自组织（self-organization）作为一种高度灵活且实验性的艺术生产方式，自上世纪70年代末期起便与中国当代艺术紧密伴生。它不仅为新生代艺术家提供了探索创作路径、建构社群网络的重要平台，更成为突破体制性约束、重构艺术话语的关键策略。而当年轻的中国艺术家来到伦敦这一全球艺术中心，面对成熟且多元的文化生态，如何透过跨文化的自组织实践在既有的艺术版图中开辟新的岛屿？
Emerging as a highly flexible and experimental mode of artistic production, self-organization has been intertwined with Chinese contemporary art since the late 1970s. It has served not only as a vital platform for younger artists to explore creative pathways and build community networks, but also as a strategic means to circumvent institutional constraints and reconfigure artistic discourse. As young Chinese artists arrive in London—a global art capital with a mature, diverse cultural ecosystem—how might their transcultural self-organized practices carve out new islands within existing artistic cartographies?

张博文，艺术家、组织者，现工作生活于伦敦和舟山。2024年毕业于Slade MA Fine Art Media专业。艺术家主导策展项目Small-Time Project 的 50%，伦敦中文艺术批判社群 West SecreSociety (WSS)发起者。作为广义上的艺术家，他现阶段的创作灵感来源于其家庭与渔业和体力劳动的紧密关系，作为岛民和长期旅行/居者的身份认同，以及对身体力行的执念和对当下触手可及的信息 (文本、图像、语境、事件等)的思考。

Bowen Zhang (B. Zhoushan) is an artist and organizer currently based in London and the Zhoushan Archipelago. He graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art with an MA in Fine Art Media in 2024. He is co-director of the artist-led curatorial project Small-Time Project and founder of the London-based Chinese art critique community West Secret Society (WSS). As a broadly defined artist, his current creative inspiration comes from his family's close ties to the fishing industry and physical labor, his identity as an islander and long-term traveler/resident, as well as his obsession with hands-on practice and reflections on readily available information (texts, images, contexts, events, etc.).