Yesterday, I received an email with Chinese translation for David Spalding’s mapping essay.   I must admit I felt pretty lost reading the Chinese text.  I’ve already tweaked other texts related to Antimapping (artist statement and press release), and I am wondering if I should dabble with David’s mapping.

昨天收到翻译的邮件， 是丁达韦写的一片关于映像的短文。说真的，我真看不懂。  我已经花时间自己翻译反映像的文章（包括展览叙述和新闻稿）， 我想是不是应该自己花点时间翻译丁达韦的映像。

(from Hu Fang，19:48:35)

Hu Fang: How was your first day at the gallery?

Wei Weng: Today, I did not make any work in the gallery space.  I hope more people will have the opportunity to enjoy an empty space, with no work inside, because tomorrow things will change

HF: So you did not do anything at the gallery?

Wei Weng: Yes

HF: How did you manage to do ‘nothing’ in the space?

Wei Weng:  I wanted to emphasize the fact that it was the first day of exhibition, so empty!

HF: What I meant was: even doing nothing you did something

Wei Weng:  I actually took some people around to see exhibitions this afternoon

HF: This is not playing-with-words

(胡昉的短信，19:48:35)

胡昉：第一天在画廊的感觉如何？

翁维：今天画廊没有发生任何作品， 我希望更多人有机会享受没有作品的空间， 因为明天会变

胡：今天你在画廊没干什么

翁：对

胡：你在那儿怎么“没干什么”？：）

翁：为了突出第一天，空着

胡：我的意思是：空也许是你干了什么

翁：对， 其实我下午带人看展览去了

胡：这不是文字游戏

Does it make you feel like an insider when you accompany someone through an empty gallery space?

陪人看过一个空的画廊，是否就意味着你步入内幕了？

there will be nothing in the gallery today

今天在画廊不准备做什么