上个星期天下午，海纳 Reinaart, 颜峻, 王振飞/王鹿鸣 (HHD_FUN), Michael YUEN (通过Skype) 与我在HHD_FUN的新当代MOMA办公室见一面。
Despite the technological ease to which we have become accustomed, it always seems that real space takes precedent, and the disjunctured worlds of Michael sitting by himself in a pub in Melbourne (短裤和凉鞋！） and our attempted conversation in a high-rise small-office-home-office overlooking the 2nd ring road doesn’t always connect. Michael can’t hear so well, people are in a different frame of mind, and oh… what was on the agenda?
我估计这些片刻也是地儿。Without expectation that everything is communicated, things may fall into place. Yan Jun gives an impromptu joint-bending concert over a computer mic into Michael’s earbuds, and we can only guess whether or not he’s heard it by the changing details of his expression. HHD_FUN show simple prototypes of the elastic structures (涛宝上有好多颜色，但他们还没确定要什么颜色） they’d like to build on another computer, a bit too far away for Michael to see at this point but we can see the still life of his dark ale going slowly down across the room, across the network.
墨尔本只比北京快两个小时，yet that longitudinal here and now is kilometres and kilometres away from the actual sentience of the here and now of our friend, in “this room”. We experience these things simultaneously, like a call centre worker faking an American accent to speak to someone in the suburbs of Los Angeles. “This five minutes” can be an age, an epoch, a blink. Our ways of understanding space and time have completely changed from the beginnings of industrialisation, of course. But I like the thought of a long now （长现在？）, in also space.
第二天Reinaart回荷兰，有可能3月份回来。Let us see how things continue to develop…
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