Youth Practice Handbook

The inspiration for the cover of the Youth Practice Handbook comes first from the red books of China in the last century, which were called redbook. In addition, there is a combination lock on the cover, which is both a password book and a diary that Chinese students used to use frequently.

The image contents of the Youth Practice Handbook are mainly composed of two parts, one is the images generated by Midjouney, and the other is the second-hand negatives collected by me. The various office spaces/places - factories, hotels, restaurants, gatherings of upper- class people, government agencies, research centers, etc., and the things that happen in these spaces. Whether it's real or fictional,I arranged these images in the order of the lyrics from the Chinese song 青春修炼手册.

The term " 空 间 " (space) in Chinese refers to the concept of spatial dimensions, while " 空 洞 " (emptiness) signifies a void or emptiness. Both words contain the character " 空 " (kong). A connection between the void of space and the emptiness within the realm of power, what the Youth Practice Handbook attempts to do is to explore the above two aspects in terms of images. By processing the scanned negatives and the images generated by Midjourney through Riso, the Youth Practice Handbook attempts to dissolve the historical context of the image, and to enter these image spaces in a relaxed but not superficial way.

Size:14.8x21cm

Page: 192

Year: 2023

Process: Riso

《青春修炼手册》封面灵感首先来自上个世纪的红皮书。此外，封面上还有一个密码锁， 这是我们曾经常用的日记本。《青春修炼手册》的内页主要由两部分组成，一部分是根据同名歌曲的歌词，并由midjouney 生成的ai图像；另一部分则是艺术家收藏的二手底片。贯穿二者的是各类办公场合 / 空间—工厂、酒店、 餐厅、上层人士的聚会， 政府机构，科研中心等，以及在这些空间内发生的事。不论是虚构生成的ai图像还是档案底片，艺术家都按照同名歌曲的歌词顺序，将图片进行排列。“空间”一词中的 “空”，权力特性所包含的“空洞”， 《青春修炼手册》所试图做的，是对上述二者进行图像上的探索。 对扫描后的底片以及 midjorney 生成的图像进行 riso 化处理，《青春修炼手册》试图消解图像部分的历史语境，以放松但不浅薄的方式进入这些图像空间中。

尺寸:14.8x21cm

页数: 192

年份: 2023

印刷工艺: Riso