Small Acts / New Flows: A Public Gathering 小步．新流：公眾分享會

Public Gathering

29 September 2024

1pm-6pm

Venue: Rayson Huang Theatre, The University of Hong Kong

Small Acts / New Flows

How can the arts participate in developing practices and cultures of sustainable worlding within the context of global capitalism and its attendant crises?

Small Acts / New Flows: A Public Gathering invites audiences to hear from and engage with facilitators and participants from two interconnected programs hosted at Para Site in September and October 2024: The Alternative School: Small Acts, a four-week artist-led syllabus of public workshops focusing on ecology, and Workshops for Emerging Arts Professionals: New Flows, a week-long series of closed-door exchanges on the politics and ethics of institutional labour and sustainability in the arts.

Taking small steps as actions that embody the common saying, the only way out is through, Yip Kai Chun will introduce the Inter-Island Festival (Hong Kong), reflecting on what forms an alternative school can take, while participants from the Workshops for Emerging Arts Professionals will offer their reflections of what an arts ecosystem is and could be. Bridging both programs are two roundtables with Alternative School and Workshop facilitators. First, BOLOHO (Guangzhou), Chloe Lai of Urban Diary (Hong Kong), and Lo Lai Lai Natalie and Zimu Zhang of Wanwu Practice Group (Hong Kong), will discuss planting as a form of placemaking that resonates with the collecting of community stories. Then, Wayla Amatathammachad of Prayoon for Art Foundation (Thailand), Sahar Qawasmi and Renad Shqeirat of Sakiya (Palestine), and Niko Leung and Kevin Lin of Hong Kong Soil by TMML Studio (Hong Kong), will consider how land and water are shaping counter-models for co-existence today.

Closing the day, Vincci Mak (Hong Kong), Senior Lecturer in the Division of Landscape Architecture at the University of Hong Kong, will offer closing remarks, while inviting audience members to offer their own closing reflections via open mic.

English to Cantonese simultaneous interpretation will be available through the day, with Putonghua/Cantonese to English available for round table 1.

SCHEDULE:

13:00-13:10: Introductions

13:10-13:25: What Is an Alternative School?

Speaker: Yip Kai Chun (Inter-Island Festival, Hong Kong)

13:25-15:15: Roundtable: Planting Seeds: Placemaking and Storytelling

Speakers: BOLOHO (Guangzhou); Chloe Lai (Urban Diary, Hong Kong); Lo Lai Lai Natalie and Zimu Zhang (Wanwu Practice Group, Hong Kong). (Simultaneous Interpretation: Cantonese-Putonghua-English)

How does growing plants in the community cultivate a sense of collective identity, and how does this relate to the act of storytelling as both an individual and collective act of memory making? How do both practices of planting and relating contribute to modes of sustainable placemaking? Artist collectives and groups share their thoughts based on their collaborative engagement with each other and their publics.

15:30-15:45: What is an Arts Ecosystem? A Workshop Response

15:45-17:30: Roundtable: Between Land and Water: Art from the Ground Up

Speakers: Wayla Amatathammachad (Prayoon for Art Foundation, Thailand); Sahar Qawasmi and Renad Shqeirat (Sakiya, Palestine); Niko Leung and Kevin Lin (Hong Kong Soil by TMML Studio, Hong Kong).

How are institutions and studios developing models of artistic and creative praxis that integrate ideas of rooting, grounding, and flow, through their work in and around land and water? Based on the practical experiences of each speaker and the institutions they have been developing from the ground up, this discussion considers how small acts have generated new ways of working together, and what models are developing in the process.

17:30-17:50: Closing Remarks: Vincci Mak

For more details, please visit our website. More information on the programme, please check out the below link:

https://www.para-site.art/2024/08/21/para-site-alternative-school-workshops-for-emerging-arts-professionals-2024/

Please email [email protected] for enquiry.

公眾分享會

9月29日

下午1至6時

場地：香港大學黃麗松講堂

小步．新流

藝術如何能夠在全球性資本主義及隨之而來的危機下，參與可持續性全球化的實踐與文化發展？

「小步．新流：公眾分享會」邀請觀眾與Para Site兩項企劃的導師及參加者進行交流：「界外學園：小步」，一系列由藝術家及團體帶領、聚焦研習生態議題的公眾工作坊；「新銳藝術人才工作坊：新流」，為期一週、有關機構政治與道德以及藝術行業可持續性的閉門交流。

葉啟俊將介紹「船到橋頭生活節​​」以回應微小的行動實現格言「前進是唯一出路」，並思考「界外學園」的可能型態。同時，新銳藝術人才工作坊的參加者將對「藝術生態」提出個人定義。「界外學園」及「新銳藝術人才工作坊」的導師將攜手進行兩場圓桌討論。首先，菠蘿核、城市日記的黎穎詩，以及萬物實踐社的勞麗麗與張子木將討論種植作為地方營造的手段，如何與收集社區故事引起迴響。隨後，Prayoon for Art Foundation的Wayla Amatathammachad​​、巴勒斯坦先進藝術暨科學學院Sakiya的Sahar Qawasmi​​與Renad Shqeirat​​，聯同透明未來「香港土磚」的梁康勤與林曦悅​​將思考土地與水源如何塑造當下共存的反模式。

分享會尾聲，香港大學園境建築學部高級講師麥詠詩​​將作結語，並邀請觀眾現場分享其總結。

活動設有英文、廣東話及普通話即時傳譯。

活動日程：

下午1:00至1:10 引言

下午1:10至1:25 甚麼是界外學園？

講者：葉啟俊（船到橋頭生活節）

下午1:25至3:15 播種：地方營造與敘事——圓桌討論

講者：菠蘿核、黎穎詩（城市日記）、勞麗麗與張子木（萬物實踐社）

社區種植如何培養集體身份認同？而這又與敘事作為個人、集體的記憶建構有着何等關聯？種植與敘事的實踐如何對可持續性地方營造作出貢獻？是次圓桌討論中，藝術家團體將就其團隊合作關係以及面向公眾的經歷分享各自心得。

下午3:30至3:45：提案：何謂藝術生態？

新銳藝術人才工作坊參加者回應

下午3:45至5:30：地與水之間：從根源創作——圓桌討論

講者：Wayla Amatathammachad（Prayoon for Art Foundation）、Sahar Qawasmi與Renad Shqeirat（Sakiya）、梁康勤與林曦悅（透明未來「香港土磚」）

是次討論聚焦與土地及水源緊密合作的機構與工作室，探討它們融合紮根、接地與流動的創意實踐模式。各講者將自其親身體驗出發，討論如何受「根」「源」啟發，發展其所屬機構，並思考在不同語境下，微小的行徑如何引發嶄新的合作，以及過程中孕育的實踐模式。

下午5:30至5:50：結語。講者：麥詠詩

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