣而不同，而人和其置身的場所絲絲相扣，形成了另類混雜的風格。
Every place in Hong Kong, everything ishappening between various mediums, such as image, light and shadow, stranger,trade, advertisement, reproduction, conversation, modern building, Tong Lau,voice, internet, etc. And the headstream of all the occurrences is variouspeople are looking for 『who am I ?』 unconsciously. The life style has built upthe cultural landscape, and the cultural landscape has holpen growing the humancharacter, so the features of Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, New Territories, andOutlying Islands are different since the inbeings are different, and people isclosely related to the environment, then become another mixed style.
回憶
Memory
「我回憶，或者，我被回憶，通過某些橫在我面前的東西，通過它們留下的氣味或者它們藏在用暗語寫的古老信件中，等待著被回憶。」
『I remember, or I was recalled, bysomething that in front of me, by the smell they left, or the hidden messagesin the code words that were written in the old letters, waiting to be recalled.』
德國作家君特·格拉斯（Günter Wilhelm Grass)道出回憶的被動。當我們書寫自己的歷史時，才發現我們幾乎無法獨立回憶，所有的回憶素材都被汙染，只剩下歷史透過記憶為我們量身定做的情節。（＊1）
German writer Günter Wilhelm Grassexpressed the passivity of memory. When we are writing our history, we realizewe can’t remember independently, all the reminiscence is polluted, and the leftpast records customized plots for us by memories.
不僅如是，更糟的是，我們置身於一個影像、信息爆炸的時代，所見、所掌握的一切是複製品。無從得知真實。如此一來，我們的記憶也是複製品。
But the worst truth is we are living in aninformation explosion age, all we see, all we master are reproductions. Wenever know the real. So our memory is copy as well.
記憶被背叛，回憶再被背叛。
Memory has been betrayed, and thereminiscence is betrayed again.
然而，我們可否製造自身的記憶？有個人烙印的感知和情感的記憶？
Can we make our own memories? The Memorywith personal perception and feelings?
記憶劇場
Memory Theatre
在一個有歷史痕跡的場所裡外，在不確定的記憶劇場裡，進行想像，跟隨想像，讓創造發生，以成為自身的未來記憶。
In a place which is full of history traces,in an unsure memory scene, to imagine, follow your imagination to create, thenbuild your own future memory.
這過程是藝術家自身抗衝複製和遺忘。以藝術作品建立另一個世界，如米蘭．昆德拉在《簾幕》所言，在那裡面，每個細節都有它的重要性，它的意義。所有身處其中的，每一字，每一句都得以不被遺忘，而且以原本的樣貌被保留下來。
During this process, the artists againstthe reproduction and oblivion, to build another world with art, Milan Kunderahad mentioned in <The Curtain>, every details has its own importance andmeaning. Every words, every sentences should not be forgotten, they should beleft with the original appearance.
此時此地
Now and Here
即使是最完美的複製也總是少了一樣東西：那就是藝術作品的「此時此地」，﹣-獨一無二地現身於它所在之地，﹣﹣就是這獨一的存在，且唯有這獨一的存在，決定了它的整個歷史。
——本雅明
Even the most perfect reproduction of awork of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, itsunique existence at the place where it happens to be. This unique existence ofthe work of art determined the history to which it was subject throughout thetime of its existence.
——Walter Benjamin
幽默
Humor
當代藝術，是一件很有黑色幽默感的事﹐它的骨子底是叛逆一切成為僵化的東西，包括政治、道德、規範等，也包括叛逆它自身。
Contemporary art is quite black humor, itsrebellion againsts everything that are rigescent, including politics, morality,rule, and of course contemporary art itself.
＊1 ［從福柯到「除憶詛咒」：電影的記憶治理初論］李洋著 上河卓遠文化
<From Michel Foucault To 『Curse Of Memory Elimination』 : A Study On MemoryProcessing of Film> Li Yang ( Author), SH Books ( Publisher)
＊2 《簾幕》 米蘭．昆德拉著 翁德明譯 皇冠文化出版有限公司
<The Curtain >Milan Kundera (Author) , Weng Deming ( Translator), Crown Culture (Publisher)
＊3 《迎向靈光消逝的年代》 華特．班雅明著 許綺玲譯臺灣攝影工作室
<The Work of Artin the Age of Mechanical Reproduction>Walter Benjamin (Author), Xu Qiling (Translator), Taiwan Photograhy Studio (Publisher )
策展人 X 藝術家
夏芝然
香港作家、獨立策展人。untrou-art藝術團體成員。
至今出版了9本小說。2011年開始﹐嘗試書寫打破常規小說載體的迷你小說。
迷你小說《甜美黑洞》 （夏芝然X夏力 合著kubrick出版)、《異色的橙》 (kubrick出版)。至今策展了7個展覽。2012年開始，以文學思維方式策劃藝術展覽。策劃了【另香港風格】、【古怪的念頭﹣《甜美黑洞》後抒寫】 （HK T3﹠Kubrick)、【把你吃掉﹣當念頭是漩渦】 、untrou-art 網絡展覽展【家，是一個展覽場所】、【一條逃逸的路線】、【誰吃掉了你的邊界？】
Cat Ha
HongKong Writer and independent Curator. She established Untrou-art. She haspublished 9 novels, and since 2011, she tries to break the ordinary way ofwriting novels, and start mini-novel. Mini novel <Sweet Black Hole> (CatHa X Eric co-authors, published by Kubrick)/ <Heterochromatic Orange>(Published by Kubrick) She has curated 7exhibitions so far. And since 2012, she has curated Art Exhibitions withLiterature mind. Theexhibitionsshe curated are: 「Another Hong Kong Style」 （Shantou university）, 「StrangeIdea Cross-Media Art Exhibition - Written After Sweet Black Hole」 ( H K T3SPACE & Kubrick), 「You were swallowed-When the idea was a whirlpool」, 「Homeis an exhibition space」( untrou-art, Internet Exhibition,HK)，「Apath to escape」 (GuangzhouPuGallery), 「Who ate your border?」( Shantou university)
宋兮
1983年生於黑龍江省齊齊哈爾市，達斡爾族，2006年畢業於大連輕工業學院，獨立藝術家，現工作生活於北京、上海。在藝術上，一方面，以獨立藝術家身份，在固化的社會生存模式中，打破慣性，讓藝術產生陌生化的認知與判斷；在高度的政治意識形態中，突破限制，讓藝術產生情感的輸出和有溫度的存在。創作涉及影像、雕塑、繪畫、新媒介等。另一方面，以策劃人身份，策劃社會藝術項目，作為一種藝術創作實踐，試圖在固有的空間系統裡建立某種新的秩序，從而改變現有的格局，讓藝術發生在第一問題現場。近期的項目有：【香港是一座當代美術館】，香港，2016 【光之身體】798金屬庫，北京，2015 【第十六個房間】，兼容的盒子，上海，2015 【宋兮，寓言】皮爾特沃夫畫廊，杜塞道夫，2014。近期主要群體展覽【移動的地域】，First draft Gallery，雪梨，2015 【民間的力量】，北京民生美術館，北京，2015 【甦醒的中國直覺】，悅美術館，北京，2014 【個體生長】天津美術館，天津，2013。策劃主要藝術項目包括【香港是一座當代美術館】，香港，2016 【圓夢公寓】駐留項目，北京，2014—2015；「10元計劃」，中國，2010—2013。2015年獲得明天當代雕塑獎。
Song Xi
born in Qiqihar in 1983, Daurnationality. Graduated from Dalian Polytechnic University in 2006, Song Xi isan independent artist, and now working and living in Beijing and Shanghai.
As an independent artist, he breaks thenorm of constant social survival mode, gives art a defamiliarization ofrecognition and judgment; In this high level of political ideology, break thelimitation, let art become warm and sentimental. His creation is involved in painting,installation, video, performance art, etc.As a curator, he plans social art projectsas the practice of art creation, try to build up some sort of new order in aninherent space system to change the current pattern, let art happen at thefirst site.
Song Xi’s recent projects, 『Hong Kong is acontemporary art museum』, Hong Kong, 2016; 『Nude』789 Metal Warehouse, Beijing,2015; 『The 16th room』, Bazaar Compatible program, Shanghai, 2015; 『Songxi·Allegory』, Piltover gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany, 2014.
Recent group shows: 『portable domains』, First draft Gallery, Sydney, 2015; 『The CivilPower』, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, 2015; 『Awakening Intuition Of China』,Enjoy Museum of Art , Beijing, 2014; 『Individual Growth』Momentum of Contemporary Art, Tianjin Art Museum, Tianjin, 2013.
Art projects that Song Xi has plannedincluding: 『Hong Kong is a contemporary art museum』, Hong Kong, 2016; 『ApartmentDreams Come True』 resident artist program, Beijing, 2014-2015; 『10RMBPlan』 China, 2010-2013.
In 2015, he won the third TomorrowContemporary Sculpture Award.
高展毅（小高）
香港藝術家，跨媒介創作。untrou-art成員，策劃參與藝術項目。出版《紅鼻子》(畫/小高，文字/夏芝然) 近年主要參與策劃展覽：2015年【誰吃掉你的邊界？】（汕大美術館）、【一條逃逸的路線】廣州璞畫廊、【四個Mistake】 香港、【家是一個展覽場所】untrou-art 網絡展覽 香港Kubrick 2014年【把你吃掉﹣當念頭是漩渦】廣州紅專廠 2013年【古怪的念頭跨媒介藝術展──《甜美黑洞》後抒寫】香港T3 & Kubrick 2012年《一團東西》畫作系列為2012 年香港當代藝術雙年展入圍作品
Kou Chin Ngai (Siu Go)
Hong Kong artist, Cross-media creation .Member of untrou-art, has planned and participated in many art projects, andpublished Red Nose (Illustrator/ Siu Go, Writer/ Cat Ha) 2015, 「 Who ate your border?」（Shantou university），[A path to escape] (Guangzhou Pu Gallery)， 「FourMistakes」 ( Hong Kong)，「Home is an exhibition space」(untrou-art, Internet Exhibition Hongkong)
2014, 「You wereswallowed-When the idea was a whirlpool」 (Guangzhou Redtory) 2013, 「Strange Idea Cross-Media ArtExhibition - Written After Sweet Black Hole」 ( Hong Kong TONG 3 SPACE &Kubrick)
翻譯：盧雪英
Translated by:Xueying Lo