Content

Documentation

flâneur

Content

Starting Point

- Why the project starts (background information, what is interesting)

Observation

- Visual and onsite research (photos)

Wonder

-         Analysis base on observation, my thoughts and wonder about communication, the ownership of spaces, our identity in this city etc.

-         Research on Public Space, + public space moved into shopping malls?

-         Situationist International: Same problem happens in 60s!

-         Materialism

-         My thoughts about a 理想化 relationship between city and citizens (related to artist statement)

What can we do?

- Based on site research, unseen restriction is the focus point

- Tone and Manner: Fun and public are able to engage

- Reasons: (1) Fun and (2) Public can engage- Slightly mention public art research

- Artwork (artist) research + little analysis: How they inspires me

SOFT Revolt 軟抗爭

-         Analysis on selected site(reason)

-         Apply different objects onto sites according to each of their traits

-         The way I play- Objects: Why or why not?

Meaning of Flaneur

Reference List

Credits

Artist Statement

Artist Statement:

身處同一城市，根據能力和需要，每個人在城裡能佔的空間各有不同。而大家共同擁有的空間裡，使用限制有明顯的有隱藏的。若能隨意舒適在身處的城市停留歇息，才算是在城裡生活吧!

Every person in the city occupied their spaces depends on their ability and needs. The spaces owned by everyone, however, are full of restrictions. How great of everyone is welcomed to lie down and take a rest freely in our city.

Public art artist

Public arts


Ng Ka Chun
http://www.agb.hk/photo&video.chi.html


Lo Chi Ho

They are different in some ways, will update later

Final Execution(31 March 2013)

/Venue 1/

Benches with bars in between (of any materials)

- They are all long enough to let people lay down, yet adding the iron bar to stop people to do it.

/Solution/

- To fill up the space between bars

- Use pillows/cushion to fill up, it also generates a comfortable and cozy feeling

/Venue 2/

Mongkok under the footbridge near fish street

- These stone columns filled up the whole area, not letting people nearby to put their goods and stocks under the footbridge, yet it also provides inconvenience to people who want to rest

/Solution/

Make seat/ place chairs on top of the columns, to generates a smooth and flat surface

/Venue3/

A Park at Choi Hung Estate

 

- These chairs were separated very far apart, making people cannot forma better gathering circle 

/Solution/

Put a fabric in between to make a seat

/Venue4/

Columns at the entrance of parks 

- There are many iron columns in Sham Po Kong, some of them are made to stop cars' entering a certain area. yet most of them fail to do that. 

-Since these columns are made for stopping cars, I do not intended to put them into my work series this time.

 

/Venue 5/

 

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Need to analyze more of the location: (might be include) historical, cultural, people's activities

Book Reference

 

EAP: Engaged Art Theory & Practice

Editor: Andrew Lam Hon-Kin

Museum of Site(MOST), 2005

-About the issue of Public Space and the form of art execution

Example: Lu Jie, The Long March
http://fillip.ca/content/the-long-march-project

 

Fiber and Space Studio: The 5th Studio Department of Sculpture, China Academy of Art

中國美術學院雕塑系第五工作室:纖維與空間藝術工作室

中國美術學院雕塑系第五工作室, 施慧, 2007

-Very inspiring on material usage(New material of making Sculpture)

 

http://www.publicart.org.hk/article/75_1.pdf

/will add into reference list later/

- Artists' responsibility on location investigation,

like history and the community connection/ relationship

Dialogue of citizens and the city

物化

http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/11/24/nap-time/#more-11170

最令我關注的

是我們跟城市的關係

我們的身份是甚麼?

我們可以做/ 不可以做, 是由誰決定呢?

城市VS城市人, 誰是主誰是客?

城市人不再流連舊式公共空間
跑到商場去
待在室內
城市化, 令人的行為模式改變
是好是壞, 沒有絕對答案

在城市化的背景下
人被物化
城市是活的
人是死的

大家都變得面目模糊