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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04/27/2026-05/03/2026
Language in Action: A Peer Learning Retreat

Initiated by: Xinyi Li
Guest Speakers: Chenyu Mao, Yining He
Online Guest: Jenny Chio
Participants: Lihong Chen, Yindi Chen, Yiqing Chen, Yu Chen, Zike He, Jiaoyang, Yongxin Lai, Yang Liu, Yitang Long, Kun Ni, Overcooked, Beichen Zhang, Andong Zheng
Online Panel: Lingxi Project (Emily Xueni Jin｜Xiaorong Liu), Yuhang Li, Dimeng Yang, Yunchang Yang
Teaching Assistant:  Scarlett Xu
Project Coordinator: Ran Zhou
Poster Design: Zijie Wu
Event Photography: Yunjie Peng
Event Dates: 04/27/2026-05/03/2026
Location：Kaili and Shidong, Guizhou, China
Special Thanks: Guizhou Miaorenjiangxin Studio, Binghuang Xu

Language in Action: A Peer Learning Retreat is an interdisciplinary, approximately week-long research programme that brings together artists and researchers working across art, design, curating, writing, and other cultural fields, with a particular interest in regional knowledge, anthropology, and fieldwork methodologies. As an ongoing practice-based research unit developed by Baopu·FELT within each thematic season, the programme runs alongside the residency programme and exhibitions. Centered on thematic discussion, methodological exploration, and relationship-building, it aims to create an open and supportive space for research and exchange beyond the residency and exhibition contexts.

Over the course of approximately one week, the programme will take the form of lectures, panel discussions, internal screenings, local walks, discussions, and responses. These exchanges will extend beyond the residency and the Southwest region itself, creating opportunities for regional and methodological comparison, ongoing dialogue, and the accumulation of shared knowledge among a broader community of peers. We hope that this short but intensive period of co-living can serve as a starting point for gradually building more resilient networks of exchange across regions and contexts.



This edition of Language in Action: A Peer Learning Retreat is part of “The Shape of Language,” a thematic season initiated by Baopu·FELT in 2025. The season focuses on writing systems, writing materials, and language practices within the multi-ethnic cultures of Southwest China, encouraging cross-media practices and exchanges grounded in fieldwork and cultural research.

This edition focuses on the processes of transformation between language, text, and the body as they move across contexts, and understands translation and translational practices in a broad sense as forms of subjective action. Within cross-cultural and postcolonial contexts, translation can bring about shifts in meaning and misreadings, while also constituting an important condition through which culture can circulate and continue. Every act of translation involves the reconstruction of context, the selection of meaning, and the redistribution of value, rather than merely a linguistic conversion. At the intersection of artistic practice, anthropological methods, and field research, researchers and presenters often occupy multiple positions simultaneously—as translators, the translated, and those who are mistranslated—while continually negotiating their modes of expression and positions of subjectivity across different fields of circulation.

“Language as Action” therefore points to a practice of knowledge production centered on relationship-building and methodological reflection. Taking language and translation as its points of departure, the programme invites participants to respond to the following questions through their own practices and research:

  • What forms of phonetic recording, translation, and cross-media transformation exist in everyday life and professional practice? For example, from oral accounts, sound, and ritual to archives, or from text to visual media.

  • What forms of local language action, practice, and modes of expression already exist within the fields we observe and intervene in?

  • What does local knowledge become when it is “translated” into artistic expression? Who is it translated for, how is it translated, and where does it flow?

  • What kinds of limitations and value orientations are embedded within language systems and language-based tools, such as “emotion wheels”?

  • What new forms of expression might emerge within the gaps of “aphasia”? How can the untranslatable, the opaque, the refusal of visibility, or the deliberate act of self-translation become strategies?

  • Beyond verbal language, how can we listen to and perceive forms of communication that exceed human language, including non-verbal and more-than-verbal forms?

  • Beyond functioning as metaphors, what other forms of action and methodology can the concepts of language and translation generate?

  • How can the circulation of meaning and processes of translation avoid becoming forms of cultural extraction from the local, and instead develop into long-term, relational forms of engagement?






「生成之线：语言行动」 共处计划


策划发起人：李心怡
嘉宾：毛晨雨、何伊宁
线上嘉宾：邱垂珍
共处成员：陈李虹、陈寅迪、陈益青、陈昱、贺子珂、骄阳、赖永馨、刘阳、龙奕瑭、倪昆、越烤越糊（烤｜糊）、张北辰、郑安东
线上panel：灵犀计划（金雪妮｜刘笑容）、李雨航、杨迪梦、杨云鬯
策划发起人：李心怡
项目统筹：周然
助教：徐仪
海报设计：伍子杰
活动拍摄：彭云杰
特别鸣谢：贵州苗人匠心工作室、许冰煌
地点：凯里、施洞


「生成之线」 共处计划是一个为期约一周的跨学科共处研究计划，面向关注区域性知识、人类学与田野调查方法，从事艺术、设计、策展、写作等文化工作的创作者与研究者。作为抱朴·FELT 在每个主题季中持续开展的实践型研究单元，将与驻地项目及展览并行展开。该计划以议题讨论、方法探索与关系建构为核心，为驻地创作与展览之外， 共建一个互相支持、开放的研究交流场域。

在约一周的时间中，我们将通过讲座、论坛分享（panel）、内部放映、在地行走、讨论与回应等形式，使交流不止于驻地内部或西南地域本身，而是在更广泛的同行之间形成地域与方法的对照、持续的对话与积累。我们希望通过这种短期而集中的共处为起点，并逐步促成更具韧性的跨区域、跨语境的交流网络。

本期共处计划隶属于抱朴·FELT 自2025年启动的主题季 「语言的形状」 （The Shape of Language），该主题季聚焦中国西南多民族文化中的文字系统、书写载体与语言实践，鼓励基于田野与文化研究展开跨媒介创作与交流。

本期关注语言、文本与身体在流动过程中的转化关系，并将广义的转译与翻译实践理解为一种主体行动。在跨文化与后殖民语境中，翻译既可能带来意义的变形与误读，也构成文化得以流通与延续的重要条件。任何翻译行为都涉及语境重构、意义取舍与价值再分配，而不仅是语言层面的转换。在艺术实践、人类学方法与田野研究的交汇中，研究者与报告人常同时处于译者、被译者与被误译者的多重位置，并在不同传播场域中持续协商自身的表达方式与主体位置。

「语言行动」 由此指向一种以关系建构与方法反思为核心的知识生产实践。经由语言与翻译作为路径，项目邀请参与者结合自身实践与研究回应以下问题：


  • 在日常生活与专业实践中，存在哪些记音、转译与跨媒介转化？例如从口述、声音、仪式到档案，从文本到视觉媒介等。

  • 我们所观察与介入的场域中，已经存在怎样的本土语言行动，实践与表达机制？

  • 地方知识与被艺术化表达“翻译”了什么：为谁翻译、如何翻译，并流向何处？

  • 语言系统及由语言构成的工具（如“情感轮盘”等）潜藏着怎样的限制与价值倾向？

  • “失语”的缝隙里可能出现怎样新的言说方式？不可译的、不透明的、拒绝可见或主动自我翻译的姿态，如何成为策略？

  • 除了文字语言（verbal language），如何聆听与感知更多超越人类语言的、非文字的讯息（non-verbal / more-than-verbal）？

  • 除了作为喻体，语言与翻译的概念还能生发出哪些行动与方法？

  • 如何让意义的流动与翻译不成为对本土的文化开采，而转向一种关系性的长期建构？