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Flowing up
上流 2015 Video, 12min |
Moongazing, and the sea
觀月/ 觀月圖 · 看海圖 2015 Video, inkjet and colored pencil on paper Dimensions variablebr |
‘現在的香港與二十年前的香港大不相同。現在，到處是高樓大廈。今後仍將有更多的高樓大廈出現。由於空間太少，不但大部份戰後新樓已拆卸；中區有些落成不過大多年的樓大廈也在改建了。香港就是這樣一個地方：人口多，空間小，樓宇必須向高空發展。’－他想。
－《對倒》, 劉以鬯
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It occurred to me that Lau Yee-cheung’s novel Tête-Bêche is nothing but accidental - Tête-Bêche is a philatelic term meaning in French a joined pair of stamps in which one is upside-down in relation to the other. Travelling by ferry is slow, but here everything is happening too fast. If we juxtapose Tête-Bêche (1972) with now (2015), I suspect the slowest thing is the mind of residents. Imagine that there are great landscapes and small buildings in the city; let’s go Moongazing.
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想起劉以鬯的作品《對倒》也不過是偶然－原本這個詞來自郵學，譯自法文Tete-Bech。坐船用慢的方式穿梭這個城市，只是這裡一切都發展得太快太多－1972年寫成的《對倒》跟2015年的現在並置，我懷疑緩慢的是人。幻想這個地方有一大片山水和矮小的樓房，讓我們觀月。
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