Talk · 2018 · 中文
Receiving a Misdelivered Email收到一封发错了的邮件
A living-room salon in London on One Reading the Views, the 2017 email project with artist Zhong Jialing, published as a book in 2018.
这次在乐人的家中，希望和大家希望分享一个电子邮件上发生的艺术项目，“读风景的人”。
2017 年的“十一”假期里，大概有两百多位收件人收到了署名为“+0”发件人从西塔利地、新洲和野果岛发出的八封邮件。在每天发出的邮件中，“+0”描述了她和师奶朋友们一起跟随梦之旅国际旅行社的行迹。
现实是，写邮件的钟嘉玲那几天在广州的家里照料两个女儿，和朋友们穿着旅行社的团衫，去白云山游玩了一遭。邮件项目是新门工作室指派钟嘉玲进行的一次艺术行动，我的角色是一个和艺术家共同工作的策划人，信的收件人则是我们三人的朋友。——虽然大多数在收到邮件时已经忘记我们曾征询过他们问愿不愿参与艺术作品这回事，回信问，“你是谁?”
一年后，今年夏天《读风景的人》出版，由艺术家完成了设计。书中不仅有钟嘉玲写作的八封信，还有我们收到的很多回信。
这个项目不是一个美术馆里的展览，就发生在生活之中。所以在客厅里聊一聊，似乎也很合适。
— from the salon announcement. About the project: One Reading the Views 读风景的人
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This time, at Le Ren’s home, I’d like to share with you an art project that took place by email: One Reading the Views.
During the National Day “Golden Week” holiday in October 2017, more than two hundred recipients received eight emails from a sender signing herself “+0”, sent from Siteland, New Island and Yee-guo Island. In the emails, sent one a day, “+0” described following the itinerary of Dream Travel International Travel Agency with her friends – a group of si nai, Cantonese for middle-aged housewives.
In reality, Zhong Jialing, who wrote the emails, spent those days at home in Guangzhou looking after her two daughters, and went on an outing to Baiyun Mountain with her friends, all wearing the travel agency’s group T-shirts. The email project was an art action that NewGate Studio assigned to Zhong Jialing. My role was that of a curator working alongside the artist, and the recipients were friends of the three of us – though when the emails arrived, most had forgotten we’d ever asked whether they wanted to take part in an artwork, and wrote back: “Who are you?”
A year later, this summer, One Reading the Views came out as a book, designed by the artist. It contains not only the eight letters Zhong Jialing wrote but also many of the replies we received.
This project wasn’t an exhibition in a museum; it happened right in the middle of life. So chatting about it in a living room seems just right.
— from the salon announcement. About the project: One Reading the Views 读风景的人