Michael writes to H.F: “We enjoy the space between being ‘in the know’ and simply being attentive to one’s social environment where the unexpected may occur, setting up an interaction that will provide a meaningful communication, ‘loading the decks’.”
[photos by 戴璞 Dai Pu]
It ends with a face in rain, or two, that washed away one after the other like passing faces in a party.
The next day, he sends me a message: “One day I will explain to you why things are so complicated.”
And then it becomes difficult to respond, silence an only recourse, uncovering to plot thickening. The loneliness amidst joyful crowds, like the stripping away of an impersonator who says, “I don’t know. I was born that way.”
People ask questions all the time to which we must answer, “I don’t know.” I can’t remember anymore which way it was when i was born, but somehow I always return to a letter read as a child, from an old woman. I read her as if I were her already, so confounded by the inexplicability of my thoughts, to the possibility of their being expressed. It seems now, in future, utterly impossible to answer any question asked of me. I find less and less the words to place the complexities of my feeling.
Perhaps now back outside of each of those moments, I could answer each of you in turn, eloquently and honestly. Like an old woman’s remembrance of the sound of a black-capped chickadee, a doing nothing kind of being or simply, so simply, the fullness of…
Posted by 丫 | reply »什么是文化交流？ | what is cultural exchange?
on projection at 玩世不恭文化交流BBQ a cynical cultural exchange barbecue, 家作坊HomeShop Beijing, 11 July 2009
Posted by 丫 | more »community building
Our recently-met companions say, unfortunately, that Christians cannot really be friends with Buddhists.
(video courtesy of members of the Beijing Chaoyang Church)
Posted by 丫 | more »what is communication, what is imperial, what is revolutionary, what is natural? Posted by 丫 | reply »
love matters allot, i believe we can move from here
spring’s fuzz Posted by 丫 | more »
the unfolding or the folding, always halfway
“to say nothing, to say everything, to say the thing itself and to sink the word into its pure presence as a thing, it is all the same, the same fury. it is always to forget the caress of the sign, the light touch of meanings always distorted, never fulfilled. neither the explicit nor the implicit ever attest to anything, other than the unfolding or the folding, always halfway. not to say everything but to let something be said of everything.” (jean-luc nancy)
(one frame captured from the pile of rotting (porn) film reels, a work-in-progress with toby, more info here soon..)
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最近何颖雅和福帝尼于我们的新录象作品《公众》参加了2008北京独立电影论坛。请访问看作品多信息和片段。关于北京独立电影论坛:
www.fanhall.com | www.lixianting.org | www.cinenotes.cn
The short film “Public” recently featured at the 2008 Beijing Independent Film Festival organised by the Li Xianting Film Fund. More information and an excerpt from the film here. More info about the festival: www.fanhall.com | www.lixianting.org | www.cinenotes.cn
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