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。
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.
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。

Artist / WU—LIAO corpus participant
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?

Corpus participant / ecology, identity and consciousness
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?

Musician and arranger / corpus participant
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?

Artist / ceramics and contemporary creation
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?
Designer / space, making and everyday aesthetics
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?

Artist / nature and childhood education
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?

Artist / image, face and contemporary symbols
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?
Artist and calligraphy researcher / corpus participant
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?