城市抹布神
The Urban Rag God
作者：徐艺函，出版：51 人，出版日期：2026
Writers: Xu Yihan, Publisher: 51 Personae, Publish Date:2026
这是基于2025年在外滩建筑节开展的“请回答2025：城市照护者”抹布神项目编写的小志，也是一份抹布神项目的档案。
它收录了参与城市照护者抹布神项目的15位保洁员的故事，保洁员和参与者的共创作品和手稿，过程中的影像记录以及项目发起人的田野记录和自述。
This is a zine compiled based on the "Reply 2025: Urban Caregivers" Rag God project that was carried out during the second RAMa in Shanghai, also an archive of this Rag God project.
It includes the stories of 15 cleaning ladies who participated in the project, as well as the co-create works and manuscripts created by the cleaning
ladies and the participants, the imgines records during the process, and the field joural and self-descriptions of the project initiator.
母亲的选择 第三辑
Mothers’ Choice 3
2025 年12月开始，每周五下午一点到三点，一直到2026年5 月10日母亲节，在我工作生活的南京市桦墅村，“母亲的选择”第三辑共写工作坊共进行了20期。这本书集结了五个月以来工作坊的成果。期间，住在附近半工半职的母亲（因平时照顾孩子，只在假期做兼职）张友美、井丽丽、村里的薛凤玲，和患有抑郁症的朱璟茗几乎一次不落的参与了全程。还有许多未参与全程的朋友：村口烧饼摊老板、高校食堂烧饭员、高校副教授、乡村教师、戏剧专业的学生、冰淇淋店员、艺术青年、美术老师、心理医生、自由编辑、舞台专业博士，有的人写了一些短文本，有的人只是来看看，有位女性不识字，但留下了图画。
本次共写主题“身体工厂”，是工作坊第 9 期，从每个人提案的33个关键词中，公开投票出的选题，由村里新搬来的美育老师耿雪提出。整本书以人身体的部位名称，分为十一个章节，从参与者的真实经历中，描写了人们身体的共同经验——出生、疾病、衰老、死亡。书里描写了各种各样的身体，由于过度工作而“报废”的身体、过度娇惯的身体、什么都没干但想“报废”的身体、麻木的身体、劳动的身体、时时刻刻照料别人身体的身体。
在当代，我们越来越多的听到，精神疾病在年轻人中的高发，仿佛想把自己的身体，从世界上抹去。每个人的身体都出自一位母亲的身体，但“母亲”不仅是由生育带来的身份、角色。不同于那种靠钱、权力、名声、人脉得到的力量，“母亲”也是一种在社会结构中，由一次次微小行动和取舍、慢慢积累形成的独特生命能量，从每个人的身体上，我们也许可以捕捉到，这种能量的形态，于是，我们书写身体，以便于找回完整的自己。
Starting from December 2025, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. every Friday, until Mother's Day on May 10, 2026, in Huashu Village, Nanjing where I live and work, the "Mother's Choice" third collection writing workshop held a total of 20 sessions. This book brings together the achievements of the workshop over the past five months. During this period, mothers living nearby who were working part-time and doing part-time jobs during holidays (because they usually took care of their children and only do part-time job during holidays) such as Zhang Youmei, Jing Lili, Xue Fengling from the village, and Zhu Jingming who suffered from depression almost participated in the entire process without missing a single session. There were also many friends who did not participate in the entire process: the owner of the pancake stand at the village entrance, the cook in the university cafeteria, the university professor, the rural teacher, the student majoring in drama, the ice cream shop employee, the art youth, the art teacher, the psychologist, the freelance editor, and the doctoral student in stage performance. Some wrote some short texts, while others just came to have a look. There was also a woman who was illiterate but left some pictures.
The theme of the exhibition is "The Body Factory", which is the 9th session of the workshop. It was selected through an open vote from the 33 keywords proposed by each participant. It was proposed by Geng Xue, the new art education teacher who moved to the village. The entire book is divided into eleven chapters based on the names of human body parts. It describes the common experiences of people's bodies - birth, illness, aging, and death, based on the real experiences of the participants. The book depicts various bodies, including those that have "broken down" due to overwork, overly indulged, want to "break down" but haven't done anything, numb bodies, working bodies, and bodies that constantly take care of others' bodies.
In contemporary times, we increasingly hear about the high incidence of mental illnesses among young people, as if they were trying to erase their bodies from the world. Every person's body originates from that of a mother, but "motherhood" is not merely an identity or role brought about by reproduction. Unlike the power derived from money, power, fame, or connections, "motherhood" is also a unique life energy formed in the social structure through a series of small actions and choices, accumulated over time. From each person's body, we may be able to capture the form of this energy. Therefore, we write about the body in order to recover our complete selves.
母亲的选择 第二辑
Mothers’ Choice 2
「母亲的选择」书写项目立足于自己工作、生活的村庄，村庄位于城市的近郊，可以能接触到不同阶层的女性，有周边的外来工人、大学城附近的中产阶级、独立租房谋生的年轻女性，还有村庄里的居民——通常靠种地和当家政工为生。发起人致力于邀请了居住在附近的女性们加入，打通不同文化资源和圈层壁垒。促成不同主体的对话。
希望通过长期的共读和写作，建立母亲之间的联结，并共同回溯自身的日常经验，通过文字，辨认和显示出其中的能量，至于它们能否激发更多人的想象力，只有依靠每一个你，从我们的表达中，自己去体会和思考。本书是对《母亲的选择》写作项目的阶段性收录整理，由写作成果和衍生展览两部分组成，可以看到不同阶层女性对她们日常生活展开叙述和写作。
This writing project Mothers’ Choice 2 organized in a village of Nanjing, located at the edge of a big city, which can easily access to a diverse range and classes of women, from migrant workers who live nearby, to middle-class people who live near university towns, to young women who rent their homes, and to village residents who often make a living from farming and cleaning work.
The initiator invited participants with different backgrounds joining us to read, write, talk and labour, and has been trying to re-read and see ourselves together. It hopes to establish the connection between mothers through long-term joint reading and writing, and to recall their daily experiences together, identify and show their energy through words. As for whether they can stimulate the imagination of more people, only rely on each of you, from our expression, to experience and think. This book is a phased compilation of the writing project "Mother's Choice”, which consists of two parts: writing and exhibition. You can see women from different walks of life narrating and writing about their daily lives.
徐艺函诗集《我从未和世界产生如此深厚的关联》
I've never had such a deep connection to the world,
Xu Yihan Poem Collection
2020-2024
在我初期写作时，正值新冠疫情时期，社会生活震荡，而我也在此时结束了7年的婚姻，离婚后以个体姿态踏入的世界是一个充满不确定性的世界。对于婚姻、生育、丧母、生存中女性生命经验的困惑，我试图通过写作，从最日常的生活细节中找到真相，并持续至今。
When I first wrote the book, it was a time when society was in a mess due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I entered to the world is full of uncertainties as an individual after ending my 7-year marriage. For the confusion of women's life experience in marriage, childbirth, the loss of mother and living, I try to find the truth from the most daily details of life through writing, and continues to this day.
纪录片《父女对话》
Documentary "Dialogue Between Father and Daughter"
彩色 / 中文 / 117'21"/2020
Color / Chinese / 117'21" / 2020
这个片子主角是我和我父亲，一次父女之间的对话私录像。因父亲在我处于婚姻变故时均保持沉默这件事，几年来一直是我的一桩心结，我很想知道他的感受和想法，故而开启这次对话。
对话发生于2019年初冬，母亲去世后，我和父亲长年无交流的紧张关系不再有缓冲地带，我希望借此拓展女儿和父亲的对话空间，也由此拖拽出父女各自在父权制环境下的性别与身份的困境。
我爸并非传统意义上强有力的父亲，婚姻多年在我妈的强势之下，日渐沉默寡言，面露难色，年轻时爱好的诗文、书法、画画长年搁浅，对话中一再认为自己是个失败者。家庭结构中各成员的压抑和痛苦，在家庭内部无法被消解，仿佛拨开之后，谁都是其中的受害者，我只好将之记录下来，作为谜题，呈现给有可能负责的遥远公正者。
The main characters of this film is me and my father. It's a private video recording of a conversation between us. Due to my father remained silent throughout my period of marital turmoil, this has been a source of my inner conflict for several years. I really want to know his feelings and thoughts, so I initiated this conversation.
The conversation took place in the early winter of 2019. After my mother passed away, the tense relationship between my father and me, which had lacked any buffer zone for years, no longer had any leeway. I hoped to expand the dialogue space between us, thereby dragging out the gender and identity dilemmas of us in the patriarchal environment.
My father was not a traditional strong father. Under my mother's dominance, he gradually became more silent and reserved, showing signs of distress. His hobbies of poetry, calligraphy, and painting, which he had enjoyed in his youth, were long abandoned. In conversations, he repeatedly regarded himself as a failure. The repression and pain felt by each member of the family could not be resolved within the family itself. It seemed that once it was uncovered, everyone was a victim. I had to record this, presenting it as a puzzle to a distant and impartial person who might be responsible.