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討厭香港系列：
討厭自己的歷史
白雙全
「香港人討厭自己的歷史，今天也會成為以後的歷史，令人討厭。」2006-12-14
回歸17年後的今日，在香港市面偶然仍會找到英殖時期流通的英女皇壹圓硬幣，我們通過網路、街站和工作坊向每個參與者收集一個英女皇的壹圓硬幣，這個硬幣會交到一個英國人手中，請他把女皇肖像硬生生地磨在英國的土地上。女皇俏俏的側面消失了，繪畫成地上一條長長的疤痕，這是香港150年殖民地歷史的結局；錢幣的兩面曾經連繫着香港人和英國人，今日終於分開了。磨平的錢幣拼成一面光滑的圓鏡，映照觀看者的正面。
這作品追溯到2006年發生在天星和皇后碼頭的保育運動，回歸後香港政府有意清除英殖時期遺留的歷史痕跡，反而激發香港人思索自己的身份問題。當時我把錢包內一個英女皇壹圓硬幣在地上狠狠地磨去，在報紙上刊登英女皇在香港錢幣的消失過程。
製作及展示：
製作分香港和英國兩部份：香港組負責收集女皇壹圓硬幣，由網上招募的四人團隊組成，集中在8-9月完成；英國組由CAC辦公室負責，主要做郵寄交收，9月第一個星期香港組會把第一批硬幣寄去英國，按香港錢幣提供人的要求派發給一個英國人，分散到英國各地。當我到步後會安排兩場大型工作坊，集中在Manchester。香港組會營運一個資料庫放上網。
主要作品是一面由磨光英女皇錢幣拼成的鏡，其餘空間像工作坊進行中狀態，桌面有地圖和參與者資料和相片，部份貼在牆上。另需一部立方體電視機播放紀錄片，一台電腦處理資料和打印。
English Version:
Resenting Hong Kong Series:
Resenting My Own History
PAK
Sheung Chuen
“Hong Kong people have a general
resentment towards their history. Sadly, today will become another day in
history that will evoke resentment in the future.” 2006-12-14
17 years have passed since
Hong Kong's handover to mainland China. However, colonial era one-dollar coins
with the British queen's profile imprinted on them can still be found in
circulation occasionally. We collect a British Queen one-dollar coin from each
of the participants through the Internet, roadside booths and workshops. Each
of the coins collected are passed to a British person, who is invited to
brutally scrape the Queen's face against the ground of Britain. The profile of
the Queen vanishes in a low profile way. Instead, it draws a long scar imprint
on the ground. This is reminiscent of the 150-year history of colonialism and
its imprint on Hong Kong. The two sides of the coins used to connect Hong Kong
citizens to the British. Now, they will finally be separated forever. The
surfaces of the scraped coins combine to form a round mirror, reflecting the
viewers' faces.
This
artpiece has its roots all the way back in the 2006 local activist movement
calling for preservation of the Star Ferry Pier and Queens' Pier in Hong Kong,
where the post-colonial HKSAR government's intention to erase traces of
colonialism prompted Hong Kong citizens to reflect upon their identities. At
that time, I took a British Queen one-dollar coin from my purse and brutally
scraped it against the ground. The entire process of the Queen's face vanishing
from this Hong Kong coin was published on a newspaper.
Ref:
香港歷史博物館 - 香港一元硬幣的故事 - http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/History/zh_TW/web/mh/publications/spa_2012-03-26_01.html
金管局推流動硬幣收集站,大家請記得keep低英女皇頭 - 香港高登 - http://m3.hkgolden.com/view.aspx?message=5295878
Ref:
香港歷史博物館 - 香港一元硬幣的故事 - http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/History/zh_TW/web/mh/publications/spa_2012-03-26_01.html
金管局推流動硬幣收集站,大家請記得keep低英女皇頭 - 香港高登 - http://m3.hkgolden.com/view.aspx?message=5295878
