{"id":4521,"date":"2020-06-01T06:41:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T06:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finearts.hku.hk\/dev-finearts3\/index.php\/people\/david-j-clarke\/a-portfolio-of-david-clarkes-artworks\/polaroid-still-life-2007-2-2\/"},"modified":"2020-06-01T08:16:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T08:16:38","slug":"slow-progress","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/people\/david-j-clarke\/a-portfolio-of-david-clarkes-artworks\/slow-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow Progress (2004)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_2 1_2 fusion-one-half fusion-column-first\" style=\"width:48%; margin-right: 4%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-video fusion-selfhosted-video\" style=\"max-width:100%;\"><div class=\"video-wrapper\"><video playsinline=\"true\" width=\"100%\" style=\"object-fit: cover;\" autoplay=\"true\" muted=\"true\" loop=\"true\" preload=\"auto\" controls=\"1\"><source src=\"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sp2.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\">Sorry, your browser doesn&#039;t support embedded videos.<\/video><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><ol start=\"2004\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DVD player version for use with a digital projector as an installation work, with continuous play function of DVD player activated.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><h2>About this work<\/h2>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\"><p>Before Hong Kong reverted to Chinese sovereignty in 1997 the British colonial government and the Chinese government both promised \u2018stability and prosperity\u2019 for Hong Kong after the handover.\u00a0We were supposed to see the appearance of ever taller skyscrapers as evidence of progress, and to believe that shiny new consumer products would offer us a happier future. Democracy would not be necessary to effect this improvement in our lives, and we shouldn\u2019t worry our heads about such an irrelevant matter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just after the handover came the Asian economic crisis, and Hong Kong\u2019s economy was in recession for a long time after that. Progress seems slow coming on both the economic front and the political front. Despite demonstrations by half a million people on 1 July 2003 and 1 July 2004, there is still no timetable for introducing fully democratic elections for either the legislature or the executive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Slow Progress<\/em>\u00a0was born in this time when forward motion seems hard to discern, and when even the appearance of progress often turns out to be illusory.\u00a0\u00a0We appear to move forward, but never seem to get anywhere &#8211; although it may take a bit of viewing time to notice that.\u00a0\u00a0After noticing the lack of progress the viewer\u2019s attention may shift from the images of transit (viewed as if through a window in a black wall) to the film itself as film. The grainy low resolution images, with their shifting viewpoint which echoes the spontaneous shifts of the human gaze more than the steady vision of a film camera, may be interrogated for signs of editing. The puzzle is not so difficult to solve, in fact, but still it takes up some time.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4266,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4521","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4521"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4546,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4521\/revisions\/4546"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}