Recent Studies / 最近的学习

Postpost publication plan #1: Muxi Gao, Recent Studies “This book is an image dictionary compiled by collecting debris of news, reproducing moments that almost seem like fiction, and rewriting hearsay as alphabets for distributing these new vocabularies. I repeatedly attempted to understand these recent, incredulous years, which seemed to me have revealed fragility to be our society’s fundamental base, an infrastructure of sort, connecting us to each other. My question: what happens if we construct something on, or out of, fragility? Something that will hold, yet may collapse at anytime, or never?” Muxi is an artist and designer who lives and works in Beijing since Covid-19. We met under the walnut tree in postpost, 3standardstoppage’s space in Beijing, where she shared “Recent Studies” with us. It is an ongoing project that lasted for 3–4 years beginning from her study in the US and then moving back to China. She observed, collected and reacted to some pieces of the world since Donald