Librarians-in-ResidenceCoral Dictionary Vol.1: 2019-2022Performative Lecture and Conversation With Alvin Li Chang Yuchen
Image courtesy of Chang Yuchen
Please join us for a book launch for Chang Yuchen’s Coral Dictionary Vol.1: 2019-2022. Yuchen will present a performative lecture on her feral literacy, while demonstrating how to read, use, and dance with this newly-published dictionary. The second half of the evening will feature a conversation between Alvin Li and Yuchen, where they will discuss practices of translation and lexicography in relation to their recent collaborative project as Librarians-in-Residence at Asymmetry.
Including 216 words that Yuchen has translated with fragments of coral bodies, Coral Dictionary Vol.1: 2019-2022 is a tool book customly designed for one person’s need in her ongoing endeavor of making a language. The dictionary includes an introduction by Alvin Li, and is published by Gong Press in two versions. Limited copies of Coral Dictionary Vol.1, 2019-2022 will be available at the event. They can also be purchased online at https://www.gongpress.art/.
Gong Press is a publishing project by Qianfan Gu (based in New York), St. Jiu (based in Beijing), and Yuki He (based in New York). We produce art publications in collaboration with our artist friends. The project is named after the weapon “GONG (弓, bow)”: like a bow without an arrow, Gong Press exists in a state of quiet and dormant potency, ready to be activated through creative collaborations.