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Tara Fatehi interferes with the rhythm by bringing movement and attention into the archive
Ethan Luk writes about disappearing phone booths, letter writing, daily assemblies, a magnolia alba tree, hotel rooms, and more
Larissa Pham traces the origins of her unlanguaged feelings, and the process of coming to terms with them
Ysabelle Cheung connects apocalyptic narratives and reality tv, bookstore closures and writing workshops, fear and death and community and more
Emily Ogden asks how to love in conditions of uncertainty
Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross introspects on writing, belief, and motherhood during a night walk
Mina Wang Zhou reflects on navigating the aquatics of tension
Wong Chun Ying reflects on truth, connection, and love, drawing from experiences in film, journalism, restaurants, and art
Sam Chan writes about meaningful trouble, how to begin, and condensing fury till it is flame
Paul C. Fermin writes about states (and stakes) of being through basketball, star trek, and "oceanic feeling"
Christine Vicera writes about turbulence, holding space, building harmonies, and liberatory modes of thinking and being
Bruce Li stages an intimate diptych about communication, translation, temporality, and connection
Özge Ersoy meditates on translation, collaboration, and conveying texture and time
Eric Yip shares a poem on the theme of archiving Hong Kong
Sarp Renk Özer of AVTO speaks with Merve Ünsal on cultivating arts organisations from scratch, and helping them survive
Yaniya Lee speaks with two friends about language and power, Blackness and signification, and strategising ways of being
Jiaqi Kang explores the formation of self-awareness through two childhood friends who drift apart
Urvi Kumbhat shares a poem on return without nostalgia, desires playing truant, and living in the ellipses between countries
Urvi Kumbhat shares a poem on listening to the way the body speaks
Summer Kim Lee considers what to carry and what to shed, even in moments of disruption and upheaval
Kang Kang explores the temporalities and ethics of grief work, and losses that refuse “successful mourning”
Amber Jamilla Musser uses an IG alter ego to explore issues around Black femininity and the terms of representation
Sam Chan and Paul C. Fermin keep their hands up and chin down
Lana Lin explores legacies of imperial naming practices, and the urgency to speak out against injustice
Koel Chu reflects on the notion of cooking as labour of love and act of service
Andrea Chu writes about not being funny, and reassures herself about it
Karen Cheung interrogates the desire to name, and giving yourself permission to write something that feels real
Holmes Chan reflects on childhood memories of a neighborhood in Hong Kong, amidst more recent luxury property developments
Furen Dai charts shifts in language within US census forms across several decades, which speak to larger social transformations
by 張欣怡
Tao Leigh Goffe and Andrea Chung consider art’s ability to critique traditional histories and envision otherwise futures
Lauren Berlant considers what our bodies, attachments, and solidarities make possible in the midst of structural cruelty
Karen Cheung and Paul C. Fermin write about outsiders, love letters, abjection, reality TV, temporal vibes, art theory babes, etc.
Trisha Low’s lyric ruminations on art writing, gestures of refusal, and the unresolvable desire for shared utopia amidst crisis and collapse
Darian Leader writes about accessing grief through art, and the public dimension to mourning
Eunsong Kim interrogates the labour and material processes of aesthetics, and asks whether art and writing are even necessary
On publishing cultures and trends, conceptualisations of “Asia,” and care and community during the COVID-19 pandemic
Oscar Chan, Lau Hiu Tung, and Eunice Tsang discuss “stalking” Hong Kong, transnational art-making, and curating “Hong Kong” shows
Lee Weng Choy writes about memory; exhibitions histories; and the forms, practices, and practicalities of the biennale
Samira Bose examines the embeddedness of Jyoti Bhatt's threshold drawings in complex histories of gender and labour
Jennifer Deger on the limits of modernist cartographies, and how art and anthropology might speak to the environmental crises of our time
David Xu Borgonjon discusses the racial politics of art school recruitment, and its structural effects on contemporary art
Recommended readings on zine and independent publishing cultures in East and South East Asia
Recommended readings on queer art in Hong Kong
Anne Anlin Cheng reconsiders Asiatic femininity, racialised embodiment, and the confusion between persons and things
Yeung Tin Shui traces alternatives to Eurocentric conceptions of art projects in Japan
Reflections on activism, gender equality, and visual representation in Japan from an emerging feminist art collective
On archives as “museums minus the aesthetic experience,” the return of God as a spectator, and the totalitarianism of music
On art history, institutional complicity, and decolonisation struggles
Nicholas Wong shares a poem on the theme of archiving Hong Kong
Koel Chu ruminates on masturbation, making a living as a translator, and writing without writing
Minh Nguyen, Carlos Quijon, Jr., and Sharon Lee discuss private infernos, birdsongs, and the fluttering of a moth
Oscar Chan, Lau Hiu Tung, and Eunice Tsang talk about their places of refuge in Hong Kong
Heman Chong, İz Öztat, and Doretta Lau explore some not-so-hidden things they cannot shake
Soje, Hoyoung Moon, and Jaewon Che explore "excess" as the snail's slime trail, as subconsciously social, and as lovespoil
Christina Yuen Zi Chung, Xyza Cruz Bacani, and Wing Chan share objects they own that keep them connected to Hong Kong