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
Collection Spotlight
Haunting the Threshold
Samira Bose examines the embeddedness of Jyoti Bhatt's threshold drawings in complex histories of gender and labour
Conversations
Building Asia Art Archive, Part 4
Susanna Chung and Samantha Kwok discuss bringing contemporary art into classrooms and caring for teachers with Zoom fatigue
Collection Spotlight
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
Collection Spotlight
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
Collection Spotlight
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
Collection Spotlight
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
Collection Spotlight
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, institutions, 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
