短片: 候任行政总裁谢卓飞先生
2010年6月23日
候任行政总裁谢卓飞先生的讲辞 (只备英文版)：
Good afternoon to all. It's nice to see you all again after a month. Thank you for coming to our temporary office. As you can see by coming to the temporary office, we are very much at a start-up of our operation here. And we begin to get going to the new management team now in a very exciting way.
As you know, over the last few months the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority has been busy in recruitment and searching for talented leadership from here and around the world to lead and manage critical dimensions of this exciting and challenging project. As you remember, I was appointed in March and I still haven't started my job yet, because I will take up my post in Mid-August.
A series of announcements were made regarding appointments to executive director positions. These have included Dr M W Chan, who is in charge of Project Delivery, actually developing the infrastructure; Dr Eva Lam, for Finance; Mr Garmen Chan, for Communications and Marketing, who takes up his post in August; Ms Eva Kwong, for Human Resources, she started couple of weeks ago; and Mr Michael Randall as our General Counsel.
Two pivotal members are the directors of the executive artistic team, for performing arts and visual arts. Earlier this year we announced that Mr Louis Yu would take the role of Performing Arts Executive Director. Delighted to have Louis on board. I think it's the first time he's been in front of the press here.
Today, we are delighted to tell you that Mr Lars Nittve will fill the other half of this equation as Executive Director M+.
Lars brings a huge wealth of international experience with him, and he has had proven success at the top level. He is well known in global art circles, and he has relationships and contacts across the world. Lars is going to tell you a bit more about his background, but what I will say is that his appointment brings a huge authority and wisdom to what we are doing and developing our M+ concept.
Lars' contributions over the next years will be vital in ensuring the best possible planning, design and curatorial direction for M+, establishing its role as a forward-looking, innovative, unique, interactive arts facility. I am also absolutely delighted that he has a huge passion for education and community outreach in the arts, exactly as I do, exactly as Louis has, together we are determined to ensure that art education, nurturing talents, encouraging interests in the art, developing curiosity, these would be part of the policy that we develop and the actions that we take.
In the months to come, the senior team, including myself, Lars Nittve and Louis Yu, will continue to talk with local and international stakeholders and to refine the vision, mission and artistic direction of the arts and cultural facilities of the WKCD. We will also continuously work on further senior recruitment in both performing arts and visual arts to ensure that we have a balanced team in terms of skills and specialist interests across the artistic spectrum.
Meanwhile, Dr Chan will continue to play a crucial role in the master planning of the district. The three conceptual designs for the WKCD are taking shape. In the next couple of months, Dr Chan's team will be very busy in preparing the Stage 2 Public Engagement exercise. The whole of Hong Kong will be able to experience the fruits of all these works later this summer when the three master plan options, designed by the teams of Rocco Yim, Norman Foster and Rem Koolhaas, are revealed during Stage 2 of the Public Engagement exercise.
It's an extremely exciting time for those of my colleagues who are in Hong Kong and native to Hong Kong to be here. Fantastic, exciting for us, for our guests to this new country coming to help to begin to realise this fantastic project.
And now I hand to Lars. He would say a few words about his idea, ambitions and his hope. Thank you.
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短片: 候任行政总裁谢卓飞先生
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候任M+行政总监李立伟先生的讲辞 (只备英文版)：
Good afternoon to you all, I must say I am extremely excited by this moment. It is quite fantastic to be here. I am humble, extremely proud of and honoured to be in this position now. The contract was signed, and here I am now.
I think this project is one of the great projects in the world. You can only compare the importance of it, not only the ambition, but also the potential consequences of it, with the Centre Pompidou in the 70s and possibly Tate Modern ten years ago. I am just delighted to be part of this project and being able to lead the museum part of it. Of course you could say, it is only once in a life time, it is not everybody who gets a chance like this even once. Actually, for me, it happened to be a second time in a life time, since I was the first director of Tate Modern as well. I am just honoured and humble by this.
It's really an exciting moment here in Hong Kong. And I should say a few words about my background. I just mentioned that I come from Tate Modern where I worked for three and a half years before and after the opening. For the last nine years I have been in Sweden, my home country, running the national museum of modern art called Moderna Museet. And of course, I have been working in this field in various capacities for thirty years, one of them for several years was as an art writer and journalist. I have, so to say, been on your (journalists') side of the fence as well. I know what that's like, and I did enjoy that as well. I might come back there.
I think it's really important for me to say that of course for an art centre and for a museum, it's important to have really good hardware, great buildings and all of that. But we should remember that, the museum is not the same as the building. Museum is actually about the content and how the content meets the audience. That means you also have to work not only with buildings and the places where you meet, but you also have to work a lot with education with outreach. I think we all know this when we watch football if we don't know much about the rules: the more you know, the more you see. I've been sitting next to people in the airport, when I was flying here, who were totally excited over the match, but I couldn't get excited over it at all. Because I didn't know the players and didn't know the teams. And it is same for art, the more you know, the more you see. And education is absolutely fundamental from an early age and up till a late age, from the most straightforward direct working with kids and up to the academics. It is something that I believe firmly in and I have worked quite hard with.
I brought actually two books which are about projects we did in Stockholm with teenagers, which I think is a key target group. At the end of the book there is a small English section, where I write a little about my view on education for kids and for teenagers. If you are interested, you may take a look on these two copies.
I look forward, in the coming months and coming years, to working with all the different stakeholders, the artists and of course the artist community, the arts collectors, the dealers, my colleagues, everybody who cares about art and the arts, and to learn more, to build the team and we will work together to shape the vision for M+. I think it will for sure to be the most important museum in the coming decade. And I am confident that it would happen.
Everything basically is in place already. Hong Kong is the place to do it. And there are decisions and commitments from the government, and there's a great team being formed now.
Thank you very much for taking your time with me, and I am sure we will see each other many times again. And as I said, I will be on your side as well and happy to talk and to be a target for photographers.
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短片: 候任M+行政总监李立伟先生
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表演艺术政策及管理事务行政总监茹国烈先生的讲辞：
我很高兴在上班第三天与大家见面。作为一个在香港土生土长的艺术工作者，我很荣幸有机会在西九这个重要的项目中，担任表演艺术总监。这个计划对我或香港来说，是一个很大的挑战，因为我们希望透过这计划，令香港在国际艺术舞台上更上一层楼。
无论在香港艺术发展局三年多的工作，或之前于艺术中心的工作，我深深感受到香港艺术发展在过去二十年有很大的飞跃。我深信香港现在可以藉着西九文化区的开展，让香港艺术家或艺术界朋友作更大的发展，而我是完全知道艺术界在有关方面的需求和需要。
当然，要达至整个项目的成功，不能单靠我一个人。我很高兴在这儿与很重要的同事们与传媒朋友见面，包括我以前已认识及曾经合作的陈文伟博士、与我第一次合作的Graham（谢卓飞先生）及Lars（李立伟先生）。第一次和不同人士合作，令我知道西九文化区已迈向重要的一步－－结合本地经验及知识，以及有世界顶尖级的艺术人才来到西九工作及作出贡献。
接着，我会开始与本地及外地艺术界人士接触和沟通，面对面的接触是十分重要的。我会花很多时间与本地的艺术团体及艺术家沟通。西九的筹划已经历了不短的日子，正如Graham刚才提及，我们将会有下一轮的公众谘询，届时将会有更多机会与艺术界朋友接触。
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短片: 表演艺术政策及管理事务行政总监茹国烈先生
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项目推展行政总监陈文伟博士的讲辞：
我很高兴今天能与传媒朋友再次见面，能参与一个国际级的大型艺术及文化区的设计和发展，我深感荣幸，尤其能与国际级大师及专业人士－－Graham（谢卓飞先生）、Lars（李立伟先生）及Louis（茹国烈先生）一起合作。Louis刚才也提过，我们在一些艺术发展上曾经合作。
现时管理局已收到有关西九规划的发展图则方案，我们正积极跟进，第二阶段公众参与活动在暑假便会展开。我的主要工作除了是发展文化艺术区的硬件外，其实更重要的是，令香港人和遊客都喜欢造访西九，西九是属于大家的。此外，西九将来如何吸引创意产业、零售、消閒等活动，也是我们要做好的工作。
我们将会就Concept Plans（概念图则方案）进行公众谘询，希望可以取得大家的意见，届时请大家多给意见。
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短片: 项目推展行政总监陈文伟博士
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左起: 1)项目推展行政总监陈文伟博士、2)候任M+行政总监李立伟先生、3)候任行政总裁谢卓飞先生、4)表演艺术政策及管理事务行政总监茹国烈先生。 |
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