"Desire and labor are intertwined, two sides of the same coin, I am intoxicated by both." Tang Fei, Bee or Heidegger, 2024
Sci-Fi Summer (Love) is a Museum summer night party. To play, you have to work for it.
Love—emotions and moods—has always been a running thread in sci-fi novels and films. It's archaic and timeless. It's universal and exists in a multitude of different spaces. It's fantastical and disastrous. (Love) is within a hold, a carrier. It can be burdensome like an information overload, and requires exchanges in order to keep it afloat and abundant.
Sci-Fi Summer (Love) creates a party scene at the museum with electronic music, video, and dance programed in collaboration with artist Zhihao, alongside a market with eight artists organised by artist Doggy. A commissioned text on "burden" from sci-fi writer Tang Fei will be broken down into fragments and appear on tokens as a currency for exchange for the night. The tokens have to be earned from the market-stall artists who offer interactions based on the different forms of exchange in speculative scenarios. The tokens can then be spent throughout the evening on performances full of cultural relics, drinks, and other memorabilia. Fragmented attention is spent on the market to earn tokens, in order to be immersed in collective emotions at the party.
“欲望和劳作绞缠，硬币的两面，我都迷醉。” ——糖匪，《蜜蜂或者海德格尔》，2024。
“科幻（情）节”是一个需要付出才能尽欢的美术馆夏夜派对。
情、情感、与心境是科幻小说和电影中贯穿始终的一条主线。“情”是古老而永恒的，它普世又存在于多种不同的空间中、既梦幻又具灾难性。（情）是内在的支撑，存在于载体中。它可能像信息过载一样带有沉重的负担，需要通过交换来保持其流转和丰盈。
“科幻（情）节”以派对形式呈现，与艺术家志豪共同策划电子音乐和舞蹈表演项目“登船纪”，并和艺术家坏狗共同组织一场由八名艺术家参与的集市。派对委任科幻作家糖匪以“负担”为题撰写诗文，当晚的交换代币即由其中的词句分解而来。这些代币需要在集市中与艺术家互动获取，他们的摊位呈现了推想未来场景中不同的交换形式。随后，这些代币可以花费在当晚的饮品、表演活动和其他纪念品上。人们碎片化的注意力被分散在市集上赚取代币，以便在派对中沉浸于集体情感之中。
