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2020.10.19
奇恥大辱
第一次與藝術家鍾正見面時，他還是浸會大學視覺藝術院的準畢業生。這些年來在多場群展中看過不少他的作品，也不時會在大館碰到他，他現時是大館的高級技術員，我們不算相識。我們安排了見面，過去三星期便詳談了三遍，討論他的生命和藝術；因為是對談，我也談到自己。與鍾氏見面的動機，來自他剛剛 ...
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2020.10.19
The Ultimate Humiliation
Although I first met artist Mark Chung when he was a graduating fine art student at Baptist University’s Academy of Visual Art and seen his art over the years in group exhibitions and often met him at Tai Kwun, where he works as a senior technician, we hardly  knew each other ...
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2020.09.18
安定人心的祭儀和醫療護理
聽到第141屆大坑舞火龍要取消的消息，我沒有感到意外。抗疫時期的，選擇避險而不是破格思維是理所當然的事！我一位香港友人提出這樣的問題：如果今年不舉辦舞火龍，那麼，這種祭儀便只是表演，沒有真正的意義了，真是一言驚醒。如果說香港需要祈福、需要為保合境平安和而在街上舉行祭儀，今年便沒 ...
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2020.09.18
Reassuring Rituals & Medical Care
The news that the 141st Tai Hang Fire Dragon procession had been cancelled did not surprise me. Risk-aversion, rather than thinking outside the box, is the default setting during these Covid-19 days! The significance of this cancellation really sank in when a Hong Kong friend ...
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2020.09.04
又順又大，對某些人而言……
政府山關注組由一群以行動守護城市規劃及文化保育的人士組成，小組上星期聯同居民和其他反對人士繼續推動中環主教山文物區的規劃限制。我們再次在「進一步申述」的最後一場公聽會聚首，這個法定規劃程序在兩年多前首次在城市規劃委員會中展開。政府山關注組在上一次城規會公聽會上建議，整個主教山 ...
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2020.09.04
Big and Easy, for Some
Last week, the Government Hill Concern Group (GHCG), a composite group of urban planning and heritage conservation activists, joined residents and other objectors to continue the push for planning restrictions for the Bishop Hill heritage site in Central. We gathered again at ...
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2020.08.22
大嶼山童心之旅
回想上世紀六、七十年代自己童年漫長悠閒的暑假，我很難想像香港今年和去年兩個夏天會在青少年心目中留下什麼印象。去年夏日，空氣中瀰漫的是催淚氣，今年卻是令人生畏的病毒。口罩大概是兩個夏天的連繫。去年，政府為了阻止人們在升溫的示威事件中隱藏身份而禁止蒙面；今年，在新冠病毒肆虐下，口 ...
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2020.08.22
A Childlike Trip to Lantau
Thinking back on my own childhood and of long, leisurely summer holidays in the 1960s and 70s, I cannot imagine the impression that Hong Kong’s two recent summers will make on our young children and teenagers. Last year’s summer air was filled with tear gas, this year the fea ...
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2020.08.10
疫情決策中的政治
我猜行政長官林鄭月娥一定是計好時間，才在2020年7月31日的星期五晚宣佈本年立法會選舉延期一年，這樣便可以避開平日熱熱鬧鬧的各大電台觀眾來電節目、工作間討論和城中大大小小角落「打邊爐」時的聚集閒聊。她在宣佈中強調這次「七個月來最困難的」決定，純粹是基於新冠病毒疫情下的健康和安全考 ...
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2020.08.10
Politics amidst Covid-19 decision-making
I suppose Chief Executive Carrie Lam’s announcement late last Friday night (31 July 2020) to postpone this year’s Legislative Council elections by one year was intentionally timed to miss the city’s animated weekday radio talk-in programmes, workplace discussions and congrega ...
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2020.07.24
讓香港做香港
去年在某幅牆上首次看到「Let Hong Kong Be Hong Kong」（讓香港做香港）這句言簡意賅的口號時，我便非常喜歡。簡單的六個字，幾乎凝聚了所有和平遊行和暴力衝擊等街頭示威的訴求。這幾個字應該大量生產、用畫框裱起，然後掛遍香港。我城因政治取向分成兩邊的雙方都可以引用口號所蘊藏的民情，因為 ...
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2020.07.24
Letting Hong Kong Be Hong Kong
I liked the slogan ‘Let Hong Kong Be Hong Kong’ the first time I saw it scrawled on a wall last year. It was simple and to the point. Those six words captured almost everything that the street protests, ranging from peaceful demonstrations to violent outbursts, demanded. Thos ...
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