名字，标题（年份），媒介，尺寸；名字 v. 名字，卷号，案例汇编号，页码（年份），2018
paper scraps, book piles, website (.html file)
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The pedagogy of art or law shares a same component: cases.
In a piece of legal memorandum or an exhibition catalog, an individual work or case is referred by a caption. It is a formatted language snippet with the power to summon the historical players those are important for the discipline, no matter to preserve consistency and predictability, in the case of law, or to rethink, resist, re-contextualize or re-embrace a tradition, in the case of art.
Therefore the caption governs a way to archive and conclude a regime of human knowledge; it not only signifies a “something else” - the body of the work or the case - but also a self-sustain category, a literary genre.
Here, I cut out the captions of both artworks and legal cases from an array of used art books, catalogs and law school casebooks, and assemble a chronological matrix with that cluster of text scraps. Through the juxtaposition of the visually paralleled text bits, I try to trace the typographical hint of the two disciplines, and re-imagine a long-ignored tradition of visuality embedded in the text-centralized legal knowledge, as well as the textuality found in the vision-centralized art practice.
I also made a text generator which composes dummy artwork captions in the formatt of “name, title, year,” within which the title further consists of “party names, volume no., report name, page number…” , in keeping with the formatt of a dummy legal citation.
艺术与法学教育有着相同的组成部分：案例。
不论是在法律意见书或是展览图册中，一件作品、一个案例都是由“标题”指代的。标题是一种格式化的言语片段，它们能够召唤出对该学科而言不可或缺的历史角色。在法学的语境中，召唤先例是为了保持裁判的一致性与可预期性；在艺术的语境中，参照先例是为了重新审视、重新语境化，或是反抗、或是拥抱一种传统。
因此，“标题”规定了归档（archive）和建立人类知识体系的方式。它不仅指向某种”他物“——某件作品或案件的本体 ——同时还是一种自洽的范畴；一种文学体裁。
在这个项目中，我从艺术书籍、展览目录和法学院的案例汇编中裁剪出艺术作品和案例的标题，并按照时间顺序组成一个文本矩阵。通过这视觉上形似的并置，我试图追溯两个学科的”版式规矩“给出的暗示，寻找被文本中心主义裹挟的法学学科中长期被忽略的视觉性，以及以视觉为中心展开的艺术事件中的文本性线索。
我还制作了一个文本生成器，以 “名字，标题，年份” 的格式生成虚构的艺术作品展签，其中，标题部分是以” 双方姓名，卷号，判例汇编名称，页码......” 为格式的虚构法律案例名称。
On show view: at Worth Ryder Gallery, University of Berkeley