Art / Culture
The Ten Best Taiwanese Movies of 2021
Rounding Up the Year in Taiwanese Film with New Bloom and Cinema Escapist
The History of Queer Parties in Taiwan
Brian Hioe spoke to Levin Lo, or DJ Rainbowchild, a veteran of the queer party scene in Taiwan. Among other things, Rainbowchild was the DJ that played at the wedding banquet party that celebrated the legalization of gay marriage in Taiwan in May 2019, as the first place in Asia to legalize gay marriage.
Are African Writers Ready For Science Fiction?
Although science fiction is still a white-dominated genre, Black sci-fi has come far from the days of zombies, aliens and white-washed robots. We have seen how much culture and history can be woven into technology to birth Afrofuturism.
Gold Leaf Succeeds Where SEQALU and Island Nation Did Not
A Review of Episodes One and Two of Gold Leaf (茶金)
Please, No More Sneakers from Enes Kanter
The design of the sneakers suggests not having actually spoken to Taiwanese local voices about the symbolism.
HONORING OUR LITERARY ANCESTORS: ON ARCELIA AND GIOVANNI’S ROOM
Organizers of Giovanni's Room unite to honor literary ancestors
Burying Taiwan’s History by Digging It Up
The Nanshan Public Cemetery in Tainan is the largest of its kind in Taiwan. The graveyard spans the entire history of Han settlement in Taiwan and includes within its premises the oldest known Han grave in Taiwan.
A Haunting Meditation on Fukushima: Ryuichi Sakamoto’s “Is Your Time”
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO and Shiro Takatani’s art installation, “Is Your Time,” proves a powerful meditation on the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. This is presented through the piano at the centerpiece of the installation, which was discovered by Sakamoto in the ruins of a building in the affected Fukushima prefecture, left behind by its owners—wherever they might be now.
THE WORD YOU MAY BE LOOKING FOR IS “STALKING”
From “Bad Art Friend” to the Miya Marcano murder to reports of femicide, writers shy away from a crucial word: stalking.
“I Throw Everything into a Blender When I DJ”: An Interview with Misty Penguin
No Man is an Island presents the first of a set of collaborations with Electric Soul, a Hong Kong-based electronic music magazine and ticketing platform. For our first cross-posted article, we spoke with Beatrice Wong, who DJs as Misty Penguin. Apart from being one of Hong Kong’s few transgender DJs, Wong is also a stand-up comedian and filmmaker. The following article was originally published on Electric Soul on September 10th.
Stories of Survival from the Origin of the City
A Review of A Century of Craftsmanship—The Wanhua Story
