感謝香港藝術家楊嘉輝 Samson Young 和策展人郭瑛 Ying Kwok 於 CoBo Social Facebook Live 為大家介紹第57屆威尼斯藝術雙年展香港館的展覽「楊嘉輝的賑災專輯」。他們更即場回答Facebook Live觀眾的問題。

Thanks Samson Young & Ying Kwok for participating in CoBo Social’s Facebook Live, and introducing Hong Kong Pavilion at Venice Biennale named “Songs For Disaster Relief”.

 

 

About the Exhibition

Samson Young (Hong Kong, born1979) is a multidisciplinary artist with a background in classical music and composition. His works range from drawings, to videos and mixed media installations, to multimedia walks and performances. For the 57th Venice Biennale, Young has created a new body of work that attempts to reframe the popularization of ‘charity singles’—purpose-made recordings for charitable causes, featuring a super-group of artists—as a historic ‘event’ and a culturally transformative moment. Charity singles were most widespread in the 1980s, and coincided with the rise of neoliberalism and the global popular music industry. In 2014, Bob Geldof and a new group of artists attempted a remake of the iconic ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas’ to support West African nations in their fight against Ebola. A perceived ‘out-of-timeness’ of the contemporary remake left a mark on Young’s consciousness, setting him on a course of research that informed this exhibition.

 

關於展覽

楊嘉輝（生於香港1979年）主修古典音樂與作曲，是一位跨媒體藝術家，作品涵蓋繪畫、錄像、混合媒介裝置、多媒體導行及展演等。這次他為第57屆威尼斯雙年展創作出一系列藝術作品，嘗試以歷史「盛事」和文化轉型時刻作為框架，重新闡述盛極一時由群星獻唱、專為善舉灌錄的「慈善單曲」。慈善單曲適逢新自由主義的熱望冒起及流行音樂工業全球化，於1980年代廣為流行 。音樂人Bob Geldof與一個新的群星組合於2014年再度灌錄《Do They Know It’s Christmas?》，支持非洲對抗伊波拉病疫；這次灌錄有種難以解釋的怪異感，在楊嘉輝的意識中留下印記，引領他踏上這次展覽的研究之旅。