Give Way to the Voices Afterwards 其後，讓位予眾聲喧嘩

A Continuation of ‘Inhabiting the Temporary Land’ Artist Residency at Eaton HK
Eaton HK藝術家駐場計畫【棲息於臨時之地】後續展覽 

Curator 策展人: Cat Ha 夏芝然

Participating Artists 參展藝術家: Lee Chi Leung 李智良、IV Chan 陳子雯、Tsang Tsui Shan 曾翠珊、Lo Keng Chi 盧勁馳、untrou-art (Kou Chin Ngai 高展毅 & Cat Ha 夏芝然) 

Exhibition Dates 展覽日期: 04.17 - 05.14.2021, 11am - 9pm
(On April 17th the exhibition opens on 2 pm. 4月17日當天展覽將於2時開放。) 

‘Place, place in the sense of lieu, luogo, ort, mestopolojenie. The last Russian word also means situation, and this is worth remembering.

A place is more than an area. A place surround something. A place is the extension of a presence or the consequence of an action. A place is the opposite of empty space. A place is where an event has taken or is taking place.’

— A Shape of Pocket, John Berger

Taking Berger’s idea, we ask, what is being extended from this place? What does this place surround? As a continuity of the residency Inhabiting the Temporary Land in Eaton HK, Give Way to the Voices Afterward bring forth the group’s inquiry of the surrounding neighborhood.

Throughout the residency at Eaton HK, Lee Chi Leung, Lo Keng Chi, Cat Ha (Writer), Tsang Tsui Shan (Film Director), IV Chan (Mixed media artist) and Kou Chin Ngai (Interdisciplinary artist) relinquish our own practice and adopt each other’s ways of observation, ideation and creation, hence imagine ourselves as travelers exploring strange land with a foreign scope.

As newly arrived strangers we can only observe and assimilate the ongoing happenings here in passivity. Only through discovering the relational ties with places and objects can we identify the ‘situation’ we are drawn into and perceive our own ‘presence’.

In the exhibition Give Way to the Voices Afterwards, ‘object’ is the incognito protagonist emerging from the mundane everyday scenario, they speak loudly to reveal the alienated aspects of the surrounding neighborhood, to act as the mediator of the ‘situations’ we engaged in. The artworks form a network of object, each of them complements the others, opening up a space for continuation of the fragmentized narrative embedded.

(Please refer to the Chinese version for the original text.)

「地點」，就lieu, luogo,ort,mestopolojenie 的意義來說的「所在」。最後一個俄文字亦作「情境」解釋，值得我們牢記。

地點不只是地區。地點環繞某事物。地點是存在的延伸、行動的結果。地點對立於空無一物的空間。地點是事件已發生或正在發生之處。

﹣約翰.伯格《另類的出口》

於是，引用約翰.伯格之言，在【棲息於臨時之地 Eaton駐留項目】後，我們在此地，延伸了什麼？或是此地環繞了什麼事物？而這個後續展覽，試圖藉「物」而對「所在」或「情境」進行一種梳理。

六位來自於不同媒介的藝術家，李智良、盧勁馳、夏芝然（作家）、曾翠珊（導演）、陳子雯（混合媒介藝術家）、高展毅（跨媒介藝術家），各有所執，此次，借著職能的轉換，模仿異鄉人駐留於Eaton。

如果我們是剛抵步的異鄉人，那這個社區這個地點，事件已發生或正在發生，而我們未能參與前，只能凝視、收納那些迎面而來的偶遇事物。這種被動性，卻讓我們轉換了另一個視角，等待窺看事物的另一種風格。

人們是依附於地點或物吧，藉著地點，才可能辨析出「所在」，藉著物，或許才得知我們的「情境」。

此次展覽，不約而同，各藝術家的作品均以「物」為主。這些物，早存在於這社區，低調隱藏，但如願意於街道空間徘徊遊蕩，日覆一日，它們始終會以各種非尋常的姿態，顯示於面前。

故此，此展覽，最終是讓位予物，眾聲喧嘩是物。而我們也希望因此而得知「所在」。

最後，各藝術家的作品，也將滲入各人作品的空間裡。或許，就是藉著滲入，使各人作品空間顯得不完整或是互補，某個程度，代表可以繼續，可以補充，使得情境的延續。

夏芝然

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To ensure the health and well being of our staff and guests, we will take the following safety precautions on 12 September:
- Guests may be asked to wait outside to prevent overcrowding.
- Visitors are asked to wear a mask. They will have their temperatures checked upon arrival at Eaton.
- We kindly ask those who have travelled within the past 14 days to refrain from joining the event.

為確保賓客和員工的健康，我們會於開幕期間進行下列的防疫措施：
- 訪客有可能需要在門外等待入場，防止過度擠逼
- 進入畫廊時，訪客需要戴上口罩和通過體溫監測
- 我們懇請曾於14日內有旅遊記錄的客人請勿參加展覽