Longform explorations of recent art in Asia, archives, art histories, urgent preoccupations, and other areas of interest
Essays
change the game
Essays
what strange weather for a promise
Yang Yeung writes about temperature, intimacy, and silence as contingent, but not arbitrary qualities of human interaction
Essays
That I Require
Koel Chu ruminates on masturbation, making a living as a translator, and writing without writing
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
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
Essays
Exquisite Pain
Darian Leader writes about accessing grief through art, and the public dimension to mourning
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
Good Art: “Hong Kong Sixties”
Oscar Ho reflects on the challenges of curating exhibitions that speak to the distinctiveness and vibrancy of Hong Kong culture
Essays
Lo Ting and Hong Kong Cultural Identity: Part One
Oscar Ho reflects on 1990s Hong Kong, the mythological figure Lo Ting, and the stakes of writing art history
Essays
Lo Ting and Hong Kong Cultural Identity: Part Two
Oscar Ho reflects on the conceptualisation, audience reactions, and afterlives of his exhibition about Lo Ting and the ancestral myth of Hong Kongers
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
Boundaries and boundlessness: On Kingsley Ng's works
Grace Gut looks at the question of the audience in the Hong Kong artist's recent works
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