Honoured to be one of the judges for this year's Weidenfeld Prize, and to recognise Jeffrey Zuckerman's beautiful translation of Jellyfish Have No Ears – a novel about a young woman weighing up whether to get a cochlear implant: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/jell... 🪼🩵

Taiwanese Indigenous artist Dondon Hounwn’s 東冬．侯溫 ‘Hagay Dreaming’ 遊林驚夢 in the Tanks at the Tate

electric dreams @ the Tate - Katsuhiro Yamaguchi’s ‘Barnacle’ (1968) - modular light installation that can be built in different combinations//patterns

Reminds me of The Alphabetical Society 字母會 : a group of eight Taiwanese authors incl. Chen Xue & Huang Chong-kai publishing work according to a theme for each letter of the alphabet —— across 26 volumes

francis bacon @ national portrait gallery

three punctures later, my ailing sixty-something year old bike also somehow survived the journey south

Excited to start this week as a junior research fellow @ Queen’s College, Oxford. Grateful for the time to make progress on some old projects & to start a new one on scarcity during the Sino-Japanese war

paper shortage cartoons, shanghai, may 1940

theaster gates & keisuke serizawa @ the william morris gallery

anti-colonial women sea divers @esea contemporary

looking forward to 'transmediating traditions' next week (March 1st, all day) @ oxford china centre

The back cover is an eight-bit reimagination of Lí’s work by Chen Han-sheng 陳漢聲

So cool to find a zine by Yu Liang-Kai 游量凱 in the Whitworth museum shop - including an essay on woman artist Lí Tik-hô 李德和 from the colonial era

Li Yuan-chia exhibition at Kettle’s Yard, incl a selection of his papers kept at the John Rylands

Beautiful embroidered handkerchief series by Katarzyna Perlak @ Whitechapel Gallery exhibition on thread