上海外滩美术馆邀请曼谷建筑事务所all(zone)策划第二届外滩建筑节（RAM assembles）。今年，这场探讨建筑思考的双年盛会以“上海野餐”为题。我们以“野餐”这一开放、临时、灵活而集体性的形式作为隐喻，希望这一届的公共项目可以展开新的对话——关于如何建设、如何共居、以及如何适应与转化，并通过艺术家共创工作坊、表演和建筑师讲座等多样形式的活动，构建一个新的让人们可以倾听和交流的平台。这些激发跨界协作、创意实验与社区参与的项目活动在洛克·外滩源街区内全日段开展，各具焦点。
你是否好奇，在AI时代，身体性的劳动还具有什么样的价值？我们与另外一个人、一个地方之间的信任、情感该如何建立？这些身体的、情感的东西在公共生活中起到什么作用？ 大卫·格雷伯在《毫无意义的工作》这本书中，把工作区分为两类：一类是毫无意义但人们在大量从事的工作，还有一类是对整个社会非常有必要，但无人愿意从事的工作，比如环卫工人、厕所清洁工，这些是“抹布神工作坊”关注并提醒人们注意的那一类“照护劳动”，相当于整个城市的家务事，劳动者事实上照顾了整个城市，维持着城市每日持续运转。 城市中的保洁工人每天工作时长约12-15小时，无固定休息日，大多数为女性。这些劳动者会隐进城市舞台的背景中，在某些情况下，比如物品遗失、宠物或家人走失，人们会想起Ta们。你可能会发现Ta们不仅是劳动者，也是社会学家，对周围的人、事、物，具备很强的观察力，Ta们在用身体去触碰和感知环境。 城市照护者的“抹布神”聚焦“触碰”上海外滩源街道、墙壁、设施频率最多的人——从事街道清洁、厕所保洁、垃圾处理、保安等工作的劳动者。结合本次外滩建筑节“上海野餐”主题，工作坊与外滩源的“照护者”进行联手创作，探索公共生活的可能性。
艺术家团队简介
徐艺函，b.1989 ，制陶艺术家、写作者。发起“起风了社区”、《母亲的选择》共同书写、“抹布神”工作坊等公共参与式艺术项目。近期关注照护劳动和东亚家庭中的女性叙事。
朱璟茗：与抑郁症共处十年并“久病成医”的人，曾主理“浦口工厂”出版计划，关注精神健康及女性在各种微观权力中的处境。
Bangkok-based architecture practice all(zone) directed and curated the second edition of RAM assembles—the Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai’s biennial festival of architectural thinking. This year’s edition, themed “Shanghai Picnic,” adopted the idea of a picnic as a grounded, open-ended, flexible, and collective framework to foster new conversations about how we build, how we live, and how we adapt. Through artist-led co-creation workshops, performances, and public talks, the festival offered a space for coming together—for listening, exchanging, and building new ways of being in common. Over two weeks, these events unfolded across the ROCKBUND neighborhood, encouraging collaboration, experimentation, and community engagement.
When AI came, what value did manual labor still hold? How could we build trust and emotions with a person or a place? What role did manual and emotional work play in public life? David Graeber, in his book Bullshit Jobs, divided jobs into two categories: one was the meaningless jobs that many people were doing, and the other was the work really necessary for society but that no one wanted to do, such as garbage collection and toilet cleaning. This was called "Care Work," which "Rag God Workshop" reminded people to notice. It was equivalent to the household affairs of the entire city. These workers actually took care of the city and maintained its operation every day. Cleaners in the city usually work 12 to 15 hours a day with no fixed days off. Most of them were women. These workers often blended into the background of the urban scene, but people thought of them when they lost their belongings, pets, or family members. It turned out they were not just hard-working workers, but also, in a sense, sociologists. They had sharp eyes for the people, events, and things around them because they touched and sensed the environment with their whole being. Rag God of City Carersfocused on people who were in direct contact with the streets, walls, and facilities in the ROCKBUND area—the workers doing street cleaning, toilet cleaning, garbage disposal, and security jobs. In line with RAMa’s theme Shanghai Picnic, the workshop invited participants to collaborate with these "care workers" to explore the possibilities of public life.
About the artists
Xu Yihan, b. 1989, a ceramic artist and writer. She initiated "The Wind Society", "Mother's Choice" collaborative writing project, "Rag God Workshop" and other public participatory art projects. Recently, she focused on care workers and female narratives within East Asian families.
Zhu Jingming: A person who lived with CPTSD for ten years and become a "walking encyclopedia of the illness", formerly led the "PukouFactory" Publishing Project, focus on mental health and women's experiences within micro-level power dynamics.
