HELEN YEUNG | It starts off with an idea, photocopying, creating, printing and stapling, and finally comes the birth of your very own publication, fit for circulating across the community. With the subculture of zine-making expanding in Aotearoa, these small DIY publications have become an increasingly significant medium for Asians living in diaspora…
Asian New Zealand Art & Culture
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In Conversation with Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan
AISHA JOHAN | Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan are a husband-and-wife team who emigrated from the Philippines to Australia in 2006. Their artworks often address themes of displacement, change, memory and community. Together they have exhibited at a number of international exhibitions including the 50th International Art Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia…
Where currents converge – A review of Kerry Ann Lee: Fruits in the Backwater
AMY WENG | The late 90s for me were spent being towed from gou ma to yi yi in the back of a sticky Honda Civic. At each stop my siblings and I would sit in terrified silence, guarded by a small yet aggressive terrier while our parents and elders poured tea and exchanged news from their homeland.…