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香港，2015
混合媒介藝術 (聲音、裝置、場域特定藝術)
孩提時的校園生活，總帶有幾分油燃自內心、無以名狀，但又本能的恐懼。它們源自傳說故事、家長教誨、或真實經歴過師長的責罰、或只是聽過的口頭威嚇，甚至是來自某些文化、符號，混雜於特定或非特定空間、幽暗或幽閉感、聲音、看見某物品，等等…從感官帶來的投射，和個人或集體的想像。
此空間可能讓你會想起廁所鬼故，可能讓你會聽到乜仙物仙，可能讓你會覺得被困黑房，可能讓你會回憶曾被罰抄，可能…。可視與不可視，存在與不存在，都可能。
它可以是種集體回憶，可以是種個人想像或經歴，可以…。是神話、是隱喻、是相遇、是經驗，都可以。
本作品來自長洲漁會公學的自成環境、就地取材的和藝術家自帶來的物料，還有來自策展的鬼魅與異迴概念、藝術家對恐懼與文化的探討。
The Room Without Title
[ Audience please enter alone. ]
HK, 2015
Mixed Media Art (Sound, Installation, Site-specific Art)
Reminiscing the school life in childhood, we have been through the instinctive fear, myths, words from parents, or we have actually grown up in all kinds of punishment or just verbal abuse. When the above combined with culture, a designated culture, signs, and senses received in a designated or non-designated space, darkness, claustration, sound, some objects… human beings bringing with projections and imagination, individually or collectively.
You may think of ghost stories of bathroom. You may hear about devils and spirits. You may feel like in the dark, feel like being locked in the dark. You may be punished. You may… It can be tangible or intangible, existing or non-existing.
It can be a collective memory, a personal experience, or an imagination. It can also be a myth, a metaphor, or an encounter.
The artwork was created by using the site of CC Fisheries Joint Association Public School. Adding materials into the room, the artist also makes use of those existing elements at the site in order to exhibit the curatorial concept of ghost and supernatural, and to display the artist’s investigation into the relationship between fear and culture.
嚴穎嘉
香港跨媒介藝術家、獨立策展人、藝術教育者，主要從事行為藝術、裝置藝術、場域特定藝術、公共藝術、社區及社群藝術。亦是電影美術及造型指導、舞台設計師、作者、社會行動者。
嚴穎嘉1984年生於香港，香港中文大學主修文化及宗教研究，雙副修藝術、新聞與傳播，2006年於天星皇后碼頭保育運動中創作而開始從事藝術，2008年獲香港藝術展發局邀約於上海街視藝空間舉辦首個個人展覽「因藝術之名」。至今近十年，嚴氏已策劃或獲邀參與，過百項本地或海外，本土或國際性的行為藝術、視覺藝術、跨媒介藝術展覽、計劃、駐村等，當中包括於香港、中國九個城市、台灣三個城市、歐洲五個國家共九個城市。
歷年她亦常於不同大學、學校及公私營機構教學及辦講座。對象由成人、大學生、青少年、小童、到不同國籍的及特殊需要的社群，並經常與不同藝術家、藝術團體、機構、院校、政府或非政府組織、民間團體等合作、策劃或接受委約項目。
Monique Yim Biography
Born in 1984, Hong Kong, Monique Yim is an interdisciplinary artist, art educator and independent curator, mainly works on performance, installation, site-specific, community and public art. She is also a film art director, theatre art designer, writer and a social activist.
Since 2006, after studied in the Chinese University in Hong Kong, majoring in Cultural and Religious studies with double minors in Fine Art, and Journalism and Communication, Yim has started working as an independent artist. In 2008, she was committed by Hong Kong Arts Development Council to have her first solo exhibition “In the Name of Art” at Shanghai Street Art Space. In the decade, she has curated or participated in over a hundred of local or overseas performance art, visual art, cross media art exhibitions, projects or artist in residence programmes, including in Hong Kong, 9 cities in China, 3 cities in Taiwan, 5 countries with 9 cities in Europe.
During the years, Yim has been actively participating in art education hosted by different universities, schools, institutions and organizations, ranging from kids, teenagers, adults to different races and disabled or special need people. She has also collaborated with different artists, art organizations, and has always been commissioned by institutions and social communities.
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/moniquewkyim/
Photo credit 1: Courtesy of the artist
Photo credit 2+3: Judith Pernin
