Editorial Index

Evading the Limits of Institutional Determination

• Trespassing in Plain Sight: Ambiguity as a Generative Force

  Hung Duong presents an insight into how contemporary artists in Vietnam have adapted moving images into a language that activates intentional ambiguity to subvert direct confrontation.

Collaboration & Community Building

• “There Is No One Way”: The Womanifesto Perspective

  Womanifesto members Nitaya Ueareeworakul, Jamilah Preenun Nana, Varsha Nair, and Ananya Patel recount the collective’s socially and politically embedded practices, discussing its philosophy and commitment to maintaining autonomy while focusing on friendship, care, and connection.

• Summoning in the Kitchen: The ‘lintas-batas’ politics of Gerwani women

  Drawing on prison memoirs, Api Kartini, and Memasak Harapan, Asri Pratiwi Wulandari recovers Gerwani’s vision of the kitchen as political and boundary-crossing, calling for reclaiming cooking and care as forms of resistance.

How to Confuse Capitalism?

Artistic Processes

• Present Through What Is No Longer There: An Interview with Marisa Srijunpleang

  Marisa Srijunpleang talks to Fahmui Pimpakaporn Pornpeng about exploring family memories connected to the Cambodian genocide.

• Towards A Dissident Cosmopoetics: Through the Metabolic Worlds of Natasha Tontey

  Moving beyond the search for a single universalism, this paper by A. X. anchors its exploration of worldmaking within the kaleidoscopic imagination of Minahasan artist Natasha Tontey.

Micronarratives

• Devil Hand, Dutiful Head: A Review of Tsou Shih-Ching’s ‘Left-Handed Girl’

  Kang-Chun Cheng’s review unpacks and traces how cultural beliefs that may serve as charms to protect identities amid unpredictable change can inflict lasting wounds.

• Revisiting the First Decade of ‘Asia Magazine (1961-1998)’

  Zhuang Wubin revisits Asia Magazine, the Hong Kong-based pictorial weekly that sought to show Asia to Asians through photography, colour pages and free Sunday distribution.

Queer Parables

• Towards A Dissident Cosmopoetics: Through the Metabolic Worlds of Natasha Tontey

  Moving beyond the search for a single universalism, this paper by A. X. anchors its exploration of worldmaking within the kaleidoscopic imagination of Minahasan artist Natasha Tontey.

• Trespassing in Plain Sight: Ambiguity as a Generative Force

  Hung Duong presents an insight into how contemporary artists in Vietnam have adapted moving images into a language that activates intentional ambiguity to subvert direct confrontation.

Politics of Care

• Summoning in the Kitchen: The ‘lintas-batas’ politics of Gerwani women

  Drawing on prison memoirs, Api Kartini, and Memasak Harapan, Asri Pratiwi Wulandari recovers Gerwani’s vision of the kitchen as political and boundary-crossing, calling for reclaiming cooking and care as forms of resistance.

• Present Through What Is No Longer There: An Interview with Marisa Srijunpleang

  Marisa Srijunpleang talks to Fahmui Pimpakaporn Pornpeng about exploring family memories connected to the Cambodian genocide.

• “There Is No One Way”: The Womanifesto Perspective

  Womanifesto members Nitaya Ueareeworakul, Jamilah Preenun Nana, Varsha Nair, and Ananya Patel recount the collective’s socially and politically embedded practices, discussing its philosophy and commitment to maintaining autonomy while focusing on friendship, care, and connection.

Questions of Funding

Intergenerational Dialogues

• Summoning in the Kitchen: The ‘lintas-batas’ politics of Gerwani women

  Drawing on prison memoirs, Api Kartini, and Memasak Harapan, Asri Pratiwi Wulandari recovers Gerwani’s vision of the kitchen as political and boundary-crossing, calling for reclaiming cooking and care as forms of resistance.

• Present Through What Is No Longer There: An Interview with Marisa Srijunpleang

  Marisa Srijunpleang talks to Fahmui Pimpakaporn Pornpeng about exploring family memories connected to the Cambodian genocide.

• “There Is No One Way”: The Womanifesto Perspective

  Womanifesto members Nitaya Ueareeworakul, Jamilah Preenun Nana, Varsha Nair, and Ananya Patel recount the collective’s socially and politically embedded practices, discussing its philosophy and commitment to maintaining autonomy while focusing on friendship, care, and connection.

• Devil Hand, Dutiful Head: A Review of Tsou Shih-Ching’s ‘Left-Handed Girl’

  Kang-Chun Cheng’s review unpacks and traces how cultural beliefs that may serve as charms to protect identities amid unpredictable change can inflict lasting wounds.

Black Utopias

Internationalist Solidarities

Taming Landscapes

Beyond the Curriculum

Ecologies & Topologies

Sad, Sexy and Artist-Run

Radical Sisterhoods

• Summoning in the Kitchen: The ‘lintas-batas’ politics of Gerwani women

  Drawing on prison memoirs, Api Kartini, and Memasak Harapan, Asri Pratiwi Wulandari recovers Gerwani’s vision of the kitchen as political and boundary-crossing, calling for reclaiming cooking and care as forms of resistance.

• “There Is No One Way”: The Womanifesto Perspective

  Womanifesto members Nitaya Ueareeworakul, Jamilah Preenun Nana, Varsha Nair, and Ananya Patel recount the collective’s socially and politically embedded practices, discussing its philosophy and commitment to maintaining autonomy while focusing on friendship, care, and connection.