Bishan Commune: How to Start Your Own Utopia

Ou Ning

• Other Authors Mai Corlin (Translator), Austin Woerner (Translator), Jeff Crosby (Translator)
• Title

  Bishan Commune: How to Start Your Own Utopia

• Date 2014
• ISBN 978-87-93312-05-0
• Publisher Copenhagen, DK: OVO Press & Antipyrine
• Description 47 p.; 8.25 in.; b/w and color ill.
• Language Chinese, English
• Collections Permanent Collection
• Summary

  This is the first time Bishan Commune: How to Start Your Own Utopia, a notebook by the Chinese activist, editor, and curator Ou Ning, has been published in English. The notebook is a graphic montage piece, where comments, thoughts and short accounts from Ou Ning’s travels to Bishan are intertwined with drawings, clippings, color-coded text, handwritten notes, pictures and quotes.
  
  The publication consists of two books: the first volume contains a facsimile of Ou Ning’s original notebook in full color; the second volume is a translation of the notebook from the Chinese by Mai Corlin and Austin Woerner also including an interview with Ou Ning not previously published in English as well as Ou Ning’s 2012 text “Autonomy: Utopia or Realpolitik,” which lays out Ou Ning’s understanding of ongoing anarchist practices in a totalitarian, capitalist reality. (Antipyrine)

• Tags Bilingual, Monograph, Notebooks