Linda Lai / 《10957個陰晴圓缺》”10957 Moons & 30 Elliptical Years” projected at Macao’s Oxware House, EXiM2022
After a summer’s COVID delay, Linda Lai’s 10957 Moons (= 30 years) finally got projected onto a wall on Macau’s Oxware House alongside 12 artists’ works. EXiM 2022: Experimental Video Festival. 6-27 September 2022. I was stunned by the bigger-than life-size chairs projected. The elegant chair dances and intimate chair talks I sought to conceive, […]
《旅館》讀書會後之喃喃自語 Murmurs after group-reading HOTEL LIFE
Emerging from a group-reading session of Levander and Guerl’s Hotel Life , F-Teatime contributor Vanessa Tsai reflects on herself as a lone sojourner. Anything can happen…? 。「據點。句點」寫作人蔡季妙借「旅館」讀書會探討人與旅館的關係，亦訴說天涯孤客的心情：浪跡異地，各有懷抱，前路茫不可知，誰也像浮萍，誰也需要一個安心所。（
D-Normal/V-Essay, States of the ART(ist), Ars Electronica, open articulation
Issues 1-4 of D-Normal/Video-Essay, FP’s online video zine, #1-4 is one of 11 Winners at Ars Electronica’s new initiative “State of the ART(ist)” (2022) dedicated to issues of urgency, from 357 submissions from 40 countries. Four issues of an online video zine, 90 works from 200 submissions worldwide, gathered portraits of survival, existential crises and yearnings for […]
Framing Diseases 05: Diseases, Poetics, and Dwelling
Are perspectives on diseases without a human agent (empirical perspective) possible? “ From the disease image perspective (o1) through the cooperative discourse (02-03), and the “war frame” (04), Hector Rodriguez advances a point of view that conceives of a person as part and support of an ecological community. And what if “the bacteria that inhabit a person’s body are to a large extent unique to that person”? The assumptions of a microbial ecosystem define what it means to be person, so that a person is an ecological community. How ought we to think of personal identity when we consider the role of built spaces and dynamic interactions in shaping our microbial signatures?
FP at Documenta 15, a journal series (6): Concrete Exchange 回家前的知識交流
More diaries from Dory Cheng and John Chow at Documenta: from observing, learning, participating to contributing…
月圓夏之夢 Interspecies drama in a full-moon summer evening
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。
“Miss Dong Quartet: Miss Tung” 董小姐 –> 彤小姐。
“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。
FP at Documenta 15, a journal series (5): Acting Out 實作
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.
FP at Documenta 15, a journal series (4): “MAKE FRIENDS NOT ART!” 做藝術就是做朋友。
“MAKE FRIENDS NOT ART” – Batch 5 members are making prints in Gudskul area at Fridericianum Museum to raise funds for 2 members’ return travel.
FP at Documenta 15, a journal series (3): connecting, boat-building… 天天實作天天學習
knowledge market, workshops, cooking… daily life at Documenta’s collective school. 16-20 July 2022…
