COMPOST (《堆肥》) is a publishing platform and annual residency of the ICA at NYU Shanghai.  Each year, together with the ICA's biennial artistic research programs, COMPOST invites an editor-in-residence to inhabit the platform as a "living publication."  The editor invites contributions of texts, images, sound, and video, and cultivates their engagement by other artists, thinkers, and practitioners. 


COMPOST is a space for progressive and collaborative creation, discussion, and sharing.  It provides a continuous vertical space, allowing multimedia contributions to stack upon each other. COMPOST also spreads horizontally, as the editor composes new stacks alongside each other. All stacks are layered with media-rich marginalia.  Out of these stacks and spreads, readers may compose their own.  COMPOST can be bilingual (English and Chinese), but it does not know about languages – it is language agnostic.  COMPOST lives through a process of stacking and spreading over the seasons, as editors, contributors, and readers "fatten the heap" or 堆肥 (duīféi). Duifei means compost.   


COMPOST (《堆肥》) was developed in collaboration with The Exercises (Lu Liang) and Amir Houieh, along with inaugural editor-in-residence Zian Chen (2021-22).



《堆肥》(COMPOST)是上纽ICA的出版平台暨年度驻留空间。伴随着上纽ICA两年期的艺术研究方向,《堆肥》每年邀请一位驻留编辑进驻这个“活的刊物”。驻留编辑的邀稿范围包括文本、图像、声音和影像,并进一步邀请其他艺术家、思想家等文化工作者参与到在平台上的讨论。


《堆肥》为合作式的创作、讨论及分享提供空间。网站以连续的垂直空间让各种媒体内容形成堆栈。《堆肥》也朝着平面方向传播,让编辑可以将不同堆栈并置在一起。在这些堆栈的页眉、页脚有丰富的多媒体注记。而从这些堆肥的信息中,读者也能够堆出自己的内容。《堆肥》的语言可以是中英双语,它也抱持程序员常说到的态度——语言不可知。《堆肥》的堆栈和分页,随着编辑、作者和读者的翻土,堆肥,在一年的不同时节中渐次展开。Compost即堆肥。


《堆肥》(COMPOST)是与The Exercises(梁璐)、Amir Houieh 及首位(2021-22年)驻留编辑陈玺安联合开发。