“人是，时非” (RPWT) 是一系列关于亚洲独立艺术空间的文本，这些艺术空间都是从2000年至今“关闭”的。 这个项目由马尼拉“青木瓜艺术项目”发起，几个HomeShopper写了一篇叫“其人，其时”的回忆……也跑过来参与这次大关闭周年聚（家作坊创办于2008年8月8日，关闭于2013年12月31日）。

“Right People, Wrong Timing” (RPWT) is a series of texts on defunct or inactive independent Asian arts initiatives of a certain era coinciding roughly from 2000 to present, the project organised and edited by Green Papaya Art Projects (founded 2000, Manila). A few ex-HomeShoppers got together for this early 8̑̇̈8̑̇̈ anniversary with a story called “Just People, Just Timing”, an account of the beginning, middle, end and beyond of our (the greater our) no-longer space and sometimes group. If lessons are always tricky to draw, it’s not a bad story!

去看看呗 READ FULL TEXT HERE —>
http://rpwt.greenpapaya.art/2020/12/just-people-just-timing-homeshop-beijing.html

北京目前状况：文章發布日12月11日最高气温8℃，這幾天一直跌至冰点，创今年入冬以来新低。大风来袭，PM2.5指数166（不健康）被吹走，今天14日PM2.5是38（良）。还好，这个礼拜预计全周晴天……

When this text was published, on the 11th of December 2020, Beijing saw a high of 5ºC, but has since fallen to freezing temperatures. Clear with scattered clouds. Winds light and variable. Over two days, the Air Quality Index blew from a PM 2.5 rating of 166 (Unhealthy) to 38 (Good). Sunshine predicted all this week…

文 TEXT  //  曲一箴 Twist QU、何颖雅 Elaine W. HO、Michael EDDY、植村 絵美 UEMURA Emi、刘颖 Dongdong LIU Ying

家作坊小经厂胡同空间 HomeShop at Xiaojingchang Hutong，2018-2010年（摄影 PHOTO：高伟云 Jeroen de KLOET）

关于这个2018年十二月的到来已经存在很多讨论，认为它纯粹是四十年前那场洪流开闸的一个象征。四十年的开放，一直不间断的变革，使得我们——至少是我们当中年下四十者——并不真的知道“如果不这样，会是什么样？” 纪念日，成了对我们“一直以来都知道”的现状的庆祝。不过生日、周年庆不就是希望事情都如此进行下去、庆祝我们自己以及“事物现有的样子”吗？不是扫大家兴——啊大好盛世万岁万岁——实话说，庆祝现状还是有些令人悲哀沮丧的，即使或者说尤其这现状发展如此不均衡，不间断的转换一切发生的那么快，我们的灵魂都要跟不上了。¹

There has been a lot of talk about the arrival of this December 2018, a purely symbolic commencement of that which was real and like a wildly burst floodgate forty years ago. Forty years now of opening and ongoing change that many of us, at least those of us under forty, don’t really know otherwise, so the anniversary becomes a celebration of a state of existence that we’ve always known. Indeed, are not birthdays and anniversaries merely a wish for things to continue, a celebration of ourselves and ‘the way things are’? Not to be a party pooper—long life and all that hoo hah are great and everything—but to be honest, there is something pathetic and disturbing about the commemoration of the status quo, even if—and perhaps especially if—that status quo is uneven development and constant transition happening so fast that our spirits are unable to keep up.¹

得承认，为这个特殊的纪念日写点什么于我们而言有点难度。写作，正是这个纪念日所蕴含的精神之一，但我们的精神却没跟上。没有跟上改革开放，也没有跟上另一个——比人人都在讨论的这个规模小一些的，情况。

So yes, this particular anniversary is something difficult for us to write about. The act of writing is perhaps exactly an exercise of the spirit, and our spirits have still not caught up. With Opening Up and Reform, but actually also to another, slightly smaller occasion than the one that everyone is talking about.

空间门口的黑板每天更新的PM 2.5天气预报，查看纪录在家作坊的微博：@jiazuofang
Daily PM 2.5 weather reports posted outside HomeShop and on the HomeShop Weibo account @jiazuofang

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 “献宝兑宝”万岁！

欢迎大家12月8日星期天来家作坊参加“献宝兑宝”万岁！活动，这将是家作坊关门前第四期也是最后一期的“献宝兑宝”活动。从上午11点起，带上您的各种宝贝前来这个狂欢节并通过票券系统进行交换。

最珍贵的物品将在下午5点一场激烈的拍卖会上呈现，激动人心！

“献宝兑宝”万岁！更新

以书籍、衣服和CD换取的票券数量有一些新的限制，但同时可以通过新的途径在现场赚取票券！

参与工作站短期的勤奋劳动可以获得票券：

－讲述一个有关物品的故事

－帮助缝制家作坊的纪念棉被

－监督他人的工作

这些都能得到额外票券！

增值！

“糊了——二条艺术节”：一系列的公平贸易&艺术介入，包括行为、装置、声音等沸腾之作！

基本规则与条件：
在12月8日11点到5点之间，请您把不需要的物品带到家作坊进行交换。“献宝兑宝”团队可以将进行评估并拒绝损坏的物品。另外，我们接受服务和技能上的交换，例如语言或烹饪课。所有物品都应遵守以先到先得的原则，挑选出来的宝贝将保留到当天下午5点拍卖。

*艺术品不由任何第三方公平贸易组织认证

如果你错过了……

WaoBao! 4ever

Come one and all to HomeShop on Sunday, December 8th for WaoBao! 4ever the fourth and final WaoBao! event before HomeShop closes its doors FOREVER. Starting at 11 am WaoBao! will welcome exchanges of HOT items for tickets (to be used to exchange for other items) and commence a veritable carnival of activities. At 5 pm, an exhilarating auction will wrap up with the finest goods of the day!

NEW at WaoBao! 4ever:

There are new limits on the number of tickets given for books, clothing and CDs.

But there is a new way to earn tickets on site!

New work stations where participants can acquire tickets through short bursts of HARD WORK.

– Tell a story about your objects!

– Work on the HomeShop memorial quilt!

– Oversee the work of others!

All of these will get you EXTRA tickets!

Bonus!
Now with FREE “2 Tiao Art Festival”: A series of interventions by live artists making fair trade* performances, actions and art masterpieces! Value added!

basic rules and conditions:
To take part, all you need to do is bring all your unwanted goods to HomeShop on December 8th from 11 to 5pm and swap! Do keep in mind, the WaoBao! team can appraise or reject broken or damaged goods at their discretion. We are also open for participants to swap services and skills, such as language and cooking classes.  All items go on a first come, first served basis, and selected priority items will be set aside to be auctioned off at 5pm on the day.

IF YOU MISS THIS ONE…

*these artworks are not certified by any third party fair trade organization

image: Céline Lamée

You are what you eat / read

你吃/读什么就像什么

Time: Sunday Dec 1st
5pm Reading Group
7pm Dining Group

Where: HomeShop 家作坊

Please RSVP to hello@concreteflux.com in advance if you want to participate in the food event as places are limited!

Food will cost 40RMB per diner.
On Sunday Concrete Flux 流泥 will be hosting a double event at HomeShop 家作坊. In one room, simultaneously, we will be running a reading and discussion group on the theory of hybridity, the theme for Concrete Flux Issue 2, and cooking hybridity-themed food under the guidance of Emi Uemura, Orianna Cacchione and Richard Gong.

The text for our reading group is Chapter One of the quintessential hybridity reading, Homi Bhabha’s The Location of Culture (pdf available here / ENG only).

Join us for an evening of thoughtful discussion at 5pm, and eating from 7pm Sunday 1st December at HomeShop.

十二月一日（本周日）《流泥》将在家作坊的一个空间中举行两个活动。《流泥》第二刊以混杂文化理论为主题，此次两个活动也围绕混杂这个主题展 开。一边是围绕混杂文化理论的阅读和讨论，另一边是Emi Uemura, Orianna Cacchione 和 Richard Gong指导我们做混杂的佳肴。

本次读书会将阅读混杂文化理论 的经典著作Homi Bhabha的《文化地标》（The Location of Culture）的第一章。（下载英文版）

邀请您本周日晚上5点在家作坊参加这两个美味的，思想性的活动。加入我们吧！

photo: Céline Lamée

For the next (first post-Design Week) meeting of the Happy Friends Reading Club, scheduled 5 pm on November 3rd 2013, we will be discussing a brief excerpt from Guy Debord’s 1967 book, Society of the Spectacle. You can find the whole text here.

下一个开心朋友们读书小组开会，十一月三日五点，我们讨论居伊·德博的《景观社会》 中文版第一章，在这里找到的。

Join us this weekend for a marathon morning-after satellite screening of the Creative Time Summit 2013, co-hosted by HomeShop and Arrow Factory! 

See more about the Creative Time Summit here!

See below for detailed information and screening schedules for the lineup!

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*语言是英文，请带来你的翻译的朋友，将中文的朋友们！

10月13日周日上午11点到16点在三元桥凤凰城（看地图）将举办“真和假”活动第五期。家作坊再次现身参加农夫市集。

我们邀请到 Alessandro Rolandi（李山) 作为嘉宾，他将选用农夫市集的食材为大家烹饪意大利烩饭。作为交换，他会请客人在中国老式糖果包装纸上写上“一个消息到西部”，这些糖果将在今年年底在罗马展出。

On Sunday October 13th, from 11:00 to 16:00 at Sanyuan Qiao Phoenix City (See the Map), HomeShop will hold its fifth edition of True and False as part of the Beijing Farmers’ Market and Country Fair.

Our guest is Alessandro Rolandi, who will be offering visitors tastes of his Italian risotto c0oked on-site using materials available in the market. In exchange, he will ask visitors to write their “Message to the West” on vintage Chinese candy wrappers that will be distributed with candy to gallery-goers at Gallery Apart, Rome, as part of the group show ‘Subterfuge’, opening January 18th 2014.

缘分餐
家作坊将在周五10月11日19：00举办的公共晚餐，我们邀请了一些从来没有相见的偶然的朋友。
一个来自巴勒斯坦（Saadah Saadah）和2名以色列人（Nir Horovitz and Ma’ayan Galim），一起结烹饪从他们的家园的晚餐合食物。
他们将简要介绍作为一个节目。
有可能有一个特殊的舞蹈表演。只有参加者才会晓得！
30元，最多30人
RSVP lianxi@homeshop.org.cn！

Serendipity Dinner
For HomeShop’s public dinner at 7 pm on Friday October 11th, HomeShop hosts a number of serendipitous friends.
For our pleasure, a Palestinian (Saadah Saadah) and 2 Israelis (Nir Horovitz and Ma’ayan Galim) cook a dinner together combining foods from their homelands. They have never met.
They will give brief presentations.
There may be a special dance performance. Only attendees will find out!
30元, max 30 people
RSVP at lianxi@homeshop.org.cn!!

《流泥》第一期将在9月13日在线亮相—我的亲啊！为庆祝该盛事，我们将在9月14日晚7至9点在家作坊举行一场pecha kucha风格的研讨会。会中将有六个短讨论环节，每个环节都将伴有投影片，时长不会超过7分钟。讨论课题将由《流泥》的参与者与我们的朋友们决定。

我们希望生动的讨论能在会后移师酒馆，并到黑夜尽头。

在讨论中浮现的话题和主题将为下一期《流泥》提供灵感，我们由衷欢迎您的出席与洞见。

Issue 1 of Concrete Flux will be published online on the evening of Friday 13th September–ominous! To celebrate the publication of the first issue, we will be holding an evening of ‘pecha kucha’ style talks, punctuated by questions and discussion, on Saturday 14th from 7-9 pm at HomeShop. There will be six such short talks, each of no more than 7 minutes and each accompanied by a slideshow. The talks will be from our contributors and people from the broader Concrete Flux community.

We hope that a lively discussion will spill over in to a local bar afterwards and continue into the wee small hours.

The topics and themes raised during the event’s discussions will go on to inform our choice of theme for the next issue of the Concrete Flux journal. Your presence and input are valued!

Wednesday Film Night

“This film group like many has grown out of a discussion amongst few friends about their favorite film. We’ve been running for the last 2 month and have so far screened a diverse range of films from the bleak and majestic vision of Andre Tarkovsky’s Stalker (1978), to the weird Alex Cox epic homage to L.A. Repoman (1982). The rule is that the individuals who nominated their favorite film will have to prepare a introduction that outlines and contextualizes their affection for the film of their choice. The format is open and inclusive, everyone has a chance to show and discuss their favorite film. Thanks to HomeShop’s generosity we are now screening from their premises in the main space every Wednesday at 9:00 pm. Participants have equal say in deciding films to be shown. In addition we sell cheap quality beer and wine with all the proceeds going to support HomeShop. Announcements will be posted on HomeShop’s Weibo page.”

– Chang Liu 刘畅

This Wednesday, August 21st, 2013 at 9:30 pm

Black Mirror Season 1 Episodes 1-2

Black Mirror is a British television drama mini-series created by Charlie Brooker and shows the dark side of life and technology.  A dystopian glimpse into a future where social media and technology becomes embedded part of our reality. Creator Charlie Brooker explained the series’ title to The Guardian, noting: “If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug – then what, precisely, are the side-effects? This area – between delight and discomfort – is where Black Mirror, my new drama series, is set. The “black mirror” of the title is the one you’ll find on every wall, on every desk, in the palm of every hand: the cold, shiny screen of a TV, a monitor, a smartphone.”

Interestingly the series was particularly well received China, becoming one of the most discussed series in early 2012. User ratings on Douban reach 9.3, higher than most popular American dramas. A reporter from The Beijing News thought the programme was “an apocalypse of modern world,” “desperate but profound”.