「透明的下午」
是一个注重在地实践的社会参与式艺术小组，在胖丁和Vis的一场午后对话中诞生。我们希望在日常的真实中松动规则，召唤柔软的相遇。从聋听融合、另类教育、性别议题、到技术反制…透明的下午在不断滚动的实验和探索中成型。我们漫游于社群空间、艺术场所、迪厅、城中村、山野、和每一次手指的相触之间…
Transparent Afternoon is an interdisciplinary art collective rooted in local practice. Through playful interventions in everyday social settings, we open transparent, inclusive spaces for dialogue, embracing creative responses to socio-political situations, and fostering vulnerable encounters in the present moment. We roam across community spaces, art venues, urban villages, nightclubs, mountains, and in between every touch of a finger…
Co-founders and organizers: Jia and Vis
Transparent Afternoon is an interdisciplinary art collective rooted in local practice. Through playful interventions in everyday social settings, we open transparent, inclusive spaces for dialogue, embracing creative responses to socio-political situations, and fostering vulnerable encounters in the present moment. We roam across community spaces, art venues, urban villages, nightclubs, mountains, and in between every touch of a finger…
Co-founders and organizers: Jia and Vis
Spit Shrine
吐出的祭台
2025
BassBath: Deaf-friendly Clubbing
低音浴：聋人友好蹦迪
2024-now
Co-organized with Deaf artist Alice Hu
Other Projects
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“The Kindergarten without walls”
透明的下午@无墙幼儿园
2024-2025
"The Kindergarten Without Walls" is a nonprofit art and education space within an urban village in Binglianxincun, Haikou, Hainan. Every Friday night and weekend, dozens of left-behind or migrant children from the neighborhood gather here for play and activities. The space provides a haven for exploration, where, through careful observation of the children's interests and needs, various educational programs, games, and art activities are introduced. In 2024-2025, Transparent Afternoon collaborated with the kindergarten, organizing community-based art activities.
“无墙幼儿园” 是创立于2018年的社区儿童教育实践项目 ，主要面向海口滨濂新村的流动儿童和困境儿童提供陪伴、教育和艺术活动等服务。孩子们在 “无墙幼儿园” 自由活动，成人观察、陪伴、了解孩子。“无墙幼儿园” 在和孩子们的互动与交流中，发起教育、游戏和艺术活动。许多本地和外地的朋友们参与到 “无墙幼儿园” 的共同陪伴和建设中。
Activities, selected:
Ratopia 鼠托邦暑托班
2025
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Mainstream narratives often approach the city from a linear, centralized perspective. Yet for children growing up in the hidden corners of urban villages, life and community unfold in multi-dimensional, wild, and ever-growing ways—a holographic mix of emotions, movements, and relationships, where every crack can become a secret base.
In Ratopia, we explored folktales and myths about mice across cultures, while listening to children share their own memories and stories about mice in everyday life. Then, children transform into “little mice,” drawing on their memories and imaginations of life in the urban village to build mouse-holes using sustainable materials.
These individual mouse-holes are then connected into a complete mouse world: a multi-dimensional community map shaped by children’s perspectives. Through sewer endoscopes, projections, and oral storytelling, we collectively created a live, magic world of rats nurtured within the city’s cracks and margins.
Shū, Shú, Shǔ, Shù 零食/临时语文课
2025
As an extension workshop of Ratopia Summer Camp (shu tuo bang shu tuo ban), we approach the sound “shu” from two directions: language and food. Here, the tongue becomes a mixer for both words and snacks. The “shu” sound vibrates, mutates, and ferments in the mouth — through rhyming, free association, word invention, and sound imitation, a stream-of-consciousness shu/rat-language begins to form.
These transformations branch into three paths. Some children stretch words into stories; others learn to use AI to turn sounds into images (such as shǔ shǔ/potato mouse). At the same time, shifts in homophones correspond to real ingredients: dropped into hot oil, “shu” crackles and pops, transforming into edible sounds — chips (shu pian), fries (shu tiao), corn kernels (yu mi su), crispy chicken strips (xiang su ji). As they are eaten, “shu” is tasted and reshaped through the body.
*On the right
Poo Poo Painting with rr (age 10) rr的画屎工作坊
2025
Let’s draw poop! People’s poop, animals’ poop, alien’s poop. We can learn what different animals’ poop looks like, and which animals like to eat poop. You can even draw your own poop. Sometimes people’s poop and animals’ poop look the same, and sometimes every poop comes out in a different shapes. And I discovered that poop can also be frozen into an iceberg, which is really amazing.
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(So many people wanted to join the workshop that rr added an extra day!)
2024
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咕咚咕咚！魔法学院招生！巫婆课代表胖丁将和你一起开启内心的魔法世界，一起寻找自己的守护仙子🧚✨🍄🕸️💧它是生活在失落帝国的苔藓公主？是泡泡糖化成的史莱姆妖精？还是藏在耳朵里的绒毛海马？
通过肢体热身、视觉化冥想和“通灵游戏”等，孩子们将开发"超能力”通感，将潜意识中的情绪、记忆和感受视觉化与拟人化，在童话的语境中感知自我和ta人。最后，我们会把灵感收纳整理，编织成一场集体创作——“仙子聚会"即兴剧场，用创造性和具身化的方式去看见情绪，建立共情。我们一起连接自我和ta人内心中发光的守护仙子，用身体去体验不同情绪的表达、接纳和释放吧！
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Boom Boom Magic: Finding your inner fairy guide!
Boom Boom Magic Academy is now open for admission! Witch Jia will guide you on a journey to unlock your inner magic and discover your fairy guide. Perhaps it's the moss princess from a lost kingdom, a bubble-gum-turning-into-slime monster, or the furry sea horse hiding in your ears!
But before we begin, we’ll need to go through some "enrollment" practices: warm-ups, visualization meditation, and "psychic games." Children will experiment with their imagination and "clairvoyant" senses, visualizing emotions, memories, and feelings, and interpreting them through a fairy tale lens.
To finish, we'll gather these visions and weave them into an improv performance—the "Fairies' Gathering"—where we interact with the inner fairies of others. Through body language, we will express, accept, and release emotions.
In this workshop, children will explore mindful, creative ways to understand emotions while building empathy for the feelings of others.
蔬菜乐器大乱炖!
你有没有在大口吃饭的某一瞬间，怀疑桌上的一盘盘菜是怎样而来的？蔬菜们是否拥有自己的声音？大葱青椒们会尖叫？！南瓜声音低沉迷人？？豆子们活泼爱翻滚?。。。也许不同的组合又有不一样的惊喜？让我们一起探索蔬菜们的性格和声音，然后试试制作蔬菜乐器吧‧₊˚✧ 一边料理( *´ސު｀*) 一边演奏。:.ﾟஐ⋆*♡·:*ೄ‧͙·*♪最后我们会把它们全都变成美味的蔬菜咖喱 一起吃掉！！！！⏝꒷۰꒷⏝꒷۰꒷⏝꒷۰꒷⏝꒷۰꒷⏝꒷۰꒷⏝꒷۰꒷⏝꒷۰꒷⏝꒷۰꒷⏝
Curry Chorus!
Have you ever wondered where a plate of food on the table comes from? Do vegetables have a voice of their own? Do shallots and green peppers scream? Do Pumpkins have low, charming voices? Are the beans naughty and love rolling around? Maybe different combinations can have different surprises. Let's explore the characters and voices of vegetables, and make vegetable instruments!
In the end, we'll turn them all into a delicious vegetable curry and eat together！！！！
Ratopiadex
透明的下午：隐形篇
2023
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From unseen labor of housewives to pinhole cameras, from hidden Buddha statues atop stupas to overly bright light sources that disappear into the walls, from omnipresent yet invisible censorship to countless other forms of erasure—invisibility exists at the edge of perception and in what power structures choose to conceal.
In this group gathering, participants shared personal stories related to invisibility, then played “I Can’t See Me”, a word-guessing game in which terms symbolizing different invisible states were placed on each other’s foreheads and guessed based on others’ descriptions. The game gradually unfolded into improvisational performance and collective creation, sparking reflection on social issues and the complex relationship between visibility and power.
The entire process was recorded by a hidden camera, adding an additional layer to our exploration of what is seen, unseen, and deliberately obscured.
从被忽视的家庭主妇劳动、针孔摄像头、佛塔最高处无形的佛像、历史中的空缺，到过亮而隐于墙面的光源，以及无处不在却无处可见的审查——“隐形”既是感知中的不可见，也是权力结构中被划定的能见性界限。
在这期工作坊中，我们邀请大家分享与“隐形”有关的故事，并通过“我看不见我”的猜词游戏，将象征不同隐形状态的词贴在额头，由他人描述猜出，并逐步过渡为即兴表演与集体创作，展开对社会议题、权力与可见性之间关系的思考。
全程也由隐形摄像头记录。
left-"The opening of a sellotape"
Right-"Tampons on Chinese train"-refers to a recent viral Internet discussion that said it is inappropriate to sell tampons on train.
Right-"Tampons on Chinese train"-refers to a recent viral Internet discussion that said it is inappropriate to sell tampons on train.
Notes and drafts of the workshop
"hidden pinhole camera"-refers to a recent case of a criminal group who sells creep-shots of women captured by hidden camera in hotels, bathrooms. subways....
Term stickers
透明的下午：相亲角
2023
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In this collective action, we gathered a group to visit the matchmaking park together. As Chinese individuals, by the time we reach our 20s or 30s, many of us face pressure from our families to marry, revealing how often marriage operates as a deeply gendered and socially regulated institution. Participants brought with them their parents' expectations, LGBTQ+ information, divorced parent bio, and AI-generated content... (on the right) to engage with people at the matchmaking park in Shanghai. These interactions naturally sparked discussions on critical issues such as gender inequality, heteronormativity and LGBTQ+ rights within the context of marriage structures.
很多人都有被催婚的烦恼，而关于婚姻的负面新闻又层出不穷。这期工作坊，我们招募大家一起填写相亲信息：有按父母对子女配偶标准而填写，有LGBTQ群体寻形婚，有为离异父母找寻伴侣，也有来自AI生成的相亲信息等等（右图）。大家或带着好奇，或带着真诚，在一个透明的下午相聚人民公园的相亲角，并在与路人的互动中，自然引发了关于婚姻结构中的性别议题等相关讨论。
视频拍摄&剪辑：真一
Video documentation by ZhenYi Hua
透明的下午：一起来做针孔摄像头探测仪！
2023
When you take public transportation, stay in a hotel, or use a public restroom, there are hidden "eyes" watching you from the shadows, subtly invading your sense of security in spaces where you should feel at ease. Does privacy still exist?
Transparent Afternoon, in collaboration with XCJ Making-Lab, will host workshops focused on technical countermeasures against the rising issue of pinhole camera voyeurism. Through this, we aim to address and provide practical solutions to this very real and invasive problem, while deepening our understanding of the socio-political implications of privacy and security in everyday spaces.
藏匿于暗中的“眼睛”，凝视着你，在本应自在的空间，隐隐不安。乘坐公共交通时，不经意被偷怕裙底。外出住酒店或上公共厕所，在无形之中被偷窥，被记录。甚至回到家或泡着温泉，也无法真正地放松。在哪个角落哪个小孔里的背后，是一双双眼睛和恶意？空间的私密性还存在吗？在不断滚动的活动实践中，探讨社会议题递进对事件不同面的理解和传播，对于实际日常存在的“困境”，则需要实际日常的解决方式。这一次透明的下午联合新车间，就针孔摄像头偷拍恶性事件，进行一次技术反制工作坊。
爱里斯恨魔法学院，与山寨MFA合作
2025
Community-based project & alternative art education, collaborated with Shanzhai (Counterfeit) MFA
Love Me Hate Me Magic Academy is not a school—it is a two-week summoning, conjured by Miaozi from Shanzhai (Counterfeit) MFA and Jia from Transparent Afternoon, acting as co-principals.
The institution is divided into two departments--Pure Love and Pure Hate, not to reconcile them, but to let both forces fully manifest. Neither is purified. Neither is resolved.
Over the course of two dense weeks, the Academy repeatedly opens and collapses. Collective performance, art workshops, occult studies, folk and forbidden rituals, zhiguai (tales of the strange), games, social interventions, magic clubbing at night, witchy picnics by day, and ceremonial openings and graduations form the Academy’s cyclical structure. Within the Academy, the roles of student and professor are reversible.
Participants are invited to confront emotions that are suppressed, misdirected, or domesticated by social systems: desire and resentment in intimate relationships, expectation and punishment within family and social structures, the disciplined circulation of love and hate across gendered and social orders, accumulated forms of aversion toward authority, procedural obedience, and the moralization of order itself....These emotions are not healed. They are extracted, translated, and sublimed...
Here, love and hate become transmissible energies—activated through creativity and unnamed forms of magic.
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“Course” samples:
Crybaby Club & Tear Brew
“Professor”: Jia Dingdongduang the second
Come over here and cry wildly with us.
This is not just an emotional release. Here, vulnerability is summoning magic, and tears are weapons of alchemy.
You may cry until your fists hit the ground, or practice the advanced discipline of tears reaching the corners of the eyes without falling. Together, we will explore different tear triggers and crying techniques, and collect rare tear specimens: Pure Love Tears, Pure Hate Tears, Forbidden Tears, Boiling Tears, Quantum-Entangled Tears…
These crystallized tears will then be DIY-ed into magical custom brews, to cleanse our bodies, minds, and spirits.
Group Past Life Regression
“Professor”: Jia Dingdongduang the second
A light-weight collective past-life hypnosis.
In a relaxed, dreamlike state, you will explore your subconscious, glimpse your past lives, and seek answers to life’s uncertainties.
Magic, Art, and Social Justice
“Professor”: Jia Dingdongduang the second
Throughout history, persecuted and marginalized occult communities have often embodied intersecting experiences of multiple forms of minoritization. Witches, shamans, ethnic minorities, queers—they have repeatedly been rendered heretical. The cultural practices and folk belief systems they carry have been positioned as the opposite of Western scientific rationality, labeled as “dirty,” “primitive,” “superstitious,” or “sexually deviant,” and systematically excluded and suppressed.
“We have learned what is logical, rational, objective, tactical, strategic, and so on. We have also learned what is subjective, illogical, emotional, intuitive, sensitive, and so on—and these are considered ‘feminine,’ and therefore ‘negative’...”
This angry observation was made in 1981 by Swiss artist Doris Stauffer, who founded the famous “Witches’ Classes,” and it resonates closely with contemporary sociologist Patricia Hill Collins’ critique of white male–centered traditions of rational academic knowledge.
In this theory session, we will see how, across histories of oppression and resistance, the love and hate of marginalized communities have also generated magic.
Together, through art and social movements, we let it crackle, clash, and explode—bang！
Magic Blade Lab
“Professor”: Vis the whetstone
Bring your cleaver. Consecrate your weapon.
Grind what cannot be swallowed—unchewable rage, choking powerlessness, everyday pressure—until it sharpens into a blade.
We cannot pierce power directly, but we can sharpen hatred together: to cut through tangled karma, institutional ropes, and the manipulation of language.
You will grind it by hand (the workshop provides different magic stones), write your spell, carve your sigils, and breathe intention into the enchanted blade.
Note: Remember—knives do not pass metro security checks!!
Psychic Game and the Oppresion of Love
“Professor”: Jia Dingdongduang the second
When I look at you, you become an atmospheric spirit, a swaying pavilion, a boat made of mist…
Are these images my projections, or echoes of your past?
If we loosen the grip of linear logic and judgment, synesthetic perception becomes a capacity we all possess. It is not merely synesthesia or imagination—it is a key that opens other dimensions, allowing us to read the messages transmitted by spirit.
In this workshop, we will combine spirit-channeling practices with Theatre of the Oppressed, letting the body become the medium of ritual. Crossing identity, flesh, and distance, we enter a state of presence to sense the existence of others. Ritual can shift into theater at any moment, allowing hidden emotions and desires within relationships to take form—possessing bodies as concrete characters and weaving themselves into a collective performance.
If you are willing to explore, within a safe space, those blurry, unfinished relational cycles—the ones you wish to release yet still find yourself entangled in—you are warmly invited to join us in opening new dimensions through magic and theater.
Graduation Ceromony (to be updated)
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