AUUUUDITORIUM JUNE | Lectures: The Early Emergence of Science Fiction

Setting the stage for the collective learning programs at the AUUUUDITORIUM of the Rockbund Art Museum, Ming Wong’s installation Scenography for a Shanghai Science Fiction Opera (2024) unveils an alternative speculative fiction that is retraceable in indigenous knowledge. In resonance with Wong's scenography, Project New Small Talk presents a series of lectures and workshops around early Chinese science fiction literature.
This lecture is an open discussion of early science fiction texts, covering "canons" from diverse cultures and "science fiction" elements in works not typically classified as such. Led by a contemporary Chinese science fiction writer, the audience will embark on adventurous journeys into the mental worlds of the following authors.
Lecturer: Tang Fei is a writer, critic, and member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. She is the author of Odysscyber (2021), The Nameless Feast (2019), The Person Who Saw Cetus (2018). She has received recognition from the Shanghai Literature Award, Chinese Readers' Choice Awards (Gravity Awards), the Smokelong Quarterly Award, Favourite Speculative Fiction in Translation, among others.
作为开展上海外滩美术馆项目“讲---堂”共同学习项目的舞台，艺术家黄汉明的装置作品《上海科幻戏曲的舞台布景设计》（2024）呈现了一种可以在本土知识体系中追溯的另类未来虚构。
本场讲座是对早期科幻文本的开放探讨，涉及不同国家的科幻“正典”，以及非传统意义上的科幻文本中浮现的某种“科幻”元素。以虚构进入虚构，中国当代科幻作家带领观众代入以下文本作者的精神世界，开展充满冒险精神的游历。
讲者：糖匪，作家，评论人，SFWA（美国科幻和奇幻作家协会）正式作家会员。出版作品有《奥德赛博》（2021）、《无名盛宴》（2019）、《看见鲸鱼座的人》（2018）。她的作品曾获《上海文学》奖、中国科幻读者选择奖（引力奖）、《烟长杂志》奖（SmokeLong Quarterly Award）、最受喜爱推想小说翻译作品（Favourite Speculative Fiction in Translation）等奖项认可。