“有种”练习第四：“有种”儿童电影节
BALLSY exercise number four: “A BALLSY Kid’s Movie Night”

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张硕，天天和Woody是家作坊的卓越遴选委员会。从五布“有种”的片子他们最后选了《少林足球》。
With a distinguished jury comprised of Bobby, Woody and Tiantian, HomeShop’s movie night gives due respect to the film Shaolin Soccer, which actually came in second runner-up to a Japanese animé called A Brave Boy, but was inaccessible due to the lack of Chinese language dubbing. Other short-listed BALLSY films: BBC’s Planet Earth, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and Yasujirô Ozu’s I Was Born, But…

欧阳潇的“有种”思想。Further thoughts on BALLSY, by OUYANG Xiao.

The protracted last few weeks have been pinpointed by gradually diminishing sets of binaries wrought with tension, spectacle and amazing footwork. Of course, for the less than fanatic, it may be easy to toss it all off to them and let them deal with their own battles. It’s not on our turf, where the West’s enormous chatter of the postcolonial “have not planted roots in the deep soil of Chinese culture (没有在中国文化的深厚土壤中扎下根).” But Brother GAO still loves football, and he broadcasts every game he can, live from his home simultaneous to his daily stereo sounds of Teresa TENG at Xiaojingchang number 6. Chinese football may not show as much signs of promise as its art world, yet both are intertwined with “an unprecedentedly complex cultural atmosphere flooded with paradoxes (一个空前复杂、充斥着悖论的文化境遇)” and conflict. Binaries, perhaps? Is it the East vs. West question that critics such as 许江 XU Jiang and 高士明 GAO Shiming are tired of, or simply the West? Who wears the jersey of the “monotonous cultural other (一个单调的文化他者)”?

Tonight is an exception of the third option. Old man ZHANG says it’s too late to party, but our longitude outside of prime time means that the spectacle must find other subjectivities. The third place is runner up in the exceptional case, when winners are unable to fulfill their duties. To play this role is a flailing response to the call of face, unavoidable obligation whether anybody cares or not. Spectacle unseen, it can only be personal. QU says that desire is the necessary first step that he can admire due to his own lack, but inefficacy mated with desire is a flailing third place, one can do no other.

Documentation is a justification for the things that do not appear, or do not appear to be so. We may enter the space of the event, but what takes place? Is this personal or public (her questions explode artistic catharsis as a question of an indifferent socius)? I watched the third place game of the World Cup alone in the street in the middle of the night as a sort of subjective gesture of out-of-placeness. What Pelin TAN calls this “un-relation to space” is still a question of relation, however, albeit one with increasing suspicion of its rupture. “…what needs to be accomplished can fail. Micropolitics, affective politics, seeks the degrees of openness of any situation, in hopes of priming an alter-accomplishment.” (Brian Massumi)

Is the third place an alter-accomplishment? Is being out of context a monotonous cultural alterity? Are you really happy about that?

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(in mind, and thank you: 安静 Lee, 曲一箴 QU and sportsbabel)

家作坊系列一号。伴随着2008年8月8号北京奥运开幕式一同开放，我们在胡同里看奥运（他们没有提到的户外屏幕），陪王大爷和街坊们一起吃吃喝喝，还有家作坊牌超大屏幕。比电视机大——但比世贸天街略小…

20:00开始，到你上床睡觉才算结束。带个小板凳会更加轻松！（同时给何颖雅庆祝生日！)

HomeShop series number one officially launches on the 8th of August, 2008, with a hutong live site for viewing the opening ceremonies of the Olympic games in Beijing. Hang out with Grandpa Wang and the neighbours in the fresh air, enjoy drinks, snacks and a sporty-sized LED projection from the HomeShop window front. It’s bigger than your TV—maybe a bit smaller than The Place.

From 20.00 until bedtime… Bring a wooden stool for even more relaxing! (And come celebrate Elaine’s birthday!)

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日程安排 More events coming up:

09-10.08.08 | 收集和出售二手衣服、家坊牌酸梅汤、中英奥运词汇小课堂. storefront sale of homemade plum juice and secondhand clothing buy/sell; English/Chinese lessons for Olympics speak

14.08.08 | 北京批判理论阅读小组——关于哈贝马斯的公共空间理论的批判阅读. Critical Reading Group reads Habermas

16.08.08 | “失败者”的大派对，有DJ Mellow Yellow以及蔡凯、Renbo的录象作品放映. street party for the losers featuring DJ Mellow Yellow and screening of artist films by Radical Media, Cai Kai, Renbo and others

TBA | 人人可以参与的“Wii”上奥运会. post event broadcast Wii-version instant replays

TBA | 艺术家粱越的行为艺术表演. performance and give-aways by artist Liang Yue

TBA | 崔凯旋将和大家开每人5分钟的会. ‘Talk’ sessions by Cassidy Cui

TBA | 关于体育理论学者Sean Smith的采访对话. discussion with critical sports theorist Sean Smith

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