In an unplanned hanging out in summer, Taiwan-based FP writer Vanessa Tsai found her direct encounter with the “Brown Land Crabs” (aka Chestnut crabs, or red-claw crabs) invoking interspecies thinking: must we sustain human survival at the cost of natural survival? 據點駐台作者蔡季妙趁暑假鬆一口氣,隨心的到台南曾文溪口一遊,正值「凶狠圓軸蟹」產卵時節,觸發了「種間思維」對人和自然共生的必要性。
“Field notes” series (2022) Look at That Picture begins with graduate researcher Tse Lam-hei’s close study of a drawing by local artist Ho Sin-tung, which Tse turns into a found archaeological object, tackled with rich descriptions. 研究員筆記「定睛看」系列的首篇。謝琳禧鑽進本地藝術家何倩彤的一張手繪,用考古的態度、方法,和精細調理歷史的精神,把何的圖像層層剝開。
Dory Cheng and John Chow updated their upcoming events at Documenta 15, as FP representatives, and as active agents of a new collective of collectives.
“MAKE FRIENDS NOT ART” – Batch 5 members are making prints in Gudskul area at Fridericianum Museum to raise funds for 2 members’ return travel.
knowledge market, workshops, cooking… daily life at Documenta’s collective school. 16-20 July 2022…
First two weeks at Documenta 15’s Gudspace… John Chow shares his initial experience of co-living. The FP at Documenta journal series continues…
Floating Projects is taking part in Gudskul’s fifth year of Contemporary Art Collective and Ecosystem Studies, this time part of Documenta 15. FPC members John Chow and Dory Cheng participates in their 50-day co-living to gain first-hand understanding of lumbung practice, a sharing model.
It takes many brains and strong desires to subvert a bulk of junk — Fuk-kuen Wong looking back at the Assemblage events in May and June 2022. 要顛覆一堆垃圾,確實需要大量腦汁+動手的慾望。黃福權回望兩個月來的石硤尾「聚疊」重探。
黃福權把在遊走和行山時收錄到的竹林、海灘、飛過的航班、機場鐵路、拉膠紙等聲音元素,散種在油街一個半個足球場大小的卵石池上。是記錄、實驗、追憶、信物…。Fuk-kuen Wong planted sounds he collected from everyday walking and hiking trip onto a pool of pebbles of half-size of a soccer field on Oil Street. His recordings are documentation as much as token and gift for memories to pass.
人的一生從呱呱墜地開始,長大後會變成怎樣,誰也說不準。平凡人往往有不平凡的一面 …。 “What would become of me?” One could only wait to be surprised, FP writer Wai-leung Lai writes.