Musk Ming: “Everyone is equal in terms of nudity”
The Berlin-based Chinese artist Musk Ming introduces us to a world where social realism, the iconic homosexual aesthetic of “Tom Of Finland” and a spiritual beauty with Chinese characteristics are...
Thai Artist Pisitakun Releasing New Album Confronts Thailand’s Violent History Of Coups
When you think of Thailand, you're likely to picture the country's iconic smiles, countless temples, endless fruits and incredibly beautiful islands. Despite those otherwise reductive attributes, it...
Shanghai Y2K Musician And Multimedia Artist Gao Jiafeng Turns His New Album Into A Dance Dance Revolution
Shanghai-based musician Gao Jiafeng is a bit of a chameleon when it comes to his place in the music scene here in China. Self-described in the past as a ‘karaoke/alternative pop/comedy project’...
Documentary: Shanghai Community Radio is Streaming the New Wave of Shanghai Underground
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...
How Asian Artists Responded to the Black Lives Matter Movement
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....
Retired Indonesian man Supomo finds second calling as cult illustrator
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...
The Photogapher Jingran Zhang Invites You To His Retro Futuristic China
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...
Chinabot: On A Mission To Rewrite The History Of Electronic Music Through Asian Voices
"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...
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 the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic started in China, there has been a spike in racism towards...
Diskoria—Making Indonesian Old School Disco Great Again!
Meet Diskoria Selekta! The DJ duo from Jakarta is making Indonesian old school disco great again - a genre that has long been labeled as so uncool in its home country, that you could even get banned...
SLITEN6IX—Looking To Pave The Way For The Underground Cambodian Music Scene
SLITEN6IX was founded in 2011 and too many is considered the first underground metal band in Cambodia. As pioneers of the underground music in Cambodia, SLITEN6IX influenced many young Cambodian...
Cambodia’s First Feminist Punk: Vartey Ganiva’s combat against patriarchy goes mainstream
In Cambodia, the status of girls is still not very optimistic. Problems such as poverty, traditional concepts of male superiority, and domestic violence oppress many Cambodian women on a...
Slumdog Metal: Cambodian Street Kids Scream For Their Lives
Doch Chkae means "like a dog" in Khmer. It’s also the name of the death metal band founded by two orphans born in the slums of Phnom Penh. Theara, the lead singer of Doch Chkae grew up...