First Session: ‘Infiltration: The Moving Locus of Breakdown’
1–5pm, 08.12.2023
The first session will centre on the research collective’s thoughts on the tensions and affinities between adjacent inhabitants when it comes to psychological, biological, and geological breakdowns. They will share the collective’s thinking on how trauma and indigestion could enact situational (un)learning, challenging the fixtures of what is internalised and what is beyond reach.
Second Session: ‘Infection: The Secret Pact with All Beings’
1–5pm, 13.12.2023
The second session will focus on the intricacies of inhuman agencies intertwined with deep structures. They will delve into how beings of varying scales navigate and undergo mutations in relation to one another. The discussion will unravel the peculiar nature of these trajectories, whether organic, inorganic, or abstract, as they inevitably unfold into realms of the 'weird.'
Copies of the zine, 'Topography of Decay,' will be distributed to attendees and readers at the open library.
The publication will materialise in two versions: an open edition zine; and an artist book with an edition of 25. It was made with the design and visual co-researching by Xinyao Huang.
Panel Discussion
6–7.30pm, 15.12.2023
Complementing the open library sessions will be a panel discussion hosted by Hang Li and Yuhang Zhang in person, and joined by Shuyi Cao on Zoom. The panel discussion will intimate a divagation into queer ecological thinking, gothic materialism, and posthumanist discourses by exploring subjects such as wildness, nonhuman relationality, and geotrauma.