Art+798

I am currently a teaching artist with Art+ 798, Beijing where I create and teach programmes which merge literary and visual arts through videos and live streaming. The classes include pop-up book making, relief painting cards, erasure poetry and book binding.

故事绘本

作为一名作家、艺术家和教育家，我喜欢将文学艺术和视觉艺术相融合。我的课通常会把书作为最终目标，让学生们通过技巧和手工制作自己的书籍。我非常喜欢那些融入视觉艺术的书籍，我也会在自己的艺术作品中融合文学元素（一首诗、一句引言或一个故事）和视觉艺术（手工制作、剪纸工艺和混合媒体）。

A-to-Zine

This workshop looks at the origins of self-publishing and the ways musicians, artists, feminists and writers have used the limitations of then-existing resources to make their voices heard through the humble photocopier, and the zines of today. Students will learn to develop content for a 16-page zine from an A3 sheet.

Books that Bind

In this workshop, students explore the anatomy of a book, from its leaves, leaves’ weight and type to its spine. They bring along their self-penned poems or collected works of others to bind using the 5-hole pamphlet stitch method. They also learn about artist’s books, the book as an object and non-sew book binding methods of the origami and accordion book spine.

      

Haiku Writing and Surrealism

The objective of this workshop is to encourage students to suspend themselves and the inner voices of practicality and reality. We went through haikus that aim to capture a specific moment, and participants learned to focus on their dreams and ideas. Condensing them into a haiku format, they interpreted the poem into an art piece through the characteristics of surrealism: juxtaposition, the Unconscious, Surprise and transparency.