LIKE A FEVER

Essays

Fungal Memories: Flourishing in Decay

Benjamin Kidder Hodges employs fungus and mould to explore memory, decay, and the ability to thrive in extreme conditions and climates

Exit Time: An Essay in Two Parts

Karno Dasgupta argues against reparative historiographies, and ruminates on “the look of love” through Sim Chi Yin’s photography

The Masterpiece is the Archive

Sezin Romi evaluates the role of archives in art historiographies, ways of disrupting established narratives, and the significance of user engagement in expanding knowledge

After the Revolutions: Inheriting Tragedy

Samer Frangie examines an impasse following the Arab revolutions, the out-of-jointness of time, and the concept of “afterness”

Conversations

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Aligning with Desire

Hà Đào and Jennifer Yang on leaving an imprint, and sustaining photographic and archival practices in Vietnam

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

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

Gambles Against Time

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

Poetry & Fiction

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Play/Time

Daryl Li explores tabletop and video games through an experimental text on resistance, agency, catastrophe, and finding some semblance of human connection

If they were fragments, make each piece sharp

Clementine Hei-man Cheung shares fragments on negotiating illness and relapse, via recollections from Greece, Scotland, Hong Kong, and from within

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