講座 | 逆光：雙城取樣 粵港當代藝術中的泛組織與個體生長
Talk | Against the Light: Sampling in Two Cities Pan-Organizations and Individual Growth of Contemporary Art in Canton and Hong Kong
講座 | 逆光：雙城取樣
粵港當代藝術中的泛組織與個體生長
講者：胡斌、武漠、陳丹笛子、馮火、鄧國騫、黎卓華
時間：2018年2月2日 週五 14:00-16:00
地址：香港藝術中心 麥高利小劇場
語言：國語
主辦機構：香港藝術中心、楊鋒藝術與教育基金會
“逆光：雙城取樣”展覽嘗試以新的角度和方法描述珠三角地區年輕藝術家共通的內在體驗與創作走向，將廣州、香港兩座藝術生態較為完善的城市視作容器，以樣本觀察的方式切入，選取了陳丹笛子、鄧國騫、馮火、鄺鎮禧、黎卓華、湯大堯六位藝術家/組合的作品。“逆光”作為壹種視角提出，緣於珠三角地區經常性的陽光強烈直射，其在自然與城鎮中形成的光影錯落更形塑了城區景觀、人的視覺體驗與生活方式。在今天，它進壹步延展為城市燈光、智能設備、數碼屏幕等造成的後現代情狀中的“人造逆光”效果。從上世紀70年代廣東藝術家利用“逆光”構建的“陽光感”對“全國模式”的豐富，到當下珠三角藝術家以逆向或多重視角放大日常生活之“異象”的工作方法，“逆光”既形成了新的歷史縱深感，又蘊含著某種“反其道而行之”的精神特質。
以展覽作為引子，我們即將在香港藝術中心舉辦講座交流活動，邀請兩位策展人和參展藝術家講述各自的工作以及對於珠三角藝術生態的觀察與認知。此次講座的主題為：粵港當代藝術中的泛組織與個體生長，圍繞這壹主題，我們希望探討珠三角地區在過去幾年中較具代表性的藝術組織形態，及其與藝術家個體發展之間的互動關系。兩地的藝術組織形態具有怎樣的區域特質？它們各自的生產方式及在不同生態當中發生的作用為何？藝術個體在此類組織形態中扮演了何種角色，又由此被激發了怎樣的創作動力？我們希望此次講座可以成為有效討論以上問題的壹次嘗試。
Talk | Against the Light: Sampling in Two Cities
Pan-Organizations and Individual Growth of Contemporary Art in Canton and Hong Kong
Speakers: Hu Bin, Wu Mo, Chen Dandizi, Fong Fo, Tang Kwok Hin and Sarah Lai Cheuk Wah
Date: Feb 2nd (Friday) 2018
Time: 14:00-16:00
Venue: McAulay Studio Hong Kong Arts Centre
Language: Manderin
Presented By: Hong Kong Arts Centre, Frank F. Yang Art and Education Foundation
Against the Light: Sampling in Two Cities attempts to take on a new perspective and approach in iterating the shared experiences and creative direction among young artists in the Pearl River Delta region, regarding Guangzhou and Hong Kong – these two developed art ecologies – as the containers for six artists and artist collectives, namely CHEN Dandizi, FONG Fo, KONG Chun Hei, TANG Dayao, TANG Kwok Hin, Sarah LAI Cheuk Wah, whose artistic practices are observed and studied through this exhibition.
Against the Light proposes a perspective, inspired by the constant and strong daylight beating down on the two cities' natural and urban environment, its efflorescence shaping the urban landscape and people’s ways of life and visual experiences. Today, life is evolving into urban luminosity, with smart devices and digital screens creating an “artificial backlight” effect in the post-modern condition. Since the 1970s, artists from Guangdong have adopted the notion of the “backlight” in rendering the experience of being “under the sun” that enriched a “model for the whole country”; the artists of the Pearl River Delta region have heretofore taken on multiple or counterintuitive perspectives in magnifying the “uncanniness” of their everyday life. Against the Light aims to offer new depth to this historical narrative, while embodying a spiritual quality of “going against the grain.”
Around the exhibition, we will hold a talk in Hong Kong Arts Center, inviting curators and artists to present their work and their understanding of the art ecology in the Pearl River Delta. The theme of the talk is: Pan-Organizations and Individual Growth of Contemporary Art in Canton and Hong Kong. On this theme, we hope to discuss the more representative forms of art organizations in the Pearl River Delta in the past few years and their interactive relationship with individual development of artists. What are the regional characteristics of the art organizations in both places? What are their respective modes of production and their roles in different ecosystems? What kind of creative power does artistic individual play in such organization and how the creative power has been stimulated? We hope this talk can be an attempt to effectively discuss the above issues.