梁美萍 - 咫尺天涯 - 旺角版
LEUNG Mee Ping - So Near Yet So Far (Mongkok Version)
尺寸不定
混合素材
Size variable
Mixed media
2001
自一九九六年，我收集了香港不同形狀和大小的信箱超過一百個，包括離島的、偏遠地區和繁忙城市中心的，並記錄了信箱所在地的聲音和那裡的人的對話。
在二零零一年，我遷回少時成長的地方──旺角，並在那裡開始收集信箱，又收音以記錄該區的聲音—─人、車、流動電話、遊戲機中心、打鬥、卡拉OK、幼稚園、婚宴、茶餐廳……展出時，信箱掛在牆上，而藏在信箱內的錄音會因觀眾靠近，啟動信箱內的感應器而播放。旺角信箱的錄音還包括外傭、新移民、妓女、裁縫、的士司機、長者、兒童、看更、視障人士、上海理髮師父、黑市牙醫、書店店長、我自己的居所、在香港電台工作的人、病人、家庭主婦、外籍居民等，他們都是在旺角居住和工作的。
在二零零一年，我遷回少時成長的地方──旺角，並在那裡開始收集信箱，又收音以記錄該區的聲音—─人、車、流動電話、遊戲機中心、打鬥、卡拉OK、幼稚園、婚宴、茶餐廳……展出時，信箱掛在牆上，而藏在信箱內的錄音會因觀眾靠近，啟動信箱內的感應器而播放。旺角信箱的錄音還包括外傭、新移民、妓女、裁縫、的士司機、長者、兒童、看更、視障人士、上海理髮師父、黑市牙醫、書店店長、我自己的居所、在香港電台工作的人、病人、家庭主婦、外籍居民等，他們都是在旺角居住和工作的。
Since 1996, I have collected over 100 mailboxes of different size and shape throughout Hong Kong, including those from the outlying islands, remote rural areas and busy city center. I also recorded the sound and chats where I found the mailboxes.
In 2001, I moved back to Mongkok, the area I grew up, and from where I started to collect mailboxes again. I recorded the sound of the place -- people, vehicles, mobile phones, electronic games center, fighting, karaoke center, kindergarten, ceremony in restaurant, Chinese café… In the exhibition space, these mailboxes, with the sound of the locality put inside, are suspended on the wall. When approaching the boxes, inside which sensors are installed, visitors will be able to hear the sound recorded. Mongkok mailboxes’ sound also includes chats among foreign maids, new immigrant, prostitute, tailor, taxi drivers, aged resident, child, housekeeper, blind, Shanghai coiffeur, illegal dentist, bookstore manager, my own apartment, a guy who works in RTHK, patient, housewife, foreign resident, etc. All of them are living or working in Mongkok.
In 2001, I moved back to Mongkok, the area I grew up, and from where I started to collect mailboxes again. I recorded the sound of the place -- people, vehicles, mobile phones, electronic games center, fighting, karaoke center, kindergarten, ceremony in restaurant, Chinese café… In the exhibition space, these mailboxes, with the sound of the locality put inside, are suspended on the wall. When approaching the boxes, inside which sensors are installed, visitors will be able to hear the sound recorded. Mongkok mailboxes’ sound also includes chats among foreign maids, new immigrant, prostitute, tailor, taxi drivers, aged resident, child, housekeeper, blind, Shanghai coiffeur, illegal dentist, bookstore manager, my own apartment, a guy who works in RTHK, patient, housewife, foreign resident, etc. All of them are living or working in Mongkok.
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