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All journals are to be sold at 12 EUR each.

The driver/salesman should pre-record one message before beginning the route. The recording call should be simple and concise, in both Chinese and Italian, e.g., “穿杂志“, or “Journals for Sale”. This message can be set to replay on loop during the length of his route.

He/she should circulate around the exhibition grounds, and depending upon the exhibition location, may devise a route to/from the city centre to the exhibition, along a well-populated path where many pedestrians may be encountered. The loudspeaker should be playing at all times, alternating between the pre-recorded message and the direct voice of hawker, speaking by these instructions:

• –  Describe in as much detail as possible the clothing of people you see on the street. (for example, A woman of medium height, wearing a red skirt, striped blouse and red leather sandals, carries a paper shopping bag and walks at a leisurely pace.)
• –  Describe in as much detail as possible their actions. (for example, A man is sitting on the bench reading a newspaper; he takes a cigarette out of his jacket left pocket and lights it. He inhales deeply, turning his head to the right to exhale, then turns back to the newspaper. his leg is crossed left over right; now switching right over left; still reading the newspaper; now turning the page, etc.)
• –  Do not talk to people directly; descriptions should be in third-person.
• –  Alternate Chinese, Italian, and English, if possible.

If the hawker is asked about the contents of the journal, he/she can show the display copy and explain that it is a journal about art/urban practices in Beijing.

— www.homeshop.org.cn

期刊《穿》的第一期现已出版发行。作为一个北京社区的系列纪录，家作坊的本次嵌入性项目开始筹办于2008年夏季奥运会期间，并以此为开端，以出版物的形式，展开了自己的艺术实践。本期以座落在北京市中心地带，鼓楼附近的老北京居民街区，小径厂胡同为视角，跟踪考察了奥运会。为了使我们的活动致力于公共和私人之间，村庄和城市之间，也许乃至人与人之间的关系上，家作坊在公共空间组织了一些聚会，互动活动以及小实验。在这里，小街坊里的日常生活，在与这些活动的交谈中找到了自身的定位。

《穿》的内容包括参与者和特约供稿人的个人文章，摄影作品，学术性论文，素描，以及Nelly RODRIGUEZ的小径厂胡同代表作选等。参与者和特约供稿人包括：Angie BAECKER, Beatrice FERRARI, 高灵, 何颖雅, 高伟云, Fotini LAZARIDOU-HATZIGOGA, 毕月, Dave LYONS, 麦巅, 欧阳潇, Sean SMITH和Jocko WEYLAND.

ISBN: 978-3-00-026619-5; 出版：家作坊；规格：168页， 18.5cm x 25 cm，锁线胶装，彩色；b/w部份，特种纸（无封面）。中华人民共和国印刷。 询问／订买／发行请访问家作坊的网页或联系： lianxi [圈a] homeshop [点] org [点] cn

The first issue of Wear journal is now available. What began as a documentation of a series of community-oriented interventive projects organised during the 2008 Summer Olympic games in Beijing has since evolved into HomeShop’s own artistic practice in the form of a publication. This issue traces the Games from the perspective of Xiaojingchang hutong, an old residential lane in Beijing’s central Gulou area. Here, a mapping of the everyday life of a small neighbourhood finds itself in discourse with HomeShop’s organised gatherings, interactive events and small experiments in public space, as a way to bend our movements between the public and the private, between village and city and perhaps even more crucially, between person and person. Wear contains personal writings, photos, theoretical essays and drawings by participants and other invited contributors, including: Angie BAECKER, Beatrice FERRARI, 高灵 GAO Ling, 何颖雅 Elaine W. HO, 高伟云 Jeroen de KLOET, Fotini LAZARIDOU-HATZIGOGA, 毕月 Beatrice LEANZA, Dave LYONS, 麦巅 MAI Dian, 欧阳潇 OUYANG Xiao, Sean SMITH and Jocko WEYLAND. Xiaojingchang hutong portfolio by Nelly RODRIGUEZ. ISBN: 978-3-00-026619-5; IMPRINT: HomeShop; PAPERBACK: 168 pp., 18.5 cm x 25 cm, sewn binding, colour and b/w sections, paper varied (no cover). Made in the People’s Republic of China. For more information, please visit the HomeShop page. For inquiries or to order a copy, please contact: lianxi [at] homeshop [dot] org [dot] net

Wang 大爷 says 你好！There’s something about 秋天慢慢爬进来，爬到我身上，makes things slow, but smiling… been wanting to post lots, catch up, but trying to get to it…  B, has life in Geneva speeded up again? Are you well?

Trying now to get a publication together for HomeShop, here is the pdf proposal for it in English; if you know anyone who can help me to find a publisher or could help contribute, please pass along… At this point, this is going to be another default wholly independent venture (sigh…), and HomeShop has about zero zero zero funding, so I would like to propose that anyone who participated, came by, or is interested in any of the things we are doing to

anything he/she can to putting out our first journal! It will only cost around 2,000 euros to put out a decently printed publication (150pp., black/white and colour, nice binding!), and of course anyone who contributes will receive a copy and any other goodies we can think of…

We’re trying a PayPal donation system for this for now, but please contact if you have any questions, don’t want to sign up for a PayPal account or can contribute in any other way…

and please help us print HomeShop’s first series of journal publications! Thank you to all of those who have been with us so far, we hope to make HomeShop an ongoing project.