Framing Diseases 05: Diseases, Poetics, and Dwelling
Are perspectives on diseases without a human agent (empirical perspective) possible? “ From the disease image perspective (o1) through the cooperative discourse (02-03), and the “war frame” (04), Hector Rodriguez advances a point of view that conceives of a person as part and support of an ecological community. And what if “the bacteria that inhabit a person’s body are to a large extent unique to that person”? The assumptions of a microbial ecosystem define what it means to be person, so that a person is an ecological community. How ought we to think of personal identity when we consider the role of built spaces and dynamic interactions in shaping our microbial signatures?
FP at Documenta 15, a journal series (6): Concrete Exchange 回家前的知識交流
More diaries from Dory Cheng and John Chow at Documenta: from observing, learning, participating to contributing…
月圓夏之夢 Interspecies drama in a full-moon summer evening
In an unplanned hanging out in summer, Taiwan-based FP writer Vanessa Tsai found her direct encounter with the “Brown Land Crabs” (aka Chestnut crabs, or red-claw crabs) invoking interspecies thinking: must we sustain human survival at the cost of natural survival? 據點駐台作者蔡季妙趁暑假鬆一口氣，隨心的到台南曾文溪口一遊，正值「凶狠圓軸蟹」產卵時節，觸發了「種間思維」對人和自然共生的必要性。
“Miss Dong Quartet: Miss Tung” 董小姐 –> 彤小姐。
“Field notes” series (2022) Look at That Picture begins with graduate researcher Tse Lam-hei’s close study of a drawing by local artist Ho Sin-tung, which Tse turns into a found archaeological object, tackled with rich descriptions. 研究員筆記「定睛看」系列的首篇。謝琳禧鑽進本地藝術家何倩彤的一張手繪，用考古的態度、方法，和精細調理歷史的精神，把何的圖像層層剝開。
FP at Documenta 15, a journal series (5): Acting Out 實作
Dory Cheng and John Chow updated their upcoming events at Documenta 15, as FP representatives, and as active agents of a new collective of collectives.
FP at Documenta 15, a journal series (4): “MAKE FRIENDS NOT ART!” 做藝術就是做朋友。
“MAKE FRIENDS NOT ART” – Batch 5 members are making prints in Gudskul area at Fridericianum Museum to raise funds for 2 members’ return travel.
FP at Documenta 15, a journal series (3): connecting, boat-building… 天天實作天天學習
knowledge market, workshops, cooking… daily life at Documenta’s collective school. 16-20 July 2022…
FP at Documenta 15, a journal series (2): immersing… 鑽進另一種日常生活
First two weeks at Documenta 15’s Gudspace… John Chow shares his initial experience of co-living. The FP at Documenta journal series continues…
FP at Documenta 15, a journal series (1) stepping in… 據點在卡塞爾文獻展2022
Floating Projects is taking part in Gudskul’s fifth year of Contemporary Art Collective and Ecosystem Studies, this time part of Documenta 15. FPC members John Chow and Dory Cheng participates in their 50-day co-living to gain first-hand understanding of lumbung practice, a sharing model.
QIAN Xingyu / A Photo of my Father’s 18 一張父親十八歲的照片
What’s in a picture? A photo is the evidence of an event awaiting forensic examination. Why was the picture taken? What was the general sentiment? What did the photo mean to those in the photo-taking event and does it mean to us as a historical document? Graduate researcher QIAN Xingyu took up an old photo […]
