Rehabilitation, demolition, collective memories, public spaces…..with no doubt, these words can be considered as most frequent words appearing in the discussion of urban planning in Hong Kong. Streets, spaces, the aura of daily life, landscape and soundscape are undergoing the rapid changes in recent years. Behind these changes, what is the mechanism or ideology indeed? Taiwanese essayist and cultural critic, Lung Ying-tai, articulates the term “central value” which describes the domination and limitation of the perspective in observing Hong Kong as well as main and absolute value in determining the urban development of the city. Wandering in different places or spaces and collection of soundscape in Central and Sheung Wan, what Rabbit Travelogue: Central Region trying to articulate is to observe, correspond, questioning the central value by using sound and its archival and creative practice. By continuously recording and observation of the places around the areas, this project aims at portraying different possibilities on understanding, constituting and examining the places where the artists had been over Central and Sheung Wan. Through the attentive listening about places, events and happening of the areas, how do the artist go deeper in searching for the other side of certain memories and emotions which confronting the central value?

龍應台：香港，你往哪裏去？
林沛理: 中環價值的反面
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A ladies talk in For Kee restaurant, Sheung Wan. About life and regret, interesting.

Recorded on July, 2007.

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A random encounter in Joint Publishing Bookstore in Central. A man’s monologue.

Recorded on August, 2007.

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A short soundwalk in rainy day around Blake Garden.

Recorded on 10th February, 2010.

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Recorded at Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens. I didn’t think the recording was fluxed with the sound of construction of buildings around the area. Walking in the party no longer makes you feel clam. The construction is one of characteristic or sound mark about Central soundscape……

Recorded on Feb, 2010.

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At Bridges Street Market’s playground. A very usual place for me, I think not many people go there other than using the toilet in the playground. This recording was recorded almost the closing time of the playground and I had a causal talk with the security guard.

Recorded on Feb, 2010.

「所謂記憶, 不是重複過去、再生的東西, 而是把「現在」這個分水嶺當作邊界, 想像過去, 透過各式各樣的媒介再構築, 然後投影在未來, 永遠的循環週期。」森山大道《犬之記憶》

「就像人擁有記憶, 街道與夢想也擁有記憶。人們的記憶, 是由各式各樣的東西混合而成, 街頭也是由各種的物質與時空交錯混合而成。街道將人們擁有的全部的慾望與相對的絕望, 全部蠶食繼續生存下去。人們從很久以前開始, 做著無數的夢, 在慾望達成之後, 繼續追著另外一個慾望, 於是許多街道在這世上消失。人類慾望與絕望的痕跡, 街道只是不斷地留下記憶, 也經常為人們創造出新的夢想。世上的所有街道, 每去過一次, 所有事情都風化於時間之中, 確實地將過去人們夢想之記憶, 傳給下一代的人們。」森山大道《犬之記憶》