Guest Curator for the section "Performative Doc" (screening & exhibition)
客席策展人，《表演與紀錄》（放映與展覽）
To open up a new platform to rethink this parallel connection and correlation, “Performative Doc” unfolds in ways of screenings and exhibition in order to demonstrate a constructive dialogue between different art practices and suggest a varied viewing experience to the audience.
"Performative Doc" is a prominent documentary form in recent years, which refers to the active participation of the filmmakers in the film, leading the audience through cinematic intervention with personal perspectives. Documentary does not deploys objective truth while performative documentary pays attention to the micro-voice of individuals and the intersection with the socio-historical trajectory, challenging our existing singularity of thoughts in the moving images.
We adopt this concept to react to the current context, in order to generate multi-faceted and transgressive connections. For our context, lets begin with our first connection between dance and moving images. Dance film evolved along with the transformation of social environment and technology, and it is not only a form to document dance but its an organic integration of these two art forms.
In the section of Performative Doc, we expand our imagination of dance images through "performativity"- In which the idea of "performativity" expands the imagination of dance, suggesting possible disruption of dance construction in traditional sense, while juxtaposing the intervention of body and the fluidity of self-consciousness in movement and space. Hence, either in "Space and Border", "Rite of Passage" or "Expanded Space", we began the selection of works with the discourse of dance or performance in mind, and beyond.
"Space and Border" explores the interrelation between body, external communities, space and even ethnicity and national border. "Rite of Passage" responses to Judith Butler's notion of "gender performance", indicating the agency of identity where gender is socially constructed that change over time.
The second connection for us is screening and exhibition. "Performative Doc" extends from screening to exhibition / installation nature in "Expanded Space". The interplay between traditional cinema screening and an exhibition art space create a compelling contrast and the juxtaposition of the two different spatial contexts aspire to provide audience with a more diverse sensory experience. Lastly, through Performative Doc, we hope to invite creators, dance practitioners and audience to form a closer bonding, and to move, jump and cultivate in our beloved city.
「表演與紀錄」以放映與展覽的並⾏⽅式，開闢出新的平台來審視兩種展現模式的關係與連結，並為不同的藝術形式構築有效的對話，為觀眾提供多元化的觀看經驗。
“Performative Doc”即表演式紀錄片（或謂表現式紀錄片）是近年常見的紀錄片形式，意指拍攝者強調自身於片中的參與，亦以自身的視角引領觀眾穿梭影像的疆界。紀錄片非絕對的真實早是老生常談，而表演式紀錄片更重視個人微觀的聲音，以及與社會歷史的交錯，進一步挑戰我們對影像的固有單一想像。
我們在此時此刻以此影像概念來回應現世，欲產生多重越界的連結。第一種連結是舞蹈與影像。舞蹈影像隨社會環境與科技等因素而轉化，而不單是記錄舞蹈的影像載體，而是兩種藝術範疇有機的結合。在「表演與紀錄」的單元中，我們能以「表演」（performativity）擴展對舞蹈影像的想像⸺表演不單是狹義的舞蹈律動，更是身體的介入，與自我意識及空間的流動。因此不管在放映部分的「空間與邊界」、「身份換裝」，或「擴展的空間」部分，我們所選的作品皆從舞蹈或表演的概念起始，但又不限於此。「空間與邊界」探屬身體與外部社群、空間，甚或民族國界的關係；「身份換裝」則參考當代理論家朱迪斯·巴特勒（Judith Butler）所闡述的「性別展演」概念，說明身份的能動性。
第二種連結是放映與展覽。「表演與紀錄」從放映引伸至藝術展覽「擴展的空間」。傳統的放映空間與藝術空間的互動能將影像概念置放於兩種截然不同、又互為對照的空間語境中實踐，並提供更多元的視覺經驗予觀眾。最後，我們希望以此單元邀請創作者、舞者與觀眾等不同群體作更緊密的連結，在這座城市繼續躍動與耕墾。
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Programme 1 “Space and Border” 節目一《空間與邊界》
Suadade (Russell MORTON, 2020, Singapore) 舊事如舞 (羅素‧莫頓, 2020, 新加坡)
Avatar (Yim Sui Fong, 2021, Hong Kong) 化身 (嚴瑞芳, 2021, 香港)
No Song to Sing (Chan Hau Chun & Chui Chi Yin, 2016, Hong Kong) 無調人間 (陳巧真 & 徐智彥, 2016, 香港)
LAPSE (Melati SURYPDARMO, 2020, Indonesia) 間 (茉莉・肅立陽達摩, 2020, 印尼)
Programme 2 “Rite of Passage” 節目二《身份換裝》
Two Solos, One Dance, Three Frames (Joseph LEE, 2021, Hong Kong) (李偉能, 2021, 香港)
Dotted Bodies (Sagarika DEBNATH, Prakriti SHARDA, 2019, India) 燦爛女身 (薩加里卡・德伯納思、真理沙達, 2019, 印度)
Home Economics With a Stubborn Bloom (A Stubborn Bloom, 2021, Singapore) 少女家政日誌 (A Stubborn Bloom, 2021, 新加坡)
One Day in June (Daniel HUI, 2010, Singapore) 六月的一天 (許瑞峰, 2010, 新加坡)
Forgive or Not to Forgive (Elysa Wendi, 2019, Hong Kong) 原諒 (葉奕蕾, 2019, 香港)
People on Sunday (Tulapop SAENJAROEN, 2020, Thailand) 周日上班族 (都拉博・森乍倫, 2020, 泰國)
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