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Baopu·FELT is a nonprofit art space based in Kaili, Guizhou, centered on artist residencies, research, exhibitions, and publishing. It is dedicated to fostering interdisciplinary artistic practices rooted in the folk cultures, intangible heritage, and local ecologies of Southwest China.

抱朴·FELT 是一个位于贵州凯里的非营利艺术空间，以艺术驻留和研究、展览与出版为核心，致力于推动根植中国西南民间文化、非遗技艺、本地生态的跨学科艺术实践。

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Baopu·FELT is an independent, nonprofit art space based in Kaili, Guizhou, dedicated to artist residencies and research, exhibitions, and publishing. It aims to foster interdisciplinary artistic practices rooted in the folk cultures, intangible heritage, and local ecologies of Southwest China.

We focus on the contemporary expression and reproduction of vernacular knowledge systems and traditional craft techniques. By supporting collaborations between artists, curators, researchers, and local communities, we encourage long-term fieldwork and engagements that involve craft practices, historical materials, and cultural ecologies, seeking new possibilities for articulating local cultures in the present.

Baopu·FELT organizes residency and exhibition programs through both open calls and curated invitations. Residents receive time, space, and resources for creative work and research, and are encouraged to engage deeply with the cultural context of Guizhou through experimental and site-responsive practices.

The space is repurposed from the former Kaili Health School and offers 300 square meters for exhibitions and creative production. Our archive houses over 100,000 items of folk art from the late Qing dynasty to the late 20th century—including vintage clothing, ethnic costumes, embroidery, textiles, and household artifacts. We also maintain long-term partnerships with local craft workshops, supporting in-depth explorations of techniques such as batik, traditional papermaking, embroidery, and hand-weaving.

Taking advantage of Kaili’s position as a cultural crossroads of multiple ethnic groups, we have established a stable fieldwork network that enables residents to engage with diverse communities, uncovering the contemporary potential of rural and township cultures.

We raise critical questions, including (but not limited to):

• How can we move beyond exoticizing gazes and the renewed extraction of tradition, toward meaningful co-creation?
• In interdisciplinary collaboration, how can we remain vigilant against—and surpass—the “tame-and-colonize” mechanisms tied to capitalist logics?
• How might ethnographic methods in contemporary art go beyond the paradigms of archive, documentation, and representation?
• When intangible heritage becomes decontextualized as a museological object, how can it still be activated in contemporary life?

Baopu·FELT sees the “Southwest” as a methodological site, responding to global turns in contemporary art through situated knowledge systems, and exploring a de-westernized path of cultural practice.

Our Content

Centered on artist residencies and exhibitions, Baopu·FELT also engages in publishing, podcasting, and other diverse formats to share creative and research outcomes. By doing so, we actively connect with a broader network of thinkers and practitioners, expanding the boundaries of knowledge production and cultural exchange.

Our publishing and podcast platforms not only document the work of resident artists and researchers, but also invite external guests to join ongoing conversations. These dialogues revolve around fieldwork methodologies, craft-based experiences, local knowledge systems, and their contemporary articulations—forming a continuously evolving intellectual network that responds to the shifting dynamics of the present.

At the same time, Baopu·FELT is developing the first online archive in China dedicated to Guizhou’s folk crafts and vernacular objects. Thousands of rare items are being systematically catalogued, accompanied by a series of publications. This effort aims to activate local cultural resources as public knowledge and provide entry points for in-depth research and creative practice across disciplines.

Team

Ran Zhou Co-director

Dan Hong Co-Director

Yunshan Jiang Executive Director

Penny Xu Supervisor

Yubing Guo Podcast Director

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Email：contact@baopu.org

关于

抱朴·FELT 是一个位于贵州凯里的独立非营利艺术空间，以艺术驻留和研究、展览与出版为核心，致力于推动根植中国西南民间文化、非遗技艺、本地生态的跨学科艺术实践。

我们关注民间知识系统与非遗技艺的当代表达与再生产，支持艺术家、策展人与研究者与在地社群协作，通过长期田野、手工技艺、历史材料与文化生态的对话，探索地方文化的当代表述可能。

抱朴·FELT 以开放招募与定向邀请相结合的方式组织驻地和展览计划。驻地艺术家、策展人与研究者将获得创作与调研的时间、空间与资源支持，鼓励他们深入贵州的文化语境，开展富有实验性的创作与研究实践。

抱朴·FELT 的空间改建自原凯里老卫校，拥有300平方米的展览与创作空间。我们藏有逾十万件来自晚清至20世纪末的民间艺术材料，包括古着、民族服饰、刺绣、织物与生活器具等；并与本地手工艺坊建立长期合作网络，支持艺术家深入探索蜡染、古法造纸、刺绣与手工织布等技艺。

同时，借助凯里所处的多民族交汇地理与文化环境，我们建立了稳定的田野网络，可以供驻地艺术家通过深入地方社区，与不同族群合作，挖掘乡镇文化的当代潜力。

我们提出的问题包括（但不限于）：

• 如何摆脱“猎奇式”观看与对传统的再度掠夺，实现真正意义上的共创？
• 在跨学科合作中，如何警惕并超越与资本主义逻辑相伴的“驯服—殖民”机制？
• 田野志方法如何在当代艺术中超越“档案/记录/再现”的既定范式？
• 当“非遗”脱离原生语境成为博物馆式对象，它在当代还能被如何激活？

抱朴·FELT将“西南”视为一种方法论意义上的现场，以在地知识系统回应当代艺术的全球转向，探索一种「去西方中心化」的文化实践路径。

内容类型

抱朴·FELT以艺术驻留和展览为核心，通过出版、播客等多元形式，分享创作与研究成果，积极连结更广泛的思想者与实践者，拓展知识生成与文化交流的边界。

我们的出版与播客平台不仅记录驻地创作，也邀请非驻地嘉宾参与讨论，围绕田野方法、技艺经验、本地知识与当代表达等议题展开持续对话，形成一个不断生长的思想网络，回应快速变化的当代语境。

与此同时，抱朴·FELT 正在建设国内第一个贵州民间工艺与古道具的线上档案库，对数千件珍稀藏品进行系统整理，并配套推出系列出版物，推动本地文化资源的知识化与公共化，为更多领域的创作者提供深入调研与实践的入口。

团队

周然联合主理人

洪旦联合主理人

姜蕴珊执行总监

徐小丹机构顾问

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Baopu FELT, Building No.11, Former Medical School, Kaili, Guizhou, China

抱朴FELT 贵州凯里市老卫校11号楼（红洲路与环城东路交叉口东南200米）