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Art
He Said, They Said, last dispatch from Beijing on Hu Wei's "Affairs" at DRC No. 12, suspicion, foreign bodies, crimes of silence and crimes of passion
Spike #72
A review of Mak2's solo show "House of Fortune" at de Sarthe, Hong Kong
Spike #70
A conversation with Ho Tzu Nyen
Spike #69
A review of Candice Lin's solo exhibition "Pigs and Poison" at Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou
Spike #68
A letter about the contemporary silence of Chinese contemporary art museums
Spike online
Books
On reading ๐๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ค๐จ๐จ๐๐๐ก๐ ๐พ๐๐ฉ๐ฎ by Karen Cheung and ๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ก๐ ๐พ๐๐ฉ๐ฎ by Louisa Lim and the state of postcolonial writing from the margins of Anglo-American empire
The Baffler
An interview with Na Zhong about translating Sally Rooney's novels into Chinese
Chaoyang Trap
A review of ๐ฝ๐ก๐ค๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ฃ ๐พ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ฃ ๐๐๐ง๐ข by Xiaowei Wang, the shanzhai of shanzhai and social justice tourism as a genre
The Baffler
Film
On leaks, anti-spectacle and making an unfuckable text in Tiffany Sia's Nแดแด แดส Rแด๊ฑแด/Uษดสแด๊ฑแด
Spike #66
On watching Hong Kong's iconic cop movies after police brutality
The Nation
On filmmaking as a response to political uncertainty
ArtAsiaPacific
Hong Kong
Why the new Hong Kong gallery Property Holdings Development Group gives me hope
Spike #71
A conversation about Hong Kong noise legend Xper.Xr, archival exhibitions, and narratives of disappearance
Spike online
On dancing after Covid-19 and a brief history of nightlife in Hong Kong
Electronic Beats
On the legacy of Hong Kong 70s leftists in contemporary art
Spike #62
On how going to protests is fucking boring
The Baffler
China
A conversation with migrant worker poet Xiao Hai about Cao Fei's career retrospective in Beijing
Chaoyang Trap
A profile of Knopha, one of the best DJs in China at the moment (also in
Chinese)
Groove (๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฃ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐น ๐๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ-๐๐ฏ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ต๐ถ๐ต ๐๐ญ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ช๐ค ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ค ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ด๐ฎ ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฑ)
On Fang Fang's ๐๐ช๐๐๐ฃ ๐ฟ๐๐๐ง๐ฎ, pandemic narratives and the privilege of translation
The Nation
On the work of Rural Urban Framework/University of Hong Kong and Fujianese tulou renovation
Architectural Review