“With the deft hand of the master craftsman, Thúy weaves the narrative in and out of linearity, allowing each piece of narrative to announce its rightful place in the puzzle.” A review of Kim Thúy’s Em at Asian Review of (…)

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7 Nov Sun, 1–2:30PM HKTZoom ID: 828 4558 8472Passcode: 726412Direct linkArtists: Travis Jeppesen, Yi Xin Tong, and Alice WangModerated by: Junyuan Feng and Alvin LiEnglish To mark the closing of ‘Liquid Ground’, the curators invite three participating artists—Travis Jeppesen, Yi (…)

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“What comes to matter more are not the details of the unsolved case itself, but the psychological after-effects that have afflicted all the surviving characters in the intervening years; their reflections, their experiences of lost innocence, form a delicately woven (…)

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“Fabulism is in many ways an embrace of this idea of writing as not-knowing, a form in which no concessions to reality need be made.” A review of Yan Ge’s new novel, Strange Beasts of China, at the Asian Review (…)

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“Try as we might to patch up the sky, to project what we regard as the substance of ourselves across time and virtual space, we are in fact bounded by physical bodies. Indeed, what is most jolting and unnerving about (…)

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In The Sagosian Markmakers: An Anthropological Interlude (2021), writer and artist Travis Jeppesen transforms the exhibition space into a display room of a faux-archeological museum housing a series of calligraphic works of purportedly Sagosian origin. Sagosia, a fictional island on (…)

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In See You Again in Pyongyang, I incorrectly wrote that Alek Sigley’s scholarship from the Australian government that prevented him from entering North Korea ended in 2019. In fact, as Alek has recently brought to my attention, the scholarship ended (…)

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Coming soon to Hong Kong…. Liquid Ground. August 14–November 14, 2021  Opening reception: August 13, 7–9pm Para Site22/F, Wing Wah Ind. Building677 King’s Road, Quarry BayHong Kong info@para-site.art www.para-site.artFacebook / Instagram / Vimeo / YouTube Leelee Chan, Cui Jie, Future Host, Ho Rui An, Travis Jeppesen, Jessika Khazrik, Heidi Lau, Lee Kai Chung, Riar Rizaldi, The (…)

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A short story, U in a movie called The Green Ray, in the latest issue of Mousse.