如下文章摘自《51人》，含“51人”完整日程和内容。

本书将在上海双年展开幕（11月11日）发布。

51人

51 Personae

在过去的二十年间，围绕城市生活以及如何理解其意义的对话一直是我们工作生活的一部分。2015年12月，当我们和来自孟买的老朋友、城市研究者普拉萨德·舍缇（Prasad Shetty）、鲁帕莉·古普特（Rupali  Gupte）在上海街头漫步时，我们又一次谈起在特大城市中邂逅的复杂性。城市中的诸旅途混杂、停顿却又不止。在城市中的裂缝、路口，以及街区不断地变换、变宽，又消失，再以各种规模和不同的节奏出现和固定下来。在这些问题的引领下，我们回到了我们位于沙赫普尔贾特（Shahpurjat）的工作室，它是德里诸多城中村中的一个。在那里我们得出了一个将促成与上海的多样性——和特殊性——邂逅的方案： “51人”。

Conversations around urban life, and how to make sense of it, have been part of our working life for the last two decades. In December 2015, while walking the streets of Shanghai with our long-time urbanist friends from Mumbai, Prasad Shetty and Rupali Gupte, we spoke yet again about the complexity of encounters in mega-cities. Voyages mingle, settling yet restless. Intersections and capillaries in cities shift, thicken, and vanish on varying scales and at differing rhythms. Led on by our questions, back in our studio in one of Delhi's urban villages, Shahpurjat, we arrived at a proposal for an encounter with the multiplicities—and specificities—that make Shanghai: 51 Personae.

我们邀请了陈韵和我们一起来思考这一可能性。陈韵去过德里，也熟悉我们关于城市流动和生命形式的工作。她决定采纳该想法作为一项实验，并将其提供给了她在前段时间成立的定海桥互助社的同仁们。

We invited Chen Yun to think with us on this possibility. Chen Yun has been to Delhi, and is familiar with our work with urban flows and forms of life. She decided to take on board the idea as an experiment, and extended the proposition to her colleagues in Dinghaigiao Mutual Aid Society, which she had founded some time back. 

在接下来的几个月中，通过公开招募，深入城市和一些冒险的想法，一种关于某些完全未获承认的生活区域的对话开始浮现。在这个看上去像是从孟买传至德里，再传到上海的召集中，一群普通而非凡的人开始充满了互助社的屋子。上海表达出了它的无限偶然。

Over the next months, through an open public call, movements into the city, and some adventurous ideas, a conversation on entirely unrecognised life zones emerged. In—seemingly—Delhi calling Mumbai calling Shanghai, a cast of ordinary and exceptional characters from various parts of the city began to fill the room. Shanghai expressed its cosmic happenstance. 

“51人”项目的主角们就像一出莎士比亚剧或中国戏曲中的角色那么多样。他们召集起了城市编年史记录者、街头黑客、民间传说传播者、音乐家、糖果爱好者、杂技演员、资讯迷、公寓说书人、车库剧目经理、街头悖论的承办商、街角梦想的经销商、十字路口的史学家和哲人、大忙人、满口上海话的刀子嘴，以及一片湿地、一处水库、一座摩天轮，和其他纷繁芜杂的人类想象。

The protagonists of 51 Personae are as varied and diverse as the cast of characters in a Shakespearean tale or a Chinese opera. They call in urban chroniclers, street hackers, channellers of neighborhood lore, musicians, candy enthusiasts, acrobats, information aficionados, apartment story-tellers, garage impresarios, purveyors of pavement paradoxes, merchants of street corner dreams, traffic intersection historians and philosophers, busy-bodies, Shanghainese sharp tongues, and also a wetland, a reservoir, a ferris wheel, and a host of other dialects of the human imagination.

“51人”，如同一座城市街道上的人类生活之重，转瞬即逝却经久不衰。

51 Personae, like the weight of human life on the streets of a city, is ephemeral and enduring. 

Raqs媒体小组

主策展人

第十一届上海双年展

201651人 记事簿

51 Personae Notebook

Raqs Media Collective

Chief Curator, 

11^th Shanghai Biennale, 

2016

我们在“51人”中，通过意外的途径发现城市。人们在此一起想象、做工、呼吸、做梦，于无法预测的轨迹中拥抱生命的不同形式。这本记事簿邀请你来遭遇这次上海的展开，遭遇人们居住此城的缤纷样式。

In 51 Personae we discover a city through the unexpected ways in which people imagine and work collectively, breathe and dream together, and embrace forms of life that script themselves along unexpected trajectories. This notebook is an invitation to encounter such an unfolding of Shanghai, and the multitudinous ways in which it is inhabited.

“51人”是2016年11月12日到2017年3月12日期间在上海不同地方发生的一系列聚会。我们会通过上海当代艺术博物馆、定海桥互助社微信和51人网站提前发布活动信息。其中部分活动因场地所限需预约，通过“活动行”平台，或者电邮报名。本记事簿中的时间地点信息也可能因天气、场地或其他因素影响而变更。最准确的信息请留意我们文末的网络平台。

51 Personae pans out as a series of gatherings that will take place in different parts of Shanghai between 12 November 2016 and 12 March 2017. Register through either of the WeChat accounts or by be sending an e-mail to the address mentioned below. Also, while place and time for meetings are indicated in this notebook, things are somewhat subject to the influence of weather, accessibility to certain sites, and various other circumstances. Most updated information will also be available via these WeChat accounts.

陈韵

与定海桥互助社共同策划“51人”

第十一届上海双年展

2016

Chen Yun, Curator 51 Personae

With Dinghaiqiao Mutual Aid Society

11th Shanghai Biennale,

2016

“51人”由Raqs媒体小组总策划，策展组成员陈韵带领定海桥互助社“51人工作组”共同执行。项目探索生活的可能性，为双年展赋予日常生活的诗意。在上海双年展的17周时间里，每周将有3个关于上海“人物”的活动在城市里以流动或固定的形式发生。敬请关注本微信账户，了解最新活动信息。