Jihyun Paik follows a reverberation through quantum mechanics, experimental video art, the palpable language of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and more
Essays
A Hong Kong Story: Why Is it So Difficult to Tell?
Leung Ping-kwan (Yasi) traces representations of Hong Kong through film, art, and theatre to examine its seemingly elusive identity
Essays
Lyrical Theorising
Yaniya Lee reflects on Jackie Wang and a life of poetry
Conversations
Aligning with Desire
Hà Đào and Jennifer Yang on leaving an imprint, and sustaining photographic and archival practices in Vietnam
Essays
Ghosts from Underground Love
Laura Nys writes about young women exchanging love letters in a juvenile reformatory, and how the dilemma between privacy protection and rendering visibility is addressed by the art of Lam Wong
Poetry & Fiction
Central Incisor
Jocelin Kee explores the relationships that surround a place, and what it means to care for objects
Conversations
What Sickness You Can Live With
Trisha Low, Hay, and tshirt speak with us on feeling their way through worlds, proximal intimacies, and writing both in and about fandom
Essays
On Transcription
Samira Bose examines the figure of the transcriber through the TV show Mindhunter, Lacan’s stenotypist, and her own experiences in magazines and archives
Essays
The More Loving One
Jimin Kang on translation as a protracted, recurring, and painful process comparable to love
Essays
A Pedagogy of Unwellness
Mimi Khúc interrogates the myth of meritocracy, ableism in the academy, and mental health's insistence on wellness
Poetry & Fiction
Lateral Incisor
Jocelin Kee illustrates the everyday upkeep of a strange museum
Essays
today, tomorrow, and the day after that
Andrea Chu writes about slice of life, everyday routines, and other kinds of stories
Conversations
From K-pop Fan to Translator: In Conversation with Shanna Tan
Shanna Tan discusses Korean healing fiction, the translation scene in Singapore, and the dream of starting her own bookstore
Essays
But Survival Doesn’t Work Like That: On Self-Publishing and Wan Sik Press
Michael Leung shares a note on experiments in self-publishing
Essays
Dailyrium
Shreyasi Pathak considers how crip time shapes the archive
Essays
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
Essays
I want to name that…
Larissa Pham traces the origins of her unlanguaged feelings, and the process of coming to terms with them
Essays
And Yet
Ysabelle Cheung connects apocalyptic narratives and reality tv, bookstore closures and writing workshops, fear and death and community and more
Essays
Gifts
Ethan Luk writes about disappearing phone booths, letter writing, daily assemblies, a magnolia alba tree, hotel rooms, and more
Essays
How to Catch a Minnow
Emily Ogden asks how to love in conditions of uncertainty
Poetry & Fiction
Night Work
Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross introspects on writing, belief, and motherhood during a night walk
Essays
To Float on Open Waters
Mina Wang Zhou reflects on navigating the aquatics of tension
Conversations
Gambles Against Time
Sarp Renk Özer of AVTO speaks with Merve Ünsal on cultivating arts organisations from scratch, and helping them survive
Conversations
The Scream and the Whisper
Yaniya Lee speaks with two friends about language and power, Blackness and signification, and strategising ways of being
Poetry & Fiction
Elsewhere
Urvi Kumbhat shares a poem on return without nostalgia, desires playing truant, and living in the ellipses between countries
Poetry & Fiction
Misalignment
Urvi Kumbhat shares a poem on listening to the way the body speaks
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
Essays
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”
Essays
@silvermuon: an avatar, an invitation
Amber Jamilla Musser uses an IG alter ego to explore issues around Black femininity and the terms of representation
Notes
BLOODHOUNDS MANIFESTO
Sam Chan and Paul C. Fermin keep their hands up and chin down
Essays
Book Begins with Beech
Lana Lin explores legacies of imperial naming practices, and the urgency to speak out against injustice
Notes
Temporal Text
Furen Dai charts shifts in language within US census forms across several decades, which speak to larger social transformations
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
Undefeated Mutual Attachment
Lauren Berlant considers what our bodies, attachments, and solidarities make possible in the midst of structural cruelty
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
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
Essays
Exquisite Pain
Darian Leader writes about accessing grief through art, and the public dimension to mourning
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
Conversations
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
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
Yellow Skin, White Gold
Anne Anlin Cheng reconsiders Asiatic femininity, racialised embodiment, and the confusion between persons and things
Notes
3SUMS | what keeps you awake?
Minh Nguyen, Carlos Quijon, Jr., and Sharon Lee discuss private infernos, birdsongs, and the fluttering of a moth
Notes
3SUMS | what's your refuge?
Oscar Chan, Lau Hiu Tung, and Eunice Tsang talk about their places of refuge in Hong Kong
Conversations
The City Doesn't Love You Back: A Conversation on Artistic Distance
Oscar Chan, Lau Hiu Tung, and Eunice Tsang discuss “stalking” Hong Kong, transnational art-making, and curating “Hong Kong” shows
Poetry & Fiction
Sunita
Jiaqi Kang explores the formation of self-awareness through two childhood friends who drift apart