Isn't this a novel?
——"Shanghai Capsule" new book sharing
Guests
btr, Shen Dacheng, Lai Fei
Guest host
Three claws
Time
Saturday, February 26 at 14:00
place
Shanghai Shangsheng New Institute Tsuruya Bookstore
(Building 7, No. 1262 Yan'an West Road, Changning District, Shanghai)
Admission is reserved
【Contents】
Can an exhibition be a novel? Or can a novel be an exhibition?
Born and living in Shanghai, the writer/translator/critic btr who loves useless things such as novels/movies/contemporary art, he decided to give it a try, he was obsessed with fresh and interesting narratives, in his latest collection of novels "Shanghai Capsule", he built 19 exhibition halls out of thin air, entering from the entrance, in the space where words and pictures are constructed, you can freely watch, imagine, wander, and shake with him...
Novelist Li Zishu commented on BTR: "BTR is always outside the world, he sees, if he does not say, you will always not see." ”
On the afternoon of Saturday, February 26th, BTR invited his friend writer Shen Dacheng and Art World Magazine Editor-in-Chief Lai Fei to be guests of the house to share his new works and discuss various topics such as exhibition and fiction, reality and fiction, and welcome everyone to visit and guide.
【Introduction of Guests】
Shen Dacheng is a writer and editor of a literary magazine, the author of the short story collection "The Man Who Remembered Repeatedly", "Asteroid Fell in the Afternoon", and "The Lost Man", and his works were twice shortlisted for the Blancpain Ideal Country Literature Award.
Lai Fei, editor, translator and art critic, has been with LEAP Art World magazine since 2014 and is currently the executive editor and editor-in-charge of Art Review Magazine China. She likes to study dialects, speak harmonic stems and cold jokes, and reply to WeChat chats with lyrics. She has a column that is not updated on time, and she habitually drags out drafts, walking, listening to songs, taking a bath, and watching movies while dragging manuscripts. It is usually a habit of visiting the park, recognizing plants and bird watching, and collecting various shapes of duck decorations. She has adopted a Beijing pastoral dog called "Wonton", Xuhui orange cat "Frank Santangerine", and a maple poplar tree by the pond in Fuxing Park.
Three-clawed, majoring in comparative literature and world literature, has done books and magazines, obsessed with details and moments.
Fiction mazes and labyrinth novels
"Shanghai Capsule" new bookmark sale
Jiawei Yuan, btr
February 27, 2022, 2:00 p.m.
4th floor, Shanghai YWCA Building
(Rock Bund Source, No. 133 Yuanmingyuan Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai)
【Event Introduction】
In "Looking Back: 9 Stealth Fragments of the Bund", one of the participating artists, btr, built a labyrinth in the exhibition hall and wrote a "labyrinth novel" - "Labyrinth Surprise", which is both the main line of the love story in the novel and the structure of the story. This labyrinth exhibition was pre-conceived in BTR's short story Night Labyrinth (included in his latest publication, The Shanghai Capsule). Can a novel be an exhibition? Can an exhibition be a novel? We will invite writer and curator Jiawei Yuan and btr to discuss the various topics of exhibition and fiction, reality and fiction.
Yuan Jiawei is a writer and curator. He graduated from the Department of Cultural Relics and Museology of Fudan University, and later studied at the Courtovart School of Art, University of London with a master's degree in art history, and the Architectural Alliance College with a master's degree in history and critical thinking. Worked at East Gallery (Shanghai) and Long March Space (Beijing) and curated the exhibitions "Dandy on the Sea" (2017), "Resolutely Raising the Standard of Unproductive Architecture" (2018), "Joshua Nathanson: Wildfire Delivery" (2021), "Wang Painting: Help, All, Indifference, Melting, Becoming, Atrium, One Piece" (2021), also for Artforum Chinese Network, Art Contemporary, Art World (LEAP) and other media to write articles. He is also the Director and Curator of the Longlati Foundation Writers' Collection Committee (Shanghai).
【Related Books】
An exhibition can become a novel, creating a fictional situation in real space; a novel can also become an exhibition on paper, weaving fictional components into real life.
Like collecting objects for a vast and complicated museum, Btr watches, imagines, wanders, and always slides lightly and slyly into another space in those moments of epiphany. Art intervenes between man and the world, and the 19 stories are like 19 mirror halls reflected in the virtual reality, and 19 journeys involving the virtual and the real, preserving the wonderful capsules full of myths for the urban life of our time.
《Shanghai Capsule》