Megan Lee shares a poem on the theme of archiving Hong Kong
Essays
what strange weather for a promise
Yang Yeung writes about temperature, intimacy, and silence as contingent, but not arbitrary qualities of human interaction
Conversations
Objects of Meditation: In Conversation with Sun Xun
Sun Xun discusses the woodblock medium, metaphors for history, fictional worlds, and Buddhist influences
Notes
3SUMS | what is excess?
Soje, Hoyoung Moon, and Jaewon Che explore "excess" as the snail's slime trail, as subconsciously social, and as lovespoil
Notes
A Concise Glossary for Art Collectives
Pat WingShan Wong (aka Flyingpig) illustrates some conflicts and challenges that shape the identity of art collectives
Essays
That I Require
Koel Chu ruminates on masturbation, making a living as a translator, and writing without writing
Notes
3SUMS | what can't you escape?
Heman Chong, İz Öztat, and Doretta Lau explore some not-so-hidden things they cannot shake
Essays
On Stalling and Turning: A Wayward Genealogy for a Binary-Abolitionist Public Toilet Project
Susan Stryker considers concepts of transness in relation to spatial configurations, and imagines other arrangements of space, time, and social interaction
Essays
Perforated Islands: A Proposition in Co-Sensing with the More-Than-Human
Joella Q. Kiu writes about artistic collaborations, spirit histories, and urban redevelopment
Essays
once more with feeling
Karen Cheung and Paul C. Fermin write about outsiders, love letters, abjection, reality TV, temporal vibes, art theory babes, etc.
Essays
Afro-Asian Feminist Art: Futurist Genealogies
Tao Leigh Goffe and Andrea Chung consider art’s ability to critique traditional histories and envision otherwise futures
Notes
3SUMS | what's your refuge?
Oscar Chan, Lau Hiu Tung, and Eunice Tsang talk about their places of refuge in Hong Kong
Conversations
The City Doesn't Love You Back: A Conversation on Artistic Distance
Oscar Chan, Lau Hiu Tung, and Eunice Tsang discuss “stalking” Hong Kong, transnational art-making, and curating “Hong Kong” shows
Poetry & Fiction
Sky Could Finally Hold
Nicholas Wong shares a poem on the theme of archiving Hong Kong
Essays
In Hot Water
Hou Lam Tsui reflects on her obsession with City Pop and Shōwa aesthetics, and their significance for her art practice
Essays
Mithila Art and the Conversation of Change
Pallavi Payal considers the evolving form and content of contemporary Mithila art, and her own artistic identity
Conversations
Forget What You Learned: Part Two
Ye Su, Jiang Zhuyun, Nabuqi, Miao Ying, Hu Xiangqian, and Liang Shuo discuss social and ideological shifts in Chinese art academies at the turn of the millennium
Notes
3SUMS | what keeps you connected?
Christina Yuen Zi Chung, Xyza Cruz Bacani, and Wing Chan share objects they own that keep them connected to Hong Kong
Conversations
Forget What You Learned: Part One
Ye Su, Jiang Zhuyun, Nabuqi, and Miao Ying discuss social and ideological shifts in Chinese art academies at the turn of the millennium
Conversations
From Writing to Seeing and Back
Arshad Hakim, Vaishnavi Kambadur, and Samira Bose discuss their curatorial collaboration for an exhibition on K. G. Subramanyan
Essays
Exquisite Pain
Darian Leader writes about accessing grief through art, and the public dimension to mourning
Conversations
Extensions and Expansions: In Conversation with Reliable Copy
Reliable Copy discusses the circulations, influences, and audiences in Bangalore’s publishing scene and beyond
Essays
Acts of Viewing and Performativity in (Un)Periodicals
Noopur Desai examines the ephemerality and performativity of the little magazine movement in India
Essays
Coincidence and Re-collection; Lateness and Insight
Lee Weng Choy writes about memory; exhibitions histories; and the forms, practices, and practicalities of the biennale
Essays
No Respect, No Hierarchy: “We Don’t Know How To Paint!”
Oscar Ho considers more expansive definitions of art, and some provocations around curatorial gatekeeping and authority
Essays
The Wall of Blankness
Koel Chu examines how woodcut printmaking holds space for catharsis and nuanced narratives in uncertain times
Essays
Undefeated Mutual Attachment
Lauren Berlant considers what our bodies, attachments, and solidarities make possible in the midst of structural cruelty
Essays
for those of us who cannot leave or stay—
Eunsong Kim interrogates the labour and material processes of aesthetics, and asks whether art and writing are even necessary
Essays
On Art Education through the Story of Six Artists from China
Anthony Yung and Ozge Ersoy ask whether artistic attitude can be taught or passed down from one generation to another
Conversations
Publishing as Method: In Conversation with Ozge Ersoy and Paul C. Fermin
On publishing cultures and trends, conceptualisations of “Asia,” and care and community during the COVID-19 pandemic
Essays
Haunting the Threshold
Samira Bose examines the embeddedness of Jyoti Bhatt's threshold drawings in complex histories of gender and labour
Essays
Off the Shelf | Last Encounters in Ha Bik Chuen Archive
Personal reflections from the archivists on the Ha Bik Chuen Archive Project, as they bring to a close its Fo Tan project space
Essays
Past and Present Alternatives: Artist-Run Spaces in the Philippines
Ringo Bunoan reflects on the development of artist-run spaces in the Philippines, from the 1990s and beyond
Notes
Indecisive Intuition
S. Yi Yao Chao’s artist response to the Lee Wen Archive
Essays
You Are Here
Jennifer Deger on the limits of modernist cartographies, and how art and anthropology might speak to the environmental crises of our time
Essays
Hong Kong: A Curatorial Journey for an Identity
Oscar Ho narrates his shift from seeking a distinctive cultural identity for Hong Kong, to working to dismantle this very concept
Essays
Shortlist | Speculation as Method
Merve Ünsal looks at artist books in Turkey that wrestle with narrating the unnarratable
Conversations
Art Should Not Be Sensible: In Conversation with May Fung
May Fung discusses the relationship between art and space, and her experience building art education programmes in Hong Kong
Essays
The International Student as a Term of Art
David Xu Borgonjon discusses the racial politics of art school recruitment, and its structural effects on contemporary art
Essays
Shortlist | Queer Art in Hong Kong
Recommended readings on queer art in Hong Kong
Essays
From Within the Fog
Trisha Low’s lyric ruminations on art writing, gestures of refusal, and the unresolvable desire for shared utopia amidst crisis and collapse
Essays
Off the Shelf | Somewhere, Someone Just Wanted to Let You Know
An exploration of AAA's collection of zines on the ongoing political movement in Hong Kong
Essays
Yellow Skin, White Gold
Anne Anlin Cheng reconsiders Asiatic femininity, racialised embodiment, and the confusion between persons and things
Essays
Is It Socially Engaged Art?: The Debate over “Art Projects” in Japan
Yeung Tin Shui traces alternatives to Eurocentric conceptions of art projects in Japan
Essays
Women, Handicrafts, and Entrepreneurship in the Postcolonial World
Annemari de Silva addresses the gendered and postcolonial valuations of "art" and "craft" in Sri Lanka
Essays
Tomorrow Girls Troop: A Fourth-Wave Feminist Art Collective
Reflections on activism, gender equality, and visual representation in Japan from an emerging feminist art collective
Essays
Ren Hang in the Global City
Nicholas Gamso considers Ren Hang’s engagement with urban space and queer body politics
Essays
Motherhood, Motherland: Photography, Representation, and Agency of the Filipina Overseas Worker
Alice Sarmiento asks whether exhibitions and artist-led initiatives can change how we connect space, citizenship, and acts of caregiving
Conversations
Propositions for an Archive of Performance Art in India
Sabih Ahmed in conversation with Samudra Kajal Saikia
Conversations
On Public Mindedness: In Conversation with Vasif Kortun
Being public is not a given, it has to be earned. Vasif Kortun and Özge Ersoy discuss art institutions, publics, and institutional alliances
Essays
Shortlist | The Semi-Autonomous Zine: Charting Margins and Peripheries in Independent Publishing
Recommended readings on zine and independent publishing cultures in East and South East Asia
Essays
Gendering Her Art: The Category of “Woman” in the Art History of Hong Kong
Christina Yuen Zi Chung looks at gender-themed art exhibitions and their relation to feminist discourse in Hong Kong
Conversations
“Earth Drives Earth Along”: In Conversation with Nilima Sheikh
Nilima Sheikh discusses the histories and materiality of four natural pigments from her studio space in Baroda
Essays
Viewed from a Train: Glimpses of the Artist as Hong Kong Citizen
Valerie C. Doran looks at an arts festival held in a Hong Kong village slated for demolition, and how artists respond to social issues in alternative ways
Conversations
Boris Groys in Conversation with Johnson Chang
On archives as “museums minus the aesthetic experience,” the return of God as a spectator, and the totalitarianism of music
Conversations
A Conversation Between Chen Kuan-hsing and Rasheed Araeen
On art history, institutional complicity, and decolonisation struggles
Essays
Criticism and “The Essence of Contemporary Asian Art”
Lee Weng Choy on emerging discourses that stake as well as contest claims about what "Asia" might mean
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