伙炭藝術工作室開放日計劃2008
先 讓我們繞個圈子。某次公開論壇上，有言論批評西九文娛藝術區的規劃未能切合藝術工作者的基本需求，即是就近地方沒有五金舖，沒有文具舖，沒有木工鋪，沒有 印刷公司等等工業配套；要佈置場地的時候，想補充耗材，例如膠紙，是非常麻煩的事。可見文娛藝術，必要用到勞工工具，不能憑空變出畢家索。當代藝術動輒十 多呎高，有時甚至跨越數層，工業器材的需求越來越大。
在 創意工業變成陳腔濫調之前，不彷拿它攪個冷笑話來活化語言：攪創意工業的地方在哪裡？當然在工業區！創新意念的過程中必然地包括工業生產式的重複動作，由 每日左工作室起床梳洗吃早飯然後工作到中午吃午飯之後再工作到三點三下午茶……如此類推的生理規律；以至到畫家筆劃此起彼落，雕塑家對材料反複研磨拋光。 如此說來，工業生產（所像徵的重複運作）不是創意的對立，而是支持它存在的部份。兩者不是互為因果的關係，而是沒有工業，藝術就再也算不上是藝術的關係。
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今年的伙炭藝術工作室開放計劃，有十家新進場的工作室，總共三十五間工作室，進夠讓你看上兩個週末。我們繼續派發有設計精美的小冊子和地圖帶你上山落山走遍火炭。工作室開放計劃期間，同場將會發行《伙炭一百問》，以一百條問題回顧這幾屆工作室開放計劃的經驗和感想，好讓你遊歷今天的火炭，閱讀伙炭的過去。
願你在這兩個週末裡能結交到一班平日辛勞工作，現在以藝會友的藝術家。
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日期：2008年1月12,13,19,20日（星期六、日）
時間：14:00-20:00
Fotanian: Fotan Artists Open Studio 2008
First we should take a detour. Once in a public forum on the issues about the West Kowloon Cultural District, a speaker commented the site’s planning lacks accommodation to the basic need of artists, which means there is no hardware store, no stationary store, no woodwork store and no printer located nearby. When artists have to set up an exhibition venue, they will have to do it without any additional supply of tools. It is really troublesome. Art must work hand in hand with those tools of workers. We cannot clone a Picasso out of thin air.
Before the term ‘creative industry’ is becoming a cliché, it is worth an anti-humorous gesture to liven up our language. Creative industry must establish itself in an industrial district, for during the creative process there must include repetitive tasks, from waking up in the morning, breakfast, do some work and then lunch, do some work and then have tea; to a painter’s rhythmic brush stroke, a sculptor’s hammering of chiseled… such repetitive physical work – epitomized during the process of industrial production – does not simply stands as the opposition to creativity, but it is a part of creativity which supports creativity itself. Their relation is not that of mutual dependence, but the former serves as the material support of the later. Therefore creativity is spawn from nuts and bolts, and has little to do with cleanliness.
To make a cultural hub, seems it is more convenient to do it in an industrial district than on a reclamation site. Though we have two studios leaving the scene, but we have 10 new ones just moved in, making up a total of 35 studios, a number enough for spending two weekends.
A thoughtfully designed booklet and leaflet employed the idea of ‘dots and threads’ are available for visitors to smoothly navigate among those industrial complexes. In addition, a book Fontanian: 100Q has been launched to provide a concise review to the past phases of Open Studio (of 2003 and 2005). With all these tools taking you right to their door steps, we sincerely wish you can have a nice weekend with our hard working artists.
Date: 12, 13, 19, 20 Jan 2008 (Saturdays and Sundays)
Time: 14:00 – 20:00
