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nine sleeping places, eleven days later

to write when one is wordless, or just exhausted, as promotional can be, wordless, blowing, hot air on a very cold day.

Wear journal is now available in Shanghai at 渡口书店 Dukou bookstore and in North America via Textfield distribution.

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sitting still in concentration, hindi-arabic, as the plane takes off

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二OO八 看不见 二OO九

surrounded by family and friends we enter the new year blind. four o’clock, moving rapidly south, smoke-like clouds traveling overseas, engulf the land, the beach abandoned. three hours early or four hours late, another hour early. fireworks and outdoor parties banned, a massacre, an other new year, a blanket, as if called for. “i remember in 1990, maneesha used to say it would be the end of the world soon.” we sleep, prepare for life, the new, and still miss it by two minutes …in blindness, 2009

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old news， recently

最近何颖雅和福帝尼于我们的新录象作品《公众》参加了2008北京独立电影论坛。请访问看作品多信息和片段。关于北京独立电影论坛:
www.fanhall.com | www.lixianting.org | www.cinenotes.cn

The short film “Public” recently featured at the 2008 Beijing Independent Film Festival organised by the Li Xianting Film Fund. More information and an excerpt from the film here. More info about the festival: www.fanhall.com | www.lixianting.org | www.cinenotes.cn

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手势检查第二: 捋头发 | gesture study 2: hair-ing Posted by 丫 | reply »

buttoning
gesture study 1: buttoning/unbuttoning (work in progress)

a project about the relationship between individual and object, in this case a button, the stories it may contain and the gestures associated with its use. in collaboration with hiroaki kanai.

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lovegang

small exercise, trying out the omni mics attached on a hanger, per chris watson’s advice (thank you, chris!)

a few hundred meters, so many words, getting all the accents wrong, a mapping of sorts..

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理变奏曲 variations on lǐ

filmed in new york city, autumn 2006. summer 2008 finally got around to… thank you sim-chan and aka-chan and D-chan!

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re:presentation

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on the verge 回来了，回去了. the hours in between. a trying, an attempt, to make sense of it all, or, digestion, reflection, but, no tripod, or quick thinking, books on a table, and the weather, the weather, apologies, it might have been more interesting, to you, had i made recordings, a spontaneous idea from a flight on sterling, a quick purchase at hema, yet a nasty view of the hotel swimming pool at the holiday inn topkapi, and a continuous falling asleep, the inability to get up at the crack of dawn, and a fear of hotel personnel, so then your memory (always fails) for the last (four) hours before the dash for a forgotten jacket - “i’m only here for a day, i don’t live here anymore, i don’t think it would work out for your greenpeace promotion.. sorry….” in haste forgetting thoughts of afore: contemporary swedish souvenirs: svensson jeans and henry geldzahlers words: “russians are the worst expats, no matter how long they’ve been living in another country, 20 years or more, they’re still yearning for russia.” and yes or no quotation marks, alternate shots, dot dot, wipe, dot dot, wipe, and ‘child’ might have been better than ‘baby’, a shock at the dinner table, and the wonders of photoshop when misspelling words in foreign languages, and perhaps one should stick to single lines in future… …but thank you very much for your words, it was nice to see you (again)…

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退屈でしにそう, a collected series on boring in nine parts, 无聊死了

c, beijing>>haxi, beijing>>

anyway, osaka>>i’ve tried thinking obout “boring”… it’s hard.this is CONBINI, but without any sign. they were middle of renovation or breaking down. it was on may way to work and wasn’t noticeable when it was still open… it was just one of CONBINI where i didn’t have so much to do with… it had very specific sign like other photos. but one day it lost its face and suddenly started appealing to me with its boringness. how boring building it is… it’s weird that to be very boring can be very visible.f, berlin>> 丫, beijing>> a, beijing>> haxi and 丫, beijing>> haxi and a, beijing>> t, sendai>>so sorry i couldn’t send my boring things to you by 17.i tried to find something, but couldn’t.now for me, anything is not boring, but everything gives me some possibilities, or new feelings to me, i feel. i know that whether it becomes true or not depends on myself, the way i live. but now, i’m trying to get power for changing from small things. maybe, small things are “boring”, ne? yes, positive meanings of boring.[录像文件需要flashplayer和耐性来看,不好意思文件挺大的，还没学好怎么好好压小的。声音是haxi, a, 丫 和 strawberryshortcake做的。 kindly be patient with video files, flashplayer and patience to view, they are rather big, apologies, we have not mastered video compression techniques yet. audio tracks on all video files courtesy of haxi, a, 丫 and strawberryshortcake.]

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中国一年回顾 . china year in review

. flora mobile. 2005/05/03, 20:48:50, Dashanzi.

Am coming back home .is a really good art . Talk to u tomorrow.

. flora mobile. 2005/05/03, 20:56:45, Dashanzi.

What pity SHRIT! You tell me please tomorrow .No drink.

. alison mobile. 2005/05/05, 22:35:27, home, Chaonei beixiaojie.

Girl u already got your hands full with some masterful creations! I just help where i can on the small things! C u sat

. john. 2005/05/08, 14:46:40, home, Chaonei beixiaojie.

Fuck u cunt

. alison mobile. 2005/05/18, 16:02:32, home, Chaonei beixiaojie.

The travel agents number is 8406 5828 i forget her name but its an older woman tell her u are Fang1 Mei3 Ang2 friend

. kai xuan. 2005/06/07, 22:04:16, Bellagio, Chaoyang area.

哈哈！好啊，我请客啊，你来美院有事吗？DO YOU UNDERSTAND MY CHINESE?

. +8613810986673. 2005/09/08, 22:29:33, home, 慧新北里.

何颖雅？哈哈。接到你的信息我马上就想到你那副可爱的样子，讲中国话讲不好，很逗的样子！你好吗？希望能有机会再见到你啊！

. chango. 2005/09/18, 03:47:47, 旧鼓楼大街.

Chicken and the egg.

. 大壮. 2005/09/21, 18:38:50, subway line 1, almost to fuxingmen.

小何，我明天有事请，我就不能和你门去了，咱们改日细聊.

. 王颖. 2005/09/22, 20:45:34, bus 5, north of 景山公园.

一定不要礼拜日，我家上不了望。你跟他商量吧！

. chango. 2005/10/06, 00:28:25, home, 慧新北里

Oh your voice is addictive! Been listening to your recordings. They are meditative.

. anouchka mobi. 2005/10/18, 18:50:55, work, 八宝山.

finally. strings of light floating in the sky. maybe because i like being part of something that is dying. an abrupt stop. the grandest square in the world.

. 雅良. 2005/10/18, 00:25:22, anouchka’s house, 豆瓣胡同.

那个山找到了，我们可以去找，在北京石景山区的妙峰山

. anouchka mobi. 2005/10/23, 13:23:58, walking somewhere, was it 朝内北小街 or 和平离？

practika, which yolk to choose and how to get to the sea… a vision of everyone in my subway carriage simultaneously starting to cry one tear at a time…

. 姬娜. 2005/10/27, 13:03:31, 915 bus, near 东直门.

好呀 真高兴有你的消息 明天若有空 来家里 咱聚聚

. 石头. 2005/11/05, 20:12:23, 南锣鼓巷, 这里cafe.

不过我房间特别乱 你们不要嫌？啊

. 王静. 2005/11/07, 14:24:15, work, 八宝山.

我觉得还是小孩好，开开心心的活着，即便有了烦恼，第二天也会忘记

. anouchka mobi. 2005/11/12, 19:01:31，通州, walking with 崔凯旋.

she was so happy with her mother’s ass couldn’t stop laughing and looked at the moon

. fan yue. 2005/11/19, 18:14:16, 新射界construction yard.

不用谢，我会去的！以后有要帮忙的就给我打点话

. 谢婷婷. 2005/12/08, 09:58:40, number 2 bus, passing 天安门.

小资从来不穿深色的袜子 哈哈你有去门了？

. 10601083441256. 2005/12/08, 17:17:31, work, BCIS, 百子湾南2路77号.

Hi:-)是Sally,义卖还好么？希望一切都好…对不起，颖雅，我没有帮到你什么…无论在个一买的结果怎样，你都尽心了，对 么？

. richard. 2005/12/18, 21:01:06, 愚公移山.

Some routines yes but it wasn’t my choice! I am labelled! I am boring!

. 利youling. 2005/12/24, 21:22:08, supermarket, basement of Kenzo building, 东直门.

恩！每天开心！

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