G-Imagineering Along Desire Lines

G-IMAGINEERING ALONG DESIRE LINES
Modern Media x Hong Kong & Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture
Presented by Modern Media

Partners: Videotage, Chenmiji, Lona Records, ANLIGHTEN Design Studio

Special thanks to Johnnie To/Milyway Image, China Star Entertainment and STAR for permission to show clips from Running Out of Time 2, Videotage for its generous loan of projection and sound equipment, and Yatzar for spatial design support

Central Police Station Compound, 10 Hollywood Road Hong Kong
10 Jan - 15 Mar 2008 (closed on 6-8 Feb)

10am-6pm (daily)

G-Imagineering along Desire Lines presents the work of urbanites who have documented/initiated changes in (what was formerly known as) Victoria City: a video collage of Hong Kong filmmakers/video makers’ cinematic reinterpretation of urban spaces, to be juxtaposed with a recreation of the Central soundscape by sound artists Alok and Lona Records in a room decorated by furniture salvaged from demolished public buildings over the years by cultural publisher and collector of urban artifacts Chenmiji, in a study of the desires, dramas and organic spatial relationships embodied in the architecture and its surroundings. Copies of Modern Media’s City Magazine and the Outlook Magazine, chroniclers of the collective cultural/consumerist experience in Hong Kong and the South China region, provide a frame of reference for the exploration of possibilities in sustainability.

Concept & coordination by Lo Yin Shan & Vince Lung

《放逐慾望縱橫線》
現代傳播集團x 香港‧深圳建築雙年展
主辦：現代傳播
創作夥伴：錄映太奇、陳米記、LONA RECORDS、ANLIGHTEN DESIGN STUDIO

特別鳴謝：杜琪峰／銀河影像、《暗戰II》版權持有人中國星及STAR提供電影片段、錄映太奇借出投影器材及音響系統、YATZAR

《放逐慾望縱橫線》邀請香港都市生活的詮釋/創造者，在將發未發的變動中，尋索既有路徑以外的質感、音聲、幻像，為中區特有的空間象徵和城市記憶重新定義。本地電影人將中、上環的熟悉場景幻化成天馬行空的詩意舞台，文化刊物出版人/舊物收藏家陳米記多年來自面臨拆卸的舊屋舊廈、公共建築搶救家具、舊物保存歷史，音聲藝術家Alok與Lona Records創作夥伴以環境實驗音樂記錄城市集體潛意識；《放逐慾望縱橫線》以投影裝置將電影中虛構的警察面貌、權力糾纏置放於人去樓空的監獄實景，用囚犯手製的政府座椅、背後自有來歷的舊書櫥建構予參觀者思古神遊的場所，配合Alok and Lona Records現場即興演譯的環境/人聲數碼微模音樂，促成影像/音聲與建築/空間的對話。現場供隨意翻閱的《號外》與《新視線》雜誌，以一貫的文化視野與消費生活觸覺，為空間與慾望的後續討論提供素材。

概念策劃：盧燕珊、龍文浩

DESIRE FURNITURE
慾望家私

Chenmiji
陳米記

Today, the Central Police Station compound stands deserted, devoid of its former occupants—and its colonial-style government furniture.

For more than two decades, Chenmiji have been preserving history by salvaging overlooked treasure from public buildings and government offices facing demolition. These chairs, tables, book cases, door handles, light switches have been selected by Chenmiji from his vast collection of urban artifacts to be displayed in this former exhibition space for “Correctional Services Industries” products. Each item has its own story to tell—and a similar origin to the government stationery and furniture that had been used or produced here until not so long ago.

中區警署建築群，人去樓空，連殖民年代的傢俬舊物也一併消失。

舊物收藏家陳米記多年來自面臨拆卸的舊屋舊廈、公共建築搶救家具、舊物保存歷史。今次，他從私己舊物倉庫挑選一系列大小組件──檯椅、書架、門鎖、電燈掣等等放回這個「懲教工業製品」展示室內陳列。每件物品，附掛名牌一個，述說它的身世故事。

CENTRAL SUBCONSCIOUSNESS
音景中環
Lona Records
Alok, Edwin Lo, João Vasco Paiva, KWC, Nerve, No One Pulse, Sin:Ned, Vavabond & yy.zz

Central is a playground of sounds loud and soft, a forum of conflicting views as much as it is an arena of power and desire. The ambient sound artists at Lona Records capture the emotions of the heart of our city and present us with a digital simulation of the urban soundscape, a soundtrack for the subconsciousness of the urbanite.

以聲音作為一種觸覺及想像方式，在空間與地理之間，劃一直線；以符碼學的姿勢，橫切歷史、權力、文化及瀕臨存在邊緣的回憶與現實。

Lona Records的聲音實驗家，以中區警署建築群為中心，向外以聽覺伸延，採集聲音，透過電腦軟件及各種電子器材，將中區警署建築群變成一個熔爐，一併消化自身的歷史及週邊的聲態環境。過程是一系列的現場演奏及背景音像。

名店與童年回憶與舊區生態與醉生夢死與建築與空間與消費物質資本主義連成一線聲音。

然而，根據相對論的說法，兩點之間的最短距離，不一定是直線。

想像，一個即將融化在聲音之中的中環。

Live Performance:

2 Feb 2008 (Sat) 2pm-5pm

Vavabond, No One Pulse, Nerve, Alok

23 Feb 2008 (Sat) 2pm-5pm

Vasco, KWC, Edwin, Sin:Ned

15 Mar 2008(Sat) 2pm-5pm

Alok, No One Pulse, Nerve, João Vasco Paiva, Vavabond, Edwin, yy.zz

RUNNING IN & OUT OF TIME & SPACE
A TRIBUTE TO JOHNNIE TO’S SPATIAL EXILE
放逐杜琪峰暗戰時空
Dan Ip+lo
葉曉丹＋lo

In Johnnie To’s Running Out of Time 2, the plot and reality intertwine in a Hong Kong that is strange yet familiar. Video artists Dan Ip+Lo have borrowed scenes from the film—with the director’s kind permission, of course—and argue visually that Lau Ching Wan, playing Inspector Lau in a “Central Police Station” that is in reality the former Marine Police Headquarters in Tsim Sha Tsui, is actually pointing his gun towards the days when our city was still a colony; that the fictional birdwatchers at the Central Piers are taking our imagination far beyond the hills surrounding Victoria Harbour; and that To’s cinematic tribute to the now demolished Queen’s Pier is a reminder of the arrogance and haste with which we have been destroying our past. Across the harbour, in the Cattle Depot Artists Village in Tokwawan, media artist Gd St j joins Dan Ip+lo in a video dialogue between real and imaginary space.

難得獲杜琪峰導演首肯，錄像人葉曉丹+lo以《暗戰II》場景片段，展開一連串電影與現實移形換影的時空對話：仿中區警署的尖沙咀前水警總部煙幕一場，何督察劉青雲手鎗指向的原是香港殖民年代的記憶。中環碼頭觀鳥一幕，延伸詩意想像，帶我們神遊摩天蒼穹。少不了還有向皇后碼頭致敬的一幕，時空隨波倒流，惜大家沒有將撿到的眼前物當作寶。屏幕裡外對照，葉曉丹+lo與錄映太奇媒體人白雲飛，同時在牛柵開展另一場土瓜灣時空對話。

http://www.szhkbiennale.org/

http://www.chenmiji.com/

http://www.lonarecords.com/

http://www.videotage.org.hk/