Samer Frangie examines an impasse following the Arab revolutions, the out-of-jointness of time, and the concept of “afterness”
Essays
Making Stock, Taking Stock
Nereya Otieno shares her recipe for homemade chicken stock, while ruminating on the alchemical nature of time
Essays
Paranoiac Time, Desynchronic Time
TJ Shin examines “paranoiac time” (and possibilities for its rupture) in the context of the Cold War and the neoliberal present
Essays
cherub face in whiskey crate
Lucienne Bestall traces an object’s transmutation from historical detritus to contemporary artwork, reflecting on preservation and destruction as twinned impulses
Essays
Curated Immortality
Yidan Karel Li writes about bunker aesthetics, and the desire to outlast the threats of the world
Essays
Art Criticism in the Middle of the Night
Lee Weng Choy considers the distance between us, while ruminating on reading, writing, and region
Essays
In Beats of Uncertainty
Jihyun Paik follows a reverberation through quantum mechanics, experimental video art, the palpable language of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and more
Essays
A Tribute of Respect Paid to the Memory of Master Mahashay
Pratima Devi writes about Nandalal Bose and the artistic activities of Bichitra Studio, in this commemorative essay from the archives
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
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
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
Essays
today, tomorrow, and the day after that
Andrea Chu writes about slice of life, everyday routines, and other kinds of stories
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
@silvermuon: an avatar, an invitation
Amber Jamilla Musser uses an IG alter ego to explore issues around Black femininity and the terms of representation
Essays
And Yet
Ysabelle Cheung connects apocalyptic narratives and reality tv, bookstore closures and writing workshops, fear and death and community and more
Essays
Book Begins with Beech
Lana Lin explores legacies of imperial naming practices, and the urgency to speak out against injustice
Essays
change the game
Paul C. Fermin writes about states (and stakes) of being through basketball, star trek, and "oceanic feeling"
Essays
Circle of Fifths
Christine Vicera writes about turbulence, holding space, building harmonies, and liberatory modes of thinking and being
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
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
In Defence of the Dad Joke
Andrea Chu writes about not being funny, and reassures herself about it
Essays
Last night a line appeared
Özge Ersoy meditates on translation, collaboration, and conveying texture and time
Essays
Pokfulam Blues
Holmes Chan reflects on childhood memories of a neighborhood in Hong Kong, amidst more recent luxury property developments
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
so close, yet so off
Karen Cheung interrogates the desire to name, and giving yourself permission to write something that feels real
Essays
Sydney's Omelette
Koel Chu reflects on the notion of cooking as labour of love and act of service
Essays
Tell, Don’t Show
Wong Chun Ying reflects on truth, connection, and love, drawing from experiences in film, journalism, restaurants, and art
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
To Float on Open Waters
Mina Wang Zhou reflects on navigating the aquatics of tension
Essays
with you, in open light
Sam Chan writes about meaningful trouble, how to begin, and condensing fury till it is flame
Essays
That I Require
Koel Chu ruminates on masturbation, making a living as a translator, and writing without writing
Essays
On Stalling and Turning: A Wayward Genealogy for a Binary-Abolitionist Public Toilet Project
Susan Stryker considers concepts of transness in relation to spatial configurations, and imagines other arrangements of space, time, and social interaction
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
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
Exquisite Pain
Darian Leader writes about accessing grief through art, and the public dimension to mourning
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
Undefeated Mutual Attachment
Lauren Berlant considers what our bodies, attachments, and solidarities make possible in the midst of structural cruelty
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
Essays
Haunting the Threshold
Samira Bose examines the embeddedness of Jyoti Bhatt's threshold drawings in complex histories of gender and labour
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
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
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
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
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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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
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
Essays
Notes on the "Vernacular" Milieus of Art Writing
Sneha Ragavan questions the dominance of English in India’s art historiography and criticism
Essays
A Horse for the Arts: Looking Back at the Future
Lee Weng Choy argues that art's task is to reveal the present more critically, clearly, and with wonder
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
Essays
Biennale Demand
Lee Weng Choy asks what biennales want from us, and explores them as emergent traditions
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
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