NOW 正在

still live in a teapot and the virtual.

I am trying to develop a different approach to my practice, one that is slow but durable, deep but accessible, and it does not require validation from the institution.

I am current writing about the technological reality in China, the myth of Web 3.0, expressive web, and contingent communication.

I am reading or watching

• 陈凯歌，《少年凯歌》

• 娜塔莎·道·舒尔，《运气的诱饵》

• 罗伯特·麦卡特，尤哈尼·帕拉斯玛，《认识建筑》

I am working on

• An article on art restoration and its role in art’s ecosystem.

• Translating The Debunking Handbook, in progress, will need help with proofreading and future workshops.

• preparing new space

• devising a creative coding workshop to tour around in the city.

NEWS 新闻

Mar 2022

Exhibition｜ 叱咤于街中

《44月报》参与了在广东时代美术馆举办的展览「叱咤于街中」。该展览聚焦于 90 年代至千禧年初阳江及其周边的艺术实践和自组织，并对其进行研究性展示。

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Nov 2021

Message｜《44月报》通讯三则

2021年，借由第九届华宇青年奖的契机，华宇青年奖组委会和艺术家共同发起此次「写作计划」，邀请二十余位写作者和策展人，以评述或与谈的方式，对艺术家进行个案研究。我们希望，经由这些文字，能或简或深地了解这些年轻艺术创作者的来踪和去脉。

从44剧场发展出来的《44月报》以集体的接力写作／拍摄／编辑为方法，聚集起来自不同地方和不同领域、身份的伙伴，并因其基于“虚构”和“书写”而形成自带间离性的临场共同体。44自身即构成一个自治的、有生产-传播-反馈能力的创造性生态系统，所以这次入围华宇青年奖的写作，由参与过《44月报》的三位成员认领。

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Sept 2021

Award｜Art Sanya Huayu Youth Award 2021

We (44 Monthly) are nominated for this year’s Art Sanya Huayu Youth Award along with 19 other artists/groups. This is what we sent to them as a self-introduction and a joke:

《四四玥報》縱2020姩ろ玥開sんì，是身處丗楐茖地℃ＯＶΙD-壹玖隔囄衶的四四劇塲棚苃鍆( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 樋檛接カ冩ィ乍、設計咊jìàи輯進行的集躰cんυàиɡィ乍實騐，臸紟巳經蕟布ぅ㈤本诎蝂物、壹部廣噃劇咊壹部影潒ィ乍榀，;g_椮╇ㄋ“游動論”徆楠洐。(╯°Д°）╯︵ /(.□ . \)輪旒接カ、全ね限編輯的機淛驶得不酮壆科、め某介咊茱躰的cんυàиɡ造カиеиɡ够洅祛衶杺吪的岼囼と匯聚、吵鬧ヤ。/█\(_據哾譁竽衿年著重lālоηɡ茖勢ぶ組糰體爭竒鬥γāη，喒們這個組織亾數庬大、遍Ъǔ荃球，橷繋精楧蚛dе菁楧，怕4奨唫Ъǔ够汾。( ◜◡‾)っ✂╰⋃╯

关于华宇青年奖

“华宇青年奖”发起于2013年，是由华宇集团主办的公益性艺术奖项，专为在复杂的当代文化语境下不断实验和探索的青年艺术家而设，旨在持续性地呈现中国当代艺术的前沿面貌，展示新生代艺术家多维度的创作样态。除现金奖励外，华宇青年奖将给予获奖艺术家在专业领域的支持和资助，包括个人作品和艺术项目的实施、相关展览的策划、宣传推广以及文献出版等，并为新一代艺术工作者建立艺术创作和学术讨论的平台。

Nov 2020

Event | Oulipo 60th Anniversary

Rat qui construit le labyrinthe dont il se propose de sortir

Topic Society is collaborating with Shanzhongtian Art Center and Icosahedron in celebrating the 60th anniversary of Oulipo. TS will organize a special issue of The True Reading Club on the subject of Oulipo.

July 2020

Exhibition | Uncertainties

Theatre 44 is participating in a new exhibition titled “Uncertainties: PRD Post-pandemic Contemporary Art Exhibition”, organized by Ox Warehouse in Macao. For this show, we’ve made a radio play adapted from the three newly published texts we wrote collectively during the pandemic.

For more information, please visit here.

June 2020

Publication｜In The Field by LEAP

This new issue of LEAP not only includes an essay about SJT, but also involves so many friends: it’s designed by Related Department with pieces about or by Vivian, Zijie, Sheryl… Happy to see it coming.

07 Dec 2019- 29 Feb 2020

Curatorial｜Fun Palace

I am pleased to announce my new curatorial project entitled “Fun Palace” hosted by OCT-LOFT in Shenzhen. The show is centered around the ethic of technology and includes 16 artists/artist groups with 5 new commissions and 4 newly adapted works. I am very happy to have this opportunity to work with this many artists and try something new with them.

November, 2019

Fellowship｜Shanghai Curators Lab

I am very happy to start a one-month fellowship with Shanghai Curators Lab from 3rd November as one of the participating curators. The lab this year will be led by Art Reoriented (Sam Bardaouil & Till Fellrath).

13 Sept 2019

Exhibition｜Café do Brasil

I will be participating in Café do Brasil, a group exhibition curated by Qu Chang at Para-Site in HK. It is a much-needed discussion about a historical site and its inspiration on ways of forming the public. As Chang mentioned in her statement, it is also a opportunity for “friends and peers to join a shared discussion in the exhibition space, and to explore a range of topics, from the individualistic to the worldly, from coexistence to consensus”.

17 Aug 2019

Panel | Why Are We Still Together?

Together with other members of SJT, we are sharing our experiences and understanding of the alternative ways of being together and forming collective.

More information could be found here.

3 Aug - 26 Sept 2019

Topic Society’s Presentation at Synnika Space in Frankfurt with SJT

Topic Society, as a co-proprietor of SJT, is participating in Synnika Space’s new program and showing an audio piece. For more information, please visit here.

3 Aug 2019

Lecture | Artistic Strategies in The Real World

I am presenting a lecture for LauKai Center, a Guangzhou-based water protection NGO, to introduce some practical artistic strategies for real world problems.

A brief recap of the event (in Chinese) could be found here.

April-June 2019

FREE PANORAMA | 2019 Shenzhen New Media Art Festival

I will be showing at 2019 Shenzhen New Media Art Festival entitled “Free Panorama” from 20 April to 16 June, 2019. The work will be a new commissioned participatory piece entitled Make Yourself Home | 别客气，which addresses the issue of being a guest and making a other place your own place.

Updates

After being censored for a footage of 2 seconds, I am now not presenting any work in this year’s festival. Instead, a work about “generative choreography” will be led by me on 15 June.

10 Nov 2018

Conversation | DIRECTIONAL PROTECTION

On the occasion of Ellen Zweig’s online screening program and Exhibition on the Table at Arthub Asia, I will be in conversation with Ellen on the 10th of November in Shanghai.

For more information, please visit Arthub.

Oct 27 2018

Talk | Jumping Around in 2 Southeast Asian Countries

Thanks to the invitation of T.O.P. Art Space, I will be sharing my trip to Yogjakarta together with Xiaotian Li on the 27th Oct. More info could be found here.

Oct-Nov 2018

Writing Residency | Xinzao, Panyu

I am happy to be invited as a writing guest of “方志小说：联合驻村写作计划”, a initiative created to observe and experience the local through writing. During this one week of residence, I will be working with three other writers to find a path into the local environment of Xinzao, Panyu, combining the techniques of documentation and fiction.

方志，在于“辩方经野、因人纬俗”，成一方之志；小说，源自“稗官野史、街谈巷议”，为世情之说。方志记实，关乎现场经验，小说写虚，关乎想象历险，而方志小说将两者杂糅，意在虚实并用，彼此激发，开启协商性的在地写作。——“方志小说：驻村写作联展”展览前言摘选

For more information about the initiative, please visit here.

Sept 23 2018

Performance | Man Without Signal

Man Without Signal, a documentary theatre piece directed by me and created collectively by 44 theatre, will be performing on 23rd Sept at Ming Contemporary Art Museum in Shanghai. Following the two-time workshop on documentary theatre I led at Soeng Joeng Toi in Guangzhou, Man Without Signal found its sources from a real incident to discuss issues like sexual harassment, education system, power dynamic, etc.

44剧场第四回《等信号的人》将在9月23日周日下午3：20左右在“2018他者的舞台——不同表演的研讨和实践”上演。戏剧以一次因为老师的不当行为而导致的女生跳楼事件为剧本原型，借用文献剧的方法、集体创作的形式，试图对经过真实事件以及舆论传播进行演绎化的深入讨论。

我们一方面在文本中研读涉事女孩如何在受侵害之后无法得到及时的援助，在正义无法得到伸张还要面对重重压迫之下的背景下，是如何在“小恶”累积的环境中一步一步踏上绝路。在过程中我们重复剖析一次生命的陨落是如何在层层不作为中就这样悄无声息地发生，直至互联网的浪潮将鲜血送至我们的屏幕上。

另外一方面着力重新思考如何在互联网直播与真实生活的牵绊中创造现实意义。这次的相关工作将以拍摄视频博客开始，在不同的泛互联网景观中游走，研读现实与虚拟的复合空间作为语言的可能性。从朋友圈（私人），直播平台（半透明）到表演的现实（公共）场景中思考互联网与切实的事件中是如何互相作注脚；互联网本身作为一个公共剧场，所有人既是观众也是表演者，带有双重身份的我们又能否预见自己的游动所导向的未知共享景观？

Aug 26+Sept 1, 2018

Workshop | Documentary Theatre and Archive of Reality

I will be leading a two-time workshop on “Documentary Theatre and Use of Archive” at Soeng Joeng Toi.

文献为何重要？首先是因为事件的亲历者永远只是少数，而即使是亲历者也只能假借某种“文献”来证明“真实”。

正如近年来社会舆论空间出现的“新闻反转”现象，新闻刚出炉时舆论瞬间将矛头指向一方，可公布了更多材料细节之后，新闻剧情又会突然逆转，让不知事情全貌的观看者眼花缭乱，猝不及防，最终也难以对何为“真实”盖棺论定。互联网传播和数码媒介也在这些不可预测的舆论洪流，甚至在事件发生当下中起到了极大的作用，有时可能扭转了人的命运。

艺术家瓦利.韦德（Walid Raad）曾讲述了一个关于历史学家赌马的故事：赛马场上的追踪摄影师需要拍摄赛马冲过终点的那一刻，而这些历史学家的赌局便是摄影师会在何时拍下照片。"这些画面最吸引人的地方就在于拍下来的马总是或前或后，从没有刚好在终点线上的——从来没有准时拍下的赛马。此刻的流逝是无法呈现的"，（Gilbert 2002：40）而我们只有通过超过或未及终点线的照片说服自己赛马当时确实是冲过终点线了。

然而，在高速摄影机被普遍使用的今天，上述故事似乎已经有些过时：毕竟决定胜负的时刻已经不再难以捉摸，但技术的进步既增强了捕捉的能力，也使得伪造和错觉变得易如反掌——真实的时刻终究是不可得的，我们终究只能通过某种代理来接近真实。

而当文献进入剧场，我们见到了一种对”真实“的渴望。但如果说剧场通过再现来与真实建立联系，那么这剧场内外的现实到底如何联通？也许，再现的世界里并没有“真正的真实”，而纪录/文献剧场只能“接近真相”或者“讲述另一套谎言”？在今天这个“替代事实”或者“假新闻”当道的世界，“真实”与“虚构”的传统边界是否被动摇？当”真实“和”虚构“相遇，我们如何可以在这过去的再现中，露出故事并予以回应？