hkszbiennale 2009-10; part 1 of ?

2009-10的香港深圳雙城展的香港部份於二月底完滿結束，閉幕前我才匆匆趕去看。今次地點沒有2007-08的舊中央警局那麼方便，因為是在荒蕪的西九龍填海區。戶外有的是空間，但空間太大和分散，加上經過一個多月的風雨洗禮後，部份展品也“走了”樣。
I literally dashed to see the closing of the Hong Kong portion of the 2009-10 Hong Kong-Shenzhen Biennale. The exhibition site this time is the open air, still very much barren and yet-to-be West Kowloon Cultural District, reclaimed land from sea in the past decade or so. One of the exhibit was a model of those cage-home style flats in the former Kowloon Walled City.

其中一個“模型”是已經拆掉的九龍城寨，這樣的龍屋在深水埗等區還有的。This type of housing still exist to this date, in areas like Sham Shui Po. The challenge for the government is do help improve the extremely crammed living environment of residents in these buildings and yet avoiding the preying eyes of various real estate developers which have been contributing so much to the gentrification of this city.


但是其中的口號“捍衛香港文化”是不是代表我們不應改善居民的生活環境呢？我想更重要的是怎樣避免和抗衡發展商虎視眈眈市中心的旺地的態度呢？這是對政府能否成功改善民生的挑戰。