MONIQUE YIM 嚴穎嘉

"Turquoise"

2020

Hotel Minimal Culture, Hong Kong

"Performance Art at the times of Coronavirus"

Performance Art

Turquoise, as a colour, sites between blue and green. In medicine, the colour is said to have the effect of calming the spirit and soothing the emotions. It has been often used as the colour for the walls of the rooms inside psychiatric hospitals.

Under the present situation of the pandemic of coronavirus, in a strange room in a hotel which may have been used by some people for quarantine, I will be reading the book written by Lee Chi Leung published in 2008. As a person labelled as mentally ill, he has written this book for those deemed to be mentally ill. The book is entitled "A Room Without Myself".

Since July 2019, during the past ten months, parallel to my being in my room, outside are social movement and an epidemic whilst inside are my illness and a broken heart.

If every creative process is a renewed examination of oneself and a process of reconstruction, I try to re-read life, re-read being.

"It is dangerous to reveal the pain of the personal sphere". This may be a piece of work of performance art. It may be not.

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Press:

17/04/2020，「隔離日常酒店演繹」，副刊，明報新聞網https://news.mingpao.com/pns/%E5%89%AF%E5%88%8A/article/20200417/s00005/1587062398482/%E9%9A%94%E9%9B%A2%E6%97%A5%E5%B8%B8-%E9%85%92%E5%BA%97%E6%BC%94%E7%B9%B9

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《土耳其藍》

2020

簡悅酒店，香港

「瘟疫中的行為現場」

行為藝術

綠松色，介乎藍色和綠色之間，又名土耳其藍，在醫學中，這色據稱有鎮定心靈和安撫情緒之用，更曾在精神病院中常使用作房間牆壁的顏色。

我將在疫症下，在一個陌生的、甚或曾經被人用作自我隔離之用的酒店房間內，重讀李智良於2008年出版，他作為精神病患，寫給精神病患的著作－《房間》(“A Room Without Myself”)。

2019年7月始，十個月平行時空，我的房間外頭是社會運動、疫症，房間裏頭是身的病患、心的創傷。

假如每次創作經歷都是一次重新觀照自己，並且再建構的過程，我試著重讀生活，重讀生存。

「敞開私人領域的痛苦是危險的。」這可能是一件行為作品，也可能不是。

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