by SubtropicalAsia | Apr 25, 2020 | CULTURE&ART, Highlight Content
Lao Xie Xies likes the unfiltered. His photos are provocative and playful, daring and direct – acts of creative freedom in a not so free society. His photographs are filled with young flesh, dirty and romantic scenes of Chinese city. We sat down with the...
by SubtropicalAsia | Apr 17, 2020 | CULTURE&ART, News, Videos
Last winter, we became friends with the Indonesian DJ-Duo Gabber Modus Operandi. In Jakarta, we experienced their crazy live shows, in Bali we had traditional food together and talked a lot about cultural identities in the age of Globalization. We also witnessed...
by SubtropicalAsia | Apr 13, 2020 | CULTURE&ART
Teletubbies tied up with iron chains and penises perturbing from Doraemon’s eyes? These are some of the mask pieces by Bali-based artist Pinkygurl. Her inspiration comes from the popular symbols that millennials are familiar with, but instead of presenting a...
by SubtropicalAsia | Apr 9, 2020 | CULTURE&ART
Covid19 has dashed our lives with shadows of greys, but lucky, art is always there to make us feel better! This week, we have decided to interview Hafiiz Karim, our all-time favourite artist who goes by the name ” The next most famous artist ” on...
by Renxiu Zhao | Apr 5, 2020 | COVID-19, CULTURE&ART, Highlight Content, News
On March 7, 2020, Chinese calligraphy artist Qian Geng and experimental musician Wang Ziheng flew from Beijing to Germany, to launch their European tour. At that time, the coronavirus outbreak in China had been controlled to a certain extent, while the outbreak in...
by SubtropicalAsia | Mar 25, 2020 | CULTURE&ART, Videos
<Rebel Riders>, is a film by Dutch cinematographer Marc Aziz Ressang, who has been living in Asia for 8 years. It’s a documentary about Vespa Ekstrim, an Indonesian community where people share their love of modifying their Vespas into outlandish novel hybrid...
