Opening Date: October 14, 2015 

Venue: Room 207, Museum of the Institute of History and Philology

　　Beyond Writing is the wrap-up exhibition of Come to Write, which was a follow-up to The Way to Literacy event that invited visitors to imitate Han-Dynasty (206 B.C.-220 A.D.) people writing on wooden slips and to experience the difference between writing on slips and paper. Beyond Writing gathers and organizes the slip notes made by participants to the writing event and now presents to you this contemporary wooden slip exhibition. 

This exhibition is based on museum viewers’ participation which began as a writing experiment. After writing, participants could take slips home as a souvenir or leave them on the display desk to share their notes with other visitors. The writers probably did not expect their slip notes end up being in the showcase, and that was probably the reason why the words on these slips were rather free-styled and fascinating as they were not conformed to any rules. These writings simply recorded their impression and feeling about their museum journey, but at the same time, also told us something about how people tend to act when they are leaving words in public.

From experience to participation, visitors’ writings are reversed and transformed into display objects in this exhibition. Writing is now a mode of participation, with wooden slips now becoming the key medium in this participatory exhibition. The museum visitors have made writing Beyond Writing and vitalize this showroom. 

　　Come here and try to discover where your slip note is.