‘NO. THANK YOU’ is a response to Hans-Peten Feldmann’s piece “Thank You”. It is presented in the context of Octopus Notes*, in an art fair. The work presents an ambiguous gesture in the face of the art market.

*Octopus Notes is an annual journal that gathers critical essays, academic writing, interviews, archival documents and artist’s projects.

Sophie Nys lives and works in Brussels, Belgium She uses sculpture, photography, video, text and objects to examine precise philosophical, political, historical and artistic themes with a wry sense of humor. Often working from local stories or from the particularity of everyday objects, she addresses larger issues class and gender by asserting the social idiosyncrasy of common objects, products, materials and ideas.

“NO, THANK YOU”是对Hans-Peter Feldmann的作品 “Thank You”的一个回应。它是在Octopus Notes* 的背景之下，展示于一个艺术博览会上。该作品呈现出面对艺术市场时一个暧昧的姿态。

* Octopus Notes是一本年度期刊，收集评论文章、学术写作、访谈、档案文件以及艺术家项目。

Sophie Nys在生活和工作于比利时布鲁塞尔。她用雕塑、摄影、录像、文字和物体来研究精确的哲学、政治、历史和艺术主题，并带有一种狡猾的幽默感。她经常从当地的故事或日常物品的特殊性出发，通过宣称普通物品、产品、材料和想法的社会特异性来解决更大的阶级和性别问题。

Lacunae is silence waiting to become sound. A potential score to be read, viewed, or performed. The shapes that were invisible are now present. Which stem from the negative spaces of damaged papyrus.

Claudia de la Torre (1986) is a Mexican, Berlin-based artist who creates artworks situated at the intersection of printed media, conceptual publications, and installation. Using the basic concept of a book as her guide, de la Torre examines the structures and relationships of surface, form, and ideas. In 2011 de la Torre founded backbonebooks, an experimental publishing imprint that has published 80 artists’ books and editions and continues to produce work. De la Torre is also the director of the Artists’ Books Workshop in Berlin.

De la Torre holds a BA from the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado “La Esmeralda” (2009). In 2010 she was the first Mexican artist to obtain the Frida Kahlo Scholarship for Women Artists granted by the DAAD, which allowed her to pursue an MA at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, Germany.

She is an active member of the Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg and the ABC (Artists Books Cooperative). Through backbonebooks, she tables at numerous international art book fairs, and in 2018 she was the recipient of the Shannon Michael Cane Award for Printed Matter’s New York Art Book Fair.

《空⽩(Lacunae)》是⼀段等待成为声⾳的寂静。是⼀个潜在的乐谱，它可以被阅读、被观看，或者被表演。那些隐形的形状在当下显现出来，⽽这些形状源⾃于⼀张被损坏的莎草纸的负空间。

Claudia de la Torre（1986年）是⼀位墨⻄哥艺术家，常驻柏林，她创作的艺术作品位于印刷媒体、概念出版物和装置的交叉点上。以书的基本概念为指导，de la Torre研究了表⾯、形式和思想的结构和关系。2011年，de la Torre创⽴了backbonebooks，⼀个实验性的出版机构，已经出版了80本艺术家的书籍和版本，并继续⽣产作品。De la Torre也是柏林的艺术家书籍⼯作室的主理⼈。

她是Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg艺术联盟和ABC（Artists Books Cooperative）的积极成员。通过backbonebooks，她在许多国际艺术书展上展出书籍，2018年她是Printed Matter纽约艺术书展Shannon Michael Cane奖的获得者。

她的作品被全球机构收藏，包括纽约现代艺术博物馆（纽约）、MACBA当代艺术博物馆（巴塞罗那）、Würzbug的MiK博物馆（德国）、Mumok（维也纳）、Bibliothèque d’art etd’archéologie（⽇内瓦）、洛杉矶当代艺术中⼼（美国）、Zentrum fürKünstlerpublikationen（不来梅）、芝加哥艺术学院的Joan Flasch艺术家书籍收藏（美国）等。De la Torre曾在Miriam画廊-纽约（美国），新秩序-博物馆im Kulturspeicher，维尔茨堡（德国），艺术家图书馆1989-2021-MACRO，罗⻢（意⼤利），Imprimé，Intimité，Colletion – Galerie UQO，魁北克（加州），Glissements progressifs du récit – La Filature Mulhouse（法国），New Deals Regionale 19等展出过。

她最近获得了德国Stiftung Kunstfonds的艺术创作奖学⾦（2022）和克罗地亚ABW Split的伊拉斯谟教学奖学⾦。

Concave is a bilingual poem made specifically for Lunar Practices. The piece is composed of two voices: a leading voice attempts to define distance as something that spreads, void of direction, with no up or down. A second voice recites the possibilities of what a hole could be. Through relation and proximity, both distance and hole entwine.

Maria Paris is an artist and writer based in Amsterdam. Her practice focuses on translation and poetics found in the everyday. She entangles concepts of nostalgia and humour whilst reflecting on the emotional nature of language. She is also the co-founder of attempt press, an independent publishing project.

《凹(Concave)》是为月球广告牌所做的一首双语诗。这首诗由两个部分组成：主诗用西班牙语写成，试图用一种辐散来定义“距离”，这里的距离没有方位，无上无下。副诗使用英语，讲述“洞”的种种可能。在勾连往复之间，洞和距离的意向缠绕交织。

Maria Paris是居住在阿姆斯特丹的艺术家和作家。她的实践侧重于日常生活中发现的翻译和诗学。她在反思语言的情感本质的同时，将怀旧和幽默的概念纠缠在一起。同时，她也是一个独立出版项目“attempt press”的联合创始人。

Trapped by the Duty to be Dutiful’ is an extension of the project ‘Wor(l)d FATIGUE’ (2022) in which Wim De Pauw and The Letter Escape Department try to imagine all the wor(l)ds being tired of standing up. They designed a logo or advertisement for the word ‘Leisure’, combining the Chinese‘Lying Flat’ or tangping (躺平) movement, that calls on young workers and professionals to opt out of the struggle for workplace success, and to reject the promise of consumer fulfilment.

Wim De Pauw is a visual artist living and working in Brussels (BE). He’s the founder of The Letter Space Department and co-founder of the nomadic artist run space ‘Lesage’.

“试图想象所有的文字都厌倦了站立。”

《被责任所困(Trapped by the Duty to be Dutiful)》是2022年《Wor(L)d Follow》项目的延伸，在 该项目中，艺术家Wim de Pauw和the letter space department 试图想象所有的文字都厌倦了站立。他们为“leisure”一词设计了一个标志，结合了中国的“躺平”运动，呼吁年轻工作者选择退出争取职场成功的斗争，拒绝实现自我实现的承诺。

Wim De Pauw是现生活和工作在布鲁塞尔一名视觉艺术家，他是The Letter Space Department的创始人，同时也是Lesage空间的共同创始人。