工人生活更美好 (I)
A Better Life for the Workers (I)

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新出版的《工人生活更美好（I）》由藝術家Jen LIU基於香港非政府組織為深圳工人設立的賦權教育計劃內部培訓手冊而重新創作。該手冊於 2013 年被更廣泛地出版，出版物有兩冊，從心理、政治和法律層面上的問題，描述和分析了現代中國的工業和生活如何被塑造。

The new release of A Better Life For The Workers (I) has been re-worked by artist Jen LIU, and is based on what was originally an internal training manual for the Hong Kong-based NGO Worker Empowerment’s education programme for workers in Shenzhen. More widely published in 2013, the manual comprises two volumes that describe and analyze the psychological, political, and legal issues shaping industrial work life in modern China.

所有收益將捐給香港非政府組織勞動力。
All proceeds have gone to the Hong Kong-based NGO Worker Empowerment.

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Jen LIU是居住在紐約的視覺藝術家，以視頻、舞蹈表演、生物材料和繪畫等媒介創作，探索國家認同、性別經濟、新自由主義下工業勞動和檔案文物的再創造等。解決問題這種方法論被應用於復雜的社會問題，然後發展成邏輯性結論，創造出看似超於理性的推測性敘述——揭示虛假意識中的元素和現有解決方案的局限性。跨文化的歷史唯物主義體現在日常行政和工業文本中，而道具、服裝和動畫則將比喻帶到了荒謬的極端。

Jen LIU is a visual artist based in New York, working in video, choreographic performance, biomaterial, and painting to explore topics of national identity, gendered economies, neoliberal industrial labor, and the re-motivating of archival artifacts. Problem-solving methods are applied to complex social issues, then permitted to progress to their logical conclusions, create speculative narratives seemingly beyond reason — revealing elements of false consciousness and the limitations of existing solutions. Historical materialism across cultural types is embodied in everyday administrative and industry texts, while props, costumes, and animation take tropes to their ridiculous extreme.