Walking Practice步行練習
Walking Practice (2018) uses the drone as a creative starting point to explore how this then-emerging imaging technology opens up new ways of seeing.
The drone becomes an extension of the body, replacing human eyes to observe the world from an aerial perspective. Standing beneath the drone, I attempt to synchronise with the machine through a handheld controller during the filming process. As I walk in circles around various roundabouts in the city, the drone hovers above, rotating in the opposite direction to my movement. This choreography of opposing actions embodies a silent persistence—when the world seems to be retreating, humans advance within that retreat.
《步行練習》(2018年)以無人機作為創作的起點,探索這項當時仍屬新興的影像技術如何開啟嶄新的觀看方式。
無人機成為身體的延伸,替代人的雙眼從空中俯瞰世界。我站在無人機下方,透過手持控制器,嘗試在拍攝過程中與機器同步:當我繞著城市中的各個環形交叉路口行走,無人機則懸浮在上空,與我的移動方向相反地旋轉。這種對立動作的編舞體現了一種靜默的堅持——當世界似乎在倒退,人則在退卻中前行。
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Lam Wing Sze is a Hong Kong–based video artist. She received her BA from the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University, in 2015. Lam currently works in museum education. Participated exhibitions and projects include “ Irregular Plurals: Dwelling” (WMA, Hong Kong, 2023), “Everyday life in Hong Kong and Fukuoka: The study of Contemporary Arts and Kougengaku” (art space tetra , Fukuoka, Japan, 2023), “Our Manifestos II: Videography, Documentary Impulses” (Floating Projects, Hong Kong, 2021), “Portals, Stories, and Other Journeys” (Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong, 2021), “Sightlines” (Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong, 2019 and 41 Ross, San Francisco, 2017 ), “DREAM Video 100” (West Bund Art & Design, Shanghai, 2018), “Wonder Foto Day” (Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei, 2019), “The Aerial Actor” (Art Omi, New York, 2018), “Observe / Scrutinise / Perceive” (Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong, 2018), “Weighty Light” (Affordable Art Fair, Hong Kong, 2018), “from here to there” (Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, 2016).
Lam’s image narratives are often composed of scenes and situations she encounters by chance, but also those that she both anticipates and manipulates. Her role as an image-maker is to create a situation that gives the audience a viewing experience, opens up a conversation with that which was captured, and generates new meaning. Lam looks at scenery in the city and inverts daily observations into moving images that depict the perception and reflection of seeing.
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