☟ 2019年4月27日，星期六 SATURDAY 27 APRIL ☟
時間 time // 2-8 PM
地點 location // 富德樓天台，灣仔軒尼詩道365-367號 Foo Tak Building ROOFTOP, 365-367 Hennessy Road; Wanchai
＊ 雨天程序 // 都會在富德樓，請留意電梯口的張貼
＊ in case of rain // events will still be in the Foo Tak Building, look ＊pray＊ for a sign
全日擺攤 TABLING ALL DAY 2-8 PM
37club、艺鵠 ACO、白糖罐 SugarJar、黑窗里 black window infoshop、Denpasar Kolektif、工人文藝 Workers' Literary Magazine、해방촌아나키모임 Haebang-Cheon Anarchy Meeting、空氣炸HellKitty、Horse and Gate、indisczinepartij、複印 Info、街坊排檔 Kai Fong Pai Dong、李智良 LEE Chi-leung、流動閱酷 Queer Reads Library、未命名的打雜 untitled miscellaneous、影行者 v-artivist、惟工新聞 Worker News、wares infoshop library、展銷場 Display Distribute，陸續有來 and more
在工人身上劃界，割開條命既咩野? 四名關心全球工人議題的朋友淺談分享 What the Hell are We Doing when We Draw a Line and Slice Open the Lives of Workers? // 2:30-4:30 PM
How do we take one step towards worker solidarity? This sharing will bring together examples from different places within the labour movement, sorting out and dredging through the structural background leads to the continual segregation of the working class.
Top-down collusions between politicians and business have etched in the patterns of globalisation by which capital flows in every direction, but also by which all kinds of boundaries are covertly built in the name of profit and consolidation. Workers are divided and disempowered with the utmost forms of exploitation. This drawing of boundaries does not only exist at the level of geography, for the lines themselves mutate and become embedded into the very fabric of life.
Four unnamed guest speakers will each share observations and analysis from their respective work, ranging from the most explicit cases to other, more implicit examples. Speaker A will point out changes capital's use of differences in economic development among various regions parallel to the outward movement of factories leaving China's Pearl River Delta region in search of ever cheaper labour to exploit. The State’s bulldozing over any obstructions to the mobilisation of capital backgrounds an analysis about the conditions of Chinese labourers and parallel changes in resistance movements.
Speaker B will elaborate upon how China's hukou household registration system divides its citizens, creating uneven development as well as a domestic microcosm of global city/countryside divisions. Speaker C will use the example of the struggle of sanitation workers outsourced by a UK university to illustrate how the enforcement of borders is all-pervasive. Both policies above were originally designed with universal principals in mind, but have been since distorted to further inequality and strengthen hegemonic power.
Speaker D will present female labourer issues as a positive contribution to overall worker solidarity. Looking from the perspective of female workers in China, D will outline how child policy impacts female labourers. How common is the harassment Chinese women have to face in factories, and what form does it take?
It is the intention of this gathering to bring about greater reflection and a mutual reconsideration of the relations between workers. Faced with ever increasing borders, we still have the possibility of a collective force.
＃＃＃ // 勞動 labour、中國 China、分享 sharing
共享空間：在獨立出版，圖書館和檔案庫之間 Sharing Space: On Independent Publishing, Libraries and Archives // 5:00-7:00 PM
This sharing session will gather three initiatives, indisczinepartij (Yogyakarta), Queer Reads Library (Hong Kong) and wares infoshop library (Singapore)‚ all working with the dual challenge of independent publishing archives and making the spaces and moments to gather, read and engage with a particular realm of autonomous print culture.
全日擺攤 TABLING ALL DAY 2-8 PM @ 街坊排檔 Kai Fong Pai Dong
37club、白糖罐 SugarJar、黑窗里 black window infoshop、daikon* zine、Denpasar Kolektif、工人文藝 Workers' Literary Magazine、碧波押 Green Wave Art、해방촌아나키모임 Haebang-Cheon Anarchy Meeting、空氣炸HellKitty、indisczinepartij、複印 Info、街坊排檔 Kai Fong Pai Dong、李智良 LEE Chi-leung、李致安 Klaus LEE、流動閱酷 Queer Reads Library、未命名的打雜 untitled miscellaneous、影行者 v-artivist、惟工新聞 Worker News、wares infoshop library、展銷場 Display Distribute，陸續有來 and more
照相機有兩隻眼睛，哪隻看真哪隻看假？ A camera has two eyes, which one sees the truth, and which one sees lies? // 2:30-4:30 PM
@ 碧波押 Green Wave Art
With this visit of SugarJar to Hong Kong's old Yaumatei neighbourhood, untrained artist YANG Licai launches his new book Themeless Photo Album, including images recorded of urban development and cultural oppression in Beijing, China, between 2008 and 2012.
Photographer Klaus LEE has been documenting urban spaces and underground music venues in Hong Kong for the last ten years. Underground and 'over ground' are both truths, and they are both the reality. This chaotic dichotomy, of society and those against it, of a line of sight both towards the inside and to the outside, actually seems to be less and less differentiated.
It is here that the image becomes an entry point for distinguishing between reality and truth.
During this session, Yang and Hong Kong photographer Klaus LEE invite guests to 'not only use their eyes' and attempt a collective discussion about the image and its role in truth and reality-making. The work of both touches upon and explores urban environments and the crevices, gaps and upheavals amidst them. Now firmly entrenched within a society of spectacle, what exactly can the image be anymore? Does it reveal the truth, or does it actually hide reality? Is it possible that only when when we close our eyes other possibilities may become visible?
We always think that the days of migrant workers leaving their homes for work will end at some point, because after all, Hong Kong society doesn't seem to have a place for them. But more and more of those migrant workers who have gone back home do find their way back to Hong Kong again, and many of those who choose to stay in their hometowns find it difficult. So we couldn’t help but ask the question: why do migrant workers have to leave their countries to work in the first place? Do they have other choices other than going abroad for work? Can such work really help them to improve their destinies? And is it possible to say that the exploitative system to which migrant workers submit themselves is only a small sacrifice for a greater good? What actually are the relations between their situations and us? Worker News brought these questions with us to Indonesia, and for the period of a month, visited over ten migrant workers who have returned to their hometowns. Together with farming groups, women's organisations and labour unions, we collected the material and wrote a series of essays and made a half-hour documentary film. During this session, we will share what we have learned in Indonesia, as well as our reflections about migrant labour issues.
This evening we will draw focus upon actions and groups against the rampant development of land and natural resources, with an exchange among members of Denpasar Kolektif (Bali, Indonesia), Haebang-Cheon Anarchy Meeting (Seoul) and local Hong Kong activists working in the Wang Chau village area of the New Territories.
＊ NOTE // Please kindly note that the venue is located on the first floor inside Living Bookspace, accessible by a staircase and kindly requests for shoes to be kept downstairs. Feel free to sit on the floor. We will provide some cushions. There will be space limitations of 13 people for the film screening, and 20 people for sharing and discussions. Please come early to ensure you enjoy the films.
Squatting, Social Centres and DIY Music/Radio Culture in London // 5-7 PM ＃＃＃ // 廣播電台 broadcast、倫敦 London、分享 sharing
Despite appearing as a clean and business friendly city on the face of it, London is also a place with a continuous cultural undercurrent, acting as a counter movement to the overtly capitalistic nature of much of what is visible and experienced by its inhabitants. This counter culture is consistently having to evolve and reinvent itself in attempt to keep one step ahead of forces which seek to undermine and disperse forms of collective mobilisation in order for them to be replaced by an outlook which favours outright individualism.
To contextualise in a wider sense, when we refer to England as a nation with London as the economic and political centre, despite a number of attempts by some key figures throughout history we are essentially referring here to a place where no overarching revolution has taken place in around 1000 years of history and indeed the lineage of the same monarchy has been retained for this entire period. Despite this somewhat depressing fact, during the period post the year 2000 there have been a number of movements of various shapes and sizes which have gained notoriety and provided a platform for an alternative discourse. I will now proceed in taking a look at some of the key developments which have taken place in London during this period.
空氣炸老B LIVE // 7:30-10 PM ＃＃＃ // mininoise、實驗 experimental、演出 concert
來自廣州的實驗小組「空氣炸HellKitty」和香港草根民謠唱作人老B將會進行即興對話。
Improvised dialogue between Guangzhou-based experimental group 空氣炸HellKitty and Hong Kong folk singer-songwriter 老B.
☟ 2019年5月1日，星期三 WEDNESDAY 1 MAY ☟
時間 time // 2-5 PM & 7-9 PM
地點 location // 從維多利亞公園到金鐘 from Victoria Park, Causeway Bay, to Admiralty
＋ 上環蘇杭街94號3樓 94 Jervois Street, 4/f; Sheung Wan
國際勞動日遊行 LABOUR DAY DEMO // 2:00-5:00 PM
@ 銅鑼灣中央圖書館會合 Hong Kong Central Library meeting point
與2019全球五一勞動行動結連共行,呼籲在年度勞動節參與支持全世界的工人鬥爭。
Annual Labour Day call to support the struggle of workers all over the world, in solidarity with Global May Day 2019.
In this workshop facilitated by Queer Reads Library and Julian from the Transgender Resource Centre (TGR), we will brainstorm terms for inclusion in a Queer Cantonese and English Lexicon. The workshop will be conducted in both Cantonese and English. All are welcome.
＊ 註 // 晚餐由Table of Two Cities供應，請按需付費並自備餐具，感謝！
＊ NOTE // Dinner included (bring your own utensils/bowls/plates), pay what you can (to be donated to Table of Two Cities).
The Black Book Fair was first held in Hong Kong in November 2017 as an autonomous gathering around leftist literature and practice. Amidst books scattered across the floor and banners strewn across chairs, a fruitful weekend of exchanges and discussions took place among activists, musicians, artists, publishers and organisers, punctuated by poetry, meals together and van trips to transport books around the city.
In the following year, its initiators handed the project over to a completely new configuration of people inspired by their previous work. This group, not yet a group, failed to realise the event, but continued the question, "Why black?" We began to conjure up a few new positions and plans for what we now call the Black Book Assembly. At its basis, we recall it being the colour of all colours, an absorption of all light and yet vast in its nothingness. With an estranged relation to multiple radical histories and always dialogical, can we — still not yet a group, certainly not an institution, and maybe not even a community — discover the colour to an as-of-yet-unknown life in common, beyond the bounds of race, class, nation state, gender and ability? This says as much about the conditions of Hong Kong as it does about the need to rethink, re-attempt and re-colour what our assembly can do and can be. Between the literature of emancipation and autonomous modes of making, this is a humble invitation for you to join us for sharing and conversation.
We will be popping up from 27 April to 1 May 2019 in different locations throughout the city, juxtaposing our own concerns as precarious workers with the annual May Day call to support the struggle of workers all over the world. All are welcome. Please return to this website for continual updates of the activity schedule and locations.
37club is an experimental school of experimental art. It is often confused with TST or Soeng Joeng Toi in Guangzhou. 37club has no classrooms, no teachers, no funding and no history. Come and be a co-founder, too.
SugarJar was established as a social practice in 2003 by YANG Licai in a 4 square metre temporary structure in a small alley just outside of the west gate of Tsinghua University in Beijing. In the beginning Yang sold small editions and self-releases from underground bands and in the following year began organising live shows at various spaces throughout the city. In 2005, SugarJar moved to its 798 Arts District studio, sharing independent music, film and books as well as organising series of small-scale live shows and screenings. Because of carrying publications and documentary films with sensitive content, as well as his participation in civic actions, the police became aware of the space, and beginning gradually from 2009, books were confiscated, screenings were obstructed, and during sensitive periods, Yang placed under surveillance. SugarJar's electricity was cut, and the management office of 798 refused to renew the rent. On 31 May 2010, Yang Licai was detained by Chaoyang District public security for ten days, during which time the 798 management office confiscated the contents of the space and forced its eviction. It was only after several months of insistence for his rights that the 798 management returned a portion of his property. Since then, SugarJar has become more of a guerrilla vendor with focus upon independent publications. In 2018, Yang brought SugarJar to Shenzhen, opening up a public WeChat account under the name ‘SugarJar Guerrilla’ to support independent artists (those outside of the system) and relevant art and social practices. SugarJar is currently primarily composed of Yang and his mother WU Yulian, with hopes of opening the platform to other independent art workers.
In 2019, SugarJar will release several new artist books and zines, including Themeless Photo Album and Person Project, both set for launch in April.
We are a group of self-identifying South East/East Asian women and non-binary people living within a European context. We have created this zine as a platform for Asian voices that are so often underrepresented and undervalued in mainstream political and feminist discourse. We believe in empowering each other through highlighting the collective frustrations and nuances of our intersectional experiences as a starting point for building a wider platform of solidarity. We aim to share our opinions, celebrate our creativity and build up a stronger collective voice for South East/East Asians.
If theory can be likened to a window, affording us a means by which we can apprehend the world, the black window is that which — by opening onto a void — refuses a gaze that would consume what it sees, while drawing attention to the frame, that which offers something to be seen while remaining out of sight. The black window brings us to the limit of sight and the limit of knowledge, stripping sight of its innocence by revealing the blindness at its heart. Black Window is a library and a resource center. The materials on its shelves are so many black windows, open to those dark regions of the unknown that we encounter on the paths towards revolution.
Denpasar Kolektif is a collective of "learning and friendship" based in Bali. This collective was started in 2010 by people with an interest in hardcore punk and the belief that hardcore punk is more than just music and fashion. Denpasar Kolektif actively organizes DIY gigs, punk picnics in public space, movie screenings, discussion groups, community market events, woodcut print workshops, an online radio podcast, runs a DIY punk distro and in 2018 organized the first Bali Zine Festival. Denpasar Kolektif also opened the first zine library in Bali, focusing on creating community solidarity for social movements in Bali.
Along with the Bali chapter of Friends of the Earth, Denpasar Kolektif actively protests greedy development that destroys Bali's nature and culture in the name of tourism. Currently, Denpasar Kolektif is part of the alliance called ForBALI, or The Bali People's Alliance to Reject the Reclamation Project in Benoa Bay, which has been active from since 2013 to present day. Struggling happily. Friendship is the key!
Dissident Island Radio是每月首週與第三週在倫敦社運資源中心播放的網上電台。節目內容包括氣候正義、動物權益、反法西斯行動、佔屋運動、經濟正義，與及隨意播放的DJ選曲。不只是製作好節目，DIR更會舉辦佔屋籌款派對、印刷刊物，和舉行營運電台技術分享工作坊。
Dissident Island Radio is a radical internet radio show broadcasting on the first and third Friday of every month from the London Action Resource Centre. Our shows cover a wide range of topics from climate justice, to animal rights, to anti-fascism, to squatting, to economic justice, and beyond as well as featuring much frivolity and our regular DJ slot. Not content to simply produce a kick-ass radio show, the Dissident Island crew regularly throw benefit parties in various squatted venues, as well as producing a zine and sharing our radio-making skills at workshops.
Founded in 2009, Fuben books focuses upon poetry, fiction, drama, criticism and small booklets. It operates as a private workshop, promoting and participating in related creative practices.
해방촌아나키모임 Haebangchon Anarchy Group is a gathering of people around South Korea who are interested to meet and talk regularly about anarchism. Our work in Seoul includes translating zines, participating in the appeal "To Change Everything", organising an Anarchy Film Festival, having tea time, and most recently, organizing "Anarchy Summer" 2019.
The Fast Horse Workers' Collective is a group of courier employees who have joined together with the purpose of fighting together to better the labour system of logistics and courier companies, to claim their rights and compensation from their employers.
Info is located in Wuhan next to a band practice room, a copyshop convenient for the neighbourhood but also convenient for the sharing of knowledge, movement and DIY culture as a means to initiate and explore the possibilities of new alliance.
Old B (Billy) is a grass roots, folk singer-songwriter and also a social worker, performing and facilitating community music activities with grassroots communities in Hong Kong and Guangdong. With his simple folk songs, Old B sings forth an aesthetics coloured by the lives and struggles of grass roots peoples.
Kai Fong Pai Dong is a self-organised neighbourhood market stall in Yau Ma Tei that opened in November 2015 to support the neighbourhood from the bottom-up. Horizontally-run by 11 people, the stall relies on mutual aid and community support, and aims to empower those that run it and the neighbourhood community.
(Hong Kong, 1990) I've always thought that there is an extra distance created from looking at photographs on the digital screen. Since beginning to participate in social movements in 2009, I have continued my photography practice, and in 2015 I began to attempt publishing my photos in material form with low-cost photobooks that are shared with others at free pricing. So far I have published two of my own works, one dōjinshi-style photography collaboration with two others called Encounter and an underground music zine documenting local music events. I hope one day to be able to make a solo exhibition of my work pasted onto city streets.
Queer Reads Library is a mobile collection of DIY, self- and independently published publications by queer folks and/or centred on queer ideas, based in Hong Kong.
Without workers, there would be no life and no world. It is hard to imagine the world without workers doing their humble work. They are essential pillars of society and should have our own voice — to vent when angry, to find joy when fun is needed, and to solve problems when life brings troubles. This is the minimum dignity workers deserve, and that is how Worker News came to be. Worker News is an independent media outlet that a group of workers felt obliged to operate. It is not profitable. It does not accept government or commercial funding. It provides news, commentary and a variety of life information in the form of a comprehensive website. We are small potatoes, but we never feel inferior because we have a strong support to back us. We don't speculate for our safety and security, we work hand to mouth. If you think about that, you are one of us as well.
The direction of the publication Workers' Literary Magazine is based on the local expanding into the mainland, with focus upon Chinese-speaking regions. Positioned as a purely literary publication, Workers' Literary Magazine hopes to run sustainably to lay the foundations for our future. Our ultimate goals are: 1) to establish literary and artistic cultures for workers and the general public, and 2) to deepen the understanding and care for workers and the general public.
wares is a reading library and infoshop project collecting a tapestry of books, zines, and other printed matter. Part material and part virtual, it carves out new potentials for collective gathering, study, agitation, and autonomy beyond capital. It has been nestled since 2018 in the shared space soft/WALL/studs in Geylang, Singapore, on the Malay Peninsula.
we began as a group for freelancers and part-time workers, but it appears to be difficult to get work for money. that's fine, we'll do some miscellaneous things first.
while you're flirting with me and i with you, a few zines were inadvertently put out. we proudly introduce to you our zine about medical issues and caretaking: are you sick?
v-artivist practises art and video with the belief that art is a creative expression of the relationships between individuals and groups/communities. We are therefore committed to the democratisation of art and bringing it back to the people, with our work divided into three categories: social documentary production, image-based creative and analytical workshops and screenings. Together with a group of volunteers, we have been committed over the past ten years to raising awareness of various land-planning movements. We participated in filming and hope to also engage residents in the filming and production process.
Display Distribute is a thematic inquiry, distribution service, now and again display proposition, and sometimes shop operating in and around the Pearl River Delta region.
黑書眾《半年多報》
