(For English preface and guest speakers introduction of Lumen Quarterly 2021 Spring, please scroll down.)随着大街小巷被号召打疫苗的横幅和喇叭声占领，村口的保安也开始松懈下来，不再检查每个路人的证件。疫情，好像真正成为了过去时。然而，我们的生活和内心中被改变的那个部分却再也不会回到从前，那些因疫情所做的决定也的确成了过去时。
VCD在动荡中搬到了草场地这样一个更加偏远的艺术区，小院里恰好住着我们的其中一个顾问，他们一家在今年春天最终决定搬离北京。因为签证等各种原因，他们已经一年多没有使用这个工作室，与其说是选择离开，不如说是迫不得已。看着邻居拉着行李箱的身影，VCD也迎来了最新一季主题：搬家。
早在去年，我们就曾计划要做一个叫做“选择”的项目，想在其中讨论一个无法厘清的话题：当我们面临时代的巨变时，个体的选择有多少是出于无奈，多少是时代的集体意识，又有多少源自坚定的个人意志。从建国初年知识分子的去留，到支边返城，再放眼历史上的民族大迁徙，回顾我们自己生命历程中的搬家，太多的抉择或许只有放到历史中才能被理解。
考虑到本次选题与社会现实间复杂的关系，我们特别邀请到常年从事非虚构写作的媒体人谢丁来作“主人”，并由他带领自己的一众好友，作家淡豹、杨潇，学者刘文楠，媒体人熊阿姨、冷建国，艺术研究者胡昊等与我们共同讨论这样一些话题：社会流动，民族迁徙，个人变动；去思考这样一些问题：在面对出国，回乡时应该怎样选择？又为何会有这样的选择？我们所选择的居所是如何代表我们的立场，又是怎样改变了我们？
我们向谢丁提出邀请时，他正在经历一场搬家，现在也未结束。三年前，他从待了十几年的北京搬回老家重庆。现在，他又打算搬回到北京。他说：“这应该是最后一次了。”可谁又知道呢。过去的三年里，VCD的策展人就有好些个搬家了。他们当中有居无定所的日常流动，有为了生子搬到乡下的，还有因为各种原因搬回家乡的。提起乡愁的时候，我们许多人恐怕都不知道应该以哪里作为基点？是生活最久的地方，出生的地方，还是父母祖辈的老家呢？
在新的制度下，我们希望大家能在VCD的“客厅”里畅所欲言，看艺术家们镜头下的搬家，也分享自己的“搬家”故事，以及与之相关的思考。
"家主"介绍
谢丁
媒体人。曾就职于《法制晚报》《21世纪经济报道》《生活》杂志工作，出版报道合集《困死局外》。长达十七年的记者生涯里，他关注社会底层，擅长书写小人物的故事，尤其是普通人在大时代的流动和迁徙。2014年，他在界面新闻创立非虚构品牌“正午”，试图以全新的方式记录那些不被主流媒体关注的人群，该品牌曾获得“搜狐年度新媒体”、“单向街年度新声”等奖项。他现在是《Esquire时尚先生》的副主编。
"家宾"介绍
(按姓氏首字母顺序排列)
胡昊：写作者、当代艺术与摄影研究者，现为泰康空间研究员。刘文楠：学者，研究近代中国政治与日常生活的互动关系，现为中国社会科学院近代史研究所副研究员。熊阿姨：文化媒体人，曾在《三联生活周刊》、《GQ》杂志工作。杨潇：记者、作家，著有《子弟》，即将出版《重走：在公路、河流和驿道上寻找西南联大》。约翰·赫尔西：艺术家，毕业于哈佛大学，卫斯理安大学策展项目Into the Deluge(没入洪流)主理人。蒋志：艺术家，创作媒介包括影像，文字，绘画、摄影、装置等。其代表作包括纪录片《食指》《空笼》，影像作品《0.7%的盐》，摄影作品《情书》等。王兵：独立电影人，中国最重要的纪录片导演之一，代表作包括《铁西区》《和凤鸣》《死灵魂》《15小时》等。其作品不仅屡屡入围国际三大影展，也常受邀参加重要的艺术双年展，文献展。王小帅：著名导演，其作品屡次入选戛纳、柏林，威尼斯三大影展，他的代表作包括《冬春的日子》《十七岁的单车》《青红》《地久天长》等。约尼·戈尔茨坦：生活在芝加哥的电影人，艺术家及摄影师。2018年，他被《电影人》（Filmmaker）杂志评选为“独立电影值得期待的25个新面孔”之一。梅勒迪斯·齐尔克：电影人、摄影师及剪辑师，参与创作的影像作品曾在惠特尼双年展，韩国新媒体艺术节等上展出。巴尔泰·吉亚多什：电影导演，任德里克·贾曼实验室主理人，现在伦敦大学伯贝克学院剪辑理论专业攻读博士。
Lumen Quarterly 2021 Spring: Moving, Moving, Relocating - PrefaceAs the streets are filled with banners and loudspeakers calling for vaccination, security guards at the entrance of the village also start to slack off, no longer insist to check the pass cards of every passerby. The Pandemic, seems to have already become a thing of the past. However, this experience has left changes on no matter the daily life or partly the inner selves of ours, which will never be the same again. And, those decisions made under the pandemics indeed remained on the turned page.VCD moved to Caochangdi art district, farther out from the city, during this turmoil. One of our consultants happened to live in this small yard too. Her family eventually decided to move out of Beijing this spring. Due to visa issues and other reasons, they have not been able to use this studio space for more than a year. Therefore this decision of moving was not so much by choice but out of necessity. Watching the receding figure of the neighbours dragging their luggage, VCD also ushered in our new theme of this season: Moving, Moving, Relocating.
Back in last year, we once had a planned program with the theme "Choice", by which we intended to discuss an inexplicable topic: when facing the great transformation of the Era, how much of our individual choice-making is under reluctance? How much of it is under the collective aspiration of this time? And how much of it is truly by the determined will? From the moving of the intellectuals in the 1950s, to the return of the educated youth from the countriside to the city, then to the great ethnic migration in history, or shall we take a retrospection of our own journey of life, too many choices could only be comprehended within its own historical context.
Considering the entangled relation between the theme of this season and the social reality, we are honored to invite XIE Ding, media professional who has been long devoted in non-fictional writing, to be the "Host" of 2021 Spring program. XIE Ding will lead the discusisons together with a group of his friends - writer Danbao, writer YANG Xiao, scholar LIU Wennan, media professional XIONG Ayi, media professional LENG Jianguo and art researcher HU Hao. They will join us discussing the following topics: social mobility, ethnic migration, and individual life change. Let us think about such questions: how should we make the choice of either going abroad of returning home? Why would we make such decision? How does the residence we choose represent our ideological positions, then how has it shaped us in turn?When we sent the invitation to Xie Ding, he was in the middle of a move, and it is still on-going at this moment. Three years ago, he moved back to Chongqing, his hometown, from Beijing where he had lived for over a decade. Now, he is about to move back to Beijing. “This one should be the final move,” he said. While who knows. During the past three years, several of VCD's curators have moved away. Some of them just live an unsettled life, moving around from time to time; some of them moved to the countryside in preparation for a new life to the family; and others moved back to their hometown for various reasons. When it comes to nostalgia, most of us probably don't even know where to locate the base of this emotion - is it the place we spent the longest time, or the place where we were born, or the hometown of our parents and grandparents?Under the upgraded framework of Lumen Quarterly, we hope that everyone can speak freely in the "living room" of VCD, enjoy watching the moves through the artists' lens, tell us about your own story of "moving", as well as sharing extended thoughts of yours.XIE Ding: Media professional. Xie has worked for Legal Evening News, 21st Century Business Herald, and Life Magazine. His publication includes Trapped in Freedom, a collection of his journalist reports. During Xie's 17-year career in journalism, he has been focusing on the underclass, and was distinguished by stories he wrote for ordinary people, particularly of their moving and migration in the historical macro-narratives. In 2014, Xie Ding established “Noon Story”, a brand with Jiemian.com, which dedicates to non-fiction writing and intends to document those who are out of the spotlight of the mainstream media, with a fresh eye. It has received awards including “New Media of the Year”(Sohu.com) and “New Voice of the Year” (One Way Street). Currently, he is the Associate Editor of Esquire China.(In alphabetic order of Last Names)Danbao: Writer, author of short fiction collection, A Happy Ending
HU Hao：Writer, researcher specialized in contemporary art and photography. Researcher of TAIKANG Space.
LENG Jianguo: Journalist, editor, co-founder of podcast, Stochastic Volatility.
LIU Wennan: Scholar, specialized in the interrelation between politics and everyday life in modern China; he is now an associate researcher at the Institute of Modern History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
XIONG Ayi: Journalist, former contributor of Sanlian Lifeweek Magazine and GQ Magazine.
YANG Xiao：Journalist, writer, author of Zi Di and the forthcoming book, Revisit: Looking for Southwest Associated University on Roads, Rivers and Courier Routes.
John HULSEY: Artist, Harvard University alumnus, Director of curatorial project Into the Deluge at Wesleyan University.
JIANG Zhi: Mix-media artist of moving-image, text, painting, photography and installation. His representative works include documentary Forefinger, Empty Cage, moving-image work 0.7% Salt and photography work Love Letter.WANG Bing: Independent filmmaker, one of the most important documentary makers in China. His representative works include Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks, He Fengming, Dead Souls, 15 Hours. Wang Bing's works have been numerously selected in major international film festivals, and presented in internationally significant art biennials and documenta.WANG Xiaoshuai: Director. His works have been numerously selected in Cannes Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival and Venice Film Festival. Wang Xiaoshuai's representative works include The Days, Beijing Bicycle, Shanghai Dreams and So Long, My Son.Yoni GOLDSTEIN: Chicago-based filmmaker, artist and cinematographer. In 2018, he was selected as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces“ of independent cinema.Meredith ZIELKE: Filmmaker, cinematographer and film editor. Moving image works she participated have been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, New Media Festival in Korea.Bartek DZIADOSZ: Filmmaker, Director of the Derek Jarman Lab. Now he is a PhD candidate in Theory of Editing at Birkbeck College, University Of London.
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World Organization Of Video Culture Development国际影像文化促进会（以下简称：VCD 影促会）于 2017 年夏天在北京正式成立。作为一个非营利机构，它致力于搭建一个观影、学习和交流的平台，向公众普及和推广艺术影像。一方面，VCD 影促会以举办影像资料展、文献展、讲座和学术研讨会等方式为更多人提供影像艺术教育；另一方面，它也通过自身平台挖掘更多优秀的影像艺术作品，在为其提供放映机会的同时助力青年影像艺术家持续创作。⬇️点击阅读原文，支持我们