“The Daily Norm”
2020
Hong Kong
"Hong Kong International Photo Festival 2020 - Unruly Visions"
Photography
Artist: Monique Yim
Main Photographer: Terence Li
As a female-identified queer interdisciplinary artist, Monique Yim is the Other, living outside the norms of gender binary, heteronormativity, and mainstream working full-time lifestyle in Hong Kong.
Through documenting the artist's gender expression and daily life, the photos in this project represent the relationship between her visibly masculine tomboy body and her surroundings, including people she interacts with and everyday city life. The work challenges “normativity” and Otherness in both gender identity and lifestyle aspects, illustrating the possibility and existence of living with fluidity and ambiguity.
Aside from examining people's gazing in each lively scene, this project provides an opportunity for the artist to re-examine herself. She questions if her boundary-crossing body is indeed visible and seen as a spectacle by others, invisible and understood as "male" through the binary gender lens, or simply acknowledged and accepted as a “tomboy” when she exists in this city. In addition, she offers an open conclusion inviting the audience to reflect and consider whether they are living in an inclusive and diverse community, an exclusive and heteronormative space, or an environment situated in-between. Regardless of people's interpretations, Queers and queerness are a part of daily life.
Time: 14/8/2019; Location: A studio in Kwun Tong; Identity/Activity: Artist / Being interviewed on video by K11
Time/Date: 26/12/2019; Location: Supreme Cut; Identity/Activity: Hair cutting
Time/Date: 26/12/2019; Location: A supermarket at Yau Ma Tai; Identity/Activity: Shopping
Time/Date: 26/12/2019; Location: A bookstore at Yau Ma Tai; Identity/Activity: Artist / Doing research
Time/Date: 26/12/2019; Location: Starbucks; Identity/Activity: Master of Arts student / Working on dissertation
Time: 28/8/2019; Location: Central; Identity/Activity: Traveling
Workshop:
https://hkipf.org.hk/events/photography-as-witness-memory-activism-and-recognition/
Facebook post of workshop:
https://www.facebook.com/HKIPF.HKPCA/posts/2523572957686965/
Website:
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/HKIPF.HKPCA
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/hkipf/?hl=zh-hk
Guide Book:
https://issuu.com/hkipf/docs/hkipf_2020_festival_guide
《日常規範》
2020
香港
「香港國際攝影節2020－嘯傲之相」
攝影
藝術家: 嚴穎嘉
主要攝影師: 李羲樺
作為酷兒跨媒介藝術家，嚴穎嘉是個“他者”，生活於香港的二元性別規範、異性戀霸權和主流工作生活方式之外。
作品記錄她的性別表達和日常生活，呈現她剛陽的身體與周圍環境的關係，包括與她互動的人們和每日的城市生活與空間。她挑戰"規範性"和"他者性"，說明性別身份和生活方式的可能性、流動性和瞹眛性。
除了檢視人們在每個生活場景中的凝視之外，此作品還為藝術家提供了一個重新審視自己的機會。她質疑自己的跨界身體是否確實可見並被他人視為奇觀，抑或透過二元性別視角被看不見並被理解為“男性”，抑或當她存在於這座城市時被簡單地承認並接受為“假小子”。此外，她提供了一個開放的結論，邀請觀眾反思並探究他們是生活在一個包容性和多樣性的社會中，還是一個排他性和二元性別規範的空間，還是一個介於兩者之間的環境。不論人們的詮釋如何，酷兒和酷兒性確實是日常生活存在的一部分。
工作坊：
https://hkipf.org.hk/zh/events/photography-as-witness-memory-activism-and-recognition/
工作坊 Facebook：
https://www.facebook.com/HKIPF.HKPCA/posts/2523572957686965/
網站：
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/HKIPF.HKPCA
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/hkipf/?hl=zh-hk
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