Wednesday Film Night

“This film group like many has grown out of a discussion amongst few friends about their favorite film. We’ve been running for the last 2 month and have so far screened a diverse range of films from the bleak and majestic vision of Andre Tarkovsky’s Stalker (1978), to the weird Alex Cox epic homage to L.A. Repoman (1982). The rule is that the individuals who nominated their favorite film will have to prepare a introduction that outlines and contextualizes their affection for the film of their choice. The format is open and inclusive, everyone has a chance to show and discuss their favorite film. Thanks to HomeShop’s generosity we are now screening from their premises in the main space every Wednesday at 9:00 pm. Participants have equal say in deciding films to be shown. In addition we sell cheap quality beer and wine with all the proceeds going to support HomeShop. Announcements will be posted on HomeShop’s Weibo page.”

– Chang Liu 刘畅

This Wednesday, August 21st, 2013 at 9:30 pm

Black Mirror Season 1 Episodes 1-2

Black Mirror is a British television drama mini-series created by Charlie Brooker and shows the dark side of life and technology.  A dystopian glimpse into a future where social media and technology becomes embedded part of our reality. Creator Charlie Brooker explained the series’ title to The Guardian, noting: “If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug – then what, precisely, are the side-effects? This area – between delight and discomfort – is where Black Mirror, my new drama series, is set. The “black mirror” of the title is the one you’ll find on every wall, on every desk, in the palm of every hand: the cold, shiny screen of a TV, a monitor, a smartphone.”

Interestingly the series was particularly well received China, becoming one of the most discussed series in early 2012. User ratings on Douban reach 9.3, higher than most popular American dramas. A reporter from The Beijing News thought the programme was “an apocalypse of modern world,” “desperate but profound”.

  参与者召集

家作坊谨此宣布参与式艺术项目“一派胡言”正式启动。

在活动网页上获得跟多细节和例子 :
www.homeshopbeijing.org/partytime

参与者将被邀请注册自己的party，通过不同的平台构建与活动策略来探索自我组织的可能性。一派胡言对参加者的年龄、出身、诉求与组织方式都没有限制，你的party甚至可以穿越时间和地域，让你的想象成为你的领袖吧。无论如何，这都是是值得一试的，因为到目前为止，还没有任何人能玩通过这个游戏。

第一步：来到家作坊，填写派别登记表，或直接从网上下载登记表，填写完毕后电邮给我们。


第二步：设计party形象，我们将按照你的具体要求帮助你设计选举海报

第三步：party整体规划！通过设计party活动来积累人气，撰写新闻宣传稿，举办晚宴，与三教九流建立秘密盟友关系。

第四步：参与“一派胡言”的各种活动，为9月的选举做好准备。

如果你想具体了解一个party是如何建立起来的，你可以参考已经注册的party，希望它能给你一些启发，如果你有任何建议的话也欢迎联系。

  Call for participants!

Announcing the Party Time Project, a participatory campaign initiative of HomeShop, taking place in Beijing over the summer months of 2013.

See the project website for details and examples:
www.homeshopbeijing.org/partytime

Participants are invited to invent and register their own parties, to develop their platforms and campaign strategies that imagine a better possible world. The Party Time project sets no limits on age, place, era or political system—the Animal Rights Militia from Cold War Korea? Corporate Fascist Banana Plantations Party? Let your imagination be the leader! It’s worth a try, because obviously nothing attempted has yet worked!

Step one: Come to HomeShop to fill in your registration form, or download it and send it back to us.

Step Two: Develop your party image; we will help you design your election poster according to your specifications.

Step Three: Organize your party! Build morale with your own events: collect signatures, write a press release, host a dinner, shake hands on the street.

Step Four: Attend Party Time Project events, culminating in the elections in September!

For further information, to see registered parties, and for any questions get in touch or stop by!

Join in on the Party Time Project! Let’s make history!

Tyler Coburn (USA) will be performing I’m that angel in HomeShop at 7 pm on Saturday, August 3rd. The language of performance will be English.

“I’m that angel is a cycle of writings and performances that explore the conditions of how we work on and against the computer, narrated from the perspective of a “content farmer”: an emergent type of online journalist contracted to generate articles based on words peaking in Google Trends.” —Tyler Coburn

八月三日下午7时，泰勒科伯恩（美国）将在家作坊做《我是那个天使》行为艺术表演。工作语言：英语。 “我是天使”是一个系列写作和行为艺术，探讨我们是如何用电脑工作又对其充满无奈的状态。从一个“时文佃户”的视角来叙述：一种新兴网络记者，受雇于人，以谷歌高频词为基础生成文章。

泰勒科伯恩(出生1983年,紐約市),長年在纽约市發展,具有藝術家和作家背景。 他獲得耶魯大學的比較文學文學士以及洛杉磯南加州大學美 術碩士。
科伯恩的作品已在倫 敦當代藝術院以及惠特尼美國藝術博物館、安特衛普和紐約的雕塑中心展示。

为了庆祝攻占巴士底狱日与一个现代意义上的国家的建立，家作坊将在7月14日晚7点举办聚餐会。届时举办的活动包括：

1.武林高人自我防卫术现场指导

2.家作坊“一派胡言”计划介绍


3.自我组织出版物Concrete Flux的介绍

菜肴将呼应该纪念日主题，参加者需要提前预约，
请发信至lianxi@homeshop.org.cn

人数上限：30人
费用：30元每人

On Sunday, July 14th, from 7 pm, celebrate the storming of the Bastille and the birth of the modern nation with us at HomeShop’s July potluck.

A number of presentations will burst into the courtyard, including:

— Self-Defense Qi Gong by Zhu Feng

— A preview of HomeShop’s “Party Time” Project

— An introduction of the independent journal Concrete Flux by its editors

The menu will reflect this momentous date appropriately.

RSVP by Saturday at: lianxi@homeshop.org.cn

Max. 30 places, 30 元 per person.

第三期“献宝兑宝”活动

时间：
6月15日，12点－晚7点

6月15日周六，请把你的钱包留在家中，来参加家作坊第三期的献宝兑宝活动吧。这一天，来自北京每个角落的人都会聚到家作坊，来参加这个和钱无关的交换活动直至满意而归。
“献宝兑宝”活动是个和钱不相关的交换市集，由家作坊（艺术家社区空间）成员（包括北京有机农夫市集的发起者们）和Suvi(2012年3月Brandnu的交换活动组织者之一)共同组织。活动全天都安排有探讨可持续生活方式的工作坊及演说。

今年这第三期的“献宝兑宝”活动会：

• 举办全天的交换市集
• 组织种子换种子以及书换书

• 安排以“可替代经济”为主题的演说及讨论

时间表:

1:30-2:15 —  “集资在中国”… 何峰，demohour公司的创始人主讲（中文）

2:30-3:15 — “北京的另类空间和价值”… 家作坊，艺术家群落空间和北京城市农民联盟创始人联合主持（中/英文）

3:30-4:15 — “股东，利益相关者，和群落”… 傅强主持，北京外国语大学，IES北京中心驻地学者。目前在本大学讲授中国的环境，政府，市民社会和外交政策等课程。卡尔利斯Rokpelnis，民族大学民族生态学学生（中/英文）

4:30-5:15  —  “奇怪的经济：利用市场机制提高公平性和幸福”的优点和缺点，Raya Yampolsky致力于北京环境和国际事务交叉处的事业，探讨满足二十一世纪需求的系统性的解决方案。（英文）

想要来参加，您只需要把您不再需要的各种宝贝们在6月15日12点至晚6点期间带到家作坊，参加宝贝交换！不过你得小心哦，我们Waobao团队可是会对 您的宝贝们进行鉴定估“价”,甚至会决定拒收您太过破旧的宝贝们。我们也欢迎您来交换您的技能或是服务，比如说语言课、烹饪课什么的。所有宝物，先到先 得；特别棒的呢，我们会在18点开始拍“卖”！

地址：
北京市东城区交道口北二条8号,邮编:100007 （北新桥地铁西北方向第二个胡同）电话 (中): 13811809604

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WaoBao! 3!

Date and time:
June 15th, 12-7PM

On Saturday June 15th leave your wallets at home and take part in HomeShop’s third edition of WaoBao!, where crowds from all corners of the city gather together and swap to their heart’s content. Organized by members of HomeShop (artist-run community space and founders of Beijing Urban Farmers Union) and Suvi Rautio (co-organizer of brandnu’s shipping container swap event held in March, 2012), Waobao is a no-money zone swapping bazaar with all day creative workshops and talks exploring sustainable lifestyles.

This year WaoBao! will feature:

• An all-day participatory swapping bazaar
• Seed-swap and book-share groups organized sporadically throughout the day
• Talks and open discussions under the heading “Alternative Economies”

Schedule:

1:30-2:15 — “Crowdfunding in China” … He Feng, Co-founder of Demohour (CN)

2:30-3:15 — “Beijing’s Alternative Spaces and Value” … HomeShop, Artist-run community space and founders of Beijing Urban Farmers Union (CN/ENG)

3:30-4:15 — “Shareholder, Stakeholder, and Community” … Chad Futrell 傅强, Resident Scholar at the IES Beijing Center at Beijing Foreign Studies University where he teaches courses on China’s environment, government, civil society, and foreign policy; Karlis Rokpelnis, Ethnoecology PhD candidate at Minzu University. (CN/EN)

4:30-5:15 — “Strange Economies: The merits and shortcomings of using market-based mechanisms to increase equitability and well-being” … Raya Yampolsky, Pursuing a career at the intersection of environmental and international affairs in Beijing to explore systemic solutions to meet the needs of the 21st century. (ENG)

To take part, all you need to do is bring all your unwanted goods to HomeShop on June 15th from 12 to 6pm and swap! Do keep in mind, the WaoBao! team can appraise or reject broken or damaged goods at their discretion. We are also open for participants to swap services and skills, such as language and cooking classes.  All items go on a first come, first served basis, and selected priority items will be set aside to be auctioned off at 6pm on the day.

Address:
Jiaodaokou Beiertiao Number 8 (second hutong north-west from Beixinqiao subway)
Beijing 100007 Dongcheng District. Tel (EN): 15001127304

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WaoBao! 2 照片 pictures!

To follow updates over the next couple of days visit the HomeShop website, Douban, Facebook events pages or follow our posts on Weibo @jiazuofang & @我是小苏v. 

欲知活动各种细节，请在活动前访问家作坊网站, Facebook 或者刷刷微博 @jiazuofang / @我是小苏v，逛逛豆瓣小组。 

WaoBao Helpers!: If you would like to participate in volunteering to help prepare and assist in running the event, please get in touch with Suvi (suviprautio@gmail.com) or Michael (michaelceddy@gmail.com)

支持WaoBao！：如果你愿意以志愿者身份加入并帮助我们做活动的准备工作，请与Suvi (suviprautio@gmail.com) 或迈克尔 (michaelceddy@gmail.com) 联系。

See you on Saturday! 周六见！

The next meeting of the Happy Friends Reading Club will be held at HomeShop on Sunday June 2nd at 5 pm.

We will discuss the contents of the brief interview After the Event: Rationality and the Politics of Invention; An interview with Alain Badiou by Radical Politics between philosopher Alain Badiou and some students who form the Radical Politics Group at the University of Essex in 2003. From our brief foray into utopian studies, we wondered, can anything happen, does history exist, in utopia? And so the question of the event.

“It is imperative to understand that an event is always relative to a situation; it is an event for the situation, and not above or outside it. Consequently, when I say that an event is beyond calculation, beyond prediction, this is naturally beyond prediction within the situation of which the event is the supplement, or the added singularity. As such, the event is not in itself unintelligible: it is unintelligible in regard to the means of prediction, of forecast, or of continuity that are those of the situation. But the intelligibility of the event is created in the fidelity to the event.” —Alain Badiou

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全球朋友们和我们的小公园在地球之上，今天的活动有现场直播！
请到：www.homeshop.org.cn/live.html来看和跟我们交流！

Dear friends around the world and baby kitty Small Park somewhere out there, today’s event will be live broadcast and viewable from the comfort of your internet connection! As long as ours holds out, please step in to watch and comment at www.homeshop.org.cn/live.html

行为和微广播之夜 …

An evening of actions and micro-casting

欢迎在7月7日周六晚6点至9点参加在家作坊举行的既具表演性又有参与性的“无花果树下，红枣树之上”——一个行为和微广播之夜。当晚交叠进行的“演出”有：

You are welcome to join us on Saturday, July 7th from 6 pm to 9 pm for an evening of performative and participatory contributions to the HomeShop ambiance, taking the form of several temporally overlapping actions:

• “你想看啥？” —— 艺术家皮拉·埃斯库德的一个由观者掌控的电视频道
  What do you want to watch?  by Pilar ESCUDER, is an ongoing viewer-operated TV channel
  

• “小气候～借东风”—— 艺术家郭颢的纸风车制作，初级气候制造工作坊
  Small climate~borrowing East wind,  by GUO Hao, is a pinwheel-making and beginners weather workshop
  

• “乌冬面跳舞” —— 植村绘美的乌冬面跳舞，闪舞课程以及家作坊的邻居宋女士指导下进行的面条制作工作坊
  Udon noodle dance club,  by Emi UEMURA, is a flash dance course and noodle workshop with the tutelage of neighbor Song Jiejie
  

• “词” ——  意大利艺术家李山的经典背诵——选自一个经典却又不过时的演讲，议题是陷入危机的民主
  “WORDS”,  by Alessandro ROLANDI, is a recitation of a classical but timely speech on democracy in troubled times
  

• “开放参与说明” —— 艺术家马艾地的尝试达成一致性决策的一次实验
  instructions for open participation, by Michael EDDY, is an experiment in consensual decision making
  

• “交点” —— 郭颢的一次试图在天空中制造一个交点的尝试
  intersection,  also by GUO Hao, is an attempt to reach a common point, up high in the sky

• 本活动是何颖雅的第一次“即时直播”实验纪录片，请于当天链接到www.homeshop.org.cn/live.html观看现场直播！
  This event will be broadcast and re-cast live as a work in simultaneity by Elaine W. HO, “actions and micro-casting” streaming live at: www.homeshop.org.cn/live.html

• 同时还有DUST吧提供秘制枣汁鸡尾酒！  
  Specially crafted for this event, Cici WANG’s DUSTBar will offer date infused cocktails

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“无花果树下, 红枣树之上”由家作坊组办，是家作坊和“与我行走”项目合作的第一个活动。 “与我同行”由德国艺术家Petra JOHNSON发起，将于2012-2013年期间在科隆和北京同时进行。“与我行走”项目得到北京德国文化中心·歌德学院（中国）和德国科隆市支持。
Organized by HomeShop.  Under the fig tree, above the date tree is the first installment in a cooperation between HomeShop and Walk with Me, a project initiated by Petra JOHNSON, to be realized throughout 2012 and 2013, between Cologne and Beijing. Walk with Me is kindly supported by the Goethe-Institut Beijing and the city of Cologne.