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In Observance: staying with the body, with Palestine at the United Nations

Tara Fatehi interferes with the rhythm by bringing movement and attention into the archive

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Gifts

Ethan Luk writes about disappearing phone booths, letter writing, daily assemblies, a magnolia alba tree, hotel rooms, and more

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I want to name that…

Larissa Pham traces the origins of her unlanguaged feelings, and the process of coming to terms with them

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And Yet

Ysabelle Cheung connects apocalyptic narratives and reality tv, bookstore closures and writing workshops, fear and death and community and more

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How to Catch a Minnow

Emily Ogden asks how to love in conditions of uncertainty

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Poetry & Fiction

Night Work

Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross introspects on writing, belief, and motherhood during a night walk

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Essays

To Float on Open Waters

Mina Wang Zhou reflects on navigating the aquatics of tension

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Tell, Don’t Show

Wong Chun Ying reflects on truth, connection, and love, drawing from experiences in film, journalism, restaurants, and art

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with you, in open light

Sam Chan writes about meaningful trouble, how to begin, and condensing fury till it is flame

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Paul C. Fermin writes about states (and stakes) of being through basketball, star trek, and "oceanic feeling"

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Circle of Fifths

Christine Vicera writes about turbulence, holding space, building harmonies, and liberatory modes of thinking and being

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Untitled

Bruce Li stages an intimate diptych about communication, translation, temporality, and connection

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Last night a line appeared

Özge Ersoy meditates on translation, collaboration, and conveying texture and time

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Poetry & Fiction

Peninsula Centre

Eric Yip shares a poem on the theme of archiving Hong Kong

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Conversations

Gambles Against Time

Sarp Renk Özer of AVTO speaks with Merve Ünsal on cultivating arts organisations from scratch, and helping them survive

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Conversations

The Scream and the Whisper

Yaniya Lee speaks with two friends about language and power, Blackness and signification, and strategising ways of being

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Poetry & Fiction

Sunita

Jiaqi Kang explores the formation of self-awareness through two childhood friends who drift apart

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Poetry & Fiction

Elsewhere

Urvi Kumbhat shares a poem on return without nostalgia, desires playing truant, and living in the ellipses between countries

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Poetry & Fiction

Misalignment

Urvi Kumbhat shares a poem on listening to the way the body speaks

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Essays

Sacks and Skins, or a Bag Full of Holes

Summer Kim Lee considers what to carry and what to shed, even in moments of disruption and upheaval

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The grave in every name, or how else to be a good melancholic?

Kang Kang explores the temporalities and ethics of grief work, and losses that refuse “successful mourning”

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@silvermuon: an avatar, an invitation

Amber Jamilla Musser uses an IG alter ego to explore issues around Black femininity and the terms of representation

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BLOODHOUNDS MANIFESTO

Sam Chan and Paul C. Fermin keep their hands up and chin down

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Book Begins with Beech

Lana Lin explores legacies of imperial naming practices, and the urgency to speak out against injustice

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Sydney's Omelette

Koel Chu reflects on the notion of cooking as labour of love and act of service

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In Defence of the Dad Joke

Andrea Chu writes about not being funny, and reassures herself about it

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so close, yet so off

Karen Cheung interrogates the desire to name, and giving yourself permission to write something that feels real

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Pokfulam Blues

Holmes Chan reflects on childhood memories of a neighborhood in Hong Kong, amidst more recent luxury property developments

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Temporal Text

Furen Dai charts shifts in language within US census forms across several decades, which speak to larger social transformations

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Poetry & Fiction

假如一個真的無非巧合的問題

by 張欣怡

Image: Cover detail of Trisha Low's <i>Socialist Realism</i>, 2019. Courtesy of Coffee House Press, Minneapolis.
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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

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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

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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

Shortlist | The Semi-Autonomous Zine
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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

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Shortlist | Queer Art in Hong Kong

Recommended readings on queer art in Hong Kong

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Yellow Skin, White Gold

Anne Anlin Cheng reconsiders Asiatic femininity, racialised embodiment, and the confusion between persons and things

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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

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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

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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

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Conversations

A Conversation Between Chen Kuan-hsing and Rasheed Araeen

On art history, institutional complicity, and decolonisation struggles

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3SUMS | what keeps you awake?

Minh Nguyen, Carlos Quijon, Jr., and Sharon Lee discuss private infernos, birdsongs, and the fluttering of a moth