People

03B / WU—LIAO

A conversation changes when we follow a person across several questions instead of isolating one quote.

当我们沿着一个人经历多个问题,而不是截取一句话,对话会显现出不同的形状。

Eight current files bring together 74 films and short records around memory, material, music, education, selfhood and the speed of the present.

HOW TO READ / 如何阅读

These are not conventional biographies. Each page follows the movement of a conversation: where an idea returns, where it contradicts itself and where another question begins.

这些不是常规人物传记。每个页面都沿着对话的移动展开:一个想法在哪里返回,在哪里发生矛盾,又在哪里引出新的问题。

0109 RECORDS
孙逊 in the WU—LIAO conversation archive

Artist / WU—LIAO corpus participant

Sun Xun

孙逊

How can a person search for an authentic self without turning authenticity into another fixed identity?

人如何寻找真心自性,同时不把“真实”变成另一种固定身份?

  • Selfhood, NPC and animality
  • Brain, heart and attentive creation
  • Visibility, authority and silence
0209 RECORDS
郑江 in the WU—LIAO conversation archive

Corpus participant / ecology, identity and consciousness

Zheng Jiang

郑江

What remains of identity when bodies, environments and materials continually change?

当身体、环境与材料持续改变时,身份还剩下什么?

  • Instinct under civilisation
  • Identity as direction
  • Algorithm, anomaly and missing parts
0311 RECORDS
孔宏伟 in the WU—LIAO conversation archive

Musician and arranger / corpus participant

Kong Hongwei

孔宏伟

What can improvisation teach art about education, labour and international circulation?

即兴能够让艺术重新理解教育、劳动与国际流通中的什么?

  • Education as perceptual training
  • Artistic labour and price
  • Translation and Chinese jazz histories
0405 RECORDS
白明 in the WU—LIAO conversation archive

Artist / ceramics and contemporary creation

Bai Ming

白明

How can a medium inherit a long history without using tradition to prevent the new from appearing?

一种媒介如何继承漫长历史,同时不让传统阻止新事物出现?

  • Novelty and medium authority
  • Education and the permission to be partial
  • Rotation, fading and historical value
0516 RECORDS

Designer / space, making and everyday aesthetics

Peng Wenhui

彭文晖

Can design remain an ethical practice when comfort, trend, budget and originality pull it in different directions?

当舒适、流行、预算与原创把设计拉向不同方向时,设计能否继续作为一种伦理实践?

  • Interval, body and perceptual reset
  • Space, proportion and everyday aesthetics
  • Constraint, hand and design authorship
0611 RECORDS
范学宜 in the WU—LIAO conversation archive

Artist / nature and childhood education

Fan Xueyi

范学宜

What forms of knowledge disappear when childhood loses direct relations with plants, animals, food and seasonal change?

当童年失去与植物、动物、食物及季节变化的直接关系时,哪些知识会随之消失?

  • Food, ecology and invisible dependence
  • Childhood memory as environmental archive
  • Care without substitution
0708 RECORDS
马精虎 in the WU—LIAO conversation archive

Artist / image, face and contemporary symbols

Ma Jinghu

马精虎

Can one face disclose an era without claiming to represent everyone within it?

一张面孔能否揭示一个时代,同时不宣称代表其中所有人?

  • Face, era and art history
  • Pure image and performed boredom
  • Future, anxiety and synchronised speed
0805 RECORDS

Artist and calligraphy researcher / corpus participant

Qiu Zhizhong

邱振中

How can inherited technique become a path toward unforeseen meaning rather than repetition of authority?

继承技艺如何成为通向未知意义的路径,而不是权威的重复?

  • Technique as limited vocabulary
  • Entering deeply enough to leave
  • Unreadability and the crack in thought