Wednesday, June 01, 2011

有錢唔等如有文化!

今年4月,本地藝術家要上街,不是要表演,而是不滿政府的活化工廈政策,令到他們租住作工作室的工廈,不是租金上升,就是業主索性不再出租,令他們失去工作室或者練習場地­。
沒有工場又如何?藝術家們說藝術是不能無中生有,他們需要有地方去操練,新進的藝術家亦需要有地方讓他們有培育的機會。政府以為有西九,香港的文化藝術就有救,竟不知未有­西九,本地藝術家就沒有工作室,就不能再延續、再傳承,沒有藝術家的西九,是否仍然可以是文化之首?
曾特首見過北京「798藝術區」,以為香港都可以有樣學樣,用西九作基地,可以舉世知名,其實,現在的「798」已經踏入更年期,因為租金上升,很多當日一心發展自己藝術­行當的藝術家,都要撤離,現在的「798」,已經商業化了,是一個沒有藝術家的藝術區。所以,西九若以商業化的原則推行,最終只會步更年期的「798」後塵,而不會有文化­藝術的名聲。
湯家驊希望特區政府可以借鏡北京,知道文化藝術不能用錢買,只可以用心、用錢培養!

4 comments:

Frankie Fook-lun Leung said...

When I met Lord Wilson in Cambridge after he retired from the diplomatic service, I told him the Beijing government did not and still do not understand how a capitalist society works. In a capitalistic society based on a Christian model of government and division of powers, money is only one consideration. There are other dynamic forces which may not be so tangible. The Beijing government seem to think that listening to the H K tycoons is the only way to obtain public opinions. Like what was said in the US, what is good to General Motors is good to USA. It turns out to be not quite correct.

Frankie Fook-lun Leung said...

H K has to develop her own style of artistic culture. Unfortunately H K parents do not seem to spend time and money in their children to cultivate the kind of talents which can develop into artists who are world class.

Frankie Fook-lun Leung said...

If you ask the typical Hong Kong person, he or she would rather have money than culture. Otherwise there won't be so many junk books in chinese about Li Ka Shing on the market. Even Henry Tang asked the young people: Why can't you be Li Ka Shing. Why did he not ask H K youth to be Yo-Yo Ma? Or even Sun Yet San?

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