iwishicoulddescribeittoyoubetter

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藝術家衣櫥里的所有東西都出現在郵購雜誌上，重新回到市場交易中去。植入廣告、造型設計以及時尚語言通過生產過程和設計細節的匿名性，變成了長久的歷史、記憶和穿著痕跡。

賣出或者贈送給顧客的服飾單品都保有著它們剛入手時的本來面目，同時要求這些參與者拍攝穿戴著他們新獲得的衣物的照片。

All items from the artist’s wardrobe are reinserted into market circulation by means of a mail-order magazine. Product placement, styling and the language of fashion turn history, memory and wear back towards the anonymity of manufacturing processes and design detail.

Items were sold and/or given away to customers on the same terms they were originally acquired, and participants were asked to photograph themselves with their new purchase.

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作為一名時基藝術、語言以及都市實踐工作者，何穎雅的作品常藉著運用多維度的藝術詞彙，探索在現代社會中，人、空間和組織與日常生活之間微觀政治的纏綿關係。

這樣的描述行為有多種形式：一種語法，一份記錄，一個手勢，一部傳記——又或者是一個在北京的實驗，『家作坊』。這個由她發起並由藝術家運營的空間活躍於2008年至2013年。何穎雅不斷追問社會政治體系的句法，目前是通過獨立出版，海盜電台，以及作為『展銷場』的同謀來研究自下而上的社會組織與「低端全球化」。

何穎雅平日好飲鴛鴦。

Elaine W. HO works between the realms of time‐based art, language, and urban practice, using multiple vocabularies to explore the micropolitics, subjectivities and alter-possibilities of an intimate, networked production.

The act of describing takes on a number of forms—a kind of grammar, a documentation, a gesture, a biography—or an experiment in Beijing known as HomeShop. She is the initiator of the artist-run space, active from 2008-2013, and continues to ask questions about the sociopolitics of syntax, more recently via print, pirate broadcast and as co-conspirator with Display Distribute, a networked research platform investigating bottom-up organisation amidst global trade (2015-ongoing).

She likes to drink coffee and tea mixed together and is a frequent contributor at www.iwishicoulddescribeittoyoubetter.net.