見山是山,見山不是山,見山還是山。
雖不在郊野的一趟山行,卻希望腦袋猶如暢游。
這系列旅程, 藝術家分成五小隊,以不同方式探索這座城市山頭,在高樓與老房子之間,斜路、長梯與窄巷之間,忽爾看見山中的美。
要看見當中的美,我們需要代入藝術家們的視角,跟隨他們的步伐與思路,感應他們的想像......
幾段短短的散步,他/她們以音樂、聲音、映像、光影、身體、透視他/她們如何去觀察及回應周遭環境空間。
策動這系列旅程,作為整個「賽馬會藝壇新勢力」計劃的壓軸項目,其實喻意著一種延展。安坐劇場內,感受著作品內容在時間線上不斷演進,是一種歷程。在空間之中游走,體驗時空的轉變帶來不同的視點意含,是另一種歷驗。主要領航的藝術家,之前都在海外藝術節及本地展演中,展示過各自的舞台作品。而參與這系列旅程創作,都在推展自己原有的創作,有的從個人的作品中延伸發展,有的豁然嘗試與新的伙伴合作實驗,讓創作以另一種形態出現,與其他媒介腦袋互動,擴闊另一種閱讀的可能。
A mountain seen as a mountain. A mountain seen as a non-mountain. A mountain utterly seen as a mountain.
(Three stages of seeing: understanding reality and illusion as ones journey of intellectual enlightenment, a quote from Chinese Zen Buddhism in Song dynasty.)
Excursions to the urban space, yet your mind flows as free as swimming in the ocean.
A series of walking tours in five groups, each led by an artist, allow you to explore through different means the mountains of our cityscape, rediscover the overlooked beauty lined between skyscrapers, old houses, sloping paths, long stairs and narrow lanes.
In order to visualize such beauty, one has to fully adopt the artists perspectives, follow their footsteps and way of thinking, and respond to their imagination...