The Ride was Free and this Train Leaves a little all too Often

Yee Ha!  Hype and Glory  or Meester Birch's grandly masturbatory "but what i really wanna do is direct' fest entitled:

Hope and Glory.

Poor Poor Hong Kong.  This is what sponsors anted up for and I am sure they were told it would be the contemporary art event of all time!  I gotta say though, whoever did the PR... now THERE'S a genius!

So, the "exhibit" (cause there is no WAY in hell i'm gonna call it all the different sound byte names they were calling it)

One could truly not tell where the boundry between Bull and Shit actually was.  Perhaps there was none.  This wanna be contemporary art installation but more approaching intellectual void-ness called itself "multi media" .  And a 'conceptual circus'. 

More like a PR and Media circus. 

Okay, okay okay.  I liked one part of it.  Or shall i make the 'it' a big fat capital IT.  I did like the moving video image of one of the stupid costumes.  The one that looked like worms or tubes or...  oh MAN, have i MISSED something?  Oh and the glowing necklace tube open cube 'room' was fun to sit in.  For about two minutes.

Now don't get me wrong.  I am the first one in the Beauborg and the Tate and the Guggenheim and...  Frankly speaking:  contemporary art- I'm a fan

BUT.  If this was meant to be some kind of first, some kind of 'let's show the world what Hong Kong could do in contemporary artness....Could we not have had better lighting of the huge space (looked like an airplane hanger, or convention center- but like it was the full time gov't staff workers who threw up the lights in between smoking and hawking.. get my racist picture?)

Could we not have had a more challenging direction in the video that was being projected.  (again, not only nothing new, but nothing even Inspiring!) 

Can we not have some properly executed cossies?  Some interactive media?  Some site specific shit going on???

I think Meester Birch is a grand and very accomplished fine artist.

I think he wants to direct a feature film

I think he wants to get famous

And i am not sure he actually has anything to really say