Saturday, 29 July 2017
為華人社會而寫的博物館學
我們顯然急切需要為華人社會而寫的博物館專書。在課堂上,我們以歐美文本為圭臬,但是這個「圭臬」在許多時候,不符合本地當下的實際發展,也不符合本地的歷史脈絡。
甚至,許多研究者,也就不明究理、或說順理成章地引用歐美文獻。這不僅是不恰當,而且有時候是很危險、甚至足以導致錯誤的發展方向的。
甚至,許多研究者,也就不明究理、或說順理成章地引用歐美文獻。這不僅是不恰當,而且有時候是很危險、甚至足以導致錯誤的發展方向的。
Sunday, 30 April 2017
Tuesday, 19 July 2016
Sunday, 17 July 2016
Saturday, 16 July 2016
“我是麗” Io sono Li
http://www.atmovies.com.tw/movie/fiit32036388/
大概在2006年左右,我第一次從LSE系裡面一個巴黎某大博士後研究生知道賈樟柯,那時候是三峽好人那部(紀錄?)片得獎的樣子。十年之間,沒有有系統地觀察、研究任何電影。因為朋友介紹,剛剛第一次看到他的作品:我是麗。
這是一個關於中國女性移民在歐洲的故事。關於移民,類似的題材很多。我們可能熟知的少女小漁是其一。
剛好女主角孫麗有那麼一點像劉若英。
這部片的背景在義大利。認識了全球化,我們也習慣,很多標了義大利製的高檔成衣,其實是中國非法勞工,在義大利當地糟糕的環境、血汗工廠裡面製出來的。雇用中國非法勞工製成的義大利成衣,顯然比同樣質料在中國製造的成衣,標得到更高的價格。
劇情很簡單,女主角非法在義大利賺錢,等著接在家鄉的小孩過來。因為雇主不許可,女主角犧牲了一段可能發展的異國戀情。最後,女主角獲得一筆不明捐款、因而贖身,於是小孩意外地出現在她的面前(谷阿莫上身)。
和我認識的其他關於移工血淚電影不一樣的是,這部電影中,沒有骯髒惡劣的環境,對於苦楚、辛酸、不堪,也沒有放得很大。對於歐洲人物、風景的記錄與描寫,也不致於過於爛漫或濫情(水遠端的山,很有可能是Italian Alps:動人的程度剛剛好)。中國雇主,穿著還算乾淨,對於剝削,也輕描淡寫。 因為背景有水,有霧,有人,又有點那麼無力、惆悵與無奈,那個畫面就百分之百霧中風景的路線了(那個我永遠不會組合的導演名字,什麼安哲霍洛波夫導的片)。
情感,有的。真心,有的。生動,也有的。 這個片,中年的我,看來,剛剛好。不會看了無法抽離,也不會看了痛哭流涕,也不致刻苦銘心。歐洲人給賈導演頒個獎,不錯。
前幾年看了個以西班牙為背景的電影,寫中國非法移工的,應該是紀錄片改編。劇情是關於整批非法勞工,在冬天因為用了非法燒的暖氣而一氧化碳中毒死亡。
大概在2006年左右,我第一次從LSE系裡面一個巴黎某大博士後研究生知道賈樟柯,那時候是三峽好人那部(紀錄?)片得獎的樣子。十年之間,沒有有系統地觀察、研究任何電影。因為朋友介紹,剛剛第一次看到他的作品:我是麗。
這是一個關於中國女性移民在歐洲的故事。關於移民,類似的題材很多。我們可能熟知的少女小漁是其一。
剛好女主角孫麗有那麼一點像劉若英。
這部片的背景在義大利。認識了全球化,我們也習慣,很多標了義大利製的高檔成衣,其實是中國非法勞工,在義大利當地糟糕的環境、血汗工廠裡面製出來的。雇用中國非法勞工製成的義大利成衣,顯然比同樣質料在中國製造的成衣,標得到更高的價格。
劇情很簡單,女主角非法在義大利賺錢,等著接在家鄉的小孩過來。因為雇主不許可,女主角犧牲了一段可能發展的異國戀情。最後,女主角獲得一筆不明捐款、因而贖身,於是小孩意外地出現在她的面前(谷阿莫上身)。
和我認識的其他關於移工血淚電影不一樣的是,這部電影中,沒有骯髒惡劣的環境,對於苦楚、辛酸、不堪,也沒有放得很大。對於歐洲人物、風景的記錄與描寫,也不致於過於爛漫或濫情(水遠端的山,很有可能是Italian Alps:動人的程度剛剛好)。中國雇主,穿著還算乾淨,對於剝削,也輕描淡寫。 因為背景有水,有霧,有人,又有點那麼無力、惆悵與無奈,那個畫面就百分之百霧中風景的路線了(那個我永遠不會組合的導演名字,什麼安哲霍洛波夫導的片)。
情感,有的。真心,有的。生動,也有的。 這個片,中年的我,看來,剛剛好。不會看了無法抽離,也不會看了痛哭流涕,也不致刻苦銘心。歐洲人給賈導演頒個獎,不錯。
前幾年看了個以西班牙為背景的電影,寫中國非法移工的,應該是紀錄片改編。劇情是關於整批非法勞工,在冬天因為用了非法燒的暖氣而一氧化碳中毒死亡。
Monday, 27 June 2016
排骨與甜不辣
我對排骨便當最早的記憶,是一盒三十元。我總是把排骨留在最後吃:等到把所有的飯和菜都扒完了,光溜溜地吃它。如果錢不夠,我就有點傷心地買甜不辣便當。二十元。
甜不辣就是一塊像是排骨的冒牌貨。大小差不多,土色,也是一塊。我仍舊是把所有的飯和菜都扒完了,光溜溜地吃它。
Tuesday, 10 November 2015
Wednesday, 14 October 2015
當每個人都在說故事很重要
當每個人都說要說故事,而且諄諄教誨說故事很重要的時候,聽到“故事”二字,反倒令人有點不耐了!
蚵仔麵線有故事,新銳設計師有故事,展覽有故事...可是我可以安安靜靜地吃安安靜靜地穿安安靜靜地看嗎?
Saturday, 19 September 2015
樁腳與文化政策
檯面上,經常出現地方文化自主性的字眼,以及諸多的案例實踐。然而,殘酷的事實經常是,地方文化自主性的實踐,經常是撒資源、給樁腳用的。美妙的論文與主張與高談闊論,其實是如此的不堪。但是這樣的狀況,很難經過實證,變成另一篇論文。
至此,其實,文化政策在台灣,該說的都說完了,該說的大話都說完了。剩下的,只是如何收拾大話結果(consequences)的問題。
至此,其實,文化政策在台灣,該說的都說完了,該說的大話都說完了。剩下的,只是如何收拾大話結果(consequences)的問題。
Saturday, 12 September 2015
Monday, 7 September 2015
天工開物:The Arts of Industry in the Age of Enlightenment
The Arts of Industry in the Age of Enlightenment: 一本如此賞心悅目的書。
Jenny Uglow的書評是這麼說的:http://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/mar/20/arts-industry-enlightenment-celina-fox
The distinctions between art and science, and arts and crafts, were unknown before the 17th century. "Arts" simply implied skills, whether in painting and music, or in glass-making, furniture-making or even magic. The division between the "fine arts" and the lower "mechanical arts" came later and, with that separation, and the post-romantic downgrading of science, much was lost.
In this wide-ranging survey of the aesthetics and practice of innovation and design from the 17th to the 19th centuries, Celina Fox sets out to recreate that vanished, unified sensibility. To do so she examines the progress and perception of industry from different perspectives, providing a detailed account while remaining alert to the piecemeal process and regional differences of the industrial revolution.
Her undertaking is complicated by the inbuilt links between technical innovation on the one hand and entrepreneurship and commerce on the other. The first significant attempt to study the "history of the trades" was made by the newly formed Royal Society in 1660. The research was conceived both as a study of the curiosities of the artificial, as opposed to the natural, world, and as a means of enriching the national coffers. But Fox notes the distorting impact of cultural background and ideology.
On the one hand, John Evelyn's eager, scatter-gun approach and classifying of trades as "Useful and mechanical", "Mean trades", "Servile", "Rusticall" and "Curious" (which included his beloved arts) displayed an intellectual and social stratification typical of the dilettanti. On the other, William Petty's account was dominated by economic concerns, stressing the importance of mathematics and engineering – his own interests. Meanwhile, Robert Hooke's more down-to-earth approach was governed by a determination "to facilitate and improve the present way of manual arts".
Despite good intentions, the project faltered and died, partly because of these divergent interpretations, but also because many craftsmen proved understandably reluctant to divulge their precious techniques. This clinging to trade secrets would dog similar projects until the breakthrough made in the 1750s by John Hinton's splendidly illustrated Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure. This was aimed squarely at the "middling classes", and was published, Fox notes dryly, while Diderot was still struggling with the famous Encyclopédie, which had yet to publish any plates.
In her central chapters, Fox looks at the means that those involved in technical and industrial work, particularly civil and mechanical engineering, used to communicate experiments and plans, inventions and achievements. These include drawing, models, societies, and publications such as technical manuals where "rational explanation" and "visual exposition" are complementary – or should be. The study of societies embraces the long-lasting, fruitful collaborations of small groups such as the Lunar Society of Birmingham. But Fox's main concern is with the aims and activities of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Sciences and Manufactures, founded in 1754, and the fierce arguments that raged about its procedures, especially its wooing of well-born amateurs as opposed to genuine artisans.
The book also offers insights into areas that are not usually covered in surveys of the growth of industry, such as naval surveying and shipbuilding, from Edward Dummer's exquisitely presented surveys of Britain's harbours and dockyards in the 1690s to the achievements – and unfulfilled visions – of Samuel Bentham (Jeremy's younger brother) and Simon Goodrich during the Napoleonic wars. But Fox's fine understanding of technical innovation is always combined with a shrewd awareness of financial and political manoeuvring. Bentham returned from a trip to Russia in 1807, for example, to find that his post as inspector general of naval works had been abolished, because the navy board was allegedly so "exasperated by the disruptions caused by his mechanical and managerial innovations at a time of war".
The difficulties were not always of official making – sometimes the engineers themselves were to blame. The technical instructions for assembly that often baffle us today presented equal difficulties in the 18th century, when the problem was not a flat-pack wardrobe but a towering, snorting steam engine. The elegant drawings of James Watt and other engineers are often admired for their clarity and logic, but the view was not so rosy on the ground. The Creighton brothers, in charge of building many Boulton and Watt engines, took to calling the Soho foundry "Pandemonium". Their task was bedevilled by drawings arriving in the wrong order and hopeless measurements. "Most drawings of parts are wrong for all engines," William Creighton lamented, adding that he had "tried to scrape some drawings into shape but 'tis a vile job and temporary joins exist in abundance". The achieving of Britain's industrial might is not always a tale of grand heroism.
Yet many entrepreneurs did feel they were engaged on a heroic project of national importance. In her later chapters Fox explores the way that industrialists and the public saw the projects and the projectors through paintings and portraits. It is fascinating, in this respect, to note how an artist such as Paul Sandby, who began as a surveyor and mapmaker and is best known for his topographical prints, also produced vivid scenes of industry, and to see too how the portrayal of industrial sites moves from the meticulously technical to the light-filled scenes of Joseph Wright and fiery romanticism of Loutherbourg. At the same time, portraits of industrialists such as Richard Arkwright, posing beside their machines, radiate a pride that the spectator is clearly supposed to share.
Fox has raided innumerable archives for new material, but her meticulous scholarship never swamps her sensitivity to the constraints under which people worked as well as the visions to which they aspired. Copiously illustrated and lavishly produced, The Arts of Industry is a notable contribution to the interdisciplinary studies of this area that have appeared increasingly in recent years, drawing attention to aspects of British history, skills and art that have been too long overlooked.
桃園也有電影節
因為別人有,我也要有。
因為別人有美術館,所以我也要有美術館。
因為別人有城市博物館,所以我也要有城市博物館。
因為別人有水下考古博物館,所以我也要有水下考古博物館。
因為別人有考古研究所,所以我也要有考古研究所。
義和團思維
等著破產吧
因為別人有美術館,所以我也要有美術館。
因為別人有城市博物館,所以我也要有城市博物館。
因為別人有水下考古博物館,所以我也要有水下考古博物館。
因為別人有考古研究所,所以我也要有考古研究所。
義和團思維
等著破產吧
Friday, 4 September 2015
A beer at 4:00am
A beer at 4:00 am means excitement triggered by a good piece of article and celebration for things to come? Even though they may be just dreams unrealized.
時不時,我們都要在困難的生活中,找到像是夢、又像是現實的東西。那個東西,因一罐早上四點的啤酒變得更豐沛。
時不時,我們都要在困難的生活中,找到像是夢、又像是現實的東西。那個東西,因一罐早上四點的啤酒變得更豐沛。
Wednesday, 2 September 2015
中國大媽和台灣大媽
從過境旅館到機場的巴士上,一位好心讓座且熱情的中國大媽,問一位抱著孩子的年輕爸爸,他住在哪裡、做什麼生意、哪裡人、有沒有綠卡或是永久居留權、住在那裡多久了、小孩會不會說中文、那裏環境好嗎...,可以問的都問了。這位年輕爸爸很有耐心地回答,好像是要報答大媽的讓座。最後,大媽再問:「您剛剛說您住在哪個國家?我還是沒聽懂。」
這位年輕爸爸的回答,還是沒讓對方以及她旁邊的人聽懂。
台灣大媽呢,就代為回答:「委內瑞拉拉!」
這位年輕爸爸的回答,還是沒讓對方以及她旁邊的人聽懂。
台灣大媽呢,就代為回答:「委內瑞拉拉!」
Thursday, 27 August 2015
Thursday, 20 August 2015
紐約6:Joyce
之於每個停留過紐約的人,這個城市都有不同的意義。炫耀在此irrelevant.
四年前在此,我和Joyce告別。我們都知道那是最後一次了。
Joyce已經到生命的末期,我去看她。護士白天來一次,送飯、藥之類的。那時Joyce已經牽著氧氣筒,兩根管子插在鼻孔,在屋裡走來走去,人的精神還可以。
為她買了一次Upper West Side餐車的中國菜,台灣名稱,叫做阿婆的什麼來著。她說護士送的菜都很難吃。我看了一下,真的像是會散發消毒水味道的菜。
替她剪頭髮,主要是兩側、瀏海的部分。我的髮藝有點好笑。
為她的背擦乳液,紐約很乾,暖氣很乾,老人身體很乾。
為她的背擦乳液,紐約很乾,暖氣很乾,老人身體很乾。
替她整理多年來她在thrift stores買的衣服,每一件應該都不超過美金五元,有些顯然已經太舊。這些東西整理裝成一大籠子,再把它們捐回去。她囑咐我拿收據回來,可以抵稅。不是每一件都送回去,她說有些Kenny可以穿。
我只向她要了一個橘色大帆布袋,買菜用的。
我和她出了一趟門,只到Westside market,她拖著氧氣瓶,氧氣瓶就像trolley,算方便。她應該是很久沒有出門了。忘了她買什麼。
她說醫生給她electronic cigarette抽。
最後一天去看她,我和她擁抱告別。她叫我快走吧,不然她要哭了。
大概再過一兩個月,我透過各種方式嘗試聯絡Kenny,她兒子。K說她走了。
作為Joyce的兒子是很不容易的,我想她應該算是有某種精神疾病,她被雜物淹沒的大房子說明了一切。從K幾乎沒有和我見過面這件事,也說明了部分。我想沒有人願意在另外一個人的面前,面對這樣的母親。
不管怎麼樣,那最後一次的告別,是令人心碎的。
紐約5:鏡花水月和FIT
鏡花水月展,像一場盛宴,an all-you-can-eat buffet.
它把所有可以刺激你視覺經驗的與中國有關的時尚以及與時尚有關的中國都端出來。
這個經驗,和吃台北五星(六星)級餐廳all you can eat buffet一樣.
新鮮螃蟹、龍蝦、生蠔、半熟成牛排、擔仔麵、馬卡龍、提拉米蘇、碳烤Pizza、生魚片、手卷、德國豬腳、鮮榨果汁、天婦羅、巧克力fountain、頂級冰淇淋...。
展場的影片,旗袍的、策馬入竹林裡衣裳穿梭來穿梭去(都不會勾到)的、紫京城聲勢浩大的、宮殿彈琴的。百分之百中國想像,而且強調不是Said東方主義下的中國想像。
如果不是東方主義下的中國想像,那是什麼樣的中國想像?是對於豐盛歷史、現代中國、富裕現代中國的想像?猜想這裡強調的是主體不帶優越感的中國想像。
不知道十年之後,曾經躬逢其盛的觀眾,回憶這個展覽,腦海中會浮現怎麼樣的印象?
FIT Global Fashion Capitals 是個和鏡花水月完全相反的展覽。這個時尚博物館,看來把暑假當作休息時間,大致上就是把典藏拿出來、以城市為分類展一展。寫來以為這個展覽馬虎——不,典藏好,簡單放一放都好。我看了展覽名稱,心裡想一定又是什麼盛宴大展。
這個展場就是個L形走道,走道兩邊放不同設計師的作品,大致是從二十世紀以來的作品。紐約巴黎倫敦的位置比較多,東京也很好,還有上海和首爾。說實在,東京還是比上海和首爾厲害。我想,關於東京,這是revolutionary的意義。(首爾是個可敬的城市。)
巴黎設計師的經典禮服、絲巾、皮包、鞋子——經典的東西拿出來,簡單放都好。
Mona Lisa需要情境展示、互動裝置強化學習經驗嗎?
它把所有可以刺激你視覺經驗的與中國有關的時尚以及與時尚有關的中國都端出來。
這個經驗,和吃台北五星(六星)級餐廳all you can eat buffet一樣.
新鮮螃蟹、龍蝦、生蠔、半熟成牛排、擔仔麵、馬卡龍、提拉米蘇、碳烤Pizza、生魚片、手卷、德國豬腳、鮮榨果汁、天婦羅、巧克力fountain、頂級冰淇淋...。
展場的影片,旗袍的、策馬入竹林裡衣裳穿梭來穿梭去(都不會勾到)的、紫京城聲勢浩大的、宮殿彈琴的。百分之百中國想像,而且強調不是Said東方主義下的中國想像。
如果不是東方主義下的中國想像,那是什麼樣的中國想像?是對於豐盛歷史、現代中國、富裕現代中國的想像?猜想這裡強調的是主體不帶優越感的中國想像。
不知道十年之後,曾經躬逢其盛的觀眾,回憶這個展覽,腦海中會浮現怎麼樣的印象?
FIT Global Fashion Capitals 是個和鏡花水月完全相反的展覽。這個時尚博物館,看來把暑假當作休息時間,大致上就是把典藏拿出來、以城市為分類展一展。寫來以為這個展覽馬虎——不,典藏好,簡單放一放都好。我看了展覽名稱,心裡想一定又是什麼盛宴大展。
這個展場就是個L形走道,走道兩邊放不同設計師的作品,大致是從二十世紀以來的作品。紐約巴黎倫敦的位置比較多,東京也很好,還有上海和首爾。說實在,東京還是比上海和首爾厲害。我想,關於東京,這是revolutionary的意義。(首爾是個可敬的城市。)
巴黎設計師的經典禮服、絲巾、皮包、鞋子——經典的東西拿出來,簡單放都好。
Mona Lisa需要情境展示、互動裝置強化學習經驗嗎?
Sunday, 16 August 2015
紐約4:Whitney museum
1. Piano does not like black color in this project.
2. The building looks dust-resistant.
3. The idea of white cube remains.
4. A depository of old modern art dominated by American art.
5. No plants/green in outdoor galleries!
2. The building looks dust-resistant.
3. The idea of white cube remains.
4. A depository of old modern art dominated by American art.
5. No plants/green in outdoor galleries!
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