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
The Aesthetic Project of Remaking “Yellow” Identity
Mimi Wong explores the slippery notion of an "Asian aesthetic," and the many ways it can manifest in East Asian and diasporic art
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
Notes
A Performative State of Indefinite Duration
Bruce Quek reflects on contingency, institutional order co-existing with fractal weirdness, and the Independent Archive
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
Notes
Crying in the Gallery: On Grief and Empathetic Curating
Kaitlin Chan reflects on her experience curating an exhibition for the late Hong Kong artist Hon Chi-fun
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
Collection Spotlight
Shortlist | Transformative Territory: Performance Art and Gender in Post-New Order Indonesia
Recommended readings on the history of performance art in Indonesia, with a focus on the practices of female artists
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
Setting the Stage: Korean Women Artists on Performance and Beauty
So-Rim Lee examines how two emerging feminist artists stage and politicise a hair salon and a cosmetics store
Collection Spotlight
Shortlist | The Defiant Fringed Pink: Feminist Art in Japan
Recommended readings that trace the development of feminism and feminist art in Japan from the 1990s to the present
Conversations
Crossing Borders: Art and Artists’ Writings Across Languages
On the challenges of researching art writing across multiple languages and translations in South Asia
Essays
Line Form Colour Action
Chuong-Dai Vo uses Lee Wen’s notebooks to explore his work as performance and process
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
Conversations
Shantiniketan: A World University
R. Siva Kumar in Conversation with Regina Bittner and Kathrin Rhomberg
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
Notes
I Go South
Anthony Yung reflects on Cantonese art and the challenges of representation
Conversations
Propositions for an Archive of Performance Art in India
Sabih Ahmed in conversation with Samudra Kajal Saikia
Collection Spotlight
Shortlist | Performing the Protests
Recommended readings on artists engaging with activism in Hong Kong
Essays
How To Change The World Without Really Trying: Reflections On Performance Art Today
Lee Wen considers whether performance art has lost its edge in resistance to mainstream culture
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
Collection Spotlight
Shortlist | Women in the Visual Arts in India and South Asia: Some Partial Maps
Recommended readings on women in the visual arts in India and South Asia
Notes
Part-time Pedagogies: Introducing Three Places for Emancipatory Learning
Through annotated illustrations, Michael Leung reflects on the potential for emancipatory learning in Hong Kong
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
Collection Spotlight
Shortlist | Art Periodicals in the Philippines, 1970s to 2000s
Recommended readings on the rise and fall of the art periodical scene in the Philippines from the 1970s to 2000s
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
Mapping Asia
Note from the Editors
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
