798见鬼啦…… Sighting in 798!
由艺术工作者们运作的空间“家作坊” 关门已近一年。此次参与「不在图像中行动」群展，是为了对其五年半的工作和玩乐经历进行一次回溯性寻析。自2008年 这个协作式项目成立，其自我组织与进程性的空间、参与者和活动，无不显示出多样性和互动性；而这些特性，既无法用某单一视角进行统辖，也 无可能完整复原其 具体情状。此次回顾因此是矛盾的、主观的、也是对话式的。
也因此，「我的负能量是你的正能量，or，或者，The Grin Without The Cat」项目，毋宁说是在短暂回忆以及残留印记中进行的一次“采样”。它们来自日常生活、组织结构、诸多的可能性和死胡同、从未存在之物 事，也来自一些幽 灵。归档于此的这100多个物件便是此次采样成果。家作坊还特地制作了视频对话，印制了导览册，为您提供陪同与注解，以方便您在其间游 历；它们详载的历史 所能引发的叙事之旅，不一而足。回溯是生产；是一种出没于这一系列旧物件中的“精灵”；也是一种马后炮协作。 “玩儿”的时间不再有了！
Almost one year after artist-run space HomeShop closed its doors, its participation in the group exhibition Unlived by What is Seen is an attempt to retrospectively address five-and-a-half years of work and play. The multiplicity and dynamics that defined this collaborative project since its inception in 2008—including its spaces, people and activities, self-organized and processual—do not necessarily add up to a singular viewpoint, nor can they be easily mapped. Retrospection is paradoxical. Subjective. Dialogical.
「我的负能量是你的正能量，or，或者，The Grin Without The Cat」thus appears here as a sampling of ephemera and residuals—from daily life, from the structures of organization, from other possibilities and deadends, from things that never were, and, from a few ghosts. Specially prepared video dialogues and printed guides shall serve as your escorts and annotations to the more than 100 items included in this archive; the history they recount may lead you on any number of narrative journeys. Retrospection is production. A spirit attending a series of old objects. A kind of collaboration postmortem. There’s no more time to play!
「我的负能量是你的正能量,or,或者,The Grin Without The Cat」项目的构思者和实施者包括：小欧、Michael EDDY、何穎雅、Fotini LAZARIDOU-HATZIGOGA和曲一箴.
「我的负能量是你的正能量,or,或者,The Grin Without The Cat」has been conceived and carried out by Orianna CACCHIONE, Michael EDDY, Elaine W. HO, Fotini LAZARIDOU-HATZIGOGA and Twist QU.
“不在图像中行动 Unlived by What is Seen”
Curators: Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, Cui Cancan
策展人：孙原&彭禹 崔灿灿
展览时间：2014年12月13日 – 2015年3月15日
Dates: December 13, 2014 — March 15, 2015
地点：常青画廊，佩斯北京，当代唐人艺术中心
Venues: Galleria Continua, Pace Beijing, Tang Contemporary Art
展厅局部 installation view
展厅局部 installation view
家作坊档案的局部图,包括以下物件:#11拒绝某人成为家作坊成员(未实现的倡议,电子邮件,2012年);#28与小李交流的手迹(纸上铅笔,2009–2013年);#43WaoBao!被子(针线活、混合材质,2013年);7屏播放家作坊组织者之间的对话纪录中的其中一屏
Detailed view of HomeShop archive with the following objects: #11 Not Including Someone as HomeShop Member (non-realized initiative, e-mail, 2012); #28 Handwritten Notes Exchanged with Xiao Li (paper, 2009 – 2013); #43 WaoBao! Quilt (hand-stitched fabrics [mixed], 2013); and one of seven screens playing recorded dialogues between HomeShop organizers.
家作坊档案的局部图,包括以下物件:#89各种图标(胶皮印章、贴纸,2009–2013年);#49白瓷砖(陶瓷,2010–2013年);#53:“众口难调”(盐、食用油,2011年);#10:电梯游说(未实现的倡议,2012年);#84扣锁钥匙(铝,2010年);和#69家作坊前厅日志(手工制作笔记本,A5纸,60页, 2012年)
Detailed view of HomeShop archive with the following objects: #89 Various Logos (rubber stamps, sticker paper, 2009 – 2013) ; #49 White Tile (ceramic, 2010 – 2013) ; #53: “It is hard to please all” (salt, cooking oil, 2011) ; #10: Elevator Pitch (non-realized initiative, 2012); #84 Padlock Key (aluminum, 2010); and #69 Front Space Notebook (handmade A5-sized notebook, 60 pages, 2012).
展览手册3号入口,家作坊的流浪猫
exhibition guidebook entry number 3, the runaway cats of HomeShop
策展⼈人提供的家作坊介绍 description of HomeShop provided by the curators
这段短⽂文贴在紧邻我们装置的墙⾯面上,出现在开幕前两天,惊到了我们所有⼈人。它把家作坊概括成追求“绝对平等式民主”的“精神化”⼩小组,我们中的⼤大多数⼈人显然对此感到荒诞,或者它也反映出“该如何将家作坊塞进展览的策展理念”这样⼀一种粗暴的误解。⽽而与此同时,我们中却也有⼈人挺喜欢他们这个“⾼高级⿊黑”的。
This wall text appeared next to our installation two days before the opening, surprising us all with its framing of HomeShop as a “spiritual” project pursuing “absolute equal-democracy”. Most of us felt this was patently absurd or simply reflected a gross misunderstanding as to how HomeShop fit within the curatorial direction of the exhibition—while certain others among us were quite pleased by its lofty exaggerations.
展厅局部 installation view
展厅局部 installation view
作为《我的负能量是你的正能量,or,或者,The Grin Without The Cat》展览的一部分,家作坊印制了自己的册子,用导览手册的形式对所有展示的档案物进行了编号叙述。以下这篇是1号入口:
《我的负能量是你的正能量,or,或者,The Grin Without The Cat》
档案,包括102不同尺⼨寸和媒介的物件
2014年
不参加群展《不在图像中⾏行动》也是选项之⼀一,并且的确被认真地考虑过。把家作坊的实践带进798艺术区,将引发“转译”问题,尤其是在情境关系敏感性与批判性⽅方⾯面。另外⼀一个问题涉及⾃自主性,这是来⾃自不同领域的个体共处时所共有的⼀一个愿望。在⼀一个艺术区内,这不太可能再被复制,⽽而在实践确实发⽣生过后则更不会再出现。
但,邀请者所设定的条件⾜足够开放,且释放出⼀一种挑战,即,到底如何定义回顾的阶段。我们已不再是“家作坊”,这将我们置⼊入了⼀一种⾝身份困境——我们是谁,是什么——尽管如此,因为它⾜足够有趣,我们达成⼀一致,决定再次共同⼯工作。不过,虽然这个特别的⼩小组是因过去之所是⽽而再次聚合,却并不意味着,他们的⺫⽬目的仅仅是对过去之所是进⾏行重现。此外,此次集合也不是为了来party,作此声明,是因为有⼈人或许会这样以为。
历史究竟由谁书写?这批档案是对这⼀一问题进⾏行的⼀一次先发制⼈人的回应。家作坊这类空间始于⾃自我倡导,在其存在时它或只能游移于艺术界边缘——不管将来是否会被重新发现——但必然有为⾃自⼰己发声的必要,即便已息声了。
作为⼯工具,档案有助于回溯,但它永远都不可能囊括所有。这些物件⾃自不同领域和地⽅方搜集⽽而来,包括可⻅见的、物质制造出来的物品,⾛走失了或未被实现的物事,也包括它们之间动态的相互关系。我们希望,这些物件能够成为⼀一种激发潜能的器具,或有助于研究的案例,同时,提醒⼤大家留意历史化过程中那些迷失了的元素以及卷⼊入其中的⽭矛盾。
As part of 《我的负能量是你的正能量,or,或者,The Grin Without The Cat》, HomeShop published its own catalogue in the form of a guidebook with numbered descriptions of all items included in the exhibited archive. The following prologue is entry number 1:
《我的负能量是你的正能量,or,或者,The Grin Without The Cat》
archive, 102 items of various sizes and media
2014
The choice not to participate in the group show Unlived by What is Seen could also have been valid, and was certainly honestly considered. Bringing the practices of HomeShop to the 798 art district brought up translation problems, with contextual sensitivity and criticality, and desires for autonomy being what held together an interdisciplinary mix of individuals. This most likely could not be reproduced in the art district, and certainly not posthumously.
In any case, the terms of the invitation seemed open enough, and signaled the challenges of what can be called a retrospective phase. We agreed this was of enough interest to work together, despite the dilemma of who and what we are—because we are not HomeShop.This particular group bound by what was, is not trying to be everything that was. And contrary to what some might have thought, this gathering isn’t in order to have a party!
This archive is a pre-emptive response to the question of who writes history. Especially in the case of self-initiated and discontinued projects that, like HomeShop, may have existed at the edges of an art scene—to be rediscovered later or not—there is a task to speak for oneself, despite the contradictory loss of voice.
An archive is a tool toward retrospection but can never be truly complete. Among those items gathered from across this and other worlds, this archive includes a range not only from what had been successfully produced in visible and material forms, but also that which may have gone wrong or was never realized, as well as the dynamics of their relations and mediations.We hope these function in part as potential tools or case studies for others, while calling to mind the missing elements and contradictions involved in any historicization.
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