029 FILMS + NOTES

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?

郑江 in conversation
WU—LIAO / 郑江
WHY WE RETURN / 为什么再次回到这组对话

The Zheng Jiang sequence moves from plant instinct and civilisation to consciousness, metabolism, purpose, absence and the continuity of a ship. Its central operation is comparison across scales: plant and human, body and mission, designed algorithm and everyday anomaly. Identity is repeatedly displaced from stable substance toward relation, direction and the capacity to respond.

郑江系列从植物本能与文明移动到意识、新陈代谢、目的、缺失与船的连续性。核心操作是跨尺度比较:植物与人、身体与使命、造物算法与日常异常。身份不断从稳定实体转移到关系、方向与回应能力。

IMAGES AROUND THE CONVERSATION / 对话周围的图像05 IMAGES
Works and reading material in a display room
01 / RELATED ARCHIVE FRAME / 关联档案画面Works and reading material in a display room作品与空间

The room links artworks, publications and furniture as a small ecology of looking, reading and staying.

空间把作品、出版物与家具连接成观看、阅读与停留的小型生态。

Plant and drawing detail
02 / RELATED ARCHIVE FRAME / 关联档案画面Plant and drawing detail植物与绘画

Plant matter interrupts the boundary between representation and the living material represented.

植物材料打断再现与被再现生命材料之间的边界。

Encounter with the Future Feeler display
03 / RELATED ARCHIVE FRAME / 关联档案画面Encounter with the Future Feeler display展览语境

A body standing before the display turns exhibition viewing into a scale relation between image, text and visitor.

身体站在陈列前,使展览观看成为图像、文字与观看者之间的尺度关系。

Plant installation room
04 / RELATED ARCHIVE FRAME / 关联档案画面Plant installation room参与式环境

The room treats living growth, furniture and exhibition architecture as one unstable spatial system.

空间把生命生长、家具与展览建筑视为同一不稳定系统。

Field conversation beside a lake
05 / RELATED ARCHIVE FRAME / 关联档案画面Field conversation beside a lake田野与湖泊

Distance, weather and the lake enter the composition as active conditions of the encounter.

距离、天气与湖面作为相遇的主动条件进入构图。

THREE THREADS / 三条线索

Follow the sequence, not only the quote.

沿着整个系列阅读,而不只停在一句话上。

01

Instinct under civilisation

文明条件下的本能

Civilisation increases adaptive reach while potentially weakening sensitivity to particular conditions. Plant life becomes a counter-model of intelligence distributed across soil, season, form and relation.

文明扩张了适应范围,却可能削弱对具体条件的敏感。植物生命成为一种反向智能模型,分布在土壤、季节、形态与关系之间。

02

Identity as direction

身份作为方向

The consciousness and ship records shift continuity away from unchanged matter. A destination, mission or organised relation may persist while the material bearer changes, but purpose itself must still be examined rather than treated as proof.

意识与船的资料把连续性从不变材料中移开。即使物质载体改变,目的地、使命或组织关系仍可能持续;但目的本身仍需被审视,不能被当作证明。

03

Algorithm, anomaly and missing parts

算法、异常与缺失

The sequence places faith in precision beside records of strange everyday behaviour and incomplete bodies. It opens a question about whether repair restores a prior whole or produces a new organisation of difference.

系列把对精密算法的信念,与奇异日常行为和不完整身体的记录并置,进而追问:修复是在恢复旧的整体,还是生成新的差异组织?

TENSIONS / 仍在发生的张力

We keep the contradictions in view.

01

Adaptation / agency

适应/主体性

Adaptation enables survival, yet adapting without the power to refuse can become self-erasure.

适应让生命得以继续,但没有拒绝能力的适应可能转化为自我抹除。

02

Purpose / proof

目的/证明

A shared direction can organise continuity, but a meaningful destination cannot replace evidence about consciousness or identity.

共同方向能够组织连续性,但有意义的目的地不能替代关于意识或身份的证据。

FROM OUR PRACTICE / 回到我们的实践

We use concrete figures—the seed, the ship, metabolism—to prevent metaphysical questions from floating free of material life. Our method is a controlled scale change rather than an illustration of prewritten theory.

我们借种子、船与新陈代谢等具体形象,避免形而上问题脱离物质生活。方法是受控制的尺度转换,而不是说明预先写好的理论。

FILM SEQUENCE / 影像序列

9 records

9条影像与文案

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Conversation / PublicEcology / Adaptation

植物的本能 从植物的本能反观人类的本能,文明还是野蛮?适应能力强往往更快的失去本能。 吴倩对话郑江,寻找丢失的本能。 #郑江 #吴倩 #艺术在抖音 #艺术

Expanded readingOpen expanded reading →
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Conversation / Public

缺失能补好吗 #艺术在抖音 #郑江 #吴倩 #缺失

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Conversation / Public

如何成为不可替代的人 #艺术在抖音 #爱因斯坦 #郑江 #黄彦

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Conversation / PublicMind / Body

找到目的地,比证明意识在哪更重要 #当代艺术 #艺术在抖音 #意识 #郑江

Expanded readingOpen expanded reading →
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Conversation / PublicMind / Body

你还认识每时每刻都在新陈代谢的我吗? 大脑不会新陈代谢。 #新陈代谢 #每时每刻 #郑江 #艺术在抖音

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Conversation / Public

找到郑和的船 目的不变,就还是那艘船。 #郑江 #郑和下西洋 #使命 #艺术在抖音

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Conversation / Public

我们总想改造造物者的创造 造物者在造物时已经有一个精密的算法#算法 #造物者 #精密 #郑江

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Conversation / PublicEcology / Adaptation

文明影响人类,也影响植物 文明对人的约束,也许是好,也许是坏。 #文明 #植物 #郑江 #黄彦

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Conversation / PublicAttention / Time

这些奇怪的现象你猜的到吗 刷牙的时间增多,小便的时间也会增多 #郑江 #黄彦 #记录 #生活

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RESEARCH PAPERS + ARGUMENTS / 论文与命题Adaptation Without Agency没有主体性的适应Conversation Produces Public Knowledge对话生产公共知识Adaptation Is an Ambivalent Politics适应是一种矛盾政治The Self Has No Single Location自我没有单一位置A Medium Is Also an Institution媒介也是一种制度Internationalism Requires Translation国际性需要翻译Boredom Interrupts Compulsory Usefulness无聊中断强制性的有用Education Begins Before Judgement教育开始于判断之前The Face Is a Platform Event面孔是一场平台事件A Site Is an Active Historical Relation地点是活跃的历史关系Production Is Where the Work Thinks制片是作品进行思考的地方