This interview was conducted at Borges Libreria Institute for Contemporary Art, Guangzhou on 24 October 2007.

Biography:

Chen Tong (b. 1962, Hunan Province) is an artist and founder of Borges Libreria and Borges Libreria Institute for Contemporary Art in Guangzhou.

From 1979 to 1983, Chen studied Chinese painting at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. He became a teacher in its Department of Chinese Painting in 1986, where he still teaches today. In 1994, Chen founded the Borges Libreria bookstore, which has become one of the most important venues for contemporary art in Guangzhou, and in 2007, he established the Borges Libreria Institute for Contemporary Art.

Chen has been an important publisher of texts on cultural studies. In 1992, he published the Experimental Art book series, which introduced the art community to a range of titles on contemporary art, cinema, photography and theory. Following this in 1998, Chen and Lu Yi organized the publication series Midnight, which presented and translated books published by Paris Edition de Minuit, in particular, the French nouveau roman. His own publications include My Own World: Art and Life in France (2002), A Sketch: An Aesthetic Way to View Life (2003) and Manet’s Railway (2005).

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陳侗，1962年生於湖南，廣州博爾赫斯書店及廣州博爾赫斯書店當代藝術機構創辦人，藝術家。現居廣州。

陳侗於1979—1983年間就讀於廣州美術學院國畫系，自1986年始任教於該系至今。1992年策劃出版《實驗藝術叢書》，內容涉及當代藝術、電影、攝影、理論等；1994年創辦博爾赫斯書店，並以書店之名，積極推動當代藝術活動及展覽。1998年，與魯毅合作成立出版工作室，並策劃《午夜文叢》，譯介法國午夜出版社，特別是法國新小說的作品。2007年成立博爾赫斯書店當代藝術機構。

其著作包括《自己的世界：法國的生活與藝術》（長沙：湖南美術出版社，2002）、《速寫這件事：一種關於生活的美學態度》（臺北：三言社，2003）、《馬奈的鐵路》（長沙：湖南美術出版社，2005）