Akaa Ling Turns Two 阿卡凌两岁了A Birthday Pop-up & BAD BAD BAD Zine Archive & Sharing
Birthday Pop-up / Artist Archive / Community Bad Zine Archive / Zine Making / Sharing
生日快闪展 / 艺术家档案 / 社区 Bad Zine 档案 / Zine 制作 / 分享
Bad student. Bad daughter. Bad English. Bad Chinese. Bad accent. Bad handwriting.
Bad artist. Bad zine.
Who told you it was bad?
BAD BAD BAD is a participatory pop-up, zine archive, artist sharing, and birthday gathering about everything we have learned to call “bad.”
BAD BAD BAD / 孬 孬 孬 是一场参与式快闪展、Zine 档案馆、艺术家分享，也是一场生日聚会。我们想把那些从小到大被教会称作「不好」的东西，重新拿出来看看。
Growing up Asian, many of us become familiar with evaluation very early.
在亚洲文化中长大，我们很早就开始熟悉「被评价」这件事。
Write it again.
Your handwriting is bad.
Your Chinese is bad.
Your English has an accent.
You could have gotten a better grade.
Don't embarrass yourself.
Don't show people until you're good at it.
Be useful.
Be serious.
Be good.
Over time, “good” becomes a way of organizing ourselves. We learn what deserves to be shown. We learn what deserves to be hidden. We learn to edit ourselves before anyone else gets the chance.
慢慢地，「好」不再只是一个形容词，而变成了一套整理自己的方式。我们学会什么值得被拿出来，什么应该藏起来不给人看。甚至在别人有机会评价我们之前，就先把自己评价一番。
BAD BAD BAD asks what happens when we stop.
孬孬孬 想问：如果我们不这么做了呢？
WHAT IS “BAD”?
什么是「不好」？
For this event, bad does not mean unsuccessful.
Bad does not mean worthless.
Bad does not even necessarily mean “bad.”
在这里，孬 并不等于失败。
也不等于没有价值。
甚至不一定真的意味着「不好」。
Bad is just something that failed an "expectation".
Who's exceptions? Do we care anymore?
We are not interested in proving that these things were secretly “good” all along.
Maybe they weren't.
我们并不想证明这些东西「其实都是好的」。
也许它真的不好。
Something doesn't have to be secretly good to deserve to exist.
一个东西不需要偷偷证明自己其实很好，才有资格存在。
Instead of asking whether something is good enough to enter an archive, we ask:
What becomes possible when “bad” is the admission requirement?
如果「不好」才是进入档案馆的条件，会发生什么？
AKAA LING, AGE 0–2
The archive begins with my own work.
这个档案从我自己的作品开始。
In 2024, I left my career in tech and began working full-time as an artist under the name Akaa Ling / 阿卡凌.
So this year—Akaa Ling turns two.
For her second birthday, instead of presenting a “best of Akaa Ling,” I want to show the opposite.
COMMUNITY BAD ZINE ARCHIVE
社区 BAD ZINE 档案馆
Now I want to see yours.
我也邀请你来分享一份你的。
Bring something you made but never wanted to share because you thought it wasn't good enough.
带来一样你做过、却因为觉得「不够好」而一直没有拿给别人看的东西。
A drawing you never posted.
A poem sitting in your Notes app.
A diary entry.
A school assignment.
Bad Chinese handwriting.
Bad English writing.
An embarrassing photograph.
An unfinished zine.
A rejected manuscript.
A failed print.
Fanfiction.
Something too earnest.
Something too childish.
Something too personal.
Something you made before you knew the “right” way to make it.
Something you secretly still like.
Bring it to Now Place.
Put it on the table.
Put it on the wall.
No jury.
No selection.
No improvement required.
This is not a critique.
Nobody needs to tell you how to fix it.
Nobody needs to convince you that it's secretly good.
这里也不是 critique。
没有人需要告诉你应该怎么修改。
也没有人需要安慰你：
「没有啦，其实很好。」
For one afternoon, being bad is enough.
但这一个下午，「孬」就已经足够了。
MAKE A BAD ZINE
做一本不好的 ZINE
Throughout the event, we also going to have a communal Bad Zine Station with all the wrongly printed pages, scratch paper. (bring yours!!)
We'll bring out the things that normally don't make it into finished books:
选错的颜色。套歪的印刷。被淘汰的页面。测试稿。纸边角料。不要了的画。做书剩下来的废纸。
Take them.
Cut them up.
Write on them.
Fold them wrong.
Staple them crooked.
做一个东西，不要先考虑别人会不会买、会不会看懂、会不会觉得它是艺术。
THE RULES / 规则
Bad grammar is allowed.
Bad drawings are encouraged.
Bad folding is fine.
Bad ideas are welcome.
Don't restart.
Don't fix everything.
Don't make it professional.
Don't make it marketable.
Make it bad.
Then publish it anyway.
TWO YEARS OF BEING BAD AT ART
做了两年「不好的艺术」
Artist Sharing / 艺术家分享
Starting with my first zine, I'll share some of the mistakes, abandoned directions, embarrassing decisions, accidents, and unfinished ideas that shaped my first two years as Akaa Ling.
我会从自己的第一本 Zine 开始，翻开阿卡凌前两年的创作档案。那些做错的东西。走到一半放弃的方向。现在回头看有点尴尬的决定。失败。没完成的想法。
以及它们怎样和那些最终被留下来的作品一起，构成了现在的创作。
「你看，为了让今天的创作存在，原来曾经有这么多东西存在过。」
Afterwards, anyone who wants to can share something they brought to the BAD ZINE Archive.
之后，也欢迎任何愿意的人分享自己带来的「不好」的作品。
So this birthday is about celebrating two years of continuing to make things.
所以这个生日，并不是庆祝「阿卡凌终于越来越会做艺术了」。
而是庆祝：
她已经继续做了两年。
Good things.
Bad things.
Things that became books.
Things that went nowhere.
Things I understand now.
Things I still don't understand.
And somehow, after all of them—
Akaa Ling made it to two.
阿卡凌居然活到了两岁。
EVENT FLOW
活动流程
4:00 PM — Doors Open Akaa Ling, Age 0–2
开门 阿卡凌 0–2 岁创作档案
Explore two years of Akaa Ling's creative archive, beginning with her first zine.
从阿卡凌制作的第一本 Zine 开始，翻阅两年的创作、失败、实验与未完成作品。
The Community BAD ZINE Archive opens. Bring your bad work and add it to the temporary archive.
社区 BAD ZINE 档案同时开放。带来你的「不好」作品，把它暂时留在这里。
4:00 – 5:00 PM — Open Archive + Make a Bad Zine
开放档案 + 做一本不好的 Zine
Browse, read, drink, talk, and make deliberately bad zines using RISO misprints, scraps, rejected pages, and discarded materials.
翻书、看档案、喝东西、聊天，也可以使用 RISO 废稿、边角料和淘汰页面，做一本故意「不好」的 Zine。
5:00–5:45 PM — Two Years of Being Bad at Art
做了两年「不好的艺术」
A short artist sharing by Akaa Ling through the works, mistakes, accidents, and abandoned ideas of Age 0–2.
阿卡凌从第一本 Zine 开始，分享 0–2 岁之间的作品、错误、意外与被放弃的想法。
5:45–6:30 PM — BAD Show & Tell
「不好」作品分享
Optional community sharing.
自愿参加。
Bring up something you almost didn't want anyone to see.
拿出一样你本来不太想给别人看的东西。
No critique. No unsolicited feedback.
WHAT TO BRING
带什么？
Bring one thing you made that you don't think is good enough to show.
带一样你做过，却觉得「不够好，不太想给别人看」的东西。
Physical or digital.
Finished or unfinished.
Old or new.
Anonymous or signed.
Art or not art.
实体或手机里的都可以。
完成或没完成都可以。
新的、旧的都可以。
署名、匿名都可以。
是不是「艺术」也无所谓。
And if you don't have anything，Come make something bad with us.
如果你什么都没有，那就来和我们一起做点不好的东西。