by SubtropicalAsia | Jun 9, 2020 | CULTURE&ART, Highlight Content, News, Videos
7 PM. Shanghai Changning district. People are busy eating, heading home, or carrying on with their mundane work. But hidden in this ordinary neighborhood there is a mysterious place – a subculture hub that is known throughout the underground scene in Shanghai....
by SubtropicalAsia | Jun 6, 2020 | CULTURE&ART, Highlight Content, News
May 25th, 46 year old George Floyd went into a grocery store in Minneapolis to buy a pack of cigarettes, a fairly ordinary activity that no one would have expected to lead to such tragedy. Suspecting the bill he used to be a counterfeit, employees at the store...
by Renxiu Zhao | May 30, 2020 | CULTURE&ART, Highlight Content
At the end of 2019, when I was filming a live performance of Gabber Modus Operandi in Jakarta, Indonesia, vocalist Ican Harem took out from his luggage a T-shirt with a vintage drawing – a Chinese dragon entrenched on an ancient Chinese building. Below the image...
by SubtropicalAsia | May 10, 2020 | CULTURE&ART, Highlight Content
Recently, the work of Chinese photographer Zhang Jingran in Chengdu caught our attention. The artist who claims ” just to hang around” records the urban landscapes and the vague-looking urbanites which collide within Chinese modern and traditional...
by Tomas Pinheiro and Lucas Tinoco | May 6, 2020 | CULTURE&ART, Highlight Content
“I wanted to celebrate outsider music from Asia.” —— Saphy Vong, founder of Chinabot label Saphy Vong is Subtropical Asias’ brother in spirit. Just like us, he tries to connect underrepresented artists to each other and to a wider global...
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...
