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"HomeShop series number one: Games off the Map", written for Urban China magazine [December 2008 issue] |
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"17 Days in Beijing: Screen of consciousness on the micropolitical", preview text co-written by Elaine W. Ho and Sean Smith for PUBLIC journal [forthcoming spring 2010] |
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Beijing critical reading group discusses Doina Petrescu's "The Indeterminate Mapping of the Common" |
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press, texts & recordings:
家作坊是由一个门市空间，现为一睡觉－起居-工作室。面积为25平方米。位于一条老北京胡同里。它以两扇落地窗门脸为初始点来观察我们在公共空间和私人空间之间，商业交换和纯交换之间的相互转变方式。由于关系的形成，（如，创造者／观众，邻居／朋友，卖者／买者）需要一个过程，需要磨合，需要海纳，所以对于家作坊来说时间和实践是一个极为重要的方面。
我们是一个开放的平台。从艺术，理论，社区民俗以及都市研究等跨界领域方式来考察隐在微妙的美学和潜在的微观社会关系及其可能性。与赶超“国际价值”和高速社会经济发展等中国自己的赛跑相对照，家作坊从我们这片逐渐收缩着的的老北京街坊里开始，探究哪些是日常生活中根深蒂固的东西：正在出现的小区，日常套路，平庸的老规矩以及平庸中的奇观。所有这些都在我们的门脸前经过。恰恰是在这里，在我们当中，我们能着手挖掘某些潜在的东西。
Located in the centre of Beijing on one of its old hutong alleyways, HomeShop is a 25sqm store space turned sleeping-working-living studio which uses its window front as the beginning point from which to examine our ways of relaying between public and private, the commercial and pure exchange as such. That given, temporality is a crucial aspect to the work of HomeShop, whereby these relations (e.g., maker/audience, neighbour/friend, seller/buyer) involve processes, wearing in and, perhaps, a mere letting in.
We are an open platform, working diversely via the realms of art, theory, community practice and urban research to explore the possibilities of the microaesthetic and the micropolitical. Juxtaposed with China's own race for "world-worthiness" and hyperspeed socioeconomic development, HomeShop begins within a shrinking neighbourhood of steadfast Beijingers and reexamines that which is embedded within the everyday: emerging communities, daily routes, minor practices and the spectacular banal. All pass by our window front, and it is right here that we can begin to engage the certain potentialities in our very midst.
我们是一个开放的平台。从艺术，理论，社区民俗以及都市研究等跨界领域方式来考察隐在微妙的美学和潜在的微观社会关系及其可能性。与赶超“国际价值”和高速社会经济发展等中国自己的赛跑相对照，家作坊从我们这片逐渐收缩着的的老北京街坊里开始，探究哪些是日常生活中根深蒂固的东西：正在出现的小区，日常套路，平庸的老规矩以及平庸中的奇观。所有这些都在我们的门脸前经过。恰恰是在这里，在我们当中，我们能着手挖掘某些潜在的东西。
Located in the centre of Beijing on one of its old hutong alleyways, HomeShop is a 25sqm store space turned sleeping-working-living studio which uses its window front as the beginning point from which to examine our ways of relaying between public and private, the commercial and pure exchange as such. That given, temporality is a crucial aspect to the work of HomeShop, whereby these relations (e.g., maker/audience, neighbour/friend, seller/buyer) involve processes, wearing in and, perhaps, a mere letting in.
We are an open platform, working diversely via the realms of art, theory, community practice and urban research to explore the possibilities of the microaesthetic and the micropolitical. Juxtaposed with China's own race for "world-worthiness" and hyperspeed socioeconomic development, HomeShop begins within a shrinking neighbourhood of steadfast Beijingers and reexamines that which is embedded within the everyday: emerging communities, daily routes, minor practices and the spectacular banal. All pass by our window front, and it is right here that we can begin to engage the certain potentialities in our very midst.
wear [家作坊独立出版刊物 an independent journal published by HomeShop]
系列二号的节录：文化交流
excerpts from series number two: cultural exchange
excerpts from series number two: cultural exchange