開幕： 2008年10月23日（星期四） 晚上6:30
opening： 6:30pm, 23 oct 2008 (Thursday)

主辦｜作品代理：70+ 文字/藝術工作室
organizer, agent：70+ art/words

協辦：《月台》
co-organizer：“platform”

場地｜查詢：艺鵠
venue, enquiry：art & culture outreach

花苑作品大都見腳不見首、見貓不見狗；用刻板來爭取自由，剛烈中帶點溫柔。無論你記得與否，永遠懷念這個鐘樓。
——graphicairlines

花苑的版畫有一股沉著的詩力，猶如在赤日下薰蒸了幾個世紀的石器，在暮色蒼茫裡散發著蕊核的溫熱，晚來涼了，撫之斑駁而圓融，聽之可辨暴雨和驕陽沉潛的呼喊——藝術與勞作渾然一體，儼然就是生活苦況的同義詞，刻苦是骨，刀鋒是血，那才可以拓印出生命的全部，聽好，是全部。
——葉輝

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Elizabeth Farrelly
Blubberland
The Dangers of Happiness
Paper $160
ISBN: 9780262562362 Published March 2008

當所有物質垂手可得，為什麼我們卻得不到真正的快樂？
為什麼有些壞習慣我們明知道對環境會帶來巨大傷害，卻始終戒不掉？
為什麼我們始終沒有建立適合人居的城市、建造有意思的公共空間、吃價錢合理的飯餐，以及尊重大自然？
來自澳洲的環境及建築評論員Elizabeth Farrelly拋出上述問題，並一一撿舉生活日常、個人意識、社會價值等等，如何把「快樂」隔離。

This is essential reading for anyone interested in sustainability—reading that goes beyond how to set up a composter or how to calculate one’s carbon footprint, and gets tothe essence of what is wrong with modern living.
– The Chronicle of Higher Education

Welcome to Blubberland—a world of quadruple-garaged mansions, vast malls, gated communities, stretch limos, and posh resorts. Blubberland is a place, but it is also a state of mind: we expect to be happy (trophy house, SUV in the driveway, home entertainment system, pension fund, cosmetic surgery), but in fact we’ve grown increasingly bloated, bored, and miserable. In Blubberland, award-winning critic Elizabeth Farrelly looks at our “superfluous superfluity,” our huge eco-footprint, and asks why we find it so hard to abandon habits we know to be destructive. Why can’t we build human-scale cities, design meaningful public spaces, eat reasonable meals, and stop assaulting nature?

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Walter Benjamin
The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproductivity, and Other Writings on Media
Paper $160
ISBN: 9780674024458 Published May 2008

此書結集班雅明寫於70年前30年代關於各類媒體的批判性文章，
主題包括兒童文學、繪畫、攝影、電影、出版、電訊、廣播等等。
當中對「現代社會」特質的洞察可謂後無來者。
任何對於藝術的命途、工業世代的文化生產感興趣的讀者都該擁有一冊這結集。

In wanting to be a great literary critic (Benjamin) discovered that he could only be the last great literary critic…. He explained certain aspects of the modern with an authority that seventy years of unpredictable change have not vitiated.
– Frank Kermode

Benjamin’s famous “Work of Art” essay sets out his boldest thoughts—on media and on culture in general—in their most realized form, while retaining an edge that gets under the skin of everyone who reads it. In this essay the visual arts of the machine age morph into literature and theory and then back again to images, gestures, and thought.

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Peter Dauvergne
The Shadows of Consumption
Consequences for the Global Environment
Hardcover $195
ISBN: 9780262042468 Published October 2008

全球氣候環境歷經劇變，市民的消費習慣有何改變？
又，現代消費模式為生態及社會帶來什麼後果？
由牛肉、汽車、汽油、雪櫃以及竪琴海豹（？）五種商品作為個別案例分析，
全球環境政策專家Peter Dauvergne為讀者揭示長久被視若無睹的「消費的影子」。

The ecological and social consequences of modern patterns of consumption are often overlooked, underestimated, and poorly theorized. Engaging, convincing, and nuanced, Peter Dauvergne’s book masterfully excavates and politicizes the shadows of consumption that modern life casts, from the consumption of beef to the use of cars and fridges. Wide-ranging and superbly written, this book is sure to be widely read.
– Peter Newell, Professor of Development Studies, University of East Anglia

The Shadows of Consumption gives a hard-hitting diagnosis: many of the earth’s ecosystems and billions of its people are at risk from the consequences of rising consumption. Products ranging from cars to hamburgers offer conveniences and pleasures; but, as Peter Dauvergne makes clear, global political and economic processes displace the real costs of consumer goods into distant ecosystems, communities, and timelines, tipping into crisis people and places without the power to resist.

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Minxin Pei
China’s Trapped Transition
The Limits of Developmental Autocracy
Paper $160
ISBN: 9780674021952 Published March 2008

中國社會改革為經濟及其他方面帶來什麼影響？
缺乏民主改革的政治體治如何加深社會民生發展的矛盾？
中國事務評論員裴敏欣質詢中共中央改革政策（主要體現為市場主導政策）的可持續發展，點出中國作為廿一世紀權力核心其未來發展的局限。

Pei argues, persuasively, that China’s gradualism, often favourably contrasted with the former Soviet Union’s flirtation with radical reforms, is as much a political as an economic strategy.
– Martin Wolf, Financial Times

The rise of China as a great power is one of the most important developments in the twenty-first century. But despite dramatic economic progress, China’s prospects remain uncertain. In a book sure to provoke debate, Minxin Pei examines the sustainability of the Chinese Communist Party’s reform strategy—pursuing pro-market economic policies under one-party rule.

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