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Nguyễn + Transitory: The Politics of Sound, and Radical Listening
Nguyễn + Transitory is composed of Nguyễn Baly and Tara Transitory. Their work crosses the...
Incendiary and Humorous: Lebanese Illustrator and Comic Book Artist Tracy Chahwan on her Love for Beirut, Feminism, LGBTQ+, and her New Life in the USA
Lebanese illustrator and comic book artist Tracy Chahwan is a lover of Beirut. For over ten years,...
Visual Artists Headlining The Club Movement in Shanghai: ChillChill Blends Social Commentary into his Virtual Worlds
We chat with the 29-year old Shanghai-based 3D animator ChillChill about his journey to becoming a leading visionary for music labels, producers and clubs as well as his penchant for dystopian cityscapes cluttered with the remnants of our ever-advancing society.
Shanghai queer party promoter HTTP team up with ‘hot mess queer clown’ Y2K3N
One of the club night series taking Shanghai by storm is HTTP, heralded by promoter, organizer and...
Visual Artists Headlining The Club Movement in Shanghai: Jinkui Zhou on Creating a New Visual Language
Who's involved in the development and fostering of a club scene? The first factors that come to...
Frisky Characters in a Cute Land: the Teletubbies-like World of a Young Thai Artist
Between hearts, butterflies, and flower emojis,...
Bangkok Wet Dream: How a Sexy Towel is Challenging the Power of Uniformed Men in Thailand
Our story starts with Salawat, a police officer that falls asleep during his shift somewhere in...
Sublimation of Nihilism: Shanghai party organization EVO takes inspiration from Eastern philosophy
Over time Shanghai's thriving underground club scene has spawned a large number of party...
30% Hentai, 70% Sweetness, Hong Kong Underground Idol QQBBG uses music to express the things she’s afraid to say
Born and raised in the high-rising materialistic cyber city that is Hong Kong, and immersed in the...
VIDEOS
In Her New Single Cambodian Rock Feminist Vartey Ganiva Celebrates The Higher Meaning Of Love
VARTEY GANIVA, our good friend from Cambodia just released her catchy new single "Chob Chur" (Stop...
A Slumdog Metal Fairytale: Cambodian Street Kids Chasing Their Dream in Wacken
It was a one-in-a-lifetime-chance for Doch Chkae, a band of young orphans from the slums of Phnom...
RESOUND EP3: SENYAWA’S ENDEAVORS OF BEYOND ROCK & ROLL
During the shooting of RESOUND in Jogja, Subtropical Asia was fortunate enough to interview...
TRAILER | SLUMDOGS AT WACKEN: A TRUE METAL FAIRYTALE | New Doch Chkae documenatry
This summer, the slumdog kids of Doch Chkae left Asia for the first time in their life to play at...
RESOUND EP2: YES NO WAVE – A FREE MUSIC MODEL AGAINST THE CAPITALISTIC WORLD
Based in Jogja, YES NO WAVE MUSIC is a legendary nonprofit music label which is responsible for...
RESOUND EP1: CAT JUNK NOISE
Meet Mahamboro, an experimental music nerd, a sound explorer based in Jogja, Indonesia. Inspired...
COPING WITH COVID-19
Owning the Right to Cough: A Live Performance Against the Covid-19 Related Racism Crisis
As history reveals for us, whenever a pandemic transpires, xenophobia is never far behind. Since...
Chinese Artists Stranded In Berlin Due To COVID-19 Lockdown
On March 7, 2020, Chinese calligraphy artist Qian Geng and experimental musician Wang Ziheng flew...
In The Era Of Collectively Trapped In Home: A Review Of Wuhan Artist Ke Ming’s Recent Exhibition
In early January 2020, the new coronavirus Covid-19 broke out in Wuhan and swept through cities...
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