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《Railing Codex》是一個裝置、一個社區打印店和一本集體字典，由藝術組織欄桿外Pararailing（邵捷、徐思行和葉雪粲）、他們的朋友和他們朋友的朋友共同創作。作為對 「後疫情 」世界里意義坍縮的回應，《Railing Codex》於2022年發起，邀請文化從業者——藝術家、策展人、寫作者、詩人、學者和藝術行業工作者——每人為一個詞條貢獻一個詞典定義。
現在，這個項目借由傾斜字典的形式成為一本藝術家書，其中收錄了《Railing Codex》的前八卷。在每一卷中，參與寫作的作者從指定列表中選擇一個單詞，並用自己選擇的體裁和語言對其進行解釋和意義的重塑。然後，作者需要從完成的詞條中額外挑選一個詞語納入下一卷的詞庫，同時邀請另一名寫作者加入下一卷的撰寫。被提名的作家從新的詞語列表中選擇詞條并繼續寫作。
Railing Codex is an installation, a community print shop, and a collective dictionary created by Pararailing (SHAO Jie Shao, XU Sixing and YE Xuecan), their friends, and friends of their friends. Launched in 2022 as a response to the slippage of meaning that marks our post-pandemic world, Railing Codex invites cultural practitioners—artists, curators, writers, poets, scholars, and arts workers—to each contribute a dictionary definition for a word.
This project has now been materialised into an artist’s book in the form of a slanted dictionary which collects the first eight volumes of Railing Codex. In each volume, contributors select one word from a designated list and interpret it in their chosen genre and language. Then, contributors each select one word from their respective entry and nominate a writer to participate in the next volume. The nominated writer chooses from this new list of words to continue writing.
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欄桿外由藝術家邵捷、徐思行與葉雪粲於2020年創立。2020至2021年期間，欄桿外作為由藝術家主導的獨立空間在上海運營，其間組織了展覽項目與為期14天的藝術家駐地系列「游擊戰」。《Railing Codex》是欄桿外自2022年發起的長期寫作項目。它是一本集體寫就的辭典，以網站、裝置、版畫工坊、實體出版物等不同形式仍在持續生長。
根據維基百科的定義，在一般情況下，欄桿是一個邊界部件。
Pararailing is founded by three artists—SHAO Jie, XU Sixing Xu, and Snow YE Xuecan—in 2020. It existed as an artist-run space in Shanghai from 2020 to 2021, where they organised exhibitions and the 14-day artist residency series “Guerrilla War”. Their ongoing project Railing Codex, which started in 2022, is a collectively written dictionary. It has taken the form of an online publication, installation/printshop, and a dictionary-sized book.
Para- comes from ancient Greek and means ‘alongside, beyond; altered; contrary; irregular, abnormal.’ Railing, according to Wikipedia, is in general, a boundary feature.
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