Visit us at BOOKED: Hong Kong Art Book Fair 2024, and join us for a panel conversation on arts writing and independent publishing.
AAA is participating in the sixth edition of Tai Kwun Contemporary’s BOOKED: Hong Kong Art Book Fair, a three-day event showcasing printed matter by artists, organisations, and publishers from Hong Kong and around the world. This year, our booth will feature a range of publications that chart AAA’s publishing practices, from our first venture into publishing with Wu Shanzhuan Red Humour International (2005); to our collaborative efforts with Afterall, including Uncooperative Contemporaries (2020); to work produced by AAA’s zine residents like Alice Tsang Hiu Tung and Keung Hoi Ling’s Homebound, and Nicole M. Nepomuceno’s (Ning-Ning) An Archive of Annotations; and many other AAA publications.
On 31 August, AAA and Tai Kwun Contemporary co-present the panel The Stakes of Publishing, featuring Elaine W. Ho, Emmy Catedral, Fizza Qureshi, and Kaitlin Chan, who share what is obsessive, moody, and cure-oriented about their varied practices. Moderated by AAA’s Managing Editor Paul C. Fermin, the panel is convened by LIKE A FEVER, AAA’s online publishing platform of arts and cultural criticism.
Schedule
Fri, 30 Aug 2024, 2–7pm
Sat, 31 Aug 2024, 12–7pm
Sun, 1 Sep 2024, 12–7pm
Talk | The Stakes of Publishing
Sat, 31 Aug 2024, 12:30–1:45pm
JC Contemporary
Co-presented by AAA and Tai Kwun Contemporary
In this conversation, the panellists explore their personal attachments to writing, and the stakes of their publishing practices. Elaine W. Ho works between the realms of time-based art, language, urban practice, and continues to explore questions of self-organisation through collaboration, writing, performance, and time-based installation; Emmy Catedral is a Butuan-born artist and curator based in New York City, who participates in collaborative acts of trans-tropical librarianship, DJing, performance, archive activation, and distribution; Fizza Qureshi is an urban planner, researcher, and organiser who is passionate about organising with grassroots communities and has worked around issues of gender, housing, and climate justice for more than five years in Karachi, Pakistan; and Kaitlin Chan is a cartoonist and gallery director in Hong Kong, whose work has appeared in several prominent publications, and is currently working on a second book about desire, womanhood, and feeling abject. The panel is moderated by AAA’s Managing Editor Paul C. Fermin.
The event will be held in English, and is free with BOOKED tickets. No registration is required.
Elaine W. Ho wanted to be a writer when she was growing up and was always encouraged and told she could do so until one fateful failure at the age of eighteen. A piece of suspectedly “foreign-flavoured” writing cast her into the ranks of an elementary level English course, crushing her dream and changing her path from that point forward. She continues to struggle with lessons in failure on a frequent basis, though the counter to that is she now writes from time to time, in the most free and unlearned way ever.
Emmy Catedral is a Butuan-born artist and curator based in New York City, where she is currently Curator of Public Programs and Bookstore at the Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA). She has held previous roles at Printed Matter, Distributed Art Publishers, and the Curatorial Practice MFA program at MICA. Emmy participates in collaborative acts of trans-tropical librarianship, DJing, performance, archive activation, and distribution. She serves on the advisory board of the Octavia Project, a STEAM-based summer program for girls and non-binary youth.
Fizza Qureshi is an urban planner, researcher, and organiser who likes to think about South and East Asian urbanism(s), politics, and gender. Her research work spans urban development, community resistance, informality, and more recently cultural iconic architecture. She is passionate about organising with grassroots communities and has worked around issues of gender, housing, and climate justice for more than five years in Karachi, Pakistan. Currently she co-organises a weekly political reading group in Hong Kong that covers decolonial and feminist text. In her free time, she works with eco-resin to make candles and trays, and sometimes obsesses over old floor tiles and the Mughals.
Kaitlin Chan is a cartoonist and gallery director in Hong Kong. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker online, The Economist, Catapult, Astra Magazine, Oprah Daily, The Margins, The Offing, Popula, and elsewhere. In 2021, she was shortlisted for the Cartoonist Studio Prize in Webcomics. She self-published her first graphic novel, Eric’s Sister, a 2024 finalist for the Cartoonist Studio Prize. She is working on a second book about desire, womanhood, and feeling abject.
