“Booked”: Hong Kong’s Artist Book Fair, February 2021

“Booked” was an artist book and zine festival held at Tai Kwun Centre for Arts, a former and currently renovated police station/prison/barracks in Central, Hong Kong at the end of February, 2021. This was the third iteration of “Booked”, exceptional in 2021 given the current global pandemic. The organizers addressed this concern by spreading out […]

Naughty Kids: Punk in Antwerp 1978 – 2018

Just as everywhere (in the so-called western world) had its hippie (who you still occasionally come across, or a hybrid thereof) it seems that everywhere also had its punk (and when was the last time you came across one of those, or a hybrid thereof?) One can contextualize (or simplify) those circumstances as trends that […]

Uganda Photo Archive and the Hybrid practice / book / exhibition

Ebifananyi – Andrea Stultiens was an exhibition that took place at FOMU foto museum in Antwerp, Belgium between October 2017 and February 2018. The exhibit showcased photographic and image archives that had been located in Uganda that included professional and amateur photographers, and the records of academic and medical institutions. The show was also accompanied […]

“Sojourn with Stranger” : Hong Kong domicile packaged in an artist book

“Sojourn with Stranger” is an artist book (a unique edition) recently curated by Hilda Chan through the auspices of Hong Kong based gallery Mur Nomade. The project came about by way of the gallery’s Open Call to Young Curators, which in this case asked for proposals for a limited-edition art book. One strategy for the […]