Introduction of Performance Art Workshop & Education Programme instructed by Monique Yim

嚴穎嘉行為藝術工作坊、課程及教育項目簡介

導師簡介：嚴穎嘉 (Monique Yim)

香港行為藝術家及重要教育者，活躍於本地及國際。從事行為藝術十三年，作品曾受邀於香港、亞洲及歐洲近三十個城市，逾一百五十項國際展覽和藝術節展出。她曾於西九文化區策展"行為藝術馬拉松"，並於眾多海外與本地大學、中小學及機構教授工作坊或講座，亦曾與創不同、香港畫廊協會、文化地圖、香港文學館、文藝復興基金會、K11等多間機構合作。她於2018年獲中歐卡斯藝術中心"公共空間行為藝術國際獎"二等獎。

她的教學對象由成人、大學生、青少年、小童、特殊需要或傷健人士、藝術或非藝術背景者，到不同國籍或需要的社群。她獨有開創、設計及教授行為藝術課程，及獨有一套工作坊教學方法。她的教育項目，亦能夠同時融合跨媒介藝術教育，以致生命教育、 正向教育、價值教育範疇，如生死、人生意義及理想、家庭跨代共融、環境教育、公民教育。她曾教學或辦講座於 : 香港大學、香港中文大學、香港理工大學、香港城市大學、香港青年藝術協會等等。

行為藝術教育簡介，撰於2018：

什麼是行為藝術？

• 行為藝術是當代視覺藝術的一種形式，以身體和行動作為創作媒介材料，具有現場性，由當下的時(時間)、空(環境空間)、人(自身/他人/人和人)、物(物料)作為原素，互動構成。
• 創作者用真實的方式和素材，作真實的呈現。
• 不論時間長度、環境互動、物料利用、身體轉化... 創作形式方法與作品呈現可說多元無界限。

什麼人可以做行為藝術？或者體驗、學習探索、嘗試創作？

• 任何人，包括有或沒有接受過任何藝術訓練的(對創作者技能及背景無限制、門檻)、不同年齡和身體狀況的(單是歐洲，就有不少身體有各種殘障或疾病的知名行為藝術家)，也可創作行為藝術。
• 行為藝術就是走出日常框架，以其作為藝術形式來表達自己，創作屬於自己誠實的作品。同時籍自己和作品，和其他人去感應交流、溝通對話、互動合作。

行為藝術還有什麼可能性？

• 能夠探索與實驗跨媒介藝術作品的可能性，創作無藝術媒介界限、甚至多媒介的作品。例如: 行為x音樂，行為x文學，行為x戲劇，行為x影像，等等。
• 題材無界限。可從個人內在、生命、生活、經歷、事件，到抽象的意像，到具體的社會議題、反思、感受、批判等的角度出發。
• 關於行為藝術，嚴穎嘉論述：「行為藝術作為方法，以身體作為媒介，創作涉獵(的題材和呈現與媒材方式)是最全面廣博的，也是最極致細緻的。它可以是社會性與公共性的，它亦可以是個人自身及內在的觀照，它更是對生命、生活、存在、生存狀態的思考。它是向內同時又向外的，是微觀同時又宏觀的。它有時是過程，有時是結果。它最虛也最實，最柔也最剛。它可以是最容易駕駑的，因為它不像繪畫、雕塑、建築等需要固有或特定技巧的訓練與規範，是直觀與本能，它亦是最難以捉控的，因為它是從心智和精神出發，是當下的時、空、人、物的總和。它的表現形式和承載內容，可能在藝術史是最邊緣與前衛、浮動與爭議的，亦可能在作為人是最日常與平凡、自然與無爭的。」載於香港藝術發展局資助《行為藝術實驗室計劃2014：國際行為藝術節》一書。

在藝術賞析，或藝術史及美學理論等等學術與論述層面以外，學習行為藝術有什麼益處？

• 行為藝術既是生活真實，也是天馬行空，更是人人可創作的無界限或跨媒介創意藝術。
• 透過行為藝術本質的獨立自主性思考、表達、創作的身體力行體驗，從中與自己及他人對話，是個人成長、生命、道德及價值教育的一大資源。
• 青年或兒童藉參與行為藝術工作坊，分別探索嘗試個人的，及群體共同合作的藝術表達和創作體驗，互動分享和交流。透過工作坊，他們用自己和群體的自由創作力，拼發花火，擦出生命和生活能量。工作坊亦能引發他們多種觀看世界，包括正面樂觀的角度、人性的光明、道德和美善面等等，從而啟發他們對人生及社會的不同思考，和實踐多元無限的可能性，並在日後的日常生活中繼續活出創意，提高解難能力，和持續對生活與生命的反思和實踐。

除了純藝術和美學的認識、體驗、探索和學習，嚴穎嘉能有經驗地提供什麼特式主題的行為(或跨媒介)藝術課程與工作坊?

生命教育、價值教育、公民教育主題，包括

• 個人成長 / 解決困難 / 跨越障礙 / 關愛他人的主題
• 生涯規劃 / 人生意義 / 人生理想的主題
• 家庭教育 / 兩代或三代共融 / 承傳的主題
• 生死教育主題
• 德育 / 正向價值 / 公民及社會權利與責任 / 關懐人文和社會的主題
• 社區 / 社區保育主題
• 不同社群 ( 如 : 長者、新移民、少數族裔 ) / 參與式主題
• 大自然 / 自然保育 / 環保 / 動物保護主題
• 身心靈 / 宗教靈修主題
• 社會及文化研究主題，如 : 全球化、勞工、貧富、性別、弱勢社群主題等等
• 平等教育主題，如 : 種族、膚色、年齡、殘疾、性取向等等

Instructor’s Profile: Monique Yim

Monique Yim is a performance artist and educator based in Hong Kong and worked internationally. Engaged in performance art for 12 years, she has been invited to present her works in Hong Kong and almost 30 cities in Asia and Europe, in over 150 international exhibitions and festivals. She has curated the “Performance Art Marathon" in the West Kowloon Cultural District. She has actively given workshops or lectures at many overseas and local universities, primary and secondary schools and institutions. She has also collaborated with many arts and cultural institutions such as MAD Asia, Hong Kong Gallery Association, CULTaMAP, Hong Kong Literature House, Renaissance Foundation Hong Kong, K11, etc. In 2018, she won the second prize of the "International Award for Visual Art Performance in Public Space” at Kassak Art Centre, Central Europe.

Monique's students included local, China and overseas young artists, arts graduates, arts master students, arts degree students, HKDSE visual arts students and people without art background, ranging from kids, teenagers, adults to people of different races, people come from different communities, disabled and people with special needs. She has worked with Brno University of Technology (Czech Republic), Xiamen University (China), Hong Kong University, Chinese University of Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong, Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Hong Kong School of Creativity, Diocesan Boys' School, Diocesan Girls' School, St. Mary's Canossian College, South Island International School, Tseung Kwan O Government Secondary School, Choi Hung Estate Catholic Secondary School, Caritas Lok Jun School (Special Education), Precious Blood Children's Village, Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation (YAF), etc.

In 2017 she presented a breakthrough cross-disciplinary arts production of performance art, music, film, installation and theatre, named “Searching for Stillness” in KUC Space, themed on life and death. She also did many pioneering works on local performance art education, such as performance crossover interdisciplinary arts education programmes she provided to “The Hong Kong Jockey Club Community Performing Arts Biennale 2016”, named “We Are Unique”, and “Renaissance Foundation Summer Camp 2017”, named “Wasteland”, both themed on life education.

Introduction of Performance Art Education, written in 2018:

What is performance art as an art form?

• Performance art is a form of contemporary visual art. It uses concept and body/action as the medium of creation. It has a live nature and is composed of the present interaction of time, space, people and materials.
• Performance art is about authentic, and the presentation and representation of reality.
• Body, material, environment, relationship and interaction of artist and audience of the present time and space… are all media of creating performance art. Artworks are without boundaries, whatever on the concept and form, time and duration, art media or even interdisciplinary.

Who can do performance art? Who can experience, learn, explore and try to create performance art?

• It is an art form that could be done by everyone, that could be created without any visual or performing art background.
• Through this performance art workshop, everyone can try to break through the frame of thinking, to explore life and living, express their inner feelings, find themselves, and discover infinite possibilities. People could create their own piece, express their true selves out of the frame, also could collaborate, interact and communicate with the others and the other pieces.

What is the possibilities of performance art?

• The possibilities of cross-media art creations can be explored and experimented, such as performance x music, performance x literature, performance x installation, performance x theatre, performance x video, performance x photography, etc.
• The theme and perspective could be ranged from the self, life, live, past experience, incident, to social and public issue, reflection, feeling, or critique.
• Defining performance art, Monique Yim stated that, “It is an art form that uses body as a medium. The subject content, media, and material involved in the creation are very diversified yet finest. It can be social and public. It can be about oneself and self-contemplation. It can be thoughts about life, living, and existence. It is inward and outward at the same time, microscopically and macroscopically. It is sometimes a process, sometimes a result. It is the softest yet toughest. It is honest, real and virtual. It can be easy, unlike painting, sculpture, architecture and so on, performance art does not necessarily require certain skills and training, it requires perception and instinct, concept and transformation; it can be difficult, it should be driven from mind and spirit, and is the synthesis of present time, space, people (artist and audience), and objects (material and environment). In the art history, it is probably the most marginal and avant-garde, the most floating and controversial, however, for humans, it is possibly the most ordinary, natural, and secluded.” – Published in the book “Performance Art Laboratory Project 2014: International Performance Art Festival”, supported by Hong Kong Arts Development Council.

What special topics could Monique's performance art (and interdisciplinary art) education programme or workshop provide according to her teaching experience?

Topics of Life Education, Positive Education and Civil Education, like

• Self Developement and Problem Tackling
• Meaning of Life, Life Planning & Life Goals
• Family & Inter-Generation
• Life & Death Education
• Value & Social Responsibility
• Community and Society Concerning
• Nature and Conservation
• Body, Mind and Soul / Religion
• Cultural Studies, like Globalization, Gender, Minorities, etc

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