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活化廳2010-11藝術展覽計劃
第一屆「小西九雙年展」（第二部）
「街坊物語」藏散篇
展期：２０１１年４月２日（六）至４月２8日（四）
地點：油麻地，上海街404號地下，活化廳
開放時間：逢星期二至日，下午1:00 至 晚上8:00（公眾假期休息）
開幕：２０１１年４月２日（六）下午３時
每期展品琳瑯滿目
藝術創意構思更廣
吸引更多街坊觀賞
豐富展覽盡情發揮
──街坊BEN（鄧啟揚）送給活化廳之新詩創作
「社區(藝術/消失)臨界點」
從藏品到夜冷？關乎舊區？在乎策展？
物的迴光返照，與當下消失的政治
「活化廳」社區藝術空間一直辦來，收到不少街坊因著不同的原因送來的東西。活化廳將會以這些收到的物品為主角，因應策劃是次展覽。
這些物品，有些是人們眼中覺得合適活化廳展示的藝術作品，但也不乏甚無厘頭的。至於更大批來到活化廳的物品，除了是些這區家庭和店舖不再需要的舊東西，不忍棄置而捐出，望人能助保存的舊物，甚至關門結業店舖的貨尾想我們代為寄賣。
這些物品，都在在展示了一直模塑承載著這社區人物店舖的活生生歷史，及也反映他們正在面對的生活變局。作為一個舊區，上海街一帶可謂正在面臨市場無情被迫急劇轉變的社區臨界點。
活化廳這次展覽，嘗試承接年初的小西九雙年展，卻不是從成員五花八門的創作模式，而是將活化廳收到的街坊物品策成展覽，再次探究社區與藝術間在臨界點前的包融共濟，對香港藝術理論中的「消失的政治」來一次社區藝術版的反思。
從藏品到夜冷，社區藝術在藝術與保育間，站在那裡？能做什麼？在這次刻意沒有了藝術家的社區藝術展覽中，策展特意擔當了某種「活化」的吃重角色來反詰自身，探討社區對於保育、社區藝術、策展，跟藝術工作者這些方面的想像，有何種溝通對話的落差？
究竟策展人才是藝術家？又或日常生活皆是藝術，人人都是藝術家？小西九雙年展（第二部）之「散佚街坊物語篇」，將會以雙線並進的策展關注，挑出社區藝術空間遇上的社區現實臨界點，與同藝術理論同遇的臨界點，在社區消失當前，反思藝術隨之可能的消失，作為社區藝術的一種積極任務。
文：劉建華(策展人)
展覽以外活動
開幕儀式：
４月２日(六)下午7時
出版品Harold Szeemann--with by through because towards despite
開封儀式，讀書會研讀材料準備
讀書會：
以是次展覽策展靈感的策展先鋒Harold Szeemann紀念其髮型師祖父的策展史經典展覽《祖父：像我們的先鋒》（Grossvater: Ein Pionier wie wir, １９７４）為主題的一次讀書討論會，由策展人劉建華主持。
討論會：
社區藝術想像與作為──保育文化/活化社區的
活化廳或因為活化兩字，往往給人從事保育工作的印象。事實上，我們作為社區藝術空間團體所重視的鄰里網絡、社區小店經濟等社會價值，在市場洪流下變得已愈發難以找到生存的一席地，面對不著發生在舊區的迫遷結業過身清拆，我們想與大家一同審思社區藝術的為什麼及如何辦。我們邀來其他從事保育團體的文化工作者，來資分享社區藝術與保育間的相互想像和結合嘗試。
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English Press Release
Woofer Ten 2010-11 Art Exhibition Project:
Tiny West Kowloon Biennale (Take 2)
Tipping Point, Community Art of No Return
Exhibition: 2/4(sat) - 28/4(sun)
Venue: Wooferten, 404, Shanghai Street, Yau Ma Tei
Opening Hours: Tue to Sun, 1pm to 8pm (Close on Public Holidays)
Opening: 2/4/2011 (sat)3pm
What items does our community bring in?
What it means when an art space begins to collect?
Cares who, the why of curating?
Becoming the immediate past, politics of disappearance
Since Wooferten opened its door in 2009, people brought in various kinds of things. All these things will be featured in the forthcoming exhibition at Woofer Ten.
Some people gave us artifacts that they think are artistic and worth exhibiting; some people just gave us things for some unknown reasons. A very big portion of these objects belong to a number of families and local stores, which have moved or closed down in the last 2 years and do not want to dispose them. No doubt these objects reflect (or actually formed) the ways of living and cultural histories of the community in Yau Ma Tei. The aging community seems to be on the brink of a tipping point, being swiped by the frenzy property market soon.
Tiny West Kowloon Biennale (Take 2), deliberately invites no artist (as everybody is one). Other than bringing out the hard facts and stories about the exhibiting objects to the audiences, the project hopes to further previous discussion about community art in first round, by focusing on to the crucial (yet not unproblematic) role (if not art) of curatorship.
As our community is bearing great pressure withholding the tides of drastic changes, how should community art response and intervene, if not by some sort of art of no return?
Curator： LAU Kin Wah
Related Events
Opening Special Ceremony: 2/4/2011 (sat) 7pm
Opening the curatorial bible:
Harold Szeemann--with by through because towards despite
Reading Group: 9/4 3pm
A reading group host by Lau Kin Wah, discussing over the exemplar exhibition curated by pioneer curator Harold Szeemann (1933-2005), namely the Grand Father: A Pioneer Like Us (1974) which the curator got his inspiration from.
Sharing and Discussion: What does community art serve and deserve?
16/4 3pm (To be confirmed)
What community art could do for community?
When an aging community is at its tipping point, what does it mean by ‘vitalization’? Especially via art? Isn’t it irony, that art feeds again on the “politics of disappearance”?
In the session, we will share and reflect on curating community art, and making sense of community preservation.
More events will be further announced, and will be posted onto the Woofer Ten website and facebook.
Organized by: Woofer Ten
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