Groups of 3 or 4 students present the topics below on Mar. 17. Each group will have 15 minutes to present the topic and 15 minutes Q & A session. Instructor will stop you talking if you have already used up the time. You can have one representative to present your topic and at the end of the ppt, you should write down who responsible for which part and submit the ppt to the instructor.
1.
New Man
2. Once
a Princess, Always a Princess
3.
Redevelopment
plan of Hong Kong harbour& Cheong
Gye Cheon
4.
Hong Kong International Film Festival
5.
Richard Serra "Tilted Arc "
The questions below are just some guidelines for your reference. You
can decide the focus of your presentation.
1.
On "New Man":
(pictures
from Hong Kong Economic Journal)
a.
Study the responses of the following people to the "New Man"
incident. Do
you think their responses were appropriate and what influences had they
brought to the incident?
i. the owner of "New Man";
ii. Hong Kong Arts Development Council;
iii. Arts Critics re-examining the incident by taking the gender issue
into
consideration, such as the Chinese translation of "New Man",
sexual
discrimination in Hong Kong;
iv. Hong Kong artists signing a joint declaration on newspaper / participating
in a demonstration / organizing a exhibition titled "Penis Arts Exhibition".
b
. Analyze the reasons for supporting or against the showing
of "New Man" in public places. What is your point of view?
c
. Analyze how the HK government officials define whether an article is
obscene or not and the regulations that are imposed on obscene articles.
Do
you think this measurement is valid for art works? If not, how can these
regulations be clarified to allow freedom of art creations / expressions?
2.
On "Once a Princess, Always a Princess"
poster design:
(pictures from
Hong Kong Economic Journal)
a.
Posting this poster in government venues is ok but it is not ok to be
published on the newspaper. Why?
b . Analyze the reasons behind the people against ( the view
point of the tax payer on the 14th of July in 1995) or support using the
original poster design. What is your point of view?
c.
Study the statement that is printed on the programme catalogue of
government catalogue: "The contents of this programme do not represent
the
view of the presenter." What is the use of this statement? Do you
think this statement helps to prevent arts
censorship from the presenter or not?
d.
Suppose you work in the Information Services Department, your boss does
not like
the design of this leaflet. What will you do?
3.
Compare the redevelopment plan of Hong Kong harbour and the restoration
plan of Cheong Gye Cheon (清溪川) in Seoul:
During the process
of redevelopment plan of Hong Kong harbour, Star Ferry Pier and Queen's
Pier were demolished. It caused a number of objection from the society
and social movement which asked the government to review the policy of
city planning. When compared with the restoration of Cheong Gye Cheon,
there is less objection. Why? Compare the management of these 2 projects.
reference:http://beyondthestars.wordpress.com/
http://tchinese.seoul.go.kr/cheonggye/
4.
On Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF):
a. Analyze the quoted examples of films being censored in HKIFF and the
reasons against or supporting these censorship. What is your point of
view?
b. Study the criticisms of the film selection process (especially on the
curator's role in this process). Do you agree with these criticisms or
not?
c. This was an issue when HKIFF was one of the government organisations, and when the status of the HKIFF changed, this is not an issue anymore. What are the pros & cons of cultural organisation to be owned by the government?
5. Richard Serra "Tilted Arc ":
a.
Some people wanted to move the art work away and some people wanted it
to stay. What are their reasons?
b. The civic value of the empty plaza and the artistic value of Tilted
Arc, which one are more important? How to make a balance?
c. Examine the procedure of realising the project of Tilted Arc. Are
their anything that can be improved, so that the art work can stay?
d.
What is Public Art? Review the policy of Public Art in Hong Kong. Is there
any regulation on the budget of public art on government buildings? What
is the procedure of erecting a public art in public space.
Reference: http://www.publicart.org.hk/articles.php
Other
articles about art censorship:
本地知名舞蹈團體宣傳單張遭康文署無理審查
(2008/4/4)
改革淫審立場書(廣邀聯署)
(2008/1/11)
封住你把口，請你唱首歌──排除萬難的首個同志創作展 (2007/1/22)
難道又是一個藝術檢查的例子嗎?
(2005/8/26)
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