Public article · Chinese
1 From making a case to eight-plus-eight
It turns dissatisfaction into specific numbers, durations and positions that can be compared.
Speaking time, the reply calculating sixteen five-minute statements, the eight-plus-eight proposal and the fiction notice
Read: Forum-style article: speaking time and the eight-plus-eight proposal ↗
Documented details
The forum-style article moves from individual speaking time to a proposal for eight candidates, eight deliberators and possible movement between positions. Replies calculate that sixteen five-minute statements would take eighty minutes and question whether long speeches would turn the encounter into a presentation session.
Public article · Chinese
2 What does the response promise?
It helps distinguish an institutional response and a promise to investigate from an explicit decision to adopt a proposal.
The promise to investigate and adjust, the scope of discussion and the artwork notice
Read: The planning group’s response ↗
Documented details
The fictional planning group promises to investigate problems and adjust the parameters of the Kuijian Council, while opposing an advance restriction of discussion to a particular theoretical form. It does not explicitly adopt eight-plus-eight seats, five-minute statements or voting rights for those leaving the candidate group.
Public PDF · Chinese
3 How rules become a page
It gives procedure a visible form through provisions, rounds, spaces for reasons and pages about circulation.
Page 7: rule design; page 8: ballot collage; page 9: circulation; page 10: deliberation and voting methods
Read: Purple Action: the 24-page project introduction
Documented details
Page 7 of the public 24-page PDF describes rule design and institutions opened to participants. The ballot collage on page 8 shows rounds and spaces for reasons. Pages 9–10 describe circulation, feedback, deliberation and voting models. Read these pages for how procedures are written, recorded and passed on.
Look closely
- How is the amount of speaking time connected to the position from which someone decides?
- Which concerns does the response take up, and which position does it retain?
- What judgments become recordable when a decision is written on a ballot with a round and a space for reasons?
The forum, organizations and role signatures are fictional settings within the artwork. They do not identify real-person disputes or actual harm. Adoption of the proposal is not established, and the ballot collage is not a complete record of any one vote.
When a rule allows speech, does it also shape how speech can be heard?
Project materials and attributed sources (Chinese)
Purple Action and the Duel Club (Chinese)
Project introductions for Shen Bolun, He Fa and Shao Yifan (Chinese)
Member introductions and collective attribution, not roles for individual events