Talk & Performance – Prickly Pear: Self-Publishing & Self-Organization Practices in China
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10.02.2024
Chen Yifei, Heyou & Faye Xu
15:00 - 15:10 Performance by Chen Yifei and Heyou
15:10 - 16:00 Presentation by Chen Yifei
16:00 - 17:00 Open discussion
Join us on February 10 for an afternoon with Chen Yifei and Faye Xu, as they share their experience with insights of Chinese language self-publication. The event includes a short performance, artist talk and open discussion. You are also welcome to arrive earlier to browse through a handful of Chinese publications collected and shared by the artist.
Chen Yifei is an artist, editor and curator from Guangzhou, engaged in the practice and research of self-education and self-organization . He edits the handmade publication “Prickly Paper” with Ou Feihong(@oufeihong), and produces them using woodblocks and home printers. They have held over a dozen workshops in various spaces of different cities, sharing methods of printmaking and publishing. They have a composite space “Cigao Union” in the city-side village of Guangzhou.
There are many such self-organized spaces in Guangzhou, forming a free and loose network with similar spaces in other Chinese cities and across Asia. Chen Yifei will bring with him over a dozen Chinese-language self-publications from this network, which carry the working methods of different collectives, and hopes to present, introduce and share them in a short afternoon, as well as discuss new possibilities of association and organization.
Before the presentation begins, Heyou(@he__you__ )and Yifei will have a short noise performance about Tai Chi. Heyou is an artist, based in Cologne, his research focuses on alternative internet, and performance of the network in a bodily way. He was involved in the self-organized space Xiaoli Fruitshop, and was also running a makerspace, Xinchejian in Shanghai in 2021.